#indian sci fi

[vimoh]

Go read at wattpad.

[vindrawins]

ProjectK at San Diego Comic-Con

Are they really that crazy 😱... I mean seriously San Diego Comic-con 👀 that too an Indian film 😯. Project K will be the first film to showcase at World famous Comic Con 😵.

It also makes sense because the biggies step back for this year's comic con due to Writer's Strike in Hollywood. But also, I just hope this doesn't turn out to be something really bad like Adipurush. 🤞.

Well, I don't know about the director, we don't know how much surprises and freshness these new directors with new stories can bring, Prashant Neel & Ayan Mukerji is the latest example 😏.

Now, I have 2 reasons to be excited about this first my most, it's sci-fi, obviously my fav 🥲 and second, San Diego Comic-con🤔... It will be really crazy if they showcase the concept of Project K at Comic Con or at least tease something.

 And a big IF this works super well, then new gates of inspiration and scale will be opened for Indian sci-fi movies in the future 🫠.

[timetravellingkitty]

I'm not listening to a white person on what's racist or insensitive to brown people. read orientalism by edward said before talking to me or my son ever again

[swearwolf-does-stuff]

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[rrcraft-and-lore]

With the new Avatar series having been out a few months now, here's another mythology and language lesson people overlook and it's...tiring.

The word and concept of Avatar is South Asian. I can't Hinglish it, but it's close to pronounced like: Uhv-thaar. you can just google it, but it's the idea and ability of gods or powerful beings to incarnate in new time/new forms/bodies, sometimes both mortal and divine.

It happens a lot in the Vedic epics.

Avatar: The Last Airbender? Concept, reincarnation, South Asian as fuck.

South Asia (as does other areas of the world/cultures) has a take on the x number of elements as well. Usually it's: wind, fire, earth, water, and sound/voice/space or spirit - aether - w.e. you wanna call it. Spirit bending the idea of the spirit world. Obviously this set is not a direct 1:1.

A:TLA draws a closer to parallel in ways to Chinese takes on the elements.

Obviously James Cameron's avatar takes this concept to a sci fi degree, essentially bringing your mind/consciousness into a new/different (Alien) body.

We also get into the world tree mythos/axis mundi parts of his story too, but that's beside the point and not unique to any one culture - that's anything out of proto Indo-European up. Obviously within in the pantheon of sff literature and other media the idea of reincarnation and cyclic nature of time - birth across time isn't new or rare.

The idea of a Wheel of Time, in fact, comes quite from: Kalachakra - translation = "Wheel of Time." This is an Indian belief that later spread through/over distance as well as religion, popping up in Buddhism and finding prominence most notably in Tibet still to this day.

The belief also ties back into the idea of conventional reality - time being an aspect of the larger world-universe- the smaller aspects of which are comprised of, once again: earth, wind, water, fire, space - sound familiar to something rom fantasy?

Probably. If not, read more. Or...more carefully.

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

My summer reading list:

Fiction

The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones ★★★☆☆

The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (currently reading)

Betty - Tiffany McDaniel

Non Fiction

La Race tue Deux Fois (Race Kills Twice) - Rachida Brahim (currently reading)

Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks (currently reading)

Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Only Poc authors: native american for fiction, arab and black writers for non fiction.

Summer is definitely for horror, however The only Good Indians would have worked better as film script: it lacked character development, felt superficial rather than atmospheric, took too long to achieve its purpose (the book is over 300 pages long) given it's not about tension but about the killings (which were indeed impressive).

I have never regretted my slow reading so much: this list is the perfect list with only brilliant poc authors and my enjoyment should be bigger....

[indiegamesofcolor]

[ID: A gifset containing four gifs of the 2.5D pixel noir game Ponch: Cyberspace Investigator that has a mostly green and pink color scheme.

Gif 1 shows the protagonist, Ponch, who has a black dog head with pointed ears and is wearing a long green coat. She walks through town and approaches a building with a sign above it that says, “In Loving Memory.” Pixelated NPCs populate the background.

Gif 2 shows a dialogue between Ponch and the human NPC Tiny Tim. Ponch is standing at Tiny Tim’s food stand and is presented with two dialogue options: “How’s business?” and “Got my order?” The player selects “How’s business?” to which Tiny Tim replies “Keeping busy, so can’t complain” in a tan-colored text box.

Gif 3 shows the Chatter Mail feature of the game where the player can read information on characters. A pink window is open on the human NPC Flynn. Her bio says, “Our new client. She hired us to find her missing girlfriend, Hera. Even though Ponch thinks Hera left of her own volition, I get the feeling she might be in serious trouble.” A pixelated portrait of Flynn is next to her Bio. A quote from Flynn says, “...I’m a flyer distributer. Part-time.”

Gif 4 shows a convesation between Ponch and the human NPC Flynn. They are sitting at a table together in a dimly lit room. Flynn has a red dialogue box that says, “It smells in here...” to which Ponch replies, “Of course it does.”

end ID.]

Ponch: Cyberspace Investigator is a 2.5D noir game about the nuanced identities of lesbians of color and their resistance in a post-globalist, cyber dystopia. Play as Ponch, a poor private eye running her illegal business out of an abandoned funeral home’s basement. Take to the streets of the virtual metropolis CITYB and infiltrate its network of MIND.SPACE. to reveal the city’s dirty secrets!

Currently in development. Free demo is available for Mac and Windows.

Developed by a team of three: Lead Programmer KT Mclain, Lead Narrative designer Jay Guisao, and Director/Artist Jude Pinto. Both Guisao and Pinto are alumni of the NYU Game Center.

[qbdatabase]

Gurdeep is an engineer and a soldier. Georgie’s a food scientist. One is pragmatic with a tough outer shell; the other’s an optimist, a person of ideas and compassion. In the span of a single afternoon, the couple find themselves in charge of planning a self-sustaining colony on Mars. Together, they’re humanity’s last hope for survival.

They have 160 slots to fill with experts from all over the world as they set about designing an all-new society with its own government, economy, and culture – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Among those chosen for the mission is Devon, an autistic scientist with a unique skill set who finds life on Earth strange and alienating. Maybe a whole new planet is exactly what’s needed.

With 1,114 days until the launch, excitement and tensions run high. Earth’s second chance hangs in the balance. Between strict genetic requirements and the dangers of the dystopian almost-present, will everyone make it to the final countdown?

[findingtheperfectcharacter]

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[odysseywritings]

Are there stories of American Indians set in the future? There's plenty in the past, a smaller amount in contemporary times, and I'm curious if there's anything set afterward

[unravelingwires]

Acquired

My தங்கச்சி thought that taking things across the multiverse was wrong, as you were permanently removing matter from one universe and adding it to another. It was theft, she said. Thankfully, she didn’t know about my stash, so she couldn’t disapprove of it.

A pair of jeans. A piece of the 527th element, lab made, from the universe with the best snow in the multiverse. Armor that was meant to drape over a thousand-limbed species. அம்மா’s ring, no longer worn. The coating of a sessile species the precise color of the inside of a star.

They were everything. They meant nothing. I haven’t decided yet.

[booksteacupandreviews]

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta - complicated and confusing sci-fi

Mad Sisters of Esi is imaginary literary sc-ifi with beautiful descriptions and complicated world but for me it was confusing, tedious, and too slow-paced. Synopsis Review of Mad Sisters of EsiBook links Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta Publication Date : September 29, 2023 Publisher : HarperCollins India Read Date : November 4,2023 Pages : 510 Genre : Fantasy ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of…

[cryptotheism]

"What if you were hiking in the woods- Have you ever been hiking? Not like you stayed at a cabin in the mountains for the weekend, like you were staying out in the country, and you wandered out past your backyard. What if you were hiking, and you came across a labyrinth. You know, like a big maze. It's just you in the woods and this huge stone structure covered in vines and grass, and there's the entrance.

You gotta peek inside right? You gotta. You gotta look. Its huge. The walls are tall, and open to the sky, and there's plenty of light so you're not gonna get stuck in a cave-in. But you're not stupid, you were hiking so you brought some rope. So you tie one end to a tree outside the entrance and you go inside to see what you can find.

Its beautiful inside. Nothing crazy happens, there's no special energy in the air or monster or whatever, its just a beautiful place. Its warm and the birds are chirping and maybe some flowers are blooming. There's just this sense of wonder, you know, this powerful sense of wonder. But eventually you run out of rope, and you realize that this thing goes on way further than you thought it did.

So you head home, right? You head home and maybe you look up the name of your town and labyrinth on the internet. And there's nothing. There's nothing! There's like, sci-fi or fantasy stories, or weird pages about aliens or ghosts or whatever. But right before you're about to give up, you find like, an old message board or a deleted reddit comment about finding a weird labyrinth in the woods behind their house. So you read a bit more, and you realize that this dude is actually German, or Indian, or Kenyan or something. He's not talking about your labyrinth, but he might as well be.

So you message him, right? You're like 'hey! I found a maze thing just like yours, whats up with this?' and after a bit he responds like 'Dude, I don't know what's up with this fuckin' labyrinth. I don't know why people aren't talking about the labyrinths. But there's some old books about them, and there's like, a community of people who have found these things.

So you become a labyrinth guy. You start talking to other labyrinth guys. You learn about how they navigated theirs, how they discovered their labyrinths, and you exchange tips about how to navigate the labyrinths and speculate on why the damn things are even there to begin with. You learn that some of the other labyrinth guys are weirdos. Like, real freaks. Like nazis and stuff. But you're not an idiot, you know not to talk to those guys, but you also know to keep an eye on them.

You find a handful of dudes who you get along with. They've read a lot of the old books, and you all kinda vibe with each others theories on the labyrinths. And you get good at navigating the labyrinth. Like, really good at navigating the labyrinth. You're starting to map yours, getting a sense for how its designed. But there's people who are way better at it than you, like WAY better. There's people who have whole theories on what the design of their labyrinth suggests about the designers, and they have all these theories on the authors of the old books and their opinions on the labyrinths.

And then you like, you catch something. Its subtle, like, the sort of thing you wouldn't notice unless you spend all this time being a labyrinth guy. A few people have been talking about there being like, more layers. People say there's like, steps. Like, stairs that lead down or up or somewhere else. At first you were like 'this just sounds like more alien shit from the weirdo Nazis but there's a few people who have solid theories on there being entrances to something else that only happens in specific places in every maze. And it checks out, it really does check out, but in a way that you'd only notice if you were already a labyrinth guy.

And at this point, you know your labyrinth, you know it like the back of your hand. Like, you dream about your labyrinth and you know exactly where you are inside it. So you go. Like, you go to check it out. You do the math and check your maps and you spend a day walking around in the labyrinth. You find the place it should be, and you clear away some leaves and dirt and. Yeah. Sonofabitch is there.

But its not steps. Its not a spiral staircase or some kinda magic lift. Its a well. An old stone well. And its dark. It's really dark. You can tell it goes somewhere, but you can't tell where. But its there. It's there. That's what it's like."

"What's in the well?"

"I don't know. I haven't gone down the well yet."

[frasier-crane-style]

Sci-fi show: There's no religion in the future. Mankind has evolved beyond such silly superstitions.

Me: But that woman's in hijab. And that woman has a bindi!

Sci-fi show: Yes, in this utopian future, mankind is tolerant and inclusive of all diversity.

Me: ...so Arabs and Indians are less evolved than whites, who are smart enough to have become atheists?

Sci-fi show:

[buttercuparry]

No but I am speechless, is it that people on this site assume everyone is American and living in America or is based in a Western country, when they see a post written in English? In the terms, the phrases, the use of vocabulary, is there something in a writing style, that puts a distance between the "first world" and the "third world"? Because I can't imagine the audacity one would have to come onto a post made by an Indian, living in India, sharing article about the tremendous climate we are facing and making it about a sci-fi writing tip to bring hope in the world...are we out of this world? Are we alien species? Like I know you all don't care for shit that happens in the global south and have this anxiety of all the undesirable filthiness we will bring to your precious white country. So I can imagine you being so thoughtless to turn a post about Indian climate crisis into a writing exercise, when you think the post is made by someone from the West. It's all about "oh my god! Can you imagine if WE suffer. WHAT IF THIS HAPPENED HERE!!!!" But the special kind of audacity to jump onto this post knowing that it could have been made by an Indian, is what gets to me.

[pansexualnoodle5]

Why you should watch

created by Adi Shankar, showrunner and exec producer of BOTH Castlevania series on Netflix. you can tell a lot of love went into this, the creators were having so much fun

basically a universe of Ubisoft IPs

adult animated series with intriguing storylines, dynamic artstyle, amazing animation, a killer soundtrack and super cool characters

QUEER INDIAN DISABLED PROTAGONIST, DOLPH LASERHAWK IS SO COOL

multimedia style storytelling

Rayman goes postal. Yes, THAT Rayman.

classic sci-fi themes of standing up to your tyrannical technocracy

Suicide Squad vibes; criminals pulling heists for a secret organization (THE GOOD SUICIDE SQUAD, NOT THE JARED LETO ONE)

but it grows into so much more as the show continues

Over-the-top anime-inspired style balanced out with emotional and so very real voice-acting

Seriously, Rayman's voice-actor deserves awards for this performance

there's this frog. his name is Bullfrog. he's French. he's part of the Assassin Brotherhood. you will LOVE HIM.

the end is CRAZY, it will take you out at the KNEES

BUT it leaves you on a cliffhanger, CLEARLY setting up for season 2

and I need that season 2 so how bout it, give Captain Laserhawk a try. It's six episodes, you'll only lose like half a day on it.