List of science fiction universes Puns

u/Despi47 made an interesting post asking for sci-fi that doesn't have non-human technological civilizations:

• Humanity alone in the universe? : r/scifi

Some of the top mentioned titles are:

• Red Dwarf
• Firefly (Serenity is the movie)
• Odyssey One
• Isaac Asimov's End Of Eternity
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
• Hanish series

There's more titles mentioned if you want to read through the comments there.

• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson

• Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

• In the Ocean of Night - Gregory Benford

• Heart of the Comet - David Brin

• Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

• The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke

• Triton - Samuel R. Delany

• Permutation City - Greg Egan

• Rocheworld - Robert L. Forward

• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

• The Children of Men - P. D. James

• Pink Noise - Leonid Korogodski

• Beggars in Spain - Nancy Kress

• His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem

• InterstellarNet: Origins - Edward M. Lerner

• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu

• Learning the World - Ken MacLeod

• The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy

• The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon

• A World Out of Time - Larry Niven

• Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel - George Orwell

• The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

• Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

• Cold as Ice - Charles Sheffield

• The Compleat McAndrew - Charles Sheffield

• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

• Saturn's Children - Charles Stross

• Sayonara, Gangsters - Genichiro Takahashi

• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge

• Blindsight - Peter Watts

• The Martian - Andy Weir

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My main thought covers two episodes, but it's the idea that Starfleet would pick our main characters for missions they should never be chosen for. Like Picard, Crusher and Worf in Chain of Command and O'brien in Honor Among Theives.

Edit: I've already read Starship Troopers, Enders Game, and the Old Man's War series.

Edit edit: and Forever War.

I think it was animated, and at the start featured the main character taking apart a dog door to improve it and thinking it was fine. The video ends in a loop

This doesn't directly relate to Altered Carbon, but I just picked up Thin Air by Morgan and I remember reading somewhere that all of his science fiction books take place in the same universe and I was wondering if that was actually true? And if there was anything like a time line or oder to universe someone could point me in.

During the TNG episode Ensigns of Command (S3:E2) Picard and Troi have a discussion concerning the difficulties inherent in communication between alien species. Picard is clearly dumbstruck by the difficulties Troi outlines, indicating this is a novel insight that he's never considered and was never taught about at Star Fleet Academy. Given how thoroughly this dilemma has been examine in contemporary science fiction, either "science fiction" means something entirely different to Picard than what we'd understand, or Star Fleet Academy is an incompetent and useless organization.

I think it's by Arthur C Clarke, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

The general gist is that a civilisation becomes so advanced that it uploads its inhabitants' consciousnesses into a simulation in a cube (I think) in deep space. Here they get to live out life in a virtual eternity, but manipulating time (stretching it out), so even the heat death of the universe isn't something they need worry about (too much, at least).

Any ideas?

Possibly written by people around the time of Asimov and Arthur Clarke.

EDIT : It is also possible that maybe they didn't intend to travel to another universe, but they get lost in cryosleep and wake up after the universe has ended and another one has started.

I'm Aliette de Bodard. I write science fiction and fantasy. I'm the author of the Xuya universe series and of the Dominion of the Fallen books (The House of Shattered Wings, The House of Binding Thorns). I won two Nebulas, three British Science Fiction Association Awards, and a Locus Award: my story "Children of Thorns, Children of Water" (https://uncannymagazine.com/article/children-thorns-children-water/) is currently a finalist for the Hugo Award.

My newest book is The Tea Master and the Detective, which is a gender-swapped Sherlock Holmes in space, with Holmes as an eccentric scholar and Watson as a grumpy discharged war mindship. I'm a keen amateur cook (French/Vietnamese food, and lately the adventures of baking bread, brioche and other dough stuffs), a fountain pen enthusiast (I, hum, own way too many of the stuff). I juggle a day job as a system engineer building railway systems, motherhood of two young children, and writing activities.

Find me at http://www.aliettedebodard.com, more info on The Tea Master and the Detective here: https://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/the-universe-of-xuya/tea-master-detective/

Proof: https://twitter.com/aliettedb/status/987038177973231616

In this time of reading (pandemic forced!), I created a Google Doc of all the Military Sci-Fi that I remember reading. The only real criteria is that there are battles (either in space or on the ground) -- I'm not adding slightly futuristic earth based battles (like Tom Clancy).

It's organized by Author, Title (or in the case of a series, the name of the series), the Goodreads link, and a short one liner note about the book (or my opinion of it). I've also got a few columns about whether it's focused on one primary protagonist (even the Lost Fleet is mostly about Black Jack Geary), whether it's got lots of space battles, ground battles and aliens.

I would love to know if there are more books or series out there that I've missed -- I'd like to expand this list.

Military Science Fiction (Google Doc)

edit: also if you find errors or additions (in the notes) please let me know.

edit 2: this doc no longer only contains books that I've read in the past -- a few are recommended by other redditors on this post, so if you see a note that links back to a comment on this post, then it means I haven't read it yet, but I'm adding it based on the recommendation.

edit 3: for those who were asking, there's now an additional column with Last Name, First Name (; other contributors)

Hello, Reddit! We're Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, authors of the science fictional Liaden Universe® novels and stories (and other stuff, too*). Along the way we were pioneers in electronic publication, won some awards, dared to publish Liaden novels FLEDGLING and SALTATION chapter-by-chapter online without a net, have been Guests of Honor at SF cons across the country, helped judge some awards, and have been pleased to be an active part of the SF community as fans as well as pros. Tomorrow is the release day for the twentieth novel set in the 'verse – The Gathering Edge. When we were just starting out, and excited about our first book, Agent of Change, hitting the stands, the Elder Writers of our acquaintance told us that, if we stuck with it, a book coming out would fail to be an event. We not only wouldn't get excited about it, we wouldn't even notice.

Well. . .the Elder Writers were wrong! We're every bit as excited about TGE's release as we were for Agent – maybe moreso, because now we know how hard it is to get published even once, much less seeing the publication of Liaden novel number twenty.

Anyway, we're dancing with anticipation, and our Maine Coon cats are trying to ignore us and get some serious sleeping done, and we thought – we'll throw a pre-release party on Reddit! That'll be fun.

So, here we are – Ask Us Anything!

*Here's Proof: http://korval.com/2017/04/03/join-us-for-a-pre-release-party-on-may-1/

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EDITED TO ADD: Thank you all! We had a great time hanging with you and answering your questions. We'll try to stop by a little later and answer any other questions that may have come in, but right now? It's time for lunch!

I didn't write this, but I wish I had.

Mass Effect is epic. It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It's one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional universes in ways that you may not have yet realized. It is cosmic in scope and scale. Basically, Mass Effect is the most important science fiction universe of our generation. Here's why: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-universe-of-our-generation?IR=T

This post contains SPOILERS for the TV series' "Counterpart", "The Leftovers", "Fringe", and an episode of "Star Trek: The Original Series".

One of the things I love about Futurama is how many jokes reference serious science fiction works, both print and video. One of my favorites is when they fly to the edge of the universe, where there's a viewing platform that overlooks a parallel universe. Fry asks if there are an infinite number of parallel universes. Professor Farnsworth replies "No, just the two."

This is funny because parallel universes are a longstanding science fiction trope, usually loosely based on the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. In fictional treatments, it's usually implied that there are at least a very large number of parellel universes (one for each possible state of every wavefunction in history - that's a lot), if not an infinite number. Larry Niven's "All the Myriad Ways" is the treatment of this idea that is most familiar to me but there are many others. The only example I can think of where there were only two parallel universe's is the Star Trek episode "Mirror Mirror" (the one where Kirk ends up in an alternative universe where the Federation is an empire based on conquest and Spock has a beard).

So when Farnsworth says "Just the two", it references the viewer's knowledge of the science fiction genre and then inverts expectations, resulting in humor.

Ha ha ha!

But here's a funny thing. In the years since Futurama, there have been at least three science fiction TV series with the premise that there is exactly one alternate universe. Not an infinite number of parallel universes, but, as Farnsworth said, "just the two".

"Fringe" which was on Fox and "Counterpart" which was on Starz and is now on Prime Video were both based on the premise that there is exactly one other alternate universe. In "The Leftovers" on HBO one of the characters claims there is another universe, although I understand there is some doubt as to how truthful that character is being.

We know the creators of Futurama were science fiction fans, and they included jokes that both paid homage to and made fun of the genre. But were later science fiction writers influenced by Futurama? I don't know, probably not, but I managed to kill twenty minutes writing this and now you've wasted a few minutes reading it. And now you've heard of "Counterpart", which hardly anyone saw when it was on Starz/Showtime but is now st

I read this book and/or series in the early 1990s. Plots were fairly thin. The protagonist was a boy who naturally had the ability to teleport. He had adventures on various planets in the universe. Teleporters are quite rare and are randomly born into different alien species. All teleporters are limited in the amount of mass they can take with them when the teleport. The mass limit is the same for everyone, a universal limit. In the galactic economy, people who can teleport are highly paid to teleport people and cargo. I remember that he goes to a planet where the aliens look like birds, and he goes to a planet with extremely deep topsoil. I think the title of the book may have been a pun or alliteration. The book was a paperback with a colorful cover showing the protagonist. I'm fairly confident it was a series of books that all had punny or alliterative titles.

Per the subject, I'm looking for a few beta readers for my short story. The purpose of the novella is to flesh out details of a universe I've created that will hopefully be the perfect setting for an ongoing LitRPG story.

This particular story is set in a game that is heavily inspired by Escape From Tarkov, a realistic military sim set in a post apocalyptic 'world.' It's action, and science fiction, and delves into the history, purpose, and current and past states of the network in which the game is connected.

This will be via Google Docs. Beta readers will be asked to answer questions, leave feedback and suggestions, and partake in conversation regarding the writing. If you're not interested in being part of the process, I politely ask you not to respond.

If you are interested, please leave a comment or send a PM.

1. Children Of The Machine.

Blurb 1.

The Technological Singularity led to a new epoch, a new age of technological enlightenment. As technology began to reach new heights, mankind prospered and grew ever more confident that the stars were its birthright. The deadlock had been broken. Despite this new age of confidence and unprecedented technological growth, there are many who believe that humanity's empire is being constructed upon dark secrets and tainted foundations. As the secrets begin to unravel, the fabric of reality begins to tear. The foundations of humanity's empire begin to crack. Out of these tears and through these cracks come whispers. As the whispers grow in volume and the secrets unravel further, the holes grow larger and the whispers begin to corrupt those that can hear them. There will be riots. There will be revolution. There will be rebellion. Can humanity uncover the truth?

Link to book 1.

https://www.wattpad.com/748197044-2-children-of-the-machine-unit-1-memory-1

2. Wolf Rising.

Blurb 2.

The planet known as Wolf-1061c braces itself for what will undoubtedly be a long and bloody siege against the Federation's legions. Unit-3 must unite the strange underground tribes who dwell deep below the surface and unify them under one banner if he ever hopes to see the light of the sun again.

Link to book 2.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/225118583-3-wolf-rising

3. Seeds Of Corruption.

Blurb 3.

As the scars left from the siege of the planet known Wolf-1061c begin to fade It becomes apparent that a new threat is approaching. But as the alien invasion fleet begins deteriorating in the atmosphere above the planet, it becomes clear that something has got to it first and beaten the humans to it. But soon the elation from being saved from the hostile fleet turns to fear as it is clear that whatever destroyed the enemy's spacecraft is still lurking in the wreckage.

Link to book 3.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/225120761-4-seeds-of-corruption

I recently found an interview with Seth MacFarlane in which he talked about his show, The Orville. He said, "the best sci-fi, for me, is the stuff that kind of casualizes the world and humanizes it, makes it oddly mundane."

It wasn't until I watched this interview that I realized why I enjoy The Orville so much. I'd love to find a book or series that does the same thing, whether it's sci-fi or fantasy.

https://www.amazon.com/Fates-Peak-Scott-Volentine-ebook/dp/B07MLGY3SS

It's hard to really stick this book within a single genre because of how it blends mythology with science fiction elements. An early chapter gives a vivid description of how the supposed Creator God built a supercomputer to simulate the entire Universe. There is a lot of other sci fi from authors like Aldous Huxley, Philip K Dick and Frank Herbert that deals with Gnostic beliefs where the Abrahamic God is called the Logos. That's the tradition from which Fate's Peak develops this cosmological system. Perhaps one difference from earlier gnostic theories is that the Logos in not Universal but rather specific to our Galaxy, and that each galaxy has its own Logos. This leads to the gnostic description of the demiurge, where the Abrahamic God isn't actually the Creator, but only thinks he is due to his arrogance which blinds him.

Anyway, Fate's Peak is actually post-apocalyptic, and the apocalypse is described as how the simulated universe starts to get riddled with errors and viruses which infect the supercomputer and cause it to crash. The story is about this supposed Creator God trying to debug his computer so he can reboot the simulated Universe which is actually just the Milky Way Galaxy. This means the story is about Yahweh searching for the mistake he made.

The book isn't just about Yahweh working on his computer in an abstract realm, because when he looks outside he sees that his simulated Universe didn't just exist within his computer but it existed all around him. Turns out there is only one star left in the entire Galaxy--Sol Invictus--so Yahweh goes there and he creates a new being to search the ruins of a planet in that system for any signs that any other gods survived the apocalypse. While Yahweh wasn't involved in Ragnarok, he takes it upon himself to try to help fix things.

So after Fate's Peak dives through the simulated Universe into the real one, the story becomes streamlined into a more ordinary structure where Yahweh's pawn, William, has to brave the desolate wastes of an unknown planet to uncover the truth of what actually happened. It becomes more like a fantasy book, like the Dune series for example. Space fantasy where the physical actors within it are representing, are actually being manipulated by, forces greater than themselves, in a cosmic game that's happening after all th