Science Fiction Fanzine Puns

Female human or any kind of female creature! Any media counts that can be loosely classified as sci-fi, including superheroes. Give the name of the character and what they are from.

• Example: Wanda from WandaVision

Outer space shows with imaginary gravity on spaceships used to kind of bother me. Now, after watching and thoroughly enjoying The Expanse, this really bothers me -- especially when all other spaceship systems fail.

Of course, The Expanse also maintains tight consistency within its milieu, another personal qualification for suspending disbelief and enjoying the story.

I am looking for the Science Fiction with either the darkest story, or the darkest implications. Something that instills dread or a feeling of being unsettled.

Thanks all.

I just read The Expanse, The Sparrow and the Three Body Problem. I loved all three of these books but my problem with them is how it’s never a round story. They don’t come to a conclusion at all. It’s the start of a series and I’m too slow reader to read the whole series that’s why now I hope someone can recommend me a good science fiction book that is not the start of a series of books. Or if it is that it’s still nice round story such as Enders Game, that is a good finished story (in my opinion) even though it also kicks off a cool universe of books.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Hello friends, it’s the end of the year almost! What was the best thing you read? Tell us about it. Let’s get a good list going. The sub rocks!

If not, what are, or is?

Also, thinking outside sci fi, what are some other examples of incredibly thought provoking series?

Thanks in advance.

I live in a country where the religious parties have a lot of political clout. I have read science fiction from the age of 10. Great Sci-Fi writers like Asimov and Douglas Adams are great for educating youths to Atheism. What is your opinion?

I need some miniatures for Stars Without Numbers. Any recommendations? Obviously 40k is the go to, but I need figures that are more generic and can fit in any sci fi setting .

Edit: Those are all good suggestions. Thanks for the help.

Some time back, I was re-watching some old episodes of Stargate and I was again struck by how implausible the Tauri managed to build hyperdrive-equipped starships in less than a decade. Granted, it was a TV show.

Works that I am more familiar with would be the "Island in the Sea of Time" series by S.M Stirling. With a machine shop that has lathes, they at least managed to replicate steam-powered engines much later in the series.

Still, I think this might be an interesting topic.

It does not necessarily have to be alien technology, or set in the far future. Time travel and alternate timelines will do just as well.

The further humanization of the tuskens, the dialogue pointing to their ancestral history, the resistance against off-worlders and even the metaphors to Māori culture through Temuera’s influence are all incredible.

Sci fi has always been used as a vehicle to provoke thought about our world through the lens of something mystical and otherworldly, and the show is doing a great job combining social critique with entertainment, while keeping true to the Star Wars we love. Excited for what’s to come with the show.

Hi all,

I'm looking to consolidate an internet's worth of Sci-Fi resources into a wiki for r/scificoncepts or at the very least in this post. If you have a resource that you use often, then pop a link into the comments along with a brief description of what it is and what you use it for.

• You cannot have a list of best resources without mentioning Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur and Atomic Rockets. I could honestly write pages about how influential they both are. I'm sure 90% of all your research can be done with these two alone. If you haven't checked them out then I highly recommend it, but I feel like I'm preaching to the choir on this one.
• Tough SF is a great blog site that has the Atomic Rockets seal of approval (High Praise). It's a great source for hard scifi concepts.
• Whilst it's not been updated in 5 years, the RocketPunk Manifesto is another great blog that contains amazing hard scifi ideas
• I've never been one to reinvent the wheel, so here's the Orion's Arm Resource List. It's genuinely an amazing source and I'll probably have some of their links in this post just from how useful they are. It includes a lot of calculators for things like travel times, orbits and gravity. Whilst I think Orion's arm is a great resource, you can tell it's been around a while when half their external links need to use the wayback machine and the other half takes you to websites with a nostalgic 90's design.
• Orion's Arm Planetary Classifications, This post wasn't in their main resource page but it's a google sheet that goes into extreme detail for how to classify planets. (Not an objective way of doing so but a well thought out one)
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Is the best source for current extrasolar planet discoveries and is updated regularly.
• Another great encyclopedia is The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. This site has entries on different science fiction

The title says it all.

The question is sincere : I am myself a European but frankly, I have to admit that 95% of the media I am watching are either Japanese Animation (anime) or American Movies/Series simply because I like SF and Fantasy and these 2 countries produce most what we can find in this field in the world.

I know there are some European SF and Fantasy works but they are scarce. Many European movies are either cheap fat slice of life comedy / romance for the plebe or elitist social tragedy movies aiming for an award or just trying to satisfy the ego of pseudo intellectual critics (yes, I know, this is slightly a caricature but still...).

So what prevents European studios, producers or directors from creating SF or Fantasy media ?

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Things that an Engineer or Science Officer on a star ship might say.

1. We’ve got a Warp Core breach
2. Get the ion matrix modulator back online
3. The gravimetric stabilizer is loose
4. A quantum matrix relay
5. Reroute power to the forward flux capacitor
6. Reverse polarity to theta radiation
7. Demodulate the deflector emitters
8. The Tridium particles are unstable
9. A Resonance Distortion in the Inductors
10. The Plasma Manifold can’t handle the flux
11. We must calculate the iridium three-factor conductors
12. Converge the radiation filters to infra-segmentation
13. Ion-pressure has reached critical matrix
14. Re-integrate the strontium-capacitor to redux-level
15. Restart the master chronium disruptor
16. Maximum astro turbilator integrated
17. Quantum-seed charged to energetic maximum
18. Thorium-flux source has been dispatched
19. Thermal integration detected
20. Astral velocity converted
21. Detonate the Illudium Q-35 explosive space modulator
22. Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow (Dr. Who)
23. There’s a malfunction in the retro-encabulator
24. Circadian extrapolation of the interpolation theorem
25. Spatial transposition phenomena
26. Inner realm qualia
27. Tripolar amalgamation theory
28. Single equation theory of the universal containment field
29. Modular neural interface component
30. Bio-cellular granularity
31. Holodistortion dome
32. Ecolyptic nervescaping processes
33. Micro-ontological effect syndrome
34. Brainlock ameliorator device
35. Mindquake predictor array
36. Achronic sterilization dilator
37. Noctilucent telescopy
38. Thanoscopic analyzer
39. Biotech construction units
40. Temporal augmentation
41. Subneural traweling graft
42. Bioware contamination particles
43. Nanogenetic augmentation cords
44. Helical supersemetric ray-bands
45. Monitored Cryonic Mini-Kelvin Rating
46. Quadra-Capacitor Circuitry
47. Virtual locutor telepresence
48. Genotypic avatar
49. Subspeciation matrix grid
50. Neuro-linked psi-bands
51. Dillinger-drive transfield component
52. Deploying frictionless vortals now, Sir
53. Enhance the divergence coefficient
54. We need to integrate the molecular cospology
55. Reconscede the Heisenberg drive
56. Activate the Omega 13 device
57. Reconfigure the nanowave frequency shift
58. You need to calibrate your ventral defragmenter
59. Reroute the secondary vacuum node
60. We’ve got a destabilized gluon pulse
61. Did you fractionalize the redundancy emitters?
62. I’m detecting a particle trace in the thr

My dad is letting me use his phone for this. He is being annoying about it but he said that you would have good ideas.

I liked Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Fortunately the Milk, The Machine Stops, Interview With The Robot, the Discworld for Kids series, Norse Mythology by Neil Gayman, the Hobbit, and Harry Potter. I have read ALL the Rick Riordan books.

I like funny and gross books. I like mythology. I love bunnies, too!

I don’t want to read Redwall. Please tell him to stop suggesting it!!

Dad edit: Nothing too scary or “mature.” Please be nice. If you’re nice, I’ll let her read your posts and buy her anything she wants.

It just occurred to me that back when I was watching shows like Thunderbirds as a child here in the UK there were relatively few you would get exposed to because there were only a few channels. So shows like Space 1999, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica - from their original incarnations - were what I grew up with. What influenced you?