Expanse has like 10-30 year jumps in the later books

the first 2 wrap up the main story, but there's a thread you can complete with book 4 if you want

I haven't read any VanderMeer but I wat thinking about giving it a try

event hough he seems just like the nutty feminazi that wrote the Anscillary justice book about the Ship AIs and cultures with no concept of "gender"

Annihilation seems very Roadside Picnic inspired

But few are as based as Russian sci fi writers tbh

I've just sort of accepted you can't avoid some pozz and them trying to slide their politics in with any SF unless you find virtual unknown indie authors online.

I didn't notice it in the Expanse as much until the other day when I found another clip of Abraham pronoucning that Trump is indeed Hitler

You got names for some of these based Russians?

are books in English?

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Too bad I can't read russian

Roadside Picnic would be one. I need to read the other Strugatsky works. One just got translated a couple years back

Theres also the dystopian precursor, We, by Zamyatin

I sort of enjoyed Metro but I need to give it another read-through

Metro 2033 and Roadside Picnic are the ones I've read. They are fantastic books, but fuck are they depressing, Roadside Picnic especially.

The Doomed City is the one that got released more recently
The Zamyatin book is very short. I honestly find aspects of it to be the most horrifying of the dystopian fiction I've read

We is old

I read that long ago

god, twitter is just ass cancer... https://twitter.com/mhetrick14/status/1206313316974510086

@Beemann Annihilation is worth a watch. It has a mopey ending but its not a BAD ending. It just kind of ends.

Overall a really good movie though.

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@Old Man Hound I saw the film first. I honestly thought the ending was pretty awful but the rest of it was good

@Beemann what about the ending did you not like?

It felt like a "what a twist" ending but with no real impact or proper setup

Spoilers here, but what do you mean by a twist?

I thought it got the refined kronenburg body horror across pretty clearly, was there something else? @Beemann

https://twitter.com/uhhhbased/status/1206396592753741826

The ||eye|| shit at the end. Body horror was done well earlier in the film, with the ||bear and intestines||

@Beemann Haha yeah. I got the strong STRONG impression she was totally fucked,

It threw me off the movie was trying to suddenly tell me things might be ok. I didn't feel she did or resolved anything that would imply terrible horrifying things hadn't been done to her very genes.

Well it tried to have it both ways and it just came off feeling a bit rushed

In the book ||she never makes it out, and there's no "return" for her "husband" either||

Yeah it was weird the movie tried to add a happy ending, but just put it in with no further comment. The movie is about infection on the genetic level. The ending is essentially they're both infected and going to mutate to death, but they escaped the quarantine zone so maybe everyone is now dead.

I'd also add while I liked the movie, it was lacking in a real conflict.

Man vs nature I guess, but that's not really a good premise of a story when it ends like it did

But all the scenes and characters were top notch, and the horror really creeping. I can't fault it for that.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-greta-thunberg-apologizes-for-against-the-wall-comment-2/

The book is more based around the area itself, like how A Roadside Picnic is about the exclusion zone

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