#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 🫠.

[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:

[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.

[leikeliscomet]

Its funny how people talk about classism and working class rep in RTD1 but casually say they're happy Martha wasn't working class bc 'it would've been bad representation' in the same breath. Yh, there's a lot of damaging hood stereotypes out there but being working class whilst Black doesn't automatically make the character bad. We're not problematic just for existing. If anything, Martha being a working-class Black woman becoming a doctor would've been even more groundbreaking, especially bc the average Black Brit is working-class or below. Even Freema Agyeman herself grew up on a council estate. That could've been really inspirational. The idea that UK discrimination ignores race and only focuses on class is false especially if u look at how the Windrush were treated because they were working class AND Black/of colour (Tory party appealing to white working classes with anti-immigrant rhetoric, Sikh and Muslim workers making their own unions bc they were excluded, West Indians being denied rent etc.). RTD fans love to create a split where Rose's working class rep and Martha's Black rep exist in boxes that don't ever touch but they do. I've seen so many 'but Martha's middle class so I couldn't relate to her' which is funny bc apart from ignoring all the Black fans that couldn't relate to most characters in the show anyway, a lot of us still related to Rose. South and East London are have huge multiracial and multicultural working class communities. We deserve to be represented too. We exist. Working class isn't a synonym for white.

It just says a lot how much RTD and Rose are gassed for destigmatising working class characters but it would've been sooo bad if those characters were Black lol. 'Chav' and 'roadman' have become removed from their OG meanings and are now aesthetics and trends but the actual people living their lives are still living the stigma. You lot love 'chavs' as in cute y2k fits on a conventionally attractive white woman but lord forbid a hypothetical Black person that's unemployed, broke and speaking Black Brit Vernacular getting that doccy who screentime bc that's a bit too ghetto™ apparently. It also says u lot have limited imagination. Attack the Block and The Kitchen proved Black working-class characters can exist in sci-fi and if we're gonna go there... they're doing more for working-class rep rn than RTD1 almost 2 decades ago.

Martha could've walked around in a northface jacket with half a tub of eco styler on her head and she still would've been great idc!

[shuttershocky]

I don't know much about Rainbow Six, so give me your best guess: How's this SECOND group of Rainbow Six people getting isekai'd into Terra?

There's two ways they can go about it!

The first would be Hypergryph making their own original story elements once again. Although a sci-fi, Rainbow Six was still somewhat grounded as military fiction and R6: Siege did not feature mad scientists creating zombies with interdimensional cancer rocks. All that was stuff that Hypergryph added in themselves. Funnily enough, after Originium Dust, Rainbow would then go on to actually do more fantasy shit themselves, introducing alien monsters in a post apocalyptic future in Rainbow Six: Extraction.

HG could easily make up a new story about Ela informing the rest of Rainbow about Ash, Tachanka, Blitz, and Frost's disappearance in the lab, and their investigation into portal technology leads to another group getting stuck inside Terra.

The second way would be actually using the ongoing storyline as a jumping off point.

In Rainbow Six: Siege, Rainbow has currently broken up into two rival factions: Rainbow, and Nighthaven. Rainbow is led by Ash, while Nighthaven is led by Kali.

The story goes that Nighthaven was originally a PMC founded by Kali, the scion of a wealthy family and a martial artist that was nevertheless barred from joining combat units in the Indian military due to being a woman. Her partnership with a genius inventor called Osa led to Nighthaven becoming an incredibly influential and powerful organization with tech that rivaled Rainbow's, which was ridiculous given that Rainbow as a unit was backed by like, every country in the world.

To prevent a potential conflict should Nighthaven end up being hired by a supervillain or whatever, the head of Rainbow, Six, instead decided to hire Nighthaven and invited them to officially become Rainbow operators. Kali agreed, so they merged into one unit.

The Rainbow and Nighthaven operators got along, but Ash and Kali didn't. Kali eventually planned to leave Rainbow and go private again after a couple of years, but not before courting the other Rainbow operators with the idea of joining her instead.

A certain event saw Ash and Kali beat each other up, and then Kali decided it was time to go and removed Nighthaven from Rainbow, while successfully poaching a bunch of their operators. Six was assassinated by an unrelated villain afterwards, leaving Rainbow in really dire straits as an organization. With a lot of their manpower gone and the unrelated villain turning out to be a former rogue Rainbow member, they're pretty screwed right now. Perhaps even more so now that four of their remaining members got teleported into Catgirl world.

Now, while Fuze was not one of the Rainbow operators who defected to Nighthaven, he WAS one of those that Kali tried to recruit. One of the NPCs from Originium Dust, Ela, DID end up joining Kali too. I can see an approach where Rainbow sucks up its pride asks Nighthaven for help locating their missing members, and Kali agrees because Osa (who is a big 60s sci-fi nut) hears the words "teleportation" and demands to study the remains of Dr. Levi's lab. Hell, she'd probably want to study Originium too.

Osa could recreate and stabilize the portal creation, then they send in a team to explore the alien catgirl world.

Maybe Kali goes too. She's one of the easiest fits into the Arknights tower defense format (she's a sniper in Siege) and she'll get to beat up Ash in another world too while also lording it over Rainbow for rescuing them.