Oh yeah, 100%! It also lands a little differently through the show, sometimes despairing, sometimes regretful, and even with a flicker of hope. Absolutely recommend if you’d like a sci-fi survival story that feels like a dark graphic novel. The writing is top notch
You should check out Scavenger’s Reign! The intro music only becomes more haunting and fitting as you learn more about the story. I never skipped it and i typically don’t like title sequences
Edit: Intro link
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Octavia Butler has an essay that makes the same key point as Stephen King: read and write. It’s the same as any other skill. If you’re a musician, you listen to music and play your instrument. If you want to draw, you watch people draw, observe their process, and you draw. If you’re a welder, you watch people weld, study the process, and you weld.
Storytelling, however, is very broad. You see it on tv, in movies, in books, and you practice in daily conversation. There are loads of books and videos discussing different aspects of storytelling structure, form, and best practices. The Great Courses even has a lecture series on storytelling. But the best thing you can do is read and write. And ask for feedback.
Seveneves kind of touches on rebuilding although it skips decades and centuries. Lucifer’s Hammer deals with the aftermath of a global disaster and includes some rebuilding… kind of. Alas, Babylon explores a post-nuclear world. None of them are particularly optimistic except Seveneves (in a way), but it also doesn’t explore rebuilding in a lot of detail. Since you’re already reading Octavia Butler, you can try Lilith’s Brood, but it won’t be anything like rebuilding the modern world. Asimov’s Foundation series is about rebuilding at a galactic scale but I’m not sure they aged particularly well.
If you’re interested in building specifically you can try Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars.
In addition: Children of Time might scratch the itch in a way since it’s about the development of a sentient species. I think the sequel explores more building, but i haven’t read it yet and the reviews are kind of mixed
Oh man, I wonder what the author of The Book of Eels thinks. I remember thoroughly enjoying the book even though it ended without any conclusive idea where eels come from
And a couple that aren’t really reactions but I use them anyway:
There’s some debate on this! Most movie dialogue is designed to convey the impression of conversation, but this is naturally unrealistic. People stutter and start over and get distracted in normal conversation much like you described, which can become very burdensome on the screen. Like when your boss won’t get to the point in the standup. Overly precise dialogue is equally burdensome and often fails to maintain attention (see: the Time 1776 AI videos). A lot of the discussion around how best to balance those natural pauses and disruptions around the otherwise “eloquent” speech in movies to best convey a characterization.
I’m sure others out there can point to legitimate sources, but I’m not super read up on it
Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!
(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)
Ice chains for traction. It might be a type of crampon, I’m not certain what the distinction is.
Sweet thanks, adding to the list
I forgot about the nebulas! My list just grew
I really enjoyed those books! I found them when I was digging through the Hugo’s for something to read and these definitely seemed like they deserved it. I generally avoid mysteries because it seems they have a tendency to intentionally mislead the reader but these felt complete. Every detail is important and contributes to the story without being out of place or a distraction. Highly recommend
Well I just dumped windows and MS office. For machine vision I’m only dabbling with openCV, so that’s already open source. The switch to libre office has been pretty nice though
Cool thanks, I’ll stick with it! At least until I’m familiar and want to try something new
No worries, it’s all part of the experience
Hmm, okay. Yeah I was trying to set up an environment to dabble with machine vision and had trouble finding good instructions or guidance for programming env setup. I think in college we used something-Unix but it’s been so long I don’t really have a frame of reference anymore. So I’m looking for a low-overhead daily driver that’s also relatively common or amenable to maker communities
If that makes sense.
Damnit I just switched to Ubuntu. That explains why I kept getting lost. What about Debian?
It’s almost a concept of a plan
Personally, i lack executive function and self discipline. I used to read 3 or 4 books a month and write for a minimum amount of time every day, which usually went much longer. I have one published short from my time in college, then i graduated and started working. What focus and motivation I had evaporated with my free time as I now had to balance a dozen competing priorities. I still regularly have new ideas for plots, scenes, characters, and beats, but ten years later I’m between jobs and so burnt out I’d rather just sleep, game, and hang out with my dog. I’ve justified a lot of it to myself by saying “I need to experience more” before i can do whatever story justice, which is just an excuse. I only need to practice more. I’m certainly trying to start it up again.
But fuck, man, I’m so tired lol