movies

1847 – SAS: Red Notice (2021)

timespace coordinates: late 2010’s Eurostar Train – London to Paris / Channel Tunnel

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SAS: Red Notice is a 2021 British action thriller film directed by Magnus Martens, based on the novel of the same name by Andy McNab and starring Sam HeughanRuby RoseAndy SerkisHannah John-KamenTom Hopper and Noel Clarke. (wiki)
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series

1837 – Snowpiercer: Season 2 (2021)

timespace coordinates: 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland 

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Snowpiercer (TV Series 2020-)

Snowpiercer (2013)

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documentary, series

1830 – Around the World in 80 Gardens (Documentary | TV Series 2008)

timespace coordinates: 2000’s Mexico, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, ArgentinaChile, USA, China, Japan, Italy, Morocco, Spain, South Africa, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia

Around the World in 80 Gardens is a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visits 80 of the world’s most celebrated gardens. A book based on the series was also published. (wiki)

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series

1820 – Brave New World (2020 TV series)

timespace coordinates: (post-apocalyptic) New London / The Savage Lands (amusement park) The series “imagines an utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamyprivacymoneyfamily and history itself.” In an update of the original novel, an artificial intelligence system named Indra also connects citizens via a wireless network.

Brave New World is an American social science fiction drama series. It is loosely based on the classic novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. It premiered on the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock on July 15, 2020, In October 2020, the series was canceled after one season. (wiki)

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documentary, theory, video essay

1806 – Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City (neo 2021)

timespace coordinates: near future desert city

In January of this year, Saudi Arabia announced an immense new development project, that is supposed to set a blueprint for the future of the country and the world. The country will build a city, that stretches along a single 100 mile long line

Linear city as imagined by Spanish urban planner  Arturo Soria y Mata and Soviet planner Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin.

Ernst May, a famous German functionalist architect, formulated his initial plan for Magnitogorsk, a new city in the Soviet Union.

A Year in the Linear City is a 2002 weird fiction novella by Paul Di Filippo, published by PS Publishing.

books

1793 – The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2 – 2019)

timespace coordinates: – journey across Europe and the East The setting is a world dominated by the Magisterium, an international theocracy which actively suppresses heresy. In this world, humans’ souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sapient “dæmons” in animal form which accompany, aid, and comfort their humans.

The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust. The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Pullman took his title The Secret Commonwealth from a 17th century book of the same name by the Scottish clergyman Robert Kirk, about encounters of country folk with supernatural creatures. (wiki)

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movies

1781 – I Care a Lot (2020)

timespace coordinates: 2020’s Massachusetts

I Care a Lot is a 2020 American dark comedy thriller film written and directed by J Blakeson. The film stars Rosamund PikePeter DinklageEiza GonzálezChris Messina, and Dianne Wiest. (wiki)

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