In your article on Singularities and Nightmares, you briefly discuss
negative intervention by outsiders (i.e. Aliens or so-called deities),
but you didn't really discuss positive / preventative intervention or
even neutral intervention by aliens. Granted you explore those
scenarios in depth in your uplift novels, but I would have thought you
would be more of a completest in your non-fiction works.
But Actually I write because you say this Dr. Brin:
"For those of you who like Japanese-oriented sci fi... like monsters
that stomp cities... or just cool mythology, have a look at a small
webzine called Daikaijuzine. "
And you have also attacked anime and manga on several other occasions.
I just want to set the record straight. Their is an enormous amount of
japanese sci-fi and it isn't all just monsters destroying cities or
giant robots. It runs the full range and explores every facet of hard
sci-fi. Most japanese sci-fi TV / Movies comes from adaptations of
manga and light novels, usually but not always into Animated Shows or
Animated Theatrical Movies. Their are actually > 10,000 Anime shows /
movies that have been produced in japan over the years-A large fraction
of which are science fiction. There are even more manga / novel series
that never get animated.
Heh, even you are probably more likely to see one of your own Sci-Fi
books made into a japanese animated movie than a live action hollywood one.
Here is a short list of good anime sci-fi shows/movies you *might*
actually be interested in, based on what you have written in the past,
all available in America:
-Post Singularity:
Blame! (very short)
Noein
Ergo Proxy
-Post Apocalyptic:
Scrapped Princess (don't be fooled it's not really a fantasy show)
The Big O (I even threw in a not-so stereotypical giant robot /
monsters stomping cities show)
Interlude
Avenger
Trigun
-Existentialist / Becoming "God":
Serial Experiments Lain
Ergo Proxy
The Big O
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Kamichu!
-Polymorphic Necro-Regeneracy:
Gungrave
-Other Good Sci-Fi Movies:
The Place Promised in our early days
Paprika
[Voices of a Distant Star]
Ghost in The Shell (inspiration for the matrix)
Metropolis
NausicaA of the valley of the Wind
Castle in the Sky
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