The "Complete" History Of Science Fiction

The "Complete" History Of Science Fiction
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[@MediaDeathCult]

To anyone that cares. We have recently suffered a rather "complicated" channel situation. To cut a long story short I have had to delete about 400 videos, including the documentary series we poured our heart and soul into last summer. So here it is again, all three episodes remastered into one glorious video. I'm not asking for any favours but maybe you would all enjoy the fruits of our labour a second time or indeed for the first time if you are new here. ENJOY Thank You

[@StefanAndresen]

Oh no! Only 32 videos left! This is a real shame 😢

[@byramh]

Oh no! I was slowly going through your book reviews as I read different things. I should have just watched them, spoilers or no spoilers. I love your content. I recommend your channel whenever I can.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@MediaDeathCult]

Unlikely, the time spent editing them will not be worth it, I would rather spend the effort on new videos. We have a thriving discord where you can talk about The Culture, the bonus being that you get more opinions than just mine, if that helps.

[@reggieholliday8280]

Too bad. Watching your videos got me back into sci-fi a few years ago. Best book tuber out there. Hope everything works out

[@waymire01]

Another aspect of the history of science fiction that gets nowhere near the love it deserves are the illustrators, most of which never got credit for their work, that not only brought readers in and got them to pick up the book/magazine, but gave us so many iconic visuals and ideas that laid foundations and inspiration for all the stories to come. It's easy for modern readers to forget these images were complete hand drawn and colored works of art. A starting place may be Frank R Paul who was one of the artists for Amazing Stories. Another prolific illustrator in later years was Arnold Kohn. These two are only drops in the bucket though, there are so many.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Totally agree, I'm planning a video about it

[@IntheClutch75]

Great call.

[@TheKatamariguy]

I've been reading Adam Roberts' History of Science Fiction, and I love that he devotes 123 pages to enumerating many proto-SF books written between 1600 and 1800.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Indeed, I've only just started exploring that period myself

[@disconnected22]

Hey Moid. I know the video problem hits hard, but I wanted to tell you one more time: the last few months before it happened, you got me into sci-fi again. Due to your great commentary on the books, humor, and eclectic lists, you’ve been my guide, mate. Wolfe, Tchaikovsky, Scalzi, Reynolds, Library Of America PKD volumes, all of it. Looking forward to a new Top Sci Fi list video someday. Go big, we can take it.... Just like your Mum. 😉

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@Kazumo]

I first stumbled upon your channel after reading Roadside Picnic and man... This is a gem. You are very, very underrated and it makes me a bit sad to see that such brilliant work doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Amazing video and super well structured. I love how you put your thoughts together and the way you go the extra mile to make everything look so professional. Thank you so much for all the videos and please don't quit. I cannot wait to read more so I can watch more of your stuff and don't worry about spoilers.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you, we're just getting started

[@BrianBell7]

I'm just blown away by the high quality of this video. Script, storytelling camera shots, editing, sound, everything. I aspire to make videos even 1/10th this good one day.

[@Charlie_Lap]

I still love the Martian tripod shot

[@MediaDeathCult]

It looks just like it's gliding over you

[@bobkielbasa7500]

I appreciate that you go out and about for your video instead of just sitting in a room with what may or not be a real background.

[@Kim_Miller]

This is a great video. Great location shots and camera work. I'm sorry to read about you having to delete so many others, and struggle to understand how that happens. I hope you recover from whatever happened.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank You

[@MCBGamer]

Just wanted to comment quick. I think you are one of the highest production value channels in your bracket. I am a fiend for your content and you actually have introduced me to so many cool authors. Recently read The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard and it was such an interesting look into a future that never will be. Thanks for your content. Keep it up.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@magiclantern66]

There are a couple of sections in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels which pre-date Frankenstein by 92 years, and could be described as science fiction, and also influential on future works in the genre. The most obvious chapter describes the island of Laputa, which floats in the sky and whose population are devoted to science, most of which is pointless and futile. Asimov had a similar concept in Shah Guido G, and it's hard to read it without thinking of the Cloud City of Bespin. Then Gulliver encounters a society run by intelligent horses, called Houyhnhnms, where humans are non-verbal, primitive savages. Robert Heinlein used the exact same idea in Starman Jones and Pierre Boulle did something very similar in Planet of the Apes.

[@cros_dead]

Hey, what happened to the videos that you have early uploaded. Why did you remove the videos?😢😢. Is it re-upload?. Is there any chance to get the video's information in ......

[@jenm8357]

Sorry that you had to delete your videos. I watched many of them multiple times and used your top tens as guides for prioritizing my reading lists.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thanks for the support

[@jenm8357]

@@MediaDeathCult Thanks for all of your videos, even the ones that are gone! They were very useful with a lot of excellent book and movie recommendations and even managed to be entertaining and funny.

[@AvatarYoda]

Thanks for mentioning Lucian's A True Story! It is such a bonkers, fun story that needs more attention.

[@therizinosauruscheloniform2162]

This is such a great and interesting video! A breath of fresh air among modern youtube!

[@racshade42]

Kepler wrote a scifi…..Somnium was about a trip to the moon.

[@disconnected22]

John Clute’s Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction is helpful, too...

[@spacepresidentmonkey]

Your videos are amazing! I wish I had more free time to watch more of them.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@KujoTV]

Woot! Woot! If this is a re-upload, then I'm sorry for not seeing it originally. This is the video I have been waiting for. Well done.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you Sir

[@polixenes78]

First of all, thank you so very much for making this video! I listened first and then watched. Your adventurous nature is apparent in your travels and wardrobe! I hope you enjoyed creating it and know that it satisfied exactly what I was looking for. I do, however, need to take issue with one short aside in your section on authoritarian stories. 13:33 “Jack London was writing about a dictatorship in America for the good of the people, The Iron Heel.” Of course we can contort our minds to make this true from some very particular perspective, but The Iron Heel is about the fascist takeover of the US government and society. The story’s name comes from the plutocracy’s intent to grind the mass of people down in a brutally repressive regime. The preceding quote from you in your video doesn’t make sense to me. Any comment on your choice of words? Quickly also I wanted to mention another favorite, H. P. Lovecraft, some of whose stories straddle the genre and gave rise to a vast universe of strangeness. Your hard work is sincerely appreciated and your video is wonderful. Take care!

[@zetectic7968]

Hi Moid - I thought there was a touch of deja vu about this. Good to watch it again. My brain was not working properly before the pandemic & now I feel like I need a RAM upgrade to fix my memory problems. I do hope the channel hasn't been hit by some (expletive) copyright strike. If only life had a rewind button to avoid mistakes & to take up missed opportunities. Look forward to the next video

[@KingGeddii]

Stings me a bit personally not to hear Frank Herbert's name at some point, but solid video. Well done.

[@MediaDeathCult]

I know, but it's just a glide over the basics, I have a dedicated Dune video that sings the praises of his importance.

[@LuisdeSousa]

Above all Dune was a popular novel. It brought about environmental design, but was not really a turning point. On the other hand, I find Hyperion to be as relevant as Necromancer in reflecting the relation of humans with the internet. Nothing was the same after it.

[@maff3617]

Love these video-essays.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you, oh it's you Maff, hello

[@LiminalSpaces03]

Great video! The New Wave is my favorite period as well.

[@richardhalasz9664]

Oh, man! Moid, this video is the Chef's Kiss!

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank You

[@norhat2414]

Really enjoyed - thanks,

[@hosseinshahrabi]

Awesome video. Thanks. A quick question: You really worked with Peter Kenny for this video? I'm so jealous and really wish he had read Neuromancer! 😭

[@MediaDeathCult]

Absolutely, I interviewed him a few months before we made this video, stayed at his house and went out for beer and curry. I asked for a favour and he was happy to help, I figured I would ask the best in the game to be in my little doc. He recorded all parts in about 3 minutes, one take.

[@hosseinshahrabi]

@@MediaDeathCult Hope to see the interview in your channel soon.

[@AlienBigCat23]

Great vid, by the way. 👌

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank You So Much

[@LuisdeSousa]

Possibly your best work so far Moid. Congrats. The classical novels of the future are already being written, but by AI. In effect, the profession of novelist is no longer viable. It is a peculiar and ironic End of the World (of Sci-Fi).

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@Mark_Tauman]

Comment for the algorithm

[@peterdixon6807]

Thanks for a stimulating highlights package. Did you feel you were channeling the Fast Show at any point? I’ve come to appreciate there is stuff we know and stuff we don’t and an ever-increasing army of people who now add to the ever-increasing catalogue of output on all of that. With an ever-increasing feeling I ought to specialise in a sub-sub-sub-genre [e.g. under water, non-Earth, inter-galactic wars, or arachnid-based time loop comedies] but I can never focus. Did you count how many trouser/shirt changes you did? Ooo butterfly brain sucking parasites of Deneb 3.

[@MediaDeathCult]

My "Fast Show" video was last year, search for our Multiverse Explained video

[@nuerentilden8097]

great video as usual

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thanks

[@MilenaUFPI]

amazing! sending love from brazil

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank You

[@charactergeneric1885]

Wow! That was an amazing video! Thanks for creating it.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you very much

[@santagrindlay1014]

Amazing content as always

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@marieloweanderson350]

Great vid as always! 🎉

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@TheAlexcassun]

I was about 3 minutes into this before I realized I'd already watched it, but it's so good I watched it all over again. Now I'm going to Abe Books to order some books.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@joeobyrne3189]

Great video, loved it.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thanks

[@JoeNicolosi-l8i]

LOVED IT!!! Even though there's still a lot of navel gazing going on, dystopian writing and universe-encompassing space opera are alive and well.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@Moeller750]

Shelly is the only mother Mary who keeps whispering her words of wisdom

[@mikemoore4033]

You’re obviously right that “more people have access to the material than ever before”. Problem is, who the hell is reading books of any kind, let alone SF, today? Anyway, very nice short overview of the history of written SF. Needed more Dick though.

[@31LaschG]

A far from mentioned brilliant dystopian novel would be Karin Boye’s Kallocain!

[@mitchellstrauss5117]

sorry for your difficulties, but great to see this documentary all in one piece... perhaps I would have shoe-horned in Frank Herbert's Dune as a high water mark for world building, which seems to be an important litmus test for highly regarded science fiction... anyway, Moid, you are a scholar and a gentleman... you should be knighted...

[@Brapfel]

Great video !

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you

[@skyherz5401]

Felt like the inclusive line at the end was a little charged but I do get it

[@Watchmegrow26]

The um, shall we say addition to your shirt in the library shots in this video over your colourful shirt looks great man. 🔫

[@portzblitz]

Thanks! Excellent 👍🏾

[@ModernConversations]

Well synthesised.

[@samm8190]

What happened to the interview with Christopher Ruocchio author of Sun Eater? I was hoping to watch that if you still have the video…

[@aajiv1748]

A very good succent history well put. My sense of things about science fiction is that the 1940s and 1950s were the watershed. Campbell the innovator was more inclusive then , wide ranging, not so much Asimov and Heinlein but Sturgeon, Lewis Padgett, L Sprague de Camp, Blish, , others ... that almost ended in 1950... Then H L Gold , with Galaxy, started buying innovations. SF in Galaxy was a rainbow of new ideas Dick, Bester, Pohl , Kornbluth, Bradbury, ... a long list of authors Campbell would not buy. Born in Galaxy was cyber punk before there was cyber punk. 40s and 50s seemed to almost use up every idea that was SF or to be SF.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

ah dude the hell happened? I went to to watch 3 whiskeys, 3 movies reviews again and theyre gone. Is there no way of getting them back?

[@joshp2166]

cool

[@stobiusshroden]

I love a good remaster 😁❤

[@31LaschG]

That great canon of Verne were situated in Florida?

[@MediaDeathCult]

Are you asking where we filmed that part? It's Greenwich, London. The big ship is the one and only Cutty Sark

[@JE-ee7cd]

😊👍

[@maghurt]

And our world is all the richer for all these writers, :)

[@adammolnar2239]

must have been Alan Moore....

[@christianthorpe935]

What a crime!! All those reviews, top 10's, interviews...I'm so sorry!

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you, I'll remake some of the videos one day

[@c62west]

Thank you, Cult Leader Moid. Monolith bless you.

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thanks mate, much appreciated

[@alexbigday1587]

Great video as usual, Moid. What happened to all your content? Is it now only available for Patrons or is there any issue with YT? Okay, I just read it in your clipped comment... Sorry to hear that :( I was working my way though them because I just started my sci-fi journey

[@MediaDeathCult]

Thank you, I can't do much about it I'm afraid, we must bow to our monopilised overlords. It does give us the opportunity to remake some older videos that I was very fond of, hopefully make them better.

[@alexbigday1587]

@@MediaDeathCult don't worry, all your cultists are still here, so we will make sure things go back on track again.

[@MoldyGrowbot]

That's a nice blouse you have on.

[@MediaDeathCult]

My wife bought it, I like it

[@MoldyGrowbot]

@@MediaDeathCult it's a little loose, just like your mum ;)

[@MediaDeathCult]

And slightly itchy before I washed it, just like your Mum

[@maksimsmelchak7433]

👍🏻😎👽🤖

[@kennethlivingston9108]

Why do you fell the need to wear a gun while you talk about Sci-Fi?

[@MoeGar-e6e]

Not one mention of Frank Herbert.....😮