[sirykeeton]

Scream in space/

[therandomray-artz]

With Megurine Luka

[snoozieperhour]

Silver Marina

[anglefan]

[volumzyreo]

[slimespecter]

mechanic

[otiksimr]

hired this thing to stare at you.

[spontaneouscollapse]

Mini Sketchbook Art Dump: Blue Space

[spontaneouscollapse]

Let's take a dance! - Good Boy Twist, Jannabi

[kikutainkisa]

The Wallfacers

[rexit127]

puppet party

[jinian-ginias]

Illustration for The Three-body Universe

[yunnerj]

[yunnerj]

好吃疯了

[rexit127]

paper stand

[hagfishesss]

So a nanoscientist and a microbiologist walk into a bar

(spoilers for phm and the three body trilogy below cut)

Project Hail Mary and The Three Body Problem have such striking similarities to me. Obviously their content is similar; both are hard scifi and depict first contact with aliens, and off the top of my head some of the central themes are human resilience and connection in times of strife. (maybe the latter isn't as prevalent in the text of Three Body, but it's still there)

However, the books are also counterparts of sorts. Three Body is intensely impersonal in its focus on plot and worldbuilding over characters.. it will sack characters freely. Wang Miao appears only in the first book and disappears after. There's a recurring image, of one tiny person against the vast cosmos, of insignificance. The universe will die and be reborn and it will be like we never existed, but we still existed, but does it really matter? The alien adversaries in the book were so powerful that they likened us to bugs. Though it was pointed out that bugs like locusts survive despite the best efforts of the locusts' adversaries (humans), we still got crushed in the end.

Project Hail Mary, meanwhile is so so personal. From the very first page the reader gets intricate insight into Grace's problem-solving process from his perspective, with first-person narration. He cries every other chapter. The reader experiences or is exposed to every emotion he feels and we get intensely attached to him and Rocky as the book goes on. There's the feeling of one human against the universe, but the human is actually... winning? We are bugs, we're literally using beetles to transport our saving grace back to Earth, but it works? I was thrown by this because I'd read Three Body first and was fully expecting the Hail Mary to explode horribly. But no.. it's sci-fi hopecore.

...so the ship name is locustbeetle-

[kyuxhtsyu]

1. Makeup