Mythologies of the future

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• Mythologies of the future 🔊

  DuneStar WarsFoundationCantos Hyperion

  • is_parent Dune 🔊

    "A world is supported by four things . . . the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all

    • is_parent House Atreides ·

      “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and thr
    • is_parent IOTD: Dysgenics ·

      "Russia is genetically an authoritarian power.    Russia’s authoritarianism was not imposed from above but is the result of our history which ha
    • is_parent Actors & Concepts ·

      Concepts: Butlerian Jihad, Orange-Catholic Bible, Great Convention, Planetary Ecology, Zen-Sunni religion, Mentat, Prescience, Golden Path, Spice ... Actors: A
    • is_parent Bene Gesserit ·

      Truthsaying, The Voice, Prana - Bindu, Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Fertility Control, Genetic Memory
    • is_parent Lordyňa Leto III Atreides, the God(dess) Emperor of Dune ·

      What form would You adopt in order to guarantee millennia of peace for trillions of beings ?
  • is_parent Star Wars

    Campbell's monomyth + Holywood = Star Wars

    • is_parent The Fall of Anakin ·

      At the beginning, neither Anakin (nor Saruman, for that matter) could imagine betraying their ideals; yet attachment— to control and to their projected images
  • is_parent Cantos Hyperion 🔊

    Hyperion is The Canterbury Tales rewritten through Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, and modern science fiction — each pilgrim carrying one archetype of humanity t

    • is_parent 7 pilgrims, 7 archetypes 🔒 ·

      Martin Silenus (The Poet) — Homer archetype: epic-maker, obscene bard, immortality via art. Paul Duré (The Priest) — Teilhard de Chardin arch
    • is_parent IOTD: The Technocore 🔒

      In Cantos Hyperion, The Technocore is composed of following components: Stables — conservative AIs, understanding the importance of Humanity and organic L

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    • is_parent Illium & Olympus 🔒 ·

      Dan Simmons (b. 1947) is one of science fiction’s great masters of intertextuality.Following the four-book Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, End
    • is_parent Hegemony 🔒

      In the Hyperion Cantos, the Hegemony is a human interstellar civilization of roughly 250–300 worlds, bound together by the Hegira—humanity’s mass migration fro

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    • contains Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz

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  • is_parent Foundation 🔊

    The wicked problem: How to minimize harm caused by a dying Empire ?

    • is_parent Central problem of roboethics 🔒

      Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was

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    • is_parent The minimalist program 🔒 ·

      Asimov-Seldon's Plan unfolds as follows: establish one Foundation at the outskirts of the known Universe (Terminus) 1st Foundation 's Power base: trade, engine