New Youtube Channel- Analysing Children of Time (and rewriting the premise!)

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

I just put up my first review/analysis video on youtube, covering Children of Time for the first episode. Still a bit rough on the production side, but that will improve with practice. Any thoughts?- https://youtu.be/QDSnUMq0DRg

[Varsha 664]

5 hours ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

I just put up my first review/analysis video on youtube, covering Children of Time for the first episode. Still a bit rough on the production side, but that will improve with practice. Any thoughts?- https://youtu.be/QDSnUMq0DRg

I didn’t watch the whole video because I haven’t read the book, but I love the idea of breaking down the science in sci fi! I’ve subscribed and bookmarked this video for watching after I read Children of Time! Thank you for sharing ☺️

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

1 hour ago, Varsha said:

I didn’t watch the whole video because I haven’t read the book, but I love the idea of breaking down the science in sci fi! I’ve subscribed and bookmarked this video for watching after I read Children of Time! Thank you for sharing ☺️

I should be doing more episodes soon. I am open to suggested titles of books you have already read (biology heavy science fiction preferred).

[Paromita Mukherjee 1,659]

8 hours ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

I just put up my first review/analysis video on youtube, covering Children of Time for the first episode. Still a bit rough on the production side, but that will improve with practice. Any thoughts?- https://youtu.be/QDSnUMq0DRg

I really enjoyed the breakdown of the science. Regarding the rewrite, it was 

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very innovative but wayy too mean to the main characters! 😂

Also - jumping spiders for the win!

[Mr_Selfy 110]

Great vid @HaldaneBDoyle!

Another new channel that I've subbed to through this forum 😉

As someone who naturally fears the spider, I thought your commentary was great. Just with anything else, the more you do, the more you'll get comfortable with it all. 

Some recommendations for further critique/analysis:

The Andromeda Strain

Annihilation

The Swarm

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

6 hours ago, Mr_Selfy said:

Great vid @HaldaneBDoyle!

Another new channel that I've subbed to through this forum 😉

As someone who naturally fears the spider, I thought your commentary was great. Just with anything else, the more you do, the more you'll get comfortable with it all. 

Some recommendations for further critique/analysis:

The Andromeda Strain

Annihilation

The Swarm

Thanks for the encouragement! I had the first two suggestions on my long list of books to get through that have a decent amount of biology in them (~130 now, which should keep me going for years), but The Swarm is new to me. Thanks for the recommendation!

[Varsha 664]

14 hours ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

I should be doing more episodes soon. I am open to suggested titles of books you have already read (biology heavy science fiction preferred).

Oh nice - I think I plan to get to Andromeda Strain soon-ish so I second that request I can't think of any other biological sci-fi I have read, but will come back here to post requests if I remember any/read any

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

4 hours ago, Varsha said:

Oh nice - I think I plan to get to Andromeda Strain soon-ish so I second that request I can't think of any other biological sci-fi I have read, but will come back here to post requests if I remember any/read any

Andromeda strain is on my list. I have about 120 titles gathered with a decent amount of biology in the science but that one is close to the top of my titles to look at soon.

[Varsha 664]

30 minutes ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

Andromeda strain is on my list. I have about 120 titles gathered with a decent amount of biology in the science but that one is close to the top of my titles to look at soon.

Awesome! Thank you! Would you mind sharing the list you made? Most of my scifi reading has been limited to space operas and would love to explore a new subgenre that seems interesting to me (I ask at the expense of possibly adding 120 books to my to-read pile 😵‍💫)

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

41 minutes ago, Varsha said:

Awesome! Thank you! Would you mind sharing the list you made? Most of my scifi reading has been limited to space operas and would love to explore a new subgenre that seems interesting to me (I ask at the expense of possibly adding 120 books to my to-read pile 😵‍💫)

Sure thing. I got the original list from a reddit post, but have refined/added a bit more to it. Some might be marginal for the amount of biology featured

I still haven't found anyone else writing a world of purely biological technology, so my own books seem to unique in that regard. Always looking for ARC readers if you have time for a ~2hr/40 k word novella.

Biological Books.xlsx

[Varsha 664]

54 minutes ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

Sure thing. I got the original list from a reddit post, but have refined/added a bit more to it. Some might be marginal for the amount of biology featured

I still haven't found anyone else writing a world of purely biological technology, so my own books seem to unique in that regard. Always looking for ARC readers if you have time for a ~2hr/40 k word novella.

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Thank you so much. I was eyeing your books in the shorts when i was browsing your channel. Would absolutely love to read an ARC!

[Varsha 664]

57 minutes ago, HaldaneBDoyle said:

Sure thing. I got the original list from a reddit post, but have refined/added a bit more to it. Some might be marginal for the amount of biology featured

I still haven't found anyone else writing a world of purely biological technology, so my own books seem to unique in that regard. Always looking for ARC readers if you have time for a ~2hr/40 k word novella.

Biological Books.xlsx 13.63 kB · 0 downloads

Ooo i completely forgot about Project Hail Mary! I love that book and would love to see a breakdown of the biology. 

[Ric 500]

I enjoyed it. Your scientific explanation was clear and informative, and the whole thing is an interesting angle to take for a video series. The production looked good. It was interesting to hear how would have told the story and I appreciate how you've fronted up to provide your own narrative direction instead of jjust criticising aspects of the story. However, I might have renamed 'the fix' part to 'an alternative storyline' (or something similar) because 'fix' implies (to me) that there's something wrong with the story. No doubt he told the story he intended, balancing the science and narrative aspects to achieve the effect he desired.

Anyway, I liked the book, but I agree that the spiders evolving along human lines was one of the negatives for me. He may have done it so that readers can relate to the spiders' evolution and appreciate the cleverness of how they'd develop similar tech in their own way. I enjoyed the spiders evolve-humans devolve aspect to the story, but found watching some of the spider evolution akin to watching a documentary because of the lack of personal connection to the characters (other than their names staying the same).

Not a book, but I'd love to know what you make of the plausibility of the science in The Last of Us. Good luck with your channel.

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

26 minutes ago, Ric said:

I enjoyed it. Your scientific explanation was clear and informative, and the whole thing is an interesting angle to take for a video series. The production looked good. It was interesting to hear how would have told the story and I appreciate how you've fronted up to provide your own narrative direction instead of jjust criticising aspects of the story. However, I might have renamed 'the fix' part to 'an alternative storyline' (or something similar) because 'fix' implies (to me) that there's something wrong with the story. No doubt he told the story he intended, balancing the science and narrative aspects to achieve the effect he desired.

Anyway, I liked the book, but I agree that the spiders evolving along human lines was one of the negatives for me. He may have done it so that readers can relate to the spiders' evolution and appreciate the cleverness of how they'd develop similar tech in their own way. I enjoyed the spiders evolve-humans devolve aspect to the story, but found watching some of the spider evolution akin to watching a documentary because of the lack of personal connection to the characters (other than their names staying the same).

Not a book, but I'd love to know what you make of the plausibility of the science in The Last of Us. Good luck with your channel.

All great feedback. Thanks for sharing. Renaming "The Fix" isn't a bad idea - I expect some people to consider reusing another authors premise to be disrespectful (but the history of story telling is all about adapting older ideas, no?). I am open to reviewing TV and movies in the future, even video games, anywhere that biology heavy sci fi exists. I'm watching "The Last of Us" at the moment, so that is a great suggestion.

[Steve 7,527]

How exciting you started a channel!

[Dolores Lima 168]

On 2/27/2023 at 8:16 PM, HaldaneBDoyle said:

I just put up my first review/analysis video on youtube, covering Children of Time for the first episode. Still a bit rough on the production side, but that will improve with practice. Any thoughts?- https://youtu.be/QDSnUMq0DRg

I haven't read the book either, but I did scribe to your channel.  I look forward to watching your other content.  

[HaldaneBDoyle 32]

I have three videos on scifi lysis out now- Children of time, War of the Worlds and Blindsight. I hope my production process is getting better each time. Hope to get 1-2 more videos out on the channel every month.