I love science fiction

Especially

• [[star trek tng]]
  • [[the best Star Trek TNG episodes]]
• [[star trek ds9|Star Trek Deep Space 9]]
• [[Escape pod podcast]]
• Transmetropolitan
• [[rick and morty]]

  - Solar Opposites
  

  Seems very promising after 4 episodes
• Final Space Love the ending and the continual escalation and sheer space-opera vibe reminds me somewhat of The Metabaron
• The Metabaron There is never a break, only a steadily increasing curve of opulent and pompous drama.
• Love, Death & Robots
• Looper

Not that important, but left a mark

• [[../_inbox/inbox-2021/inbox-2021-08/quantum leap]]

First ever use of the term science fiction was in… early… mentioned in Macbreak Weekly towards the end of e753

Books

• Snow Crash
• The one where a guy wakes up after a drinking night and is a woman, gender changed by a friend as a prank. (Apologies; can't remember the title. Might have been Charles Stross. There was a similarity to Altered Carbon in that your soul/consciousness was stored on a disc in your neck)
• That one with a protagonist named Reid(?) who steers a "space"ship that navigates on pure mathemathics. By Greg Egan. I remember the protagonist's name only because I went to university with a person of the same name. I remember the book only because it was presented (lent) to me by one of my housemates in Australia. It seems it is not Reid Malenfant… I don't recognize it from the wikipedia description. Were the pilots called navigators?
• [[Constellation Games]] - ok, but nothing amazeballs. Irreverent and humorous though. A bit Hitchiker's Guide

Podcasts

[[Escape Pod]]

Short stories

[[The Last Question]] The Egg - Andrew Weir

Quotes

• [[q.A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam]]
• [[q.The future is already here - it is just not evenly distributed]]
• [[q.Specialization is for Insects]] Not sure if this even belongs here. It's by a scifi-author, but not particularly pertinent to scifi in and of itself.
• [[../www/PKD is the most influential cyberpunk writer ever]]
• [[q.any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic]]
  • [[q.any sufficiently advanced alien species is indistinguishable from nature]]

Authors

[[Philip K. Dick]]

[[Greg Egan]]

Australian. And of all cities he could live in in Australia, he lives in the very one I spent a year in; [[Perth]] Write Permutation City, which I haven't read, but which comes up all over the place.

• Charles Stross
• [[Neil Stephenson]]

2020-12-02 - An author I remember really liking is Greg Egan. Australian if I remember correctly. [[australia|Australia]] is also where I was introduced to…The name escapes me, but it is relatively obscure and the main thing I remember is that the protagonist was a pilot of a starship, and the ships were navigated with pure mathematics.