The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach - An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer

[@Bombtrack411]

I really liked Borne, but I *loved* the Southern Reach trilogy. I highly recommend them.

[@dogwalk3]

oh, it's hard to pick. Dead Astronaut is my favorite book i've read in over a decade. Can't wait for Absolution, being released in 9(!) days!!!! i read all of SR for the first time in the last 2 months, so it's fresh in my head.

[@jusouza1121]

I just read the entire trilogy again. It's my favorite! I'd love to be there!!

[@pluto9000]

I wish I was there too 🤯

[@Sunsp0t_Lu]

In Area X? Or at this session? 😅

[@freewheeler8924]

I've just finished reading Annihilation. I liked it, and in it I could see the influences of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, a lot of J.G. Ballard, and a little H.P. Lovecraft - specifically the final creature from At the Mountains of Madness. So, yes, Annihilation is derivative, but all of the novels mentioned are excellent sources to base something new on.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Freewheeler ! Tediously unoriginal. They did it better in the 70s, this is so deep fake.

[@freewheeler8924]

After reading more of Vanderneer's stuff, I agree with you. His work is like a post-modernist mash-up of better sci-fi by other people - a total cut-n-paste job.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Freewheeler ! Nobody seems to be doing anything new! History is just repeating itself...having read Stanislaw Lem recently my mind is blown how original his writing is, he really describes some incredibly surreal worlds....I guess these authors are just trying to bring those incredible ideas dumb them down to a mass audience.... But honestly I'm so impressed by Lem. You should watch the German tv show based on his pilot stories! Ultra mind bending ! Also the humour I think is even more dada than Douglas Adams, he's the only author that comes close to Douglas Adams sci fi humour I feel....

[@freewheeler8924]

Yeah Lem is the greatest. And his range is so wide, from hyper-cerebral to total farce. I love Lem. Do you know A. Bertram Chandler? He's a lesser-known SF writer but he's done some damn fine stuff over the years (since the 1940s). In real life, he was a ship's captain, and on his long ocean voyages he wrote about: interstellar travel! His Space Opera is the best, intelligent yet funny, far better than the immensely over-rated Asimov and Heinlein.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Freewheeler ! Interesting, thanks for the heads up on Bertram chandler, I don't have any books by him, so I will most definitely check him out! 😎🤓👍

[@gollygeedang]

34:14 - illusion of control / complexity of eco systems

[@cocopud]

When he was talking about various fungal contaminations I was cleaning out the bird feeders. What did I find in them? Fungal contaminations. Queue twilight zone music do do do do do do do do do..... 😜

[@batteryaciidburnable]

This video contains spoilers

[@coastalumbra2682]

Thank you for this. Very informative c::

[@Branstrom]

Who said that about the relative difficulty of AI vs ecosystems?

[@davids2254]

Wow At 32:00 😄 could that be said about what we're going through during the Pandemic

[@alugartttt]

So where is the novel that expands on Southern Reach trilogy (the he mentioned when asked about SnS Brigade)

[@babakhanoushii]

49:20

[@chrisgreene2405]

Really ? There are books! I loved the first one

[@arcadealchemist]

reminds me of SCP-354

[@Talon3000]

The whole thing really reminds me of a SCP.

[@chulo113]

Thanks for the MAJOR SPOILER bro... WTF.

[@FlighttTime]

Youre watching a 1.5hr talk with the author about the books and are expecting no spoilers? A full decade ± after the release? Odd.

[@andrewdeen1]

strange how scientifically-minded he is when he used hypnosis as such a major plot point in the book

[@RoboBoddicker]

Andrew Deen Er, hypnosis is a real thing though

[@UltraViolet666]

He talks about it at 1:11:00. Hypnosis and mind control is a real thing that has been studied by psychologists and whatever other scientists it interests. Have you ever heard of the MK Ultra experiments? It's probably the best example of why it's actually illegal, and how scientists and organisations have tried to use it before

[@mwmann]

Physical life is short. Spiritual life is eternal. Many unwise humans make the nonsense of the physical world important. It isn't. It's nonsense. The Spiritual world that reveals the truth and the reason and the point of existence is found in only one book, the Holy Bible. All else is either a waste of time, man's vanity or a product with its primary author existing in spiritual darkness who uses or possesses physical humans.

[@DeroriMusic]

Wouldn't this comment also be futile then? Seeing as it's in the physical world, transmitted fully by physical systems?

[@goatdeer8403]

Bruh how did you even get to this video then