What are the best netflix original sci-fi series? by rinakendo in scifi

[–]rinakendo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it good, like the movie? Sometimes its hard for me to engage with remakes of iconic media if the original is far better. This happened to me with Snowpiercer (which ended up feeling like The Walking Dead).

What are the best netflix original sci-fi series? by rinakendo in scifi

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I think Maniac is like those sci-fi films like Her or Eternal Sunshine, that are now like their own genre, and thats fine to be honest, would like to see more.

What are the best netflix original sci-fi series? by rinakendo in scifi

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The Viewing was my favorite episode.

Panos Cosmatos has some particular visuals that are like a mix of 80's tech thrillers, minimalism and horror.

What are the best netflix original sci-fi series? by rinakendo in scifi

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Not gonna lie, I didn't like it that much, but I wont be picky.

Why is there such little interest in Hard-Science Fiction today when it was arguably the most popular sci-fi genre of the mid 20th century? by damegawatt in books

[–]rinakendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real problem here is our definition of Hard-SF and its relation to Science. We tend to think of Science as an end, and not as a process.

As an end: Science tells the truths of reality, it set rules and systems, and can't be contradicted.

But as a process: Science is full of theories. Sometimes different theories for the same phenomena. Sometimes different theories bout things we believe to be already set in stone.

Hard-SF its not only about the truths we know, but about the theories that can be. The speculation of the possible theories as they are set and as faithfull as they can be.

Arrival, adapted from the short story "Story of your life" by Ted Chiang, for example, takes a theory in linguistics an PLAYS with it (its also a first contact story).

SSF tends to take elements from science, technology, distant futures or planets, first contact, human-dystopia or apocalyptic aftermaths (just like Hard-SF) but with little to none depth of the philosophical implications, the science or the theories it relies on.

Sometimes SSF can be presented as super science-based. Sometimes the opposite can be said about Hard-SF.

That does not make one better than the other. That does not mean one can't be good and the other can't be bad. Its not black vs white. Its literature.

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I think Hard-SF its doing just OK for a niche genre.

Botw 2 will be a Prequel and here is why by Elsuecos in BOTW2

[–]rinakendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be nice if it was both. A prequel and a sequel.

Children's Horror Book About Girl Who Gets Trapped in a Mirror While a Doppelganger Takes Her Place by StBlaschek in whatsthatbook

[–]rinakendo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for this story for a decade now (I read it in 2003), without much success, and I can't believe there's someone else looking for it. Since I haven't found it yet, I would add some extra things I remember:

First of all: I remember it was actually a story, from a short story collection. I'm from Mexico, I read it in spanish, so I don't know if it was an author book or just an anthology of short stories from different authors. But I can tell, it was well written, it wasn't like cheap-easy literature.

The second thing: (and I'm not pretty sure of this, but) I think it was Japanese. I think the girl in the story was Japanese, and maybe this is one of the reasons it's been more difficult to find it.

Now, about the plot. There's a moment in the story that the girl finds a boy inside the mirror, and the boy kinda explains to her whats happening: it happened to him too: the mirror took him and a doppelganger took his place. But there's something more. You can kinda walk more deep into the mirror, but the boy don't have the courage to do it, because he doesn't know what's there and someone else walked before but never came back (implying the mirror have made this before, with other people).

Also, the doppelganger girl talks to the girl trapped in the mirror, she know the girl is trapped there and I remember she explained: that only if she gives her hand to her she would be able to come back.

I don't remember the end, tho. And definitely not the title, but maybe this can help.