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I recently had a surgery done and have plenty of time on my hands. So I decided to pick up the Expanse. I had read the first book Leviathan Wakes last year and while I enjoyed it, I wasn't much in awe of it either and boy was I wrong to put it off. After devouring the second book Caliban's War within 3 days, I am currently on the third book Abaddon's gate and I just can't stop. So if anyone had been sitting on it like me or has been thinking about starting it, please do yourself a favour and do it. It's mind-blowing. If there are any other sci-fi series in the same vein, I would love to hear some recommendations.

P.S. If you love Mass Effect games, the Expanse absolutely takes care of that itch.

That cast is stacked. Bryan Cranston, Dominic West, Marc Strong, Willem Defoe, and Thomas Haden Church (love Wings). Watched it for the first time in like 10 years tonight. There is so much wasted potential. It's almost depressing.

I want to read or watch classic media about UFOs and/or aliens. I'm looking to get a feel for the genre and its conventions. Any thoughts or ideas are very welcome! Thanks :-)

I remember listening to this series of books about a space trucker who makes a stop on a planet where a beacon draws his ship and he has to respond, and he's transporting a group of people, and they enter a portal and come out the other side as different alien races, one of which is a giant metal spider and one of which is a simple minded creature of some kind and it turns out the captain of the space ship was secretly God or something along those lines, it's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of this book/series

Granted it has been 20 years or more since I've read the books, but man did they hollywood these movies too/ soo much.

Just watched Meg 2 the trench today while sick....damn... they just took the book name eh? I don't recall the main guy being some kinda eco ninja bad ass?

Since I was a young boy, I always loved science fiction. Books mostly, but also Movies, Games and all the works.

The one thing, I never understood, are those movies about alien invasions. They came, they tried to conquer, they failed. Don't get me wrong, I do grasp the concept. Earth wins, yeah!!!!

But let's be honest here: If an alien race is coming here, it must have the technology of interstellar travel. Hell, we need weeks and months just to visit other planets or moons in our own solar system. But some alien race got that. They can travel distances, we can hardly imagine, but we earthlings win? With gunpowder propelled pieces of lead? Really? With a computer virus? Heck, my Android phone isn't even copatible with Apple software.

And than there is another thought: They travel epic distances to do what? Steal our resources? Earth don't have that much. They probably are better of raiding our asteroid belt.

My point is: when an alien race with interstellar capacity arrives here, shouldn't we just welcome them? After all, they are way beyond us and we really do not stand a chance, if we go the typical human way.

I am not talking about ecumenopolises, which "only" covers the surface of a planet, I am talking about a city that would've COMPLETELY consumed its planet and replaced what used to be solid and molten rock with thousands* of Zm3's (zettameters³⁾ of underground buildings and civilization spreading under the surface of such monstrous creation.

I'm asking this here because it seems like something very sci-fi to me.

Edit: I know that a megastructure like this would be impractical in our universe, but I'm creating a universe where space has much different laws than in ours, laws that would scientifically allow such monster to be built.

*actually one thousand if you do the math.

I was reading a book recently that talked about how scientists in the 30s and 40s would sometimes write fiction that utilized theories and hypotheses they were working on testing in real life. Are there writers today who also are coming from a strong science background writing fiction utilizing theories that may, a hundred years from now, be accepted as scientifically sound, but today seem "out there"? Thanks!

t. Uhura: The Unsung Hero of Star Trek
Today I like to get back into the Star Trek franchise and focus more on some of the more iconic characters. One of those characters today to talk about will be the of Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, portrayed by Nichelle Nichol.

Lt. Uhura's character has had a major influence in the entire story line of Star Trek, that one could go on for hours about the entire importance of her character. It is good that the legacy of her character continues to exist in the newer versions of star trek.

Question To Answer In Comments Please

What points about Lt Uhura you like the best? What aspects were most important in the star trek story lines?
Like to hear back from you all.
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If we’re going to break Big Tech’s death grip on our digital lives, we’re going to have to fight monopolies. That may sound pretty mundane and old-fashioned, something out of the New Deal era, while ending the use of automated behavioral modification feels like the plotline of a really cool cyberpunk novel.

Cory Doctorow - How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

(My emphasis) Is anyone aware of any cyberpunk and/or science fiction that centers on that part about ending surveillance capitalism and automated behavior modification as a plotline? That particular title by Doctorow is non-fiction. I can't tell from the titles if any of his fiction works take this on as a theme. Do any other novelists come to mind?