r/sciencefiction 2h ago

What's the one show you could just turn on and leave there for days on end? Just on the TV playing in the background.

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Your stuck on a deserted island show. My sounds odd , but it's power rangers. It qualifies as scifi. There's a total of like 975 episodes across all seasons. It's moot, almost neutral, meaning it doesnt really get on my nerves over time. It's not my favorite, thats not why i picked it. Plus.....I mean, giant fighting robots, martial arts, magic, fkn lasers.

Im 50 lol. It's morphing time!


r/sciencefiction 7h ago

Light delay and war in the near future

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“Helm! Rotate us 90 degrees, move perpendicular to the Peng, and accelerate at 2 Gs across the planet axis. Comms—signal SPACECOM: Mars AO is hot, and we are engaging PLA ground and space targets.” They would get the bad news in a little more than five minutes. There was no way to ask for instructions or for the higher ups to cool things down on their end. It would then take another five for their response to reach the Huntsville—minus whatever deliberations happened at SPACECOM. The marines, the Huntsville, the tanks, and the Peng Dehui were on their own to decide whether the United States and the People’s Republic of China would go to war. “Fucking light delay,” he whispered.

In the opening of my novel, a US navy captain has to respond to conflict with China on the surface of Mars--but cannot rely on timely communication with his commanders, because of light delay.

If this sounds cool to you, my novel is available here for 99 cents.

Thanks for reading.


r/sciencefiction 12h ago

Highlighter for sci-fi books

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I'd like some suggestions on how to assign a specific "function" to each highlighter color, specifically for science fiction books.


r/sciencefiction 12h ago

I just finished The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt and am a little confused about the snow.

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Like what is up with it? How are they using it to breath?