• cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Japanese: Gundam, obviously

    American: gotta be Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein

    French: idk. Flash Gordon, Attack of the 50’ Woman, and Barberella are what come to mind, but those are American films

    British: Time Machine by HG Wells of course

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Old Russian scifi: welcome to the crapsack post-apocalypse. It’s strangely similar to the current day. So, the protagonists do what current day people do: grim philosophical brooding.

    Current Russian scifi: Awesome Russian soldier dude gets isekai’d to World War 2 and defeats the evil Western bastards. Help the author is trapped in Putin’s book factory send help

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    Australian Sci-Fi: The rest of the world is forced to live in a desert wasteland full of criminals the way we do every day, and they struggle to adapt.

  • The_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    American sci-fi: America is technologically, morally, physically, and intellectually superior. And the answer to all ills is more science.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Tbf, that’s pretty close to how most of Russia already is.

      To be equally fair, though, that’s probably mostly because it’s a very racist country with an ethnonationalist government.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Hey! There are also Japanese sci-fi which just validate the author’s fetishes. There’s even two I know where that fetish is specifically polygamy.

  • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    As someone who reads scifi like a chain smoker in a tobacco warehouse, this reads as somewhat antiquated. Niven and Heinlein and such back in the day, definitely in the American camp on how they wrote women and relationships, not seeing much of that lately though. Heavy lean on military scifi instead. Most of it narrated by RC Bray.

    Silo series was American. Though that felt like the smart man’s Fallout as a writing prompt. Chuck Wendig, American. Maybe we all just have apocalypse on the brain the last decade.

    Not sure the space romance thing is limited to one country’s culture. God save us all from young adult fiction of any kind, because this is the main plot.

    The real issue in scifi rn is the multiverse popping up like the vampire trend back in the Sookie Stackhouse days. Every other description of newly “printed” scifi I’ve read in my book searches this year: multiverse. Is everyone just out of ideas?

    I liked it better when it felt like the scifi market was trying to find the next expanse.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    3 days ago

    British sci-fi is more likely one of these:

    • Dysfunctional but mysterious magical traveler and his witless sidekicks stumble through space and time having campy adventures.
    • Dysfunctional band of renegades rush through space having campy adventures fighting a heartless evil empire with witty retorts.
    • Dysfunctional group of misfits stumble through space skewering each other with witty retorts and having campy adventures while trying to find their way home.

    There’s definitely a pattern there.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      And the American version was The Day After (1983)

      Entirely different movies with the same premise. The Day After messed me up as a kid. But Threads haunts me as an adult.

      • BilSabab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        The Day After gets way more fucked up when you watch the roundtable discussion that took place after its premiere. Now that’s some parallel reality mental prolapse.

          • BilSabab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            there was a month and half period when ukrainian news broadcasted wall-to-wall gorefest. and then Bucha was liberated and it wasn’t shits and giggles anymore.

          • BilSabab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            its on youtube. and it is quite fucked up. with folks like that end of the world is probably the best case scenario.

            as an addon - there was also BBC After Dark episode about Chornobyl which was “white people feeling bad about famine in Africa” level of white savior bullshit - their arrogance is actively repulsive.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    As someone who read more Honor Harrington than he should have, the American one is a bit on the nose.

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      “Time Enough for Love” by Robert Heinlein 😬 about a man that, basically, can live forever.

      spoiler

      He and his descendants live for so long, that sex loses meaning, and becomes some sort of “adult playtime” that he, inevitably, has with his actual children. Granted, the children are also like a thousand years old at this point too, but, still.

      • The_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Lazarus Long? IIRC he’s also his own parents due to time travel shenanigans. During his early adulthood, he gets a one night stand pregnant and never sees her again. A couple hundred years later he transitions to a woman, for reasons, goes back in time, gets pregnant from a one night stand with a drifter. Both are him. Robert Heinline was a little messed up.

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      I only wish the audio books were available in non-amazon sources.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      There’s actually a lot of decent sci Fi with Canadian creators / writers / cast / filming location

      The main rule is that it will be set anywhere but Canada

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Feargus Urquhart is a Scottish-American dual citizen born and raised in Scotland. I’d say that qualifies Fallout as partly British 😉

  • Berlinblades@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Judge Dredd, Threads, Lifeforce(Kind of) certainly supports the UK sci fi Idea. French scifi is a little more like EVERYONE ,good and Bad is turned on at all times. American sci fi is spot in,i can’t think of any counter evidence.