Preferably books but anything will do.

  • Enzy@feddit.nu
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    4 months ago

    Star Wars / Trek

    Stargate Atlantis / SG-1 later seasons (04+)

    Tomorrowland (2015)

    Blade Runner

    Demolition Man (1993)

    Judge Dredd

    The fifth element

    And probably many more underrated. As for books, I don’t read any :-)

    • Enzy@feddit.nu
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      4 months ago

      As for games, the closest right now is probably Star Citizen. Wouldn’t invest in that though.

      Elite Dangerous if you like space futurism. Has some planets with this vibe too, I think.

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Planetary ports in Elite are just ~1km wide circles with some similar buildings, unfortunately. No sprawling metropolis settings. I love the game, but it’s still markedly empty. Planets with billions of humans are atmospheric earth-likes, which you can’t land on. Can’t approach any closer than high orbit

        But the audio design is excellent

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    I questioned the other suggests that it was retrofuturism, as I had a different picture of what that meant, but apparently that is a very broad category that it seems most futuristic fiction seems to fall in if it has anything we think of in the picture, like flying vehicles or modernistic buildings. Everything from cyberpunk (both positive and dystopian) to steampunk to dieselpunk fall under the name. So I would maybe further narrow this to cyberpunk, aka Bladerunner/The Expanse type? Hard to say the environmental/social feel from just this picture.

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, the image doesn’t have a ton of genre references (at least not that I can identify) which I think is why responders defaulted to retrofuturism. Which is a really broad category: it’s basically “what people from the past thought the future would be like” so any sci-fi that stays in the public consciousness long enough becomes some flavor of “retrofuturistic” by default.

      I feel like cyberpunk, and all the *punk genres, tend to be darker and grimier than this picture though. This feels like someone fed a diffusion model “sci-fi landing pad” and it created this generic pastiche of scifi-ish buildings and aircraft, which is probably why it’s hard to pin down: it’s a synthetic average of a million stolen stories, sanded down to dust and reconstituted as a standard issue art wafer. Which is pretty cyberpunk dystopian, I think, so I guess I’ve come around to agreeing with you.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        4 months ago

        As presented it is the more cheery side of cyberpunk. The others tend to creep in older tech tells (steam or other), and the ship doesn’t look very shiny and new, so there’s a taste of used there, even if it’s not very old, like Star Wars tech always feels, even in the brighter parts (like on Coruscant). Definitely AI source, a human artist would have put details like wear marks, debris on the ground, little things to give an age feel.

        I’m actually working on figuring out my own scifi tech as background material for a novel, and AI is not create at coming up with things visually. I’ve hammered out the ideas in text, but now I’m trying to find ways like Blender to bring them to life to better see it.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “The Rolling Stones” by Robert A. Heinlein. Lead by Grandmother Hazel Stone, a Lunar family buy and refit an old spaceship, and head out to the Saturn colonies. Written as a YA book in the 1950s.

    “Rendezvous With Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke. A spaceship is diverted from routine patrol when scientists discover that an alien spaceship is heading towards the Sun.

    “Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman” by Nelson Bond. Comedic SF stories of a tramp spaceship plying the Mars/Earth run. The narrator is a radioman and the hero is a goofy genius who manages to get himself into, and out of, all kinds of scrapes.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know if it has a name but my association is semi pulpy sci-fi books from the seventies and eighties.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Judge Dredd graphic novels.

    Similar cities and tech. Tongue-in-cheek for a lot of the older stories.

    Mega-cities, block-war, sky surfers, Hover Wagons, robots, and knee pads.