Science fiction is being eradicated in the west.

Why?

Years ago, China conducted a study on what were the factors that contributed to a person becoming an Engineer. Among them, liking science fiction was a very high commonality. The cause being that those kids got into engineering because they wanted to make the cool sci-fi stuff of their childhood for real. China then decided to bankroll Sci-fi authors for party approved science fiction stories, and still does today.

Meanwhile, every single long standing Sci-fi franchise of western origin has been torn down, pissed on and left to die.

Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who...

>>211388349 (OP)
Star Wars is not science fiction. Nice try though

>>211388349 (OP)
Capeshit and SF and fantasy is all nerdslop for manchildren. Grow up.

>>211388349 (OP)
I don't know a single chink science fiction thing other than 3 Body Problem.

i know there's always been pulp stuff, but i took it for granted a lot of sf writers had a background in science. at the very least, they were good writers.

then i took it for granted the TV writers were at least into science fiction novels. if you're writing Star Trek or Doctor Who, what are you going to be reading? probably Isaac Aasimov and stuff.

nowadays i think Star Trek watchers just go on to be Star Trek writers. that is all there is to it. big, bombastic Doctor Who with kweer themes? well, that's what it's like, isn't it?

>>211388349 (OP)
... ok, and...?

t. became a pharmacist because of pic related

>>211388349 (OP)
Nu sci fi autors are more interested in regurgitating other media and STEM zoomers are more interested in being codemonkeys nowadays.

>China conducted a study
>Chinese social study
might as well have not done one at all and just gone off hearsay, because that's pretty much what it is. they observe what they want to see and report what they want to hear

>>211388448
>I don't consume media not targetted at me, in foreign language and with neither export nor pirated copies
Really surprising!

>>211388349 (OP)
Yeah somewhere in the 2000s sci fi just lost its cultural relevance. We still get them, like Dune for example, but they come and go quick and easy. They don't shift the zeitgeist like older sci fi did. Fantasy on the other hand is back in full gear after a slump in 90s thanks to stuff like LotR and GoT.

>>211388392

TNG technical manual says you're a clown.

Also, I read it cover to cover first time I got my hands on it and I'm an engineer.

>>211388349 (OP)
Gunsmith Cats is pretty great, one of the only weeb cartoons that I enjoyed. On to the point
>Science fiction is being eradicated in the west.
Not to make excuses for the chicoms ruining everything as they like to do, but I'd argue sci-fi was already dying from lack of imagination. The genre came into being as pseduo-magical crazy stories from the 1930s pulps and into the 60s, and it really revolved around imagination more than anything. At some point you had a shift to extremely serious, deep movies that had at least a major attempt at realism ingrained into it.

Basically sci-fi was already dying because it traded imaginative fantasia for boring realism.

>>211388503
I wasn't trying to argue OP was wrong, just hoping someone would name some. Miss me with your faggy redditor sass.

>>211388349 (OP)
all of the OP babble can be summarized in this 1 pic

>>211388349 (OP)
> China then decided to bankroll Sci-fi authors for party approved science fiction stories,
any good kinos? do we know any? i wonder what they have to have that makes them party approved

>>211388553
he said wars, not trek

>>211388518
>Fantasy on the other hand is back in full gear
Wut. Fantasy is about as dead as scifi, if not more so. The last decent fantasy I can think of is His Dark Materials and even that was just okay.

>>211388553
I bet you feel kinda dumb rn

>>211388582

Shit, you're right. Time for me to go to bed!

Chinkland is only based for being the only working atheistic ethnostate.

>>211388349 (OP)
When I hear someone reference china I just assume they are chinese shills

US
Japan
Europe

These are countries that matter
China is a non-country

>>211388603
videogames is where Hollywood is focusing all its attention to now

>>211388667
Say bye-bye to your electronics.
All of them

>>211388667
>Europe
>country
Amerimutt education

>>211388744
poor dumb chang doesn't even know Europe is a country
That's just sad
I guess rice doesn't give much protein for the brain though

As your superior I will educate you
See this is the European national flag
Europe is a country
You may grovel now

>>211388349 (OP)
Ok doomer

>>211388349 (OP)
Sci Fi is gay and we will never travel the stars.

>>211388603
You're just gonna ignore Game of Thrones and the cultural impact it had and the wave of fantasy shows it spawned?

>>211388349 (OP)
Mini May, bomb my prostate!

>>211388824
>Jewish EU
>country
Nice try Schlomo

>>211388887
GoT was a relic of the 2010s and was forgotten as soon as the abhorrent final season ended. None of the imitation shows were broadly successful

>>211388349 (OP)
Why there's not a live action of "You're Under Arrest?

>>211389570
Just because something is good does not mean it needs a live action adaptation. Maybe one day you will grow up and realise that