r/scifi

I'm looking for any movie/tv/game/anime/manga/whatever where the main plot is that humanity has moved to another planet for the sake of survival after loosing a war with aliens/destroying Earth/a natural disaster/whatever.

I had this idea when I was watching a playthrough of Halo and wondered what would've happened if, instead of finding the Halo, they found and settled down on an uninhabited planet while the covenant destroyed the rest of humanity.

The series like this I've already enjoyed are:

>!After Earth !<where >!humanity left earth because of extreme environmental changes and the two protagonists crash land on Earth during an emergency and have to survive because their bodies have adapted to a different environment after 1000 years.!<

>!Astra Lost in Space!<where >!Humanity left Earth and colonized another planet 100 years ago because of an asteroid that was on a crash course with Earth. They then rewrote history to erase all evidence of the move.!<

>!Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet!< where >!humanity left Earth because of extreme environmental changes and are now a spacefaring species fighting off another species that want to kill them. During a battle with them, the protagonist winds up on Earth where he finds out that there are still humans alive from when they left and he learns that the enemies they're fighting are actually genetically modified humans that had changed their bodies to be able to survive in space.!<

Hi!

Other than A Canticle for Lebowitz, are there any other stories in which a post apocalyptic recovering civilization bases their recovery on one, single, book or document?

I've not read ACfL for a while, but my recollection is that perceptions were skewed by a shopping list.

I read the entirety of the Doomsday Battle massacre while next to my partner on a flight back home after our vacation to Florida, and I was quite literally white-knuckle gripping my armrest and partner’s hand while gasping and jaw-dropped.

While I would say Cixin doesn’t excel with character building or development, his brilliance lies in the magnificent theoretical and philosophical world-building of this series. Instead of growing attached to specific characters (except for Da Shi - I’m admittedly quite fond of him), I essentially became attached to humanity as a whole through this species-driven, global patriotism and its challenges with the transition from the Golden Age through the Great Ravine to the naive optimism in victory pre-Doomsday Battle. 

I’ve never been one to feel strongly about a collective cause in an imminent war like the brewing one with the Trisolarans, and yet there I was, silently sobbing on this flight reading how the entire space fleet was annihilated in the span of sheer minutes. And then, the final stab in the heart of watching the surviving fleet ships succumbing to the Dark Forest theory by annihilating each other in a self-cannibalism of resources. 

It’s a day later, and all I can still see in my mind’s eye is this crystal-clear mental image of the perfectly-reflective droplet speeding through space, obliterating ship after ship in the span of seconds in a trail of successive fusion explosions.

So all this is to say… damn I can’t wait to read the third book in the series. It’s by far one of the most brilliant pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. 

i loved/watched The Expanse/The Ark/Lost In Space/The Orville tried to watch the first few episodes of Foundation but i don't really like it for some reason and ik this is not the right category but do you guys have any recommendations on some comedy/tech themed shows like Silicon Valley or Mythic Quest?

Hey guys!

I read Project Hail Mary and The Martian back in december, I LOVED them both and I've been chasing that high ever since. I'm looking for books with similar vibes: sci-fi (could be hard sci-fi or not), humor and definetly fast-paced. I've looked into all the reddit posts and I can't seem to find anything. I'm not into horror, gore I'm ok with, but I don't like being scared.

Here are the ones I already read:

• Dungeon Crawler Carl books 1 & 2 - I really liked both of them, but I just can’t seem to bring myself to pick up book 3.
• Bobverse book 1 - althought I read it in a day, it wasn't for me, it's too complex I think?
• Murderbot books 1, 2 and 3 - again, not my cup of tea. It felt a bit like a cop show - every book was like an episode with a issue to solve.

Here are the ones I'm on the fence to pick up:

• Artemis - might seem like the next step but it seems to not be as well loved as the other two (to be fair, it seems to be hated)
• Old Man's War
• Ready Player One

Thank you guys!

I’ve been trying to find some underrated sci-fi movies that aren’t buried in Netflix’s usual recommendations. Looking for lesser known films with interesting concepts, good atmosphere, or cult status that are worth watching. Any hidden gems you’d recommend?

So, I am about to finish Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning, and it's good, but for a variety of reasons, I do not think I'll continue with the series anytime soon. This got me thinking of how often I start a series/trilogy and stop after 1 book, vs the ones I have actually taken to completion recently. And given that this is a hobby, it's not like it matters if I don't finish the series, but it's funny how this is starting look like a trend, and bug me. Does anyone else ever think about this?

Series I've finished in recent years:

• Pierce Brown's Red Rising (1st trilogy)
• John Scalzi's Interdependency
• Will Wight's Cradle
• CS Lewis' Space Trilogy
• BrandoSando's Stormlight (I mean, I'm current on the 1st arc), Skyward, Mistborn, etc.

All of these were more or less books I couldn't put down, which is why I stuck with them.

Now, here are series I've recently stopped after the 1st book:

• Annihilation
• Children of Time
• Hyperion
• Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I'm not opposed to finishing any of them, they just didn't grab me the way I thought they would. I'm pretty sure I'm going to commit and read the other 3 Children of Time books...the space opera vibe and big ideas definitely were compelling. Not sure I'll ever go back to Annihilation or Terra Ignota. Hyperion is too big of a deal in Scifi for me to never revisit...the first book was just not what I expected.

Anyone else ever do this, or am I the weird one that doesn't commit and power through a full series?

I just read the book- There is No Antimemetics Division by an author named qntm and I found it bewildering, difficult to read and more importantly- difficult to care. I thought the premise was interesting and I tried hard but more than halfway through, I found it incredibly tedious.

If you read it, what are your thoughts? I had to read some chapters more than once and what I thought was an intriguing narrative tool to build a sense of menace, atmosphere and tension became really clumsy and the writing came off as amateurish.

I felt like giving up half way through and thought there would be a meaningful payoff, but no.

Would not recommend.

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Edit (24 hours and 151 responses later): I didn't realize this book was originally published in the form of short stories that was later assembled into one book. This changes my perspective somewhat because I think it would have been more effective as an anthology of short stories from different perspectives & different timelines.

Second- I'm fascinated with the even split between people who loved it and people who felt the juice was not worth the squeeze and found the book really tedious and difficult to read. Really enjoyed reading different perspectives and there are enough of those who enjoyed it that I think this will merit re-reading in the future.

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Just finished The Martian and Project Hail Mary (each for the second time), and now I'm reading Martha Well's Murderbot series (8-1/2 books). I love how their writing doesn't talk down to their readers.

Can you recommend any other series in a similar vein?

What I remember:

• Set billions/trillions of years in the future.
• Humanity/posthumanity no longer lives in physical bodies or on planets.
• Civilizations exist more like distributed minds/colonies in space.
• Because of the expansion of the universe, colonies are slowly moving beyond each other’s observable universes and losing the ability to communicate forever.
• The story involves what may be the last conversation between two such colonies.
• Minds within a colony are gradually merged together into a single consciousness.
• This may or may not be true but I vaguely remember a reveal near the end that the narrator had already merged/absorbed all the other minds in the colony and was effectively speaking as the colony.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

CONTAINS SPOILERS:

- bro military major is ordered to stand down by command and psych not deemed fit for service

- bro refuses and illegally sneaks on a military vessel with a critical mission for earth´s sake

- bro ignores several warnings of the crew to not come closer

- crew defends ship against unresponsive intruder bro (okay could´ve tried to restrain it but given the crticiality of the mission and risks, carrying a damn nuke, they receiving the take him out order is understandable)

- bro kills entire crew (but it happens mostly to their "bad luck" missed shots etc. so its cool I guess)

- bro reaches main target, meets dad who killed also the crew and tells him that he never gave a flying f about his son, and dad then decides to die anyways

- bro nukes station as it was planned by the original mission, just brought the mission at the brink of failure that could´ve killed further thousands on earth because of further power surges.

- bro achieved nothing other than the crew on the original mission would´ve achieved, other than killing an entire crew of innocent astronauts with families and loved ones that will never see them again

- bro sleeps now well, feels calm, gf is back, and has cool psych eval score

I mean I like the psychological focus of the movie but this here was modern audience low-IQ wtf writing.

Looking for something like “Twilight Zone”, “Alien”, and “The Thing.” I work retail so preferably something that has tension but won’t cause me to jump in front of customers.

It can be earth or spacebound, serial or an anthology. Preferably episodes that are 30 minutes to an hour.