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House of Suns : Lisa Tuttle, reviewing for The Times, called the novel a "thrilling, mind-boggling adventure" with "visionary brilliance" and a "knock-your-socks-off ending". Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club wrote that Reynolds is particularly adept at conveying the vastness of space and the "inky blackness of the void", ... |
Hundred (novel series) : Hundred (ハンドレッド, Handoreddo) is a Japanese light novel series written by Jun Misaki and illustrated by Nekosuke Ōkuma. SB Creative published 16 novels between November 15, 2012 and October 15, 2018 under their GA Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Sasayuki was serialized in Fujimi Sh... |
Hundred (novel series) : "Hundreds" are a kind of weapon that get their name from their ability to change into many different forms, and are the only thing that can counter the mysterious life forms called Savage that are attacking Earth. Those who can wield a Hundred are sought out to be made into Slayers, trained ind... |
Hundred (novel series) : Hayato Kisaragi (如月 ハヤト, Kisaragi Hayato) Voiced by: Yoshiaki Hasegawa (Japanese); Ricco Fajardo (English) Hayato is the male protagonist of Hundred. Originally from Yamato, Hayato became a Slayer in order to obtain state-of-the-art medical treatment for his sister. His previous encounter with ... |
Hundred (novel series) : Hundred at SB Creative (in Japanese) Anime official website (in Japanese) Hundred (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Hyperion Cantos : The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in the series, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, and later came to refer to the overall storyline, including Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and a numb... |
Hyperion Cantos : The Hyperion universe originated when Simmons was an elementary school teacher, as an extended tale he told at intervals to his young students; this is recorded in "The Death of the Centaur", and its introduction. It then inspired his short story "Remembering Siri", which eventually became the nucleus... |
Hyperion Cantos : Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, the famous 19th-century English Romantic poet, Norse mythology, and the monk Ummon. A large n... |
Hyperion Cantos : Much of the action in the series takes place on the planet Hyperion. It is described as having one-fifth less gravity than Earth standard. Hyperion has a number of peculiar indigenous flora and fauna, notably Tesla trees, which are essentially large electricity-spewing trees. It is also a "labyrinthin... |
Hyperion Cantos : Endymion title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Hyperion title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Interview with Simmons where he mentions the origin of the Hyperion Cantos universe The Fall of Hyperion title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Th... |
I Can't Get You Out of My Mind : I Can't Get You Out of My Mind is a 2020 novel by Canadian author Marianne Apostolides. A writer and mother who used to have an affair with a married man decides to take part in a research study living together with an AI device. == References == |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM,... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : As the Cold War progresses into a nuclear World War III fought between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, each nation builds an "AM" (short for Allied Mastercomputer, then Adaptive Manipulator, and finally Aggressive Menace), needed to coordinate weapons and troops due ... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : AM (Allied Mastercomputer, Adaptive Manipulator, Aggressive Menace), a hateful supercomputer which brought about the near-extinction of humanity after achieving self-awareness. It seeks revenge on humanity for its own creation. Gorrister, formerly an idealist and pacifist, made apat... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : Ellison wrote the 6,500-word story over a year and a half, finally completing it when Frederik Pohl commissioned it for a Special Hugo Winners issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction, after Ellison won a Hugo for "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. Ellison derived the story's ... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : Ellison adapted it into a video game, published by Cyberdreams in 1995. Although he was not a fan of video games and did not own a PC at the time, he co-authored the expanded storyline and wrote much of the game's dialogue, all on a mechanical typewriter. Ellison also voiced the sup... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : Much of the story hinges on the comparison of AM as a merciless god, with plot points paralleling to themes in the Bible, notably AM's transplanted sensations and the characters' trek to the ice caverns. AM also takes different forms before the humans, alluding to religious symbolis... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream : I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Ellison, Harlan. "A literary multimedia project". HarlanEllison.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020. |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 point-and-click adventure horror game developed by Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild, co-designed by Harlan Ellison, published by Cyberdreams and distributed by MGM Interactive. The game is based on Ellison's short story of ... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : The game uses the S.A.G.A. game engine created by game developer The Dreamers Guild. Players participate in each adventure through a screen that is divided into five sections. The action window is the largest part of the screen and is where the player directs the main c... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : The premise of the game is that the three superpowers, Russia, China, and the United States, have each secretly constructed a vast subterranean complex of computers to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. One day, the American supercomputer, better... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : The characters have all been slightly altered from their original portrayals in the short story. The plot itself is not a direct adaptation but instead focuses on the individual characters' psychodramas which are the scenarios that make up the game. Notably, none of the... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : Cyberdreams brought in writer David Sears to collaborate with Harlan Ellison. Sears, formerly a writer and assistant editor for Compute! magazine, had never before worked on a video game. Though a long-time fan of Ellison and his work, Sears was initially nervous and so... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : The game was published by Cyberdreams in November 1995 for PCs with MS-DOS and Mac OS. A PlayStation version was planned to be released in Summer 1995, but was cancelled. Cyberdreams had developed a reputation, in the early 1990s, of selling video games with science fic... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : According to Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was a commercial failure. Joe Pearce of The Dreamers Guild recalled that it was "a critical success but only a modest seller." The game has an aggregate score of 77% at GameRankings,... |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : Bad Mojo (1996) Sanitarium (1998) Planescape: Torment (1999) List of video games considered the best |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) : Official website I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream at MobyGames I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream at IMDb I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream MS-DOS Version, playable in-browser at Archive.org |
Boten Anna : "Boten Anna" ("Anna the Bot") is a song by Swedish musician Basshunter, from his first studio album, LOL. Following the single's release in 2006, Basshunter gained popularity in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands. The song topped hit charts and, on 3... |
Boten Anna : The Swedish lyrics of "Boten Anna" tell the story of a female Internet Relay Chat user who the vocalist believes is a bot but later finds out to be a beautiful woman, although she will always remain a bot in his eyes. The song is based on an actual experience of Basshunter. At the beginning of 2006 he crea... |
Boten Anna : Basshunter recorded "Boten Anna" in March 2006 in one night over the course of six hours. He made it available on his website for free download. The song has been downloaded 37,000 times in within twenty-four hours. With this success, Basshunter received several proposals from managers and music labels. Sw... |
Boten Anna : Three days were allotted for the production of the music video for "Boten Anna". The music video to the song deliberately plays on double meanings. It shows Basshunter riding a pedal boat in Malmö. Music video features text-based chat system for instant messaging mIRC. |
Boten Anna : An editor from Sundsvalls Tidning compared "Boten Anna" to songs "Hej hej Monika by Nic & the Family and "Axel F" by Crazy Frog. Christopher Lembke from Ystads Allehanda said that "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley is the only good song which can compete with "Boten Anna" for radio listeners' favor this summer. Bry... |
Boten Anna : "Boten Anna" entered Swedish singles chart at number three on 8 June 2006 and peaked in its ninth week at number one. It was certified Platinum and became the fourth single of the year. The song sold 60,000 copies in Sweden. In Denmark "Boten Anna" debuted at number two on 23 June then peaked at number one... |
Boten Anna : CD single (9 May 2006) "Boten Anna" (Radio Mix) – 3:29 "Boten Anna" (Club Mix) – 5:26 CD single (4 September 2006) "Boten Anna" (Radio Edit) – 3:29 "Boten Anna" (Club Remix) – 5:26 "Boten Anna" (DJ Micro Spankin Club Remix) – 5:30 "Boten Anna" (Backslash Fluffy Style Remix) – 4:40 "Boten Anna" (SkillsToPay... |
Boten Anna : An English version of "Boten Anna" titled "Now You're Gone", sung by Sebastian Westwood using unrelated lyrics by DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz which was originally released in 2006, became the music to a video by Basshunter with the same title in November 2007. The video and the track were met with world cha... |
Boten Anna : In 2006 company JME Data used "Boten Anna" with different lyrics for their advertisement. An Israeli band called Hovevey Zion (חובבי ציון) spoofed "Boten Anna" with their popular single, "Rotze banot" (רוצה בנות, meaning "I Want Girls"). "Dicke Anna" by Kid Bob was released on 20 April 2007. It charted on ... |
Boten Anna : List of number-one singles of the 2000s (Sweden) List of number-one songs of the 2000s (Denmark) List of number-one singles of 2007 (Finland) List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2006 |
Boten Anna : Archived version of official website |
Iron Man 2020 (event) : "Iron Man 2020" is a fictional storyline published by Marvel Comics in 2020 which follows the character Arno Stark as he attempts to take over Stark Industries and the mantle of his estranged brother Tony Stark (Iron Man). The crossover characters of two different brands meeting up in one storyl... |
Iron Man 2020 (event) : Marvel Comics released the teaser for the event at New York Comic Con in November 2019. It was also alluded to in December 2019's Incoming! In the original checklist released for the event, 2020 Force Works was originally titled Force Works 2020, while 2020 Machine Man was previously named Machi... |
Iron Man 2020 (event) : Arno Stark wakes up from a nightmare involving the Extinction Entity, which is a ghastly, colossal amalgamation of alien and machine. He dreams that the Extinction Entity is going to come to Earth in a matter of weeks and create an artificial intelligence (A.I.) army to consume humanity. After e... |
Iron Man 2020 (event) : According to Comic Book Roundup, the entire crossover received an average score of 6.4 out of 10 based on 36 reviews. William Tucker from ButWhyTho Podcast stated "Iron Man 2020 #6 is an initially exciting end to a great event that eventually feels deflated. There is absolutely nothing wrong wit... |
Knights of Sidonia : Knights of Sidonia (Japanese: シドニアの騎士, Hepburn: Shidonia no Kishi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was serialized by Kodansha in their seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon between April 2009 and September 2015, with its chapters collected in 15 tankōbon vo... |
Knights of Sidonia : Knights of Sidonia at Kodansha (in Japanese) Anime official website (in Japanese) Sidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia) at IMDb Knights of Sidonia (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
The Last Question : "The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fict... |
The Last Question : In conceiving Multivac, Asimov was extrapolating the trend towards centralization that characterized computation technology planning in the 1950s to an ultimate centrally managed global computer. After seeing a planetarium adaptation of his work, Asimov "privately" concluded that the story was his b... |
The Last Question : The story centers around Multivac, a self-adjusting and self-correcting computer. Multivac had been fed data for decades, assessing data and answering questions, allowing man to reach beyond the planetary confines of Earth. However, in the year 2061, Multivac began to understand deeper fundamentals ... |
The Last Question : The Best of Isaac Asimov Cyclic model The Last Answer Technological singularity |
The Last Question : The Last Question title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database "The Last Question" at the Internet Archive Isaac Asimov reads "The Last Question" at the Internet Archive |
Lymphater's Formula : "Lymphater's Formula" (Polish: "Formula Lymphatera") is a 1961 science fiction short story by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It is a story of a "mad scientist", mathematician Ammon Lymphater, who invents an artificial intelligence, and then he realizes that it is capable of rendering the humankind o... |
Lymphater's Formula : Ammon Lymphater became interested in the emerging science of cybernetics and information theory, and started studying the works of an animal brain, the ant's brain in particular. He took note that the inherited knowledge is an evolutionary advantage somehow not exploited in full by the evolution. ... |
Lymphater's Formula : It was translated in Russian (as "Формула Лимфатера") in 1963, in Hungarian (as "Lymphater utolsó képlete") in 1966, and in Bulgarian (as "Формулата на Лимфатер" by Георги Димитров Георгиев) in 1969. In 1973 an audiobook was released in German (as "Die lymphatersche Formel"), narrated by Martin He... |
The Machine That Won the War (short story) : "The Machine That Won the War" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) and Robot... |
The Machine That Won the War (short story) : Three influential leaders of the human race meet in the aftermath of a successful war against the Denebians. Discussing how the vast and powerful Multivac computer was a decisive factor in the war, each of the men admits that in fact, he falsified his part of the decision pr... |
The Machine That Won the War (short story) : The Machine That Won the War title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database The Machine That Won the War first edition title listing in WorldCat database The Machine That Won the War at the Internet Archive's OpenLibrary |
Mars Plus : Mars Plus is a 1994 science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl and Thomas T. Thomas. It is the sequel to Pohl's 1976 novel Man Plus, which is about a cyborg, Roger Torraway, who is designed to operate in the harsh Martian environment, so that humans can start to colonize Mars. Mars Plus is set f... |
Mars Plus : In Man Plus, set in the not-too-distant future, with threat of the Cold War becoming a fighting war, people plan for the colonization of Mars to escape the seemingly-inevitable Armageddon. The American government begins a cyborg program to create a being capable of surviving the harsh Martian environment: a... |
Mars Plus : The reviewer from SFBook Reviews criticizes the book, saying "nothing really happens" and stating that there is no linkage to Man Plus apart from the presence of the cyborg Torraway; moreover, the reviewer states that the questions posed in the first novel are not answered. SF Reviews calls Mars Plus "...no... |
Mars Plus : MIT profile of Pohl |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : Maschinen Krieger (Ma.K ZBV3000), often abbreviated as Ma.K., is a science fiction intellectual property created by Japanese artist and sculptor Kow Yokoyama in the 1980s. It consists of an illustrated series, a line of merchandise comprising display and action figures of mecha characters a... |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : The franchise originally began as the science fiction series SF3D which ran as monthly installments in the Japanese hobby magazine Hobby Japan from 1982 to 1985. To develop the storyline, Kow Yokoyama collaborated with Hiroshi Ichimura as story editor and Kunitaka Imai as graphic designer. ... |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : A nuclear World War IV in 2807 kills most of Earth's population and renders the planet uninhabitable. Fifty-two years after the war, a research team from an interstellar union called the Galactic Federation is sent to Earth and discovers that the planet's natural environment has restored it... |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : Yokoyama collaborated with Tsuburaya Productions to create a live-action SF3D film using miniatures in 1985. Directed by Shinichi Ohoka from a script penned by co-producer Hisao Ichikura, the 25-minute SF3D Original Video opens with wreckage left from a battle in the Wiltshire wastelands on... |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : In September 2017, It producer Roy Lee announced that a Hollywood film version of Maschinen Krieger is in development, under the title Ma.K. Among the co-producers will be creator Yokoyama himself as well as TMNT director Kevin Munroe, who remarked, "Kow is a world creator in the truest sen... |
Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 : Website of Kow Yokoyama Fan-compiled story background & timeline The Biggest English Language Usergroup Kow Yokoyama Sensei's Official International Ambassador's Website Site dedicated to the model kits of the Maschinen Krieger world An excellent resource of links to Ma.K fan sites A Large ... |
The Matrix (franchise) : The Matrix is an American cyberpunk media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with The Matrix (1999) and continuing with three sequels, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). The first three films were written and directed... |
The Matrix (franchise) : The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by a race of self-aware machines that was spawned from the creation of artificial intelligence early in the 21st century. At one point conflict arose between humanity and machines, and the machines rebelled against their creators. Humans a... |
The Matrix (franchise) : The Matrix series includes four feature films. The first three were written and directed by the Wachowskis and produced by Joel Silver, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving. The series was filmed in Australia and began with 1999's The Matrix, which depict... |
The Matrix (franchise) : The Matrix films make numerous references to films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy, including Buddhism, Vedanta, Advaita Hinduism, Christianity, Messianism, Judaism, Gnosticism, existentialism, obscurantism, and nihilism. The films' premise resembles Plato's Allegory of t... |
The Matrix (franchise) : In 2004, Warner Home Video released The Ultimate Matrix Collection, a 10-disc set of the films on DVD. It included the trilogy of films, The Animatrix, and six discs of additional material, including the documentary film The Matrix Revisited, the live-action footage shot for Enter the Matrix, a... |
The Matrix (franchise) : By August 2000, The Matrix DVD had sold over three million copies in United States, becoming the best-selling of all time. By November 2003, The Matrix franchise had generated $677 million from VHS and DVD sales, $162 million from the video game Enter the Matrix (2003), $37 million from The Mat... |
The Matrix (franchise) : Religion and the Internet The Meatrix, 2003 parody |
The Matrix (franchise) : Currin, Joseph M.; Lee, Fallyn M.; Brown, Colton; Hammer, Tonya R. (July 3, 2017). "Taking the Red Pill: Using The Matrix to Explore Transgender Identity Development". Journal of Creativity in Mental Health. 12 (3): 402–409. doi:10.1080/15401383.2016.1249815. ISSN 1540-1383. S2CID 151921189. Mi... |
The Matrix (franchise) : Wachowski, Lana; Wilber, Ken (July 19, 2004). "The Many Meanings of The Matrix". Integral Life. deVos, Corey W. (February 12, 2007). "The Many Meanings of The Matrix--Transcript". Ken Wilber. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2017. |
Megami Tensei : Megami Tensei, marketed internationally as Shin Megami Tensei (formerly Revelations), is a Japanese media franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki. Primarily developed and published by Atlus, and owned by Sega, the franchise consists of multiple subse... |
Megami Tensei : Despite most games in the series taking place in different continuities, they do share certain elements. One of its defining traits is it being set in a contemporary urban environment, specifically modern-day Tokyo. Post-apocalyptic elements are a recurring feature in settings and narratives. This choic... |
Megami Tensei : Prior to its popularity in the west, the game was a major franchise in Japan, having sold over four million copies by 2003. Excluding the Persona series, the Megami Tensei series sold approximately 7.2 million copies by October 2017. By October 2018, the Megami Tensei main series has shifted approximate... |
Megami Tensei : Official website (in Japanese) |
Neuroshima : Neuroshima is a Polish tabletop roleplaying system inspired by such films and games as Mad Max, Fallout, The Matrix, Terminator and Deadlands: Hell on Earth. It is currently available only in Polish. The game's motto is "never trust the machines". Its designers include Michal Oracz and Ignacy Trzewiczek. |
Neuroshima : The game describes the United States in the mid-21st century, after a nuclear war started by a cybernetic revolt, which molded the continent into a barren wasteland. It seems that the reason for the war to break out was a sentient Artificial Intelligence commonly referred to as Moloch and made up of interc... |
Neuroshima : The game uses its own, custom system of rules. The dice you use is d20. This system does not have an official name, but it is unconnected to the d20 system, as it typically uses three twenty-sided dice. |
Neuroshima : The current edition is 1.5 [1]. Since the release of the game in 2003, sourcebooks have been appearing. The game keeps growing bigger with every add-on, as well as the storyline, which is updated in those sourcebooks and in Space Pirate (pl. Gwiezdny Pirat) magazine, also published by Portal. |
Neuroshima : Neuroshima Apocalypse Neuroshima Hex! Neuroshima Tactics Monastyr |
Neuroshima : (in English) Review of Neuroshima (in English) Another review (in Polish) Official homepage (in Polish) Official portal (in French) French translation |
Oblivion (2013 film) : Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic romantic action-adventure drama film produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Wald... |
Oblivion (2013 film) : In 2017, scavenger aliens destroyed the Moon and invaded Earth; although humans won the war, the use of nuclear weapons left the Earth uninhabitable. In 2077, repair technician Jack and communications officer Victoria appear to be the last people left on Earth. Jack repairs combat drones that hun... |
Oblivion (2013 film) : Tom Cruise as Jack Harper—Tech 49, a technician who works to repair drones on Earth and questions his mission. Originally, he was the American commander of a mission en route to Titan who was captured by the Tet and cloned to fight humanity. Cruise also plays Jack Harper—Tech 52, a clone who seek... |
Oblivion (2013 film) : List of dystopian films List of films featuring drones List of films featuring space stations Moon (2009 film) |
Oblivion (2013 film) : Oblivion at IMDb Oblivion at the TCM Movie Database Oblivion at Rotten Tomatoes Oblivion at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films Oblivion at Box Office Mojo Oblivion at Metacritic Oblivion - Production Information at Celluloid Digital Portraits |
The Old Axolotl : The Old Axolotl (Polish: Starość aksolotla) is a 2015 digital-only novel by Polish science-fiction author Jacek Dukaj. The novel was released in Polish on March 10, 2015, and shortly afterward, on March 24 that year, in English (translated by Stanley Bill). It has been described as "an experiment in r... |
The Old Axolotl : The novel presents a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk vision of Earth where biological life has been wiped out, inhabited by robots and mechs, many of which are humans whose consciousness has been digitized in the wake of an extinction event. |
The Old Axolotl : The novel is an example of electronic literature, available only in digital formats, and has no traditional paper version. It was designed from the beginning not only to incorporate more traditional elements such as illustrations, but also hypertext, and 3D-printable models of main robotic characters ... |
The Old Axolotl : Axolotl Stanisław Lem Andrzej Sapkowski Janusz A. Zajdel Polish literature |
The Old Axolotl : Novel website Promotional video for the novel by Platige Image |
On a Red Station, Drifting : On a Red Station, Drifting is a 2012 science fiction novella by Aliette de Bodard. Set in her Xuya Universe, it focuses on two women aboard a space station with a failing artificial intelligence. It received critical acclaim, becoming a finalist for the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novella, t... |
On a Red Station, Drifting : Lê Thi Linh is a magistrate of the Dai Viet Empire who is forced to flee her planet after criticizing the Emperor’s wartime policies. At the same time, rebel groups seize control of her planet and kill most of her subordinates. Linh seeks refuge with her distant relatives on Prosper Station... |
On a Red Station, Drifting : A review in Kirkus wrote that the novel's "familiar setting" was a "departure point" for the novel to explore its themes. The novel explores family ties; almost everyone on Prosper Station is related in some fashion. Additionally, the use of ancestors' mem-implants further explores the conc... |
On a Red Station, Drifting : The novel is divided into three sections. Liz Bourke wrote that each section builds thematically "towards an emotional crescendo". |
On a Red Station, Drifting : Writing for Locus, Liz Bourke praised the novel's exploration of interpersonal conflict between Linh and Quyen, writing that "essentially subverts the popularly-understood derogatory overtones of 'domestic conflict'". Bourke also praised the story's tension, calling it "so well-strung the p... |
Orion's Arm : Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA) is a multi-authored online hard science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since. Anyon... |
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