Oolite Bulletins

Of course it would help if I REMEMBERED to choose things randomly... I'm going to roll 1D6 for each participant, plus 1 if you got an MBP, and the highest roll is the victor. If there's a tie I'll re-roll between the "winners". Spud - Doctor in the Tardis - no MBP Disembodied - Space chant...

Just did a search and found that someone has recorded all of the verses of the Stellaris Aquatics space chanty - unfortunately the singing isn't as good as the original, but it's OK if you want to know the rest of it https://youtu.be/qVUHxnjZpFA?si=i_iT_SiLC1YIZBhm And the original song it's based ...

Just did a search and found that someone has recorded all of the verses of the Stellaris Aquatics space chanty - unfortunately the singing isn't as good as the original, but it's OK if you want to know the rest of it

https://youtu.be/qVUHxnjZpFA?si=i_iT_SiLC1YIZBhm

cheers, i have no idea what filk is, i have not heard of it until your question. Briefly, songs written by SF fans etc. based on popular books, films, etc. and usually set to music such as folk songs, rock music etc. There was a filk convention last weekend which is what put the idea into my head. ...

There's this space shanty, produced to accompany the Aquatics DLC for the 4x game Stellaris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBL9dTwVi4I Again not what I would describe as a typical filk, but the space chanty idea and amazingly pretty video sells it for me despite it being owned by the Stellaris f...

Not exactly filk as filk purists would prefer it, but certainly not created by the franchise owners, so I suppose it counts. In the same way that Star Trekkin (Across the universe) would have counted if I hadn't already ruled out Trek. For anyone who wants to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

OK, Mr Brain is on strike so let's do something simple. Let's have five SF works in any medium that have inspired FILK SONGS - a good example here is the famous(ish) song Banned in Argo by Leslie Fish, based on the Star Trek universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_Argo http://www.ovff.or...

Well, if it counts there's always Star Wars Down Under (2013), a half-hour long fan film someone made with a serious effects budget - made it to IMDB which I think counts as being something like a real movie. Features things like Ned Kelly armour stormtroopers, kangaroo mechs, light-boomerangs, the ...

On The Beach (1957, film 1959, TV movie 2000) by Nevil Shute - the classic "We're all going to die of radiation poisoning but let's try not to make a fuss about it" story set in the aftermath of WW3, almost entirely in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film) http...

Damn - I just realised that I've actually WRITTEN something that would probably qualify - a Forgotten Futures role playing adventure called Free Nessie which is set in and around Loch Ness in the Professor Challenger (Lost World etc.) universe. Oh well, too late now! https://www.forgottenfutures.com...

Rule 34 (2011) by Charles Stross; a near-future police procedural involving AI, organized international crime, and porn, set in Edinburgh after Scottish independence. A sequel to the earlier Halting State (2007), which is also set in post-independence Edinburgh but has slightly fewer SF tropes. A t...

Doom (1993) and sequels? Mars is a research base for experiments in teleportation, unfortunately the experiments open a dimensional breach leading to an invasion from Hell. Not sure of the long-term effects, don't think they ever went beyond the Earth, Mars and its moons, and Hell, but the tech is ...

The Mass Effect computer game series. The back-story is that human explorers find an ancient alien base on Mars in 2148, which leads to the discovery of the "Mass Relay" - a gigantic machine that is the main mass of Pluto's moon Charon - and lets them reach other solar systems, meet intere...

Prior to your last (2010) hint: the best box-office movie, Avatar (2009), humans remotely control the avatars (genetic replicas of the native population). Bonus: the main character "merges" with his avatar in the end. Yes, that one definitely counts - and in response to Rockdoctor's query...

A little more on the examples I mentioned: Late 1950s novel by a British author later described as a "Terrorist's Handbook". Described as such by Terry Pratchett Late 1940s to early 1990s novel and story series by an American author with relativistic interstellar travel. Planets are named ...