#scifi

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🎥 Resident Evil (★★★★☆)

A new era of evil. Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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🎥 Hope (★★☆☆☆)

Is this how it ends? In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

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"I find the prospect of predicting the incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of , tied to the tracks...

My intention isn't to demoralize you into tying yourself to history's tracks – I'm here to show you how to grab the wheel and steer off the rails altogether."
- @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2026/10/27/tie

Headline and text from article:
History is something you do (permalink)

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future. That Yogi Berra gem proves that you don't have to be a science fiction writer to get irritated with people insisting that you must know what's going to happen tomorrow, but (as a sf writer), I can tell you that this is one of our main occupational hazards.

Obviously, this is a self-inflicted injury. Our genre is full of big names who self-mythologized as scientific Nostradamuses. From the "future history" bar-charts in Heinlein's books (I was once on a panel with Robert Silverberg where he referred to RAH as "Robert A Timeline") to the McGuffin of Asimov's Foundation series: a "scientific" discipline that could predict the trajectory of human civilization for millennia into the future.

But me, I find the prospect of predicting the future incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of history, tied to the tracks.
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🎥 The Dog Stars (★★★☆☆)

At the end of the world, no one survives alone. After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.

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🎥 Spider-Man: Brand New Day (★★★★☆)

A brand new day starts now. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a...

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@btel@mastodon.social

Je suis en train de lire "le grand abandon" par @pluralistic que j'ai trouvé un peu par hasard dans la bibliothèque de mon quartier. Je sais que c'est un peu cliché de dire ça, mais ce roman de scifi publié en 2017 est étonnement pertinent à ce que se passe actuellement dans le monde et plus particulièrement en France (la parallèle entre les polices chassant les abondonneurs et le mouvement de lycéen.ne.s ne m'a pas échappé)

La page titre du livre Le Grand Abandon écrit par Cory Doctorow. Sur le fond rouge on voit deux maisons, un en noir et l'autre en blanc. Dans la maison blanc il y a une silhouette d'une personne en noir et blanc
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🎥 Mimic (★★★★☆)

For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now. A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has...

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