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Preferably books but anything will do.
Slop
Do you read French? If so, the comic artist Moebius is all over this.
I don't. But I'll check it out
He's all over the Hoopla service if your library offers it.
Apollo Punk.
I mean, it depends if you want it to be positive, read Issac Asmov's Robert Vision and if you think it's too pessimistic, move to Arthur C. Clarke (Rondevouz with Rama is always a good pick me up, although the "Space Boobies" passage is a bit of struggle.), if you want more pessimism, go for Iain M. Banks (Consider Phlebas is the first in The Culture series.)
How you managed to spell Phlebus correctly but fucked up Robot, I'll never know.
how is culture series pessimistic? from what i have read culture the most utopian thing ever
Not pessimistic but some characters have tragic endings. Sometimes it's the "main" character due to special circumstances. Really good reading though.
"special circumstances" I see what you did there....
I don't remember space boobies. I'm scared to go look now.
Also I wouldn't recommend Consider Phlebas. I like some of his other work but that was just a terrible book for the first two thirds at least.
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Yeah consider phlebas is good with context but it isn't really a "culture" novel in the way that the others are. I think my favourites are excession and matter but the others are good too.
Player of Games is interesting - the main character, a gamer, goes to a non-idyllic civilisation because he's fucked up his idyllic Culture life.
a chiniese artist called RuiHuang_art also have this vibe of scifi
I checked it out. GOD DAMN! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The art in Simon Stalenhag's books has a similar vibe. The art is also freely available to view on his website: https://www.simonstalenhag.se/
I haven't actually read any of the books yet - still waiting for a delivery
I've read them all, they are phenomenal.
I'd add the Electric State adaptation on Netflix and "Tales From the Loop" adaptation on Amazon.
Thanks
Star Wars / Trek
Stargate Atlantis / SG-1 later seasons (04+)
Tomorrowland (2015)
Blade Runner
Demolition Man (1993)
Judge Dredd
The fifth element
And probably many more underrated. As for books, I don't read any :-)
Thanks for the recommendations
Can you give more examples of what you think fits or defines that more?
I think other people have already covered the bases of what I'd suggest, but just for curiosity's sake, to further clarify this style you're looking for.
Tbh, I'm really not sure.
But i'll try. Let's say cities full of irregular buildings like spires and structures with incredible architecture. Lots of technology everywhere. Everything is seemingly made of metal painted white (?) Spacious, grand, odd shaped vehicles etc.
That's not a good description. That could be anything. But that's the best I could do.
Foundation series. Your picture is exactly how I envisage Trantor.
