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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:42:15 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   People out there who enjoyed the harder sci-fi of "The Expanse" are recommending:

   - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(se…
   - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_2…
   - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapol…

   I'll put them on my list to check out.

   Silo: People in a post-apocalyptic world trapped in an underground silo. The world outside is lethal. Or is it? Yes, it is. Or is it?

   Beacon 23: Two people stuck on a dark-matter "lighthouse" at the edge of settled space. Slow-going world-building.

   Extrapolations: Climate future anthology with loads of famous actors.

   #SciFi #ScienceFiction
   #TheExpanse
   #Silo #SiloSeries
   #Beacon23
   #Extrapolations #ExtrapolationsSeries

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 01:07:48 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Things they also like that I already watched:

      - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundati…
      - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_…
      - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_b…

      Foundation: Asimov's seminal galactic empire epic about societies and how they rise and fall. It goes very slow in the beginning, basically all of S1, but I like it very much. It is a very free adaptation from the books, which some people hate, but I like everything they added, there is creative and interesting new stuff in there. Asimov is great at world-building, not so much at dialogue and characters. This one has great characters, sometimes by merging several from Asimov's huge gallery. It also has more than 5% women and they are allowed pivotal roles.

      For All Mankind: Alt history drama, what if Soviets got to the moon first and the space race continued with both sides establishing bases? I enjoy this one, actors are excellent, story is believable, there is little to no space fantasy, it's all within achievable technology. It's a bit slow-going and I took a break for more exciting superhero and space fantasy adventure series for a while. Expanse fans are lyrical over the latest season and I will get back to it once I catch up with Doom Patrol and in particular the Doom Patrol musical episode. 😃

      Raised by Wolves: Very promising seemingly-hard scifi about settling a harsh biotope on Kepler 22b. The settlers are two androids and a bunch of embryos that escaped zealot persecution of atheists and a global civil war with a sun cult with Christian associations. as ot progressed it got more and more deeply into prophecies and fantasy and I got more and more tired of it, but I finished S2. Unclear if there will be another season. The evolving backstory of what happened on Earth kept me going more than the present-time story, which got more and more surreal. The characters and personal relations are great, including the exploration of android personalities.

      #Foundation #FoundationSeries
      #ForAllMankind
      #RaisedByWolves