#sf horror

[kitbooks]

There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm (Sam Hughes)

I picked up this book a few nights ago intending to read for an hour or so until I fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, I realized it was after midnight and I'd devoured almost half the book.

Stuff I liked, in no particular order:

- Every narrator is unreliable, and they know it.

- World building and exposition are delivered without bogging down the plot.

- Marie Quinn, small, unassuming middle aged lady and ruthless, lethally clever protector of humanity. Badass action hero with none of the trappings and motifs of a badass action hero.

- The quiet, chilling horror of not just dying, but vanishing from everyone's memory.

Go read this book if you like horror and having your mind twisted up in the best possible way.

[spockvarietyhour]

The heart-creature from Jason goes to Hell reminds me a bit of the Conspiracy Mother from TNG

[fuckyeahpostingshiton]

Will never ever get tired of the trope where humans are the more physically powerful/imposing species relative to aliens. Like, look at your classic greys: like 5 feet tall, noodle limbs, soft looking translucent skin, giant fleshy heads.

Imagine a horror movie for greys where they abduct like, just a regularly well built 6’2” farmer from Idaho and suddenly he breaks containment and just starts fucking annihilating them with his bare hands/improvised weapons, like a xenomorph level threat to the terrified science team. Gotta punt him out the airlock it’s the only way to stop a creature who can literally punch through skull and rip off limbs

[swallowtailed]

just listened to the first episode of primordial deep and i’m extremely entertained by how precisely it splits the difference between undersea sf horror and just the most classic audio drama tropes-- not just the beeping alarm, the absolutely horrifying prologue, and the found footage framing device, but also the nervous doctor, the savvy engineer, and the smiling man in the suit orchestrating everything. and of course, can’t forget that isolated setting with the threat of death on all sides!

anyway, if you want some diverse, genreful, and very well-produced sci-fi horror podcasting in your life (seriously, gorgeous sfx and soundtrack), would rec primordial deep!!

[spockvarietyhour]

We encountered an alien life form. They have taken over the bodies of the crew. The colony was lost. My team is dead. This Ishimura is under their control.

10 Caps from Dead Space: Downfall (2008)

[azureoctahedron]

A short piece by Charles Stross. The gist is robot zombies in a hard sci-fi world.

Those of you who like System Shock (particularly System Shock 2) might enjoy this. Plenty of robo-horror and posthuman creepiness.

[spockvarietyhour]

like I said, the doomed starship captain