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SFA's Summer 2020 Recommendation List SFA’s Summer 2020 Recommendation List BOOKS An Absolutely Remarkable Thing • About: April May is living her normal life in basically the modern world (with a few changes) when she finds a weird giant robot statue thing that just kind of appeared out in public. She makes a video about it that goes viral, because it turns out these giant robot statue things actually appeared in many places all over the world. The story features some interesCng sci-fi elements. It's also about how being a social media #influencer kinda fucks you up. • Aspects: Adult-Focused, Sci-Fi • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Gore, Violence – gun, Violence - miscellaneous (eg. animal aKacks), (the gore is warned for in the text itself) Gideon the Ninth • About: Gideon Nav is a buff lady with a big sword and a need to leave her horrible home planet. Harrowhark, the princess-but-not-a-princess of said horrible planet, needs Gideon to not leave because the God-Emperor of All Space needs each planet to send a fighter and a necromancer to compete for immortality! Harrow is a necromancer and she wants to be immortal. She needs Gideon to be her fighter. A murder mystery ensues! Drama! Lesbians! NECROMANCY!!! • Aspects: Child-Focused, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Blood, Body horror – general, Gore, Suicide, Violence - miscellaneous (eg. animal aKacks) Riddlemaster of Hed • About: There's a guy named Morgon. He's the prince of Hed. Hed is a Cny island that primarily has pigs and pigherders. Morgon graduated from college, but his college is the college of riddle-solving. He's got a big big desCny that he needs to go confront, related to the fact that God, who lives in a mountain, hasn't been heard from in a while. Morgon does not want to go visit God. Morgon wants to run his Cny island and not get caught up in prophecy or desCny. A harpist arrives on Hed and informs him that he does not actually have a choice. So begins an epic fantasy about idenCty, nature, leadership, desCny, peace, and harp-playing. • Aspects: Adult-Focused, Fantasy • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Blood, Torture – mental, Torture – physical, Violence – realisCc The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Chris>e) • About: You know how Agatha ChrisCe has all those classic detecCves who are totally memorable and relevant to detecCve ficCon? This is not one of those. The narrator Anthony Cade is a youngish man searching for his fortune in Africa (yay BriCsh imperialism). He has very few brain cells, but is immensely loyal and also full of secrets. Various murders and the turbulent government of Herzoslovakia suck Anthony back into Classic BriCsh Murder Mystery Drama, and into the fancy rich person party hosCng house of Chimneys, which itself holds many secrets. This book made me chuck my phone across the room at the end. • Aspects: Mystery • Warnings: Violence – gun, Murder, Imperialism, Sexism (I assume), So much Imperialism, kidnapping, anC-communist propaganda TV SHOWS Doctor Who • About: An alien stole a Cme machine from the other aliens and is now traversing the universe having adventures in space with humans that they befriended and/or kidnapped. There are history episodes, there are future episodes. There are episodes set in the actual historical past on Earth and there are episodes set in space in the year five billion. (That's not just a big number I picked, there are really episodes set in the year five billion.) Depending on what you want, this show features everything from bad special effects from the 60s to David Tennant standing in the rain looking sad. • Aspects: Live Acon, Sci-Fi • Warnings: Blood, Violence - miscellaneous (eg. animal aKacks), I’ve selected warnings that appear ocen-ish; the exact content varies by episode and trying to warn for all of it would be tedious and probably not all that helpful. Ducktales • About: Ducktales (uwu) is a fun adventure and fantasy family cartoon which follows triplets Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck, as well as their new friend Webby Vanderquack, on their adventures acer they find out they're the nephews of the richest duck in the world, David Tennant. Unfortunately, David Tennant has a lot of enemies. One of whom happens to be Catherine Tate, or "Magica De Spell" an evil witch sorceress who wants revenge for being trapped by David "Scrooge McDuck" Tennant long in the past. At the same Cme, Dewey Duck tries to uncover the mysterious disappearance of their mom Della. In season two, we get fun space adventures. In season three, which is sCll airing, we get fun spy adventures. Ducktales is great because it has a compelling overarching plot, but also lots of vibrant playing around with genre and characters outside of the plot as well. Please google the episode order if you watch on Disney+. Disney+ is wrong. Ducktales is full of fun characters, such as Lin-Manuel Miranda except he's a clumsy superhero robot, literally just a lightbulb, terrifying child, emo teenager dog who does black magic, teenage ne'er-do-well shadow figure, ZEUS, and a pirate who does musical numbers. These are just a few of the interesCng characters you'll meet in DUCKBURG, home. Of ducks. • Aspects: Cartoon • Warnings: Hospitals, Kidnapping (of children), Cartoon violence, possession Guardian: The Lonely and Great God/Goblin • About: it is a modern day fantasy show involving an immortal korean goblin and his fate happening on modern day korea. its super cool and has an amazing story. is kinda lovey- dovey. • Aspects: Adult-Focused, Fantasy, Live AcCon, romanCc fantasy comedy...? is about relaConships but immortal ones • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Blood, Body horror - general, Child abuse, Hospitals, Pregnancy, Violence - miscellaneous (eg. animal aKacks) The Librarians: Season 3 • About: Look, we've watched seasons 1 and 2 of this. It's fun. You know what to expect. This season we get: egypCan gods, evil government agency, vampires, Cassandra kissing a cute girl vampire, frost giants, speed run therapy, and the usual being mean to/sad ezekiel hours. A bunch of nerds save the world using their nerd knowledge and someCmes magic. The egypCan god Apep and also the government try to stop them. IDK, cause they hate existence or something. • Aspects: Fantasy, Live AcCon • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Hospitals, Sexual content (including enthusiasCcally amorous behavior), Torture – physical, Violence – gun, Major Cassandra Brain Tumor Plot, kidnapping (of adults), self-sacrificing of one's own life, love poCon plot, clown plot, alcohol She-Ra and the Princesses of Power • About: Adora lives and works in the Evil Horde, but preKy soon she realizes that the Evil Horde is, well, evil, and also she has magic powers, so she joins the rebellion. She and her friends go off to find more friends with different magic powers. There are funny moments and emoConal ones. It's just a really good show please watch it. • Aspects: Cartoon, Fantasy, Superhero • Warnings: [Some warnings may be forgoKen], Torture - physical, Violence - miscellaneous (eg. animal aKacks), brainwashing/mind control VIDEO GAMES Hacknet • About: You receive a message from someone named Bit, who informs you that he is dead and needs someone to invesCgate his death. He walks you through the basics of hacking in the OS Hacknet, before turning you loose to gain experience. A narraCve told almost enCrely through reading txt files and typing in terminal commands about corporate greed and espionage. • Aspects: Drama, Mystery • Warnings: Character in a coma (discussed or on-screen), DomesCc violence, Hospitals, Human abuse or exploitaCon, Sexual assault - speech referencing (including slang), murder, loading bars, epic hacker aestheCc, major plot cul-de-sac(s), not-4chan, euthanizaCon, felonies, very fake email, BSOD game over Xenoblade Chronicles: Defini>ve Edi>on • About: A young scienCst named Shulk finds out that he can wield the Monado, a magic sword that can kill robots real good. Unfortunately, he finds this out during a robot invasion of his home. Swearing revenge, he and his best friend Reyn set out on a quest to find and destroy whatever is controlling the robot army. If you've been on the SFA server, you've heard me rant about this game probably. It's a JRPG made by and for JRPG fans at its core though, so be warned. Here are some hilights: - The enCre world is on the bodies of two primordial Ctans, and this actually is shown to the player visually in-game, as most of the story is about climbing from the foot of the Bionis to its head. The Mechonis is always visible in the background too, almost taunCng you. Very Bionicle-inspired, especially later on. - To build on that, much of the game is built on exploraCon in its semi-open world. Finding new areas rewards much more XP than baKling, and there are hidden areas in almost every region, almost all of which give both a XP reward and a majesCc view. - The baKle system has a ton of depth, allowing the seven characters to become very customizable by sharing skills between them and choosing which arts (baKle skills) to use. - The game has a feature called the affinity chart: every other NPC actually has a name and a personality, and by talking to them and doing quests, you can fill out a giant web of interpersonal connecCons spanning the enCre world. - The game is long. If you want a lot of playCme/dollar, that raCo will be greater than one, even ignoring everything but the main story. - The dorky BriCsh VA makes it sound like a Doctor Who episode.
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