The Sci Fi Scroll

Indie Sci Fi Creators: Promote Your Work on the Axiom's Edge Sci Fi Sites

2026-06-09T12:29:47+00:00

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi is offering indie sci fi creators an opportunity to promote your works on our sites AxiomsEdgeSciFi.com, CancelledSciFi.com, and Cult-Scifi.com. We are offering a free promotional post at AxiomsEdgeSciFi.com and you can also place ads on all of our sites (which will include posts on our social media sites) for a low introductory rate. We want to help promote indie sci fi as much as possible, and you can get more info on how to participate at this link: https://axiomsedgescifi.com/advertise-with-us/

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PLEASE READ: Updates to the r/SciFiScroll and r/SciFiTV Self-Promotion Policy

2026-03-30T01:18:04+00:00

r/SciFiScroll and r/SciFiTV Self-Promotion Policy:

These forums are part of Axiom's Edge Sci Fi, and we are trying to build a community of genre fans where where we can discuss and learn more about science fiction, fantasy, and horror while also promoting the the works of independent creators (more on that at this link). We have been allowing self-promotion at r/SciFiScroll and r/SciFiTV, but we are going to adjust the policy because things have been getting a bit out of hand. We will continue to allow you promote your books, comics, movies, web sites, web series, games, etc., but we are going to start imposing some limitations. We are going to impose a LIMIT OF THREE SELF-PROMOTION POSTS PER WEEK, and even with that, we want you to act very judiciously. And if you are putting up self promotion posts, we ask that you participate beyond promoting your own works by posting other links at these sites, and also getting involved with the discussions and debates. We want to help independent creators to get their work noticed, but we don't want to turn these forums into a shill. We also request that you DO NOT POST AFFILIATE LINKS as that is a violation of Reddit policies. You can post a link to your YouTube page or an article or site with information about your work or chapters/segments from your book or web comic, etc. And if you happen to want to let people know about a new product like the Blu-ray release of Blake's 7, you can put up an informational post with a link to where people can purchase it as long as that is not an affiliate link. And for those reporting what they believe is spam, please make sure you understand our self-promotion policies and explain your reason for reporting the post.

If you have a blog with news, reviews, information, etc. relating to science fiction, fantasy, and horror, posting links to your articles is okay. But again, be judicious about this and also post other links in the forums and participate in the discussions. For example, I post anywhere from two to four links per week from the Axiom's Edge sites, sometimes more, but I always post other links as well and try to stay as involved with the discussions as time allows. Axiom's Edge Sci Fi also allows independent creators other opportunities to promote and advertise their works, and you can read more about that at this link.

Consider these new rules to be in place now, and we will be monitoring closely in the coming weeks. You will be given one warning if you violate the rules, and then posts will be removed and you could be banned from r/SciFiScroll and r/SciFiTV. If anybody would be interested in helping with the moderation of these forums, and/or if you have any questions or concerns you can contact us [axiomsedgescifi@gmail.com](mailto:axiomsedgescifi@gmail.com).

Let's take this opportunity to build a sci fi community where we can all participate and those who want to pass on information about their genre-related independent creations can do that as well. This can benefit all of us and turn into a great forum for sci fi and fantasy if we all do out part and if we all work together.

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A Psychological Analysis of The Southern Reach Trilogy

2026-06-20T18:15:15+00:00

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Jungle of Blood - A Catachan Story (Warhammer 40K)

2026-06-20T17:28:15+00:00

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Sci-fi spaceship design

2026-06-20T00:56:42+00:00

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The Tick (2016) coming to Netflix on July 15 in Canada and possibly other regions

2026-06-19T12:02:10+00:00

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The Duffer Brothers Series The Boroughs Canceled At Netflix

2026-06-18T13:01:56+00:00

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SIGNAL_ has a new home — the central archive is now active

2026-06-19T07:03:22+00:00

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Sci Fi Movies This Week: Premieres for Leviticus and Rose of Nevada, George Miller Wants One More Mad Max Film, and More

2026-06-18T13:03:49+00:00

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Life - the DAA prequel

2026-06-18T19:20:29+00:00

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Trailer for Hot Spot Which Premieres in Theaters August 21st

2026-06-18T13:02:47+00:00

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Doctor Who Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That’s Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers

2026-06-17T12:48:08+00:00

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Trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Which Premieres on Paramount+ July 23rd

2026-06-17T12:49:04+00:00

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Crucible, Extract 1 - The Colosseum (Dark Sci Fi Bio-Horror)

2026-06-17T14:51:27+00:00

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Are aliens good or bad?

2026-06-17T04:18:03+00:00

I just watched Disclosure Day and it completely changed how I think about extraterrestrial beings.

The movie portrays aliens not as conquerors or destroyers, but as ultimate empaths. At first, I thought that was unrealistic. Almost every alien story assumes that a sufficiently advanced civilization would either dominate us, exploit us, or see us as insignificant. But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered if the exact opposite might be true.

Consider what it would actually take for a civilization to contact another civilization across interstellar distances. such a civilization wldnt just be technologically advanced. it wld have survived for an incredibly long time. and during that time it wld almost certainly have encountered multiple world-ending events.

We have already created several existential threats within only a few hundred centuries since the first humans, WMDs, climate change, engineered pathogens, energy crisis etc etc. every increase in capability seems to come with an increase in the ability to destroy ourselves.

Now imagine a civilization that is not 100 years ahead of us but 10000 years ahead or maybe even more. How many world-ending events would they have faced? How many times would they have gained the power to destroy themselves? How many times would they have needed to choose cooperation over conflict in order to survive those events? at some point, it seems possible that the civilizations that survive long enough to reach the stars are not the most aggresive ones, but the ones that learned how to manage power responsibly.

This led me to a strange thought. maybe empathy isn't a moral virtue. maybe it's an evolutionary adaptation. a civilization incapable of solving conflict might survive for centuries but one capable of cooperation across nations might survive for millennia. one capable of cooperation across planets and species might survive for millions of years. in that sense, empathy It may be what advanced intelligence eventually becomes.

This also made me rethink the common sci-fi assumption that aliens would want to conquer us. why do we assume that? because thats what humans did throughtout history.but if an alien civilization has survived countless technological revolutions and world ending event, why should we expect them to behave like 15th-century colonial powers?

What made this idea even more interesting to me is that some of my favorite sci-fi stories seem to circle around the same theme. in Interstellar, humanity is facing extinction. in Project Hail Mary, humanity is facing extinction. in both stories, survival ultimately depends on cooperation rather than domination.

What I find especially beautiful about Interstellar is that the movie initially makes you think some alien species is helping humanity. a wormhole suddenly appears near Saturn. the tesseract exists. gravitational anomalies guide Cooper throughout the story. you spend most of the movie assuming that some advanced extraterrestrial civilization is intervening.

Then comes the reveal. It was us. the beings who placed the wormhole and built the tesseract were future humans. not present day himans, not near future ones, but humans who survived long enough and helped each other survive. from Cooper's perspective, they're effectively aliens. they manipulate dimensions he cannot perceive and operate on scales he cannot understand. yet they're still human.

And thats the part that hit me. maybe the endpoint of intelligence isn't technological advancement or interstellar travel. maybe its wisdom. maybe the reason so many modern sci-fi stories revolve around cooperation in the face of extinction is because they recognize something fundamental, every sufficiently advanced civilization first has to survive itself.

in fact, the very act of making peaceful first contact might already tell us something profound about a civilization. a civilization that reaches another star system has already won the hardest battle any intelligent species ever faces. IT SURVIVED ITSELF.of course, there are counterarguments. You cld argue that surviving repeated existential threats might make a civilization extremely paranoid rather than empathetic. but I can't shake the feeling that if a civilization remains stable long enough to become truly interstellar, then social and emotional maturity may matter far more than technological capability.

Maybe the most advanced civilizations aren't the ones with the biggest weapons or the fastest ships. maybe they're the ones that learned how to wield enormous power without destroying themselves.

I sometimes wonder maybe aliens are waiting for us to reach a level of maturity that when they actually arrive we dont freak tf out. Just like how people on NatGeo watch animals from a distance and do not intervene.

Idk what im ranting about atp.

TLDR: Aliens good, humans bad.

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A trailer for my scifi western student film | Space Western coming out next week

2026-06-12T16:09:48+00:00

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Sci Fi Movies This Week: Premieres for Disclosure Day and Stop! That! Train!, Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman Head to Treasure Island, and More

2026-06-11T13:34:40+00:00

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Russell T Davies says goodbye to Doctor Who as BBC scraps Christmas special and opens show to rival bids

2026-06-11T13:34:06+00:00

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"Waking Dogs, Part 4: The Butcher's Bill," Crixus and His Warband Cross Paths With The Inquisition (Warhammer 40K Fan Story)

2026-06-11T16:14:11+00:00

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Waking Dogs, Part 4 - The Butcher's Bill: Crixus and His War Hounds Cross Paths With The Inquisition

2026-06-09T20:08:28+00:00

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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead leaving Netflix on July 8 in Canada, Latin America, the United States, and possibly other regions

2026-06-09T10:45:57+00:00

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War Machine 2 In the Works at Netflix With Patrick Hughes Returning

2026-06-08T13:40:43+00:00

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Sci Fi TV Highlights: Season Finale for The Terror, Stargate Could Get a Full Reboot at Amazon, and More

2026-06-08T13:41:09+00:00

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Tactical Plastic Report, Episode 16: Should We Have Another Ask Me Anything For "Army Men: A Game of Tactical Plastic"?

2026-06-07T19:34:49+00:00

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Sci-fi question: What's worse—making the wrong choice, or never making a choice at all?

2026-06-07T12:36:57+00:00

I became obsessed with that idea and ended up writing a psychological sci-fi short film around it.

Rather than focusing on technology, the story explores what uncertainty does to a person when time is running out and a decision can no longer be postponed.

Curious whether this premise resonates with other sci-fi fans.

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