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This is the second novel in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy. The thing I love most about this book is the Oankali's no-bullshit attitude towards human nature: Having recognized how self-destructive humans are, and, in particular, how unredeemably violent human males are, the Oankali...

This is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke. The first novel was interesting but written in a confusing way (split into sections that at first seemed to have nothing to do with one another) and marred by an unexplained, seemingly metaphysical ending (in other words...

Dawn is the first book in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. The main character, Lilith, finds herself awakening again and again, alone in a strange room from which she cannot escape, where she is interviewed by unseen parties. Eventually she is told that she has, along with other people...

Just finished this Philip K. Dick novel yesterday. It takes place on post-nuclear holocaust Earth, at a time when many humans have emigrated to Mars and ultra-realistic androids exist in servitude on Mars and sometimes escape to Earth after killing their owners. This is one of those supposed...

Science fiction is my favorite fiction genre, but I can almost never find a contemporary sci-fi novel that I like, and one of the main reasons is that such novels are WAY too focused on social shit. Many of them seem to be nothing but dramas that just happen to be set in the future and/or in...

The following is a list I put a lot of thought and work into for each incarnation of the Doctor and other characters and companions from the series. Let me know if you think there should be any changes: -1st Doctor INTP -2nd Doctor ENFP -3rd Doctor ISTP -4th Doctor ENFJ -5th Doctor ENTP -6th...

*SPOILERS BELOW* What MBTI and enneagram do you think the new characters are and feel free to say why? Finn: Rey: Poe: Kylo Ren: General Hux: Maz Kanata: Captain Phasma: Supreme Leader Snoke:

(I know it has been done to death but I want to do it anyway). I was interested in if there was a correlation between MBTI and which science-fiction they prefer. So please take the poll and leave a comment on which you prefer and why? I personally prefer Star Trek due to the amazing depth...

Not sure if there's already a thread for these books by Kim Stanley Robinson, but I wanted to know what you guys thought about the character's personality types. I'm almost finished reading Red Mars, the first book in the trilogy, so I'm not as familiar with the characters and help/discussion...

Hello all, new to this forum, not sure how it will go since I am really terrible with people. I'm a loner and I like being a loner, though also do enjoy being around people with shared interests if they care to keep up an interesting discussion. I'm not one for that small talk jibber jabber, and...

More specifically 145 years from now. It's for this story I'm typing up, and I would appreciate you being as objective and prudent as possible.

What are your favourite utopian, science fiction, alternate technological development (steampunk etc.) and/or abandoned technology (Orion project, Tesla earthquake machine etc.) concepts? Can be anything, be it technology, system, device, culture etc. Some of my favourites: The Dyson...

Dunno if it's been shared anywhere here on PerC, but, a friend shared this with me and made me think of you guys; something I think you guys would say. (link: Conceptual Trends and Current Topics) :crazy: :shocked: UNTHINKABLE FUTURES by Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno KEVIN KELLY: * A new...

A recent thread giving sound advice to an ENTeenP made me wish that I had had someone to tell me all those things when I was in High School. Then I thought, I wonder if any...more mature (baby-boomerish) ENTPs have advice that they wish they had known in their 20s. I'm in my last year at college...

Hello, PC'ers! I thought this would be a great poll - in one of the most popular movie genres ever, science fiction, what is your favorite movie? Or, in the cases of some, like "Star Wars" and "Star Trek," what is your favorite movie franchise? And...let the race begin! Oh, and if you want to...

Just Like Us By D. E. Chin It was 47 years ago when we received the first signals. It almost went unnoticed, as they were in analog and by that time we had already switched to high definition digital transmission. As it turns out, they were just like us. Over the next few decades, we watched...