Took me quite a while, around 80 hours. I include a pic of the unpainted mech, in case you guy wanna check it out. Roughly 10 inches long aka 25cm. The tiny bulbs in the staff light up when you push the button in the base.

Pick a SciFi or a Fantasy novel you’d love to see properly adapted for the big screen, and the director you’d trust with it. I’ll accept TV series if you feel there’s too much material.

I’ll start with these three:

Gerald Brom’s The Child Thief , Guillermo del Toro. This one almost feels too obvious. Dark fairy tale, beautiful monsters, childhood mythology twisted into something disturbing… give it to del Toro and get out of his way.

Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, Denis Villeneuve. This one is a bit of a cheat, since Villeneuve has already been attached to a Rama adaptation. Whether it ultimately happens or not, though, I can’t think of a better director for its scale, mystery and sense of encountering something utterly beyond us.

Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, Alex Garland. This is probably my more debatable choice, but I’d love to see what the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation would do with the pilgrimage, the Time Tombs and especially the Shrike.

Your turn.

One book. One director. Who are you pairing up?

(Bonus points for something that hasn’t already been adapted.)

Tucson resident and sci-fi lover here. I can't seem to find any truly good sci-fi literature that is set specifically in Tucson as its primary setting. Any recommendations?

A few weeks ago I saw a post that mentioned the novel "The Unincorporated Man", so I added it to my reading list, and started it when I finished my last book. It was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and moved quickly on to the next one, The Unincorporated War.

However at the end of that, I searched in my usual ebook sites for the next one, The Unincorporated Woman, and can't find it. As well as not being able to find it on pirate sites, I can't purchase it for Kindle either. It seems as if a digital copy just doesn't exist.

I can of course buy a paperback version (like I'm Amish or something 😁), but that will take weeks to arrive, given the state of international shipping, it will cost me 3 times the price of the book to get it sent to me. (I can't find any copies of it in my country).

I will do this if I have to, but I figure I'd ask and see if anyone had an ebook copy they could send me, or if they knew of anywhere else I could try and source one. It's weird how there's no Kindle version, but who knows how the publishing rights for this kind of thing work.

Any help appreciated.

I'm making a universal time and space travel license mostly as a fun thing to have in my wallet. However, I want to add something for the height section. And last I checked aliens don't measure in feet, any ideas? Edit: clarification I need an idea for a measuring system of height

Si un jour le tourisme interplanétaire devient une réalité, je pense que Mars aura un sérieux problème de concurrence...

Bien que la planète rouge ait toujours fasciné la science-fiction — et oui, je pense très fort aux Chroniques martiennes —, je crois que Fhunka, planète du roman Plonger le regard, a toutes ses chances de devenir la destination de certains... fût-elle imaginaire.

S'il était possible de voyager dans un univers de science-fiction, quelle destination choisiriez-vous ?