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Brb, gonna sample some sci-fi
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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Old Russian scifi: welcome to the crapsack post-apocalypse. It's strangely similar to the current day. So, the protagonists do what current day people do: grim philosophical brooding.
Current Russian scifi: Awesome Russian soldier dude gets isekai'd to World War 2 and defeats the evil Western bastards. Help the author is trapped in Putin's book factory send help
Current Russian* SciFi RPG: The Soviet era was awesome! Just kidding, this dystopic post-apocalyptic world is a better place to live than the real thing.
*actually made by an international group of developers living in Latvia, Ukraine, and Poland as well as Russia
Australian Sci-Fi: The rest of the world is forced to live in a desert wasteland full of criminals the way we do every day, and they struggle to adapt.
And we have telepathic dogs who teach us that women are bad
What
I have a vague recollection of what he's talking about but also demand an explanation
And we bring back the Australian car manufacturing sector!
And the leatherworking industry!
And the leather daddy industry!
And raves!
Wait, we are bringing back raves, right?
British sci-FI: nuclear war. Almost everyone dead. Bit of a Tuesday, innit?
Oh well, off to work lads, tally ho!
Rodney: But Deell! Grandad's got his foot stuck in the replicator, and the soylent police keep putting knives and forks through the letterbox!
*laughter*
Delboy: I'll put you plonkers both through the letterbox if you dont hush up!
*laughter, applause*
American sci-fi: America is technologically, morally, physically, and intellectually superior. And the answer to all ills is more science.
Make it so, number one.
Hey! There are also Japanese sci-fi which just validate the author's fetishes. There's even two I know where that fetish is specifically polygamy.
Ukrainian sci-fi: Everybody just fucking dies. Nobody's fault, really. And there's meaningless but meaningful love. Also, it also functions as a very long music video for the song "Voyage Voyage", whose lyrics the author of the manuscript has clearly seen translated. (Referring here to "U Are the Universe", which I liked a lot!)
Isn't most American SciFi the direct counterpart to British SciFi?
Space army fights bad aliens. Space radioactive now, but bad aliens dead 👍 Space Captain hero.
Also, my friend needs some examples of French SciFi.
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I need to watch more French Sci-Fi
just read some Metal Hurlant and Pilote - it is way wilder than the movies.
At the same time, go watch Heavy Metal. The soundtrack alone is well worth it.
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As someone who reads scifi like a chain smoker in a tobacco warehouse, this reads as somewhat antiquated. Niven and Heinlein and such back in the day, definitely in the American camp on how they wrote women and relationships, not seeing much of that lately though. Heavy lean on military scifi instead. Most of it narrated by RC Bray.
Silo series was American. Though that felt like the smart man’s Fallout as a writing prompt. Chuck Wendig, American. Maybe we all just have apocalypse on the brain the last decade.
Not sure the space romance thing is limited to one country’s culture. God save us all from young adult fiction of any kind, because this is the main plot.
The real issue in scifi rn is the multiverse popping up like the vampire trend back in the Sookie Stackhouse days. Every other description of newly “printed” scifi I’ve read in my book searches this year: multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?
I liked it better when it felt like the scifi market was trying to find the next expanse.
multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?
Everyone wants to leave this reality
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I'm a Judge Dredd fan, can confirm it's all Americas fault.
Polish Sci-Fi: two guys wake up from hibernation in a world where men went extinct and have to convince all the women that world with them was actually not that bad and old order should be restored.
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British sci-fi is more likely one of these:
- Dysfunctional but mysterious magical traveler and his witless sidekicks stumble through space and time having campy adventures.
- Dysfunctional band of renegades rush through space having campy adventures fighting a heartless evil empire with witty retorts.
- Dysfunctional group of misfits stumble through space skewering each other with witty retorts and having campy adventures while trying to find their way home.
There's definitely a pattern there.
all three of that is just Doctor Who,
don't forget that Black Mirror started british
or Red Dwarf
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At one point in my life, every time I got a serious stomach flu, I would watch Threads (1984) so I could enjoy my life.
By Dawn's Early Light and The Day After are fun too.
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