I haven't posted since Moses was a baby.
The other day, I sort of rediscovered Megachan.
I'm very happy to see that such a great 'chan is still up and running, and that the quality of the posts is as high as ever.
I'm going to dump a folder I just call "interesting." The subjects and quality of the images are all over the place. Some of them might not even be, strictly speaking, scifi or fantasy. Never the less, this seems like the best place for it.
Dump some stuff yourself if you'd like. Somebodies bound to find it savable.

dump your favorit starship here please

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>>	bladerunner 12/05/18(Fri)22:58 No. 4910 File 133738190162.jpg - (186.14KB , 1275x679 , SS GW BUSH2.jpg )

>>	n33t!Tavwk/H8TE 12/05/18(Fri)23:28 No. 4911 >>4910 Wait, where's this from? Assuming it's just some random artist? It's quite cool, other than the name, haha.

>>	Fiver!!MzAJL4ZGD5 12/05/19(Sat)00:52 No. 4912 >>4911 It looks familiar to me too but I can't place it. The list of heroes you might name a spaceship after must be growing thin though, if they saw fit to name one after that idiot.

Well, we discuss cyberpunk plenty, and the apocalypse to no end, but this board always seems to be full to overflowing with television. Although the crossover with /cy/ territory is pretty large nowadays, there's got to be plenty of regular sci fi on your shelves too, what's your favourite?

Recently I read Usurper of the Sun, a Japanese novel by Nojiri Housuke about a first contact situation with an alien race, where their technology comes ahead of the group itself. We follow the main character from childhood (she's one of the first to spot traces of the aliens) to her first mission, to attempts to contact the aliens, and see just how much life passes her by as she doggedly pursues her life goal of establishing first contact. I've ordered the author's other works, the seemingly less heavy Rocket Girls, on the strength of the writing. A really great blend of emotional and hard sci fi realism.

Then there's Vonda N. McIntyre, one of my favourite authors. I've mentioned her novel Dreamsnake on /apoc/, but it's worth mentioning the Exile Waiting (a sort of companion piece to Dreamsnake, taking place inside the inpenetrable 'Centre') and Superluminal, a massively underrated novel about space travel and bio-engineering. You can see the influence of Star Trek (she wrote many of the movie novellisations), but there's a darker turn to her writing here, and it's less clinical or afraid of sex.

Sheri S. Tepper's Grass, which is actually the first in a trilogy, is another great novel that I only happened across in a bookstore by accident (though it is released under the 'Sci Fi Masterworks' imprint.) Interesting study of religion, motherhood and environmentalism, and reaches an 'epic' scale without overreaching itself and darting into Zapp Branniganisms.

A short but worthwhile read is Joanna Russ' We Who Are About to... a novella about a group of passengers ejected onto an uninhabited planet with limited supplies. One character, however, rejects the idea of colonisation, and doubts they have the requisite skills, while utterly opposed to the idea that she should bear children

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So leaked Prometheus teaser.

DAT JOCKEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuuL_Tel79g

Thought it was quite cool. Even has sound effects! It also destroys balloons. Because fuck balloons.

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>>	Fiver!!MzAJL4ZGD5 12/05/09(Wed)20:52 No. 4887 File 133659677953.jpg - (66.49KB , 443x608 , miamivice.jpg ) >>4870 Yes, the resemblance is undeniable now that you mention it.

>>	n33t!Tavwk/H8TE 12/05/09(Wed)21:13 No. 4888 >>4887 I'm glad they didn't entirely do away with the design when they made Stand Alone Complex. It actually helped Togusa stand out as a character amongst the rest of them.

>>	Fiver!!MzAJL4ZGD5 12/05/09(Wed)22:41 No. 4889 >>4888 A Boy and His Dog was slightly ruined for me after it was pointed out that the kid is... Crockett. I honestly had not noticed and sort of wish I didn't know.

Sorry for the begging (and the repost from /m/), but anybody got a good ebook copy of Foundation's Edge they could please hook me up with, preferably good for a kindle fire?

The version I have either has a bunch of typos from the OCR process or Seldon also worked as a dessert chef, because this copy discusses his "Flan" and the consequences of it.

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>>	dorkly chair of the institute for space politics 12/05/09(Wed)19:55 No. 4882 File 133659331794.jpg - (306.66KB , 1599x586 , lrsGambinoFred FoundationsFear.jpg )

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As the resident weeaboo, I feel the need to make a thread for the furtherment of space anime. A lot of anime fans seem to shy away from these shows nowadays, caught up in moe and schoolgirl fantasies, and while there's nothing wrong with a bit of that now and then, people are really missing out. The same goes for staunch Western sci fi fans who refuse to give anime shows a look in due to their prejudice against the form as being too full of fanservice or silliness.

Gundam - goes without saying, really. Even 0079, the original show, holds up nowadays. The animation is surprisingly good (especially the HD remasters), and the story has as much political intrigue and personal struggles as the likes of the Battlestar reboot; only unlike modern Western sci fi, it doesn't feel the need to dumb down the political storylines to make the analogy with reality.
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of anything outside the Universal Century timeline, but some people love those other shows.

Martian Successor Nadesico - actually a pun on another great space anime, Space Battleship Yamato. (Yamato Nadeshiko is a archetype of feminity in Japan best understood as 'the flower of Japanese womanhood.') The main series of this manages to parody the likes of Yamato, Gundam, et al, without becoming simply a gag anime. The drama ramps up towards the end of the series as well, and what starts as a fairly light-hearted space adventure becomes very serious. The characters are all memorable, and it's worth watching just so that you can enjoy their development in the interim between the series and the film, which is a lot darker and drops a lot of the jokes. Unfortunately a second film was cancelled, so the franchise ends on a rather sour note, but it's still well worth checking out.

Wings of the Honneamise - Gainax's first really major production, and a film that should be a million times better known. Unfortunately, it was torpedoed upon release by the success of Ghibli's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (which I actually regard as rather a weak film). This is all about an alternate universe, and the fledging space force full of losers who become determin

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Anonymous 12/04/09(Mon)20:36 No. 4744 File 133400380287.jpg - (339.09KB , 800x1131 , bodaciousspacepirates.jpg ) Mouretsu Pirates or Bodacious Space Pirates. A series currently running in Japan. Went in with a lot of prejudice: school girls with short skirts in a stupid fanservice sci-fi show. Then, I got surprised. Pleasantly surprised. Turns out it is a rather slow moving, serious hard sci-fi show. One rather interesting thing about this show: there doesn't seem to be any big antagonist or drama to drive the plot. No war or dangerous aliens, no big looming threat or bad guy. Still they manage to tell a story that is neither boring nor mundane. It is now in the second half of the presumed episode count and still i find myself thoroughly entertained by this show. Recommended for "Can't judge a book by its cover" award.

>>	n33t!Tavwk/H8TE 12/04/11(Wed)12:24 No. 4745 >>4744 Any show that uses the word 'bodacious' has my vote.

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n33t!Tavwk/H8TE 12/05/03(Thu)20:16 No. 4839 File 133607620076.jpg - (275.51KB , 1168x1648 , 3ca198c57beb6d5c73269345eb5a761a.jpg ) >>4744 Jesus dick-shitting Christ, you didn't mention that BSP is directed by Sato Tatsuo of Martian Successor Nadesico. I am getting on this right the fuck right now. (That said, his Stellvia sucked ass... though a lot of that was to do with freaky animation.)

Ok, so we all love Red Dwarf, and we can't get enough of Kaylee Firefly, but what about some less often remembered shows? For every Stargate, there's a Moonbase 3... a lot of sci fi shows, because of their budgetary demands, seem to get cancelled or drop into obscurity, which is a terrible shame. So yea;

Space Precinct 2040 - a procedural cop show... in space! Brainchild of Gerry Anderson (of Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Stingray fame), Space Precinct faltered due to the perception that it was a kids show. Of course, people didn't want their kids watching it because some of the storylines tended to be quite adult.

Farscape - ok it's not really forgotten, and it has a big enough following, but I remember it being on around the time when Stargate was getting a lot of love, and not understanding why the dull, militaristic show was getting all the love when this was struggling to get funding. The plot got a little convoluted, yes, but the story was great, and I really loved the inclusion of a living spaceship which I'd really only seen before in novels.

Star Cops - another police show, with a 'frontier' sort of feel. It only lasted 9 episodes and was critically panned, but has since acquired a cult following of sorts. Unfortunately, poor production values meant that the strong writing was lost on most viewers.

Space Island One - 'The best science fiction show you've never heard of… The show unflinchingly looks at the implications of for-profit science… and provides the most realistic look ever at life in space, including bone-mass loss. A few episodes are dull, but the show is often surprisingly weird and fun… It also features some of the most complex, believable characters of any television show.' (io9)

We should have a concept art thread.

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>>	Anonymous 10/09/07(Tue)23:08 No. 384 File 128390092414.jpg - (185.35KB , 826x1452 , arnisMiniGunner.jpg ) B U M P

>>	Anonymous 10/09/09(Thu)17:17 No. 385 File 128405264036.jpg - (318.10KB , 1024x774 , ConceptArt.jpg ) some Metroid for you

>>	Anonymous 10/09/12(Sun)02:00 No. 386 File 12842568225.jpg - (168.43KB , 525x825 , Lion_o-2_Cents.jpg ) And some Thundercats for you.