Project Hail Mary
This looks promising.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jun 2025, 16:54,
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Science fiction innit? I mean it's a bit more out there than The Martian, but it's only really the phage and the ways they can use it that makes it more so than that.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jun 2025, 20:49,
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as fun as premises are about infected suns
I am a bit surprised nobody's done a disaster film about pole reversals. They happen randomly but on average about every 450,000 years and our last full reversal was 780,000 years ago, so we're overdue. (and the magnetic field has been weakening in recent years. probably nothing...).
So it seems a good topic for a screenplay grounded in actual fears. Nobody knows precisely what happens when they flip, the last one took 28000 years to stabilise. But the consensus is that the field gets a lot weaker, some say about 5% of normal strength, so we're going to get bombed with a lot more high energy particles for a considerable amount of time. Cancer and mutation rates will fucking skyrocket. Maybe not such a big deal when 28 was a ripe old age for early humans, but a bit more of an issue today. Maybe an x-men origin film?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 2 Jul 2025, 0:26,
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Ok, so there's the problem. How do you solve it? Drill down into the Earth's core and try and make it spin faster with nuclear bombs?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 2 Jul 2025, 8:43,
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yeah, not much of a hero premise there
Might need to workshop it a bit. Perhaps sexy aliens can reverse it if only someone can satisfy their queen
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 2 Jul 2025, 14:57,
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Go on...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 2 Jul 2025, 23:17,
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Same. I smashed through it in about three days from memory. The only other books I've done that for in the last few years were the first three Bobiverse books.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jun 2025, 20:52,
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I tried bobiverse but struggled to get into it
Maybe I'll give it another go.
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The first few chapters are a bit of a slog, but when he gets the spaceship it cuts loose and then never really lets up. The audiobooks are really good as well.
We just don't talk about Heaven's River.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jun 2025, 21:53,
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Just bought the first one
Just finishing up The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Which is about distributed intelligences among other things. Wonderful, as are all his books
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 1 Jul 2025, 13:56,
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I have Children of Time sitting in my pile of shame. Maybe I should pull my finger out and start that.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 1 Jul 2025, 14:47,
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Loved the Martian, and was pleasantly surprised by the adaptation.*
I have no idea if this is being done by the same studio, but I'm keeping an open mind.
*obligatory 'Not as good as the book, mind'.
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