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Off topic. Do you have any movie suggestion close or related to this book? I've seen The Martian, 2001 Space Od, Interstellar, and Event Horizon.

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Yes, the name is terrible, but the book series is actually quite good if you like hard sci-fi. It has that "written-by-an-ex-software-dev" vibe that is so popular around here.

I love the Bob series, but I'd recommend against it if you don't have a high tolerance for characters who are supposed to be extremely intelligent missing blindingly obvious solutions to problems.

That sounds like real life.

Yeah but in real life you could grab somebody and yell "Oh my god, stop moping about how scared you are of explosives and just put a goddamn steel blade on your flying murder-drones so they're not one-use-only."

I feel like such a drone would need quite a bit of heft to offset swinging the blade - like the motorcycles in Daniel Suarez's Daemon.

A drone with a gun would get thrown about as it shoots.

Missiles, lasers, EMP, and explosives seem like the most practical drone weapons.

Yeah but in the book he's literally having to ration his drones because he can't figure out how to kill a gorilla any way except suicidally ramming them head-on.

To be fair, he's still his old self with his old human skills only. The only thing is he's faster and can compute better. His skills may not have included military tactics but it took him pretty far!

He had a massive library to learn from. My skills don't include tactics either but he worked on this problem for months and never came up with anything better than a flying headbutt.

There are a million ways to build a drone to kill something that would not destroy the drone.

- String a wire between two drones - Stick a spear to the front - Have it drop acid - Have it lift then drop the monster - Have it lift and drop a stone on the monster - Build in crossbow/ballistae etc etc....

Yes!!

Omg this! Those books drove me crazy!!

The book flipped between 'missing the obvious' and 'that was way too easy and lazy writing'. It had some hard-fi, but most reviewers seem to give the author too much credit and ignore the poor plot

You get the constant impression he either didn't have an editor or had an editor with no power to force changes. Especially near the end of the third book where you can tell he's gotten tired of his Big Bad Guys and just decides to end them in half a dozen pages.

Another vote for these books. Pretty quick read, but solid.

Great audio book series.

I love the Bobiverse! Another +1 for the series.

Sunshine? I watched a review of it[0] recently and it took me back to when I watched it at the cinema.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3QdcvfXMHk

Awesome movie. The cinematography is beautiful

So good. And the cast. From memory, the third act doesn't quite live up to the first two, but I struggle to imagine how it could've.

Critical Drinker made me realize a couple years ago that I'm not crazy and movies really are generally unwatchable these days, with a handful of exceptions, many of which he points out.

Worth mentioning: Project Hail Mary is being made into a movie, will be adapted by Drew Goddard who also adapted The Martian.

Read the book a while ago, didn't realize it was being made into a movie until recently, maybe others are unaware too. I'm eagerly optimistic :)

Arrival! It's a great movie, but I don't want to explain too much.

Also I believe there's a movie in the works for Project Hail Mary. Just finished the book and am hoping the film will be as good.

Moon

Unit Zappa

I take it you've never heard of Frank Zappa's daughter?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/moon_unit_zappa

I took that as being their joke.

Seconding that.

I liked The Three Body problem.

The story is very good, but it was also interesting to read the Chinese point of view.

Europa Report

Underrated low budget movie.

Sunshine. Awesome movie

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