#Indian Sci Fi

[theomenmedia]

Kalki 2898 AD Gets A Standing Ovation At The Busan Film Festival

Kalki 2898 AD Premieres at Busan! The future of Indian cinema looks bright. Prabhas as Kalki is not just a role, but a revelation.

Link to the full story: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/kalki-2898-ad-busan-bows-to-the-future-of-indian-sci-fi

[vimoh]

Go read at wattpad.

[vindrawins]

ProjectK at San Diego Comic-Con

Are they really that crazy 😱... I mean seriously San Diego Comic-con 👀 that too an Indian film 😯. Project K will be the first film to showcase at World famous Comic Con 😵.

It also makes sense because the biggies step back for this year's comic con due to Writer's Strike in Hollywood. But also, I just hope this doesn't turn out to be something really bad like Adipurush. 🤞.

Well, I don't know about the director, we don't know how much surprises and freshness these new directors with new stories can bring, Prashant Neel & Ayan Mukerji is the latest example 😏.

Now, I have 2 reasons to be excited about this first my most, it's sci-fi, obviously my fav 🥲 and second, San Diego Comic-con🤔... It will be really crazy if they showcase the concept of Project K at Comic Con or at least tease something.

 And a big IF this works super well, then new gates of inspiration and scale will be opened for Indian sci-fi movies in the future 🫠.

[timetravellingkitty]

I'm not listening to a white person on what's racist or insensitive to brown people. read orientalism by edward said before talking to me or my son ever again

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

SPACE (THRU)HIKER

by Tomek Larek

[swearwolf-does-stuff]

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[rrcraft-and-lore]

With the new Avatar series having been out a few months now, here's another mythology and language lesson people overlook and it's...tiring.

The word and concept of Avatar is South Asian. I can't Hinglish it, but it's close to pronounced like: Uhv-thaar. you can just google it, but it's the idea and ability of gods or powerful beings to incarnate in new time/new forms/bodies, sometimes both mortal and divine.

It happens a lot in the Vedic epics.

Avatar: The Last Airbender? Concept, reincarnation, South Asian as fuck.

South Asia (as does other areas of the world/cultures) has a take on the x number of elements as well. Usually it's: wind, fire, earth, water, and sound/voice/space or spirit - aether - w.e. you wanna call it. Spirit bending the idea of the spirit world. Obviously this set is not a direct 1:1.

A:TLA draws a closer to parallel in ways to Chinese takes on the elements.

Obviously James Cameron's avatar takes this concept to a sci fi degree, essentially bringing your mind/consciousness into a new/different (Alien) body.

We also get into the world tree mythos/axis mundi parts of his story too, but that's beside the point and not unique to any one culture - that's anything out of proto Indo-European up. Obviously within in the pantheon of sff literature and other media the idea of reincarnation and cyclic nature of time - birth across time isn't new or rare.

The idea of a Wheel of Time, in fact, comes quite from: Kalachakra - translation = "Wheel of Time." This is an Indian belief that later spread through/over distance as well as religion, popping up in Buddhism and finding prominence most notably in Tibet still to this day.

The belief also ties back into the idea of conventional reality - time being an aspect of the larger world-universe- the smaller aspects of which are comprised of, once again: earth, wind, water, fire, space - sound familiar to something rom fantasy?

Probably. If not, read more. Or...more carefully.

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

My summer reading list:

Fiction

The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones ★★★☆☆

The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (currently reading)

Betty - Tiffany McDaniel

Non Fiction

La Race tue Deux Fois (Race Kills Twice) - Rachida Brahim (currently reading)

Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks (currently reading)

Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Only Poc authors: native american for fiction, arab and black writers for non fiction.

Summer is definitely for horror, however The only Good Indians would have worked better as film script: it lacked character development, felt superficial rather than atmospheric, took too long to achieve its purpose (the book is over 300 pages long) given it's not about tension but about the killings (which were indeed impressive).

I have never regretted my slow reading so much: this list is the perfect list with only brilliant poc authors and my enjoyment should be bigger....

[qbdatabase]

Gurdeep is an engineer and a soldier. Georgie’s a food scientist. One is pragmatic with a tough outer shell; the other’s an optimist, a person of ideas and compassion. In the span of a single afternoon, the couple find themselves in charge of planning a self-sustaining colony on Mars. Together, they’re humanity’s last hope for survival.

They have 160 slots to fill with experts from all over the world as they set about designing an all-new society with its own government, economy, and culture – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Among those chosen for the mission is Devon, an autistic scientist with a unique skill set who finds life on Earth strange and alienating. Maybe a whole new planet is exactly what’s needed.

With 1,114 days until the launch, excitement and tensions run high. Earth’s second chance hangs in the balance. Between strict genetic requirements and the dangers of the dystopian almost-present, will everyone make it to the final countdown?

[realaleiussofar]

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