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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76040559
Isn't most American SciFi the direct counterpart to British SciFi?
Space army fights bad aliens. Space radioactive now, but bad aliens dead π Space Captain hero.
Also, my friend needs some examples of French SciFi.
The French sci-fi one is literally Moebius comics
Fifth Element
Ah, Luc Besson, solid if not particularly deep entertainment. Just what the doctor ordered.
We'll see about those breasts.
Barbarella. Itβs an incredibly weird movie with ~~Brigitte Bardot~~ Jane Fonda as the bombshell. Pretty sure the provided definition of french sci-fi is based on this movie.
Edit: misremembered the actress
American sci-fi goes all over the place. Look at Phillip K. Dick for instance.
That dude was on an island by himself with the insane shit he wrote
I need to watch more French Sci-Fi
just read some Metal Hurlant and Pilote - it is way wilder than the movies.
British sci-fi is more likely one of these:
There's definitely a pattern there.
all three of that is just Doctor Who,
don't forget that Black Mirror started british
I think the second one is Blake's 7.
Third is Red Dwarf
i'll bet both of ya that Doctor Who has at least 3 episodes that fit each of those exact descriptions
As someone who reads scifi like a chain smoker in a tobacco warehouse, this reads as somewhat antiquated. Niven and Heinlein and such back in the day, definitely in the American camp on how they wrote women and relationships, not seeing much of that lately though. Heavy lean on military scifi instead. Most of it narrated by RC Bray.
Silo series was American. Though that felt like the smart manβs Fallout as a writing prompt. Chuck Wendig, American. Maybe we all just have apocalypse on the brain the last decade.
Not sure the space romance thing is limited to one countryβs culture. God save us all from young adult fiction of any kind, because this is the main plot.
The real issue in scifi rn is the multiverse popping up like the vampire trend back in the Sookie Stackhouse days. Every other description of newly βprintedβ scifi Iβve read in my book searches this year: multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?
I liked it better when it felt like the scifi market was trying to find the next expanse.
multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?
Everyone wants to leave this reality
Australian Sci-Fi: The rest of the world is forced to live in a desert wasteland full of criminals the way we do every day, and they struggle to adapt.
British Sci-fi: Threads
And the American version was The Day After (1983)
Entirely different movies with the same premise. The Day After messed me up as a kid. But Threads haunts me as an adult.
There's also When the Wind Blows, if you want to be depressed but also want an absolute banger of a soundtrack.
Canadian/German sci-fi: All of the above.
LEXX - The Beginning + Brunnen G Fight Song looks very interesting, but not much plot. There's another video, a review of the show with heavy spoilering, quick FFWD recommended, which then praises its complexity and creativity, comparing it to Terry Gilliam amongst others... that's enough for me, I'm in.
There's actually a lot of decent sci Fi with Canadian creators / writers / cast / filming location
The main rule is that it will be set anywhere but Canada
Yes, yes, weβve all seen the Stargate shows and films
British sci-FI: nuclear war. Almost everyone dead. Bit of a Tuesday, innit?
Australians did the Seppo Nuclear Apocalypse first.
That was the whole premise behind MadMax 2.
Russian sci-fi: every single person in the future is white.
Tbf, that's pretty close to how most of Russia already is.
To be equally fair, though, that's probably mostly because it's a very racist country with an ethnonationalist government.
Actually, 70% of citizens identify as ethnic Russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia
In US 60% of people identify as white.
There's big population of Tatars, Chechens and bunch of other Asian ethnic groups. No idea how are they represented in Russian cinema though.
They don't. π
My family migrated from the Soviet Union in 1989. My mother still watches Russian media. They're all white. All of them. Ever.
identify doesn't mean all of them are white. Lots of kalmyks, buryats and yakuts identify themselves as russians. it's been an umbrella identity for quite a while.
Polish Sci-Fi: two guys wake up from hibernation in a world where men went extinct and have to convince all the women that world with them was actually not that bad and old order should be restored.
American sci-fi: America is technologically, morally, physically, and intellectually superior. And the answer to all ills is more science.
Old Russian scifi: welcome to the crapsack post-apocalypse. It's strangely similar to the current day. So, the protagonists do what current day people do: grim philosophical brooding.
Current Russian scifi: Awesome Russian soldier dude gets isekai'd to World War 2 and defeats the evil Western bastards. Help the author is trapped in Putin's book factory send help
That last one might not be sci-fi for long
Ukrainian sci-fi: Everybody just fucking dies. Nobody's fault, really. And there's meaningless but meaningful love. Also, it also functions as a very long music video for the song "Voyage Voyage", whose lyrics the author of the manuscript has clearly seen translated. (Referring here to "U Are the Universe", which I liked a lot!)
swedish sci-fi for some reason: 200-page rhyming epics exploring the human need for self-expression even in the face of certain doom or et but in the woods. there is no in-between.
Aniara is amazing! Like really, it might not be quite a typical sci-fi story but it is really good. Also so confusing, Harry Martinsson makes up soo many words.
Absolutely worth reading!
Also, it does not rhyme. He uses a verity different meter throughout the book, few of which rhyme. A lot is free verse. Also the first 29 songs were apparently written under trance. It is truly a very, very strange book.
For a hint at what it's like, I'd like to quote the second song (so no spoilers here, this is the beginning of the book)
Goldonder Aniara shuts, the siren gives the wail for field-egression by the known routine
and then the gyrospinner sets in towing
the goldonder upward to the zenith light, where
magnetrinos blocking field-intensity
soon signal level-zero and field-release occurs.
[...]
Read the rest of the masterpiece at the internet archives!
At one point in my life, every time I got a serious stomach flu, I would watch Threads (1984) so I could enjoy my life.
By Dawn's Early Light and The Day After are fun too.
Vander Meerβs Big Book of Sience Fiction has countless stories that run at odds to the sentiment in this post.
Judge Dredd, Threads, Lifeforce(Kind of) certainly supports the UK sci fi Idea. French scifi is a little more like EVERYONE ,good and Bad is turned on at all times. American sci fi is spot in,i can't think of any counter evidence.
Hey! There are also Japanese sci-fi which just validate the author's fetishes. There's even two I know where that fetish is specifically polygamy.
I'm a Judge Dredd fan, can confirm it's all Americas fault.