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Category: Science Fiction

Cowboy Bebop and other TV notes

Usually new TV shows I'm interested in are few and far between, which makes the last few weeks unusual, as there's been an avalanche of stuff that caught my interest. Apparently everyone wants to release their stuff in or near the holiday season. I wonder why they don't think we need entertainment throughout the rest … Continue reading Cowboy Bebop and other TV notes →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 20 Comments November 27, 2021 4 Minutes

Arcane: League of Legends

It's been a long time since I've been much of a game player, so I'm not familiar with the League of Legends game, or its overall story universe. But apparently the game developers have put together a rich lore and history behind it, and some of that is starting to come out in various franchised … Continue reading Arcane: League of Legends →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 14 Comments November 14, 2021 3 Minutes

Dune: Part One

Frank Herbert's novel: Dune, is the epitome of classic science fiction. It's widely regarded as one of the best science fiction novels ever written, if not the best. The story takes place roughly 20,000 years in the future, in an interstellar feudal society. 10,000 years earlier, humanity underwent a religious movement that made computers and … Continue reading Dune: Part One →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 32 Comments October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 4 Minutes

Foundation

I've been watching the new Apple TV+ series Foundation, but wanted to get a few episodes in before commenting. This is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation book series. In that series, set in the far future (20,000 years), a vast galactic empire rules the entire galaxy. Hari Seldon is a mathematician who has … Continue reading Foundation →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 17 Comments October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 4 Minutes

Loki

I haven't been hugely impressed by Marvel's recent TV shows. I found WandaVision's first few episodes hard to get through, and the later action never really made up for it. And the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier didn't draw me in. So I was slow to watch Loki. But after hearing … Continue reading Loki →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 6 Comments September 19, 2021 3 Minutes

Project Hail Mary

As I've gotten older, I've become increasingly weary of the alien invasion premise. The problem is the level of coincidence. Earth was a sitting duck for 4 billion years, but the aliens wait until the very century when humans are able to mount any kind of resistance. (To the credit of HG Wells, the originator … Continue reading Project Hail Mary →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 10 Comments September 2, 2021 2 Minutes

ID-0

ID-0 is an interesting little series I stumbled across on Netflix. Like a lot of sci-fi anime, it's in the mecha genre (involving giant robots), but with a twist. The premise is that humans can copy their mind into a robot called an "I-machine" and essentially become the robot. A backup copy of the human's … Continue reading ID-0 →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 6 Comments August 26, 2021 3 Minutes

Knights of Sidonia

For years Netflix dangled Knights of Sidonia in front of me as a recommended show to check out. But as I noted several posts back, I was generally resistant to anime for a long time. I did try to take up the show once, but remember struggling with the standard anime female tropes and the … Continue reading Knights of Sidonia →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 11 Comments August 13, 2021 4 Minutes

Blame!

Tsutomu Nihei is a manga artist who specializes in science fiction. His stories tend to be dark cyberpunk in post apocalyptic settings. The more recent ones take place in space, which is checking a lot of the marks for the type of fiction I usually enjoy. His first series was Blame!, which was adopted a … Continue reading Blame! →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 12 Comments August 11, 2021August 12, 2021 3 Minutes

Battle Angel Alita

My anime binge has expanded somewhat into a manga binge. A while back, I posted about the movie Alita: Battle Angel. I enjoyed it a great deal and was intrigued by the world that was presented, of a bifurcated society, with an elite living in the floating city of Zalem, and a hardscrabble lower class … Continue reading Battle Angel Alita →

SelfAwarePatterns Science Fiction 6 Comments July 18, 2021 5 Minutes

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