Sc-fi is such a broad genre in what you would want out of a system or setting that you need to describe it better on what you want but I'm sure you already know that
The Doomed City.
Runestaff
>Can't even be assed to make one sentence on what the frick you are talking about
Anyway, The Doomed City is a city filled with people partaking in what they are told is an important experiment. At low points in their lives a human-like being appeared before them and promised to take them away. The setting in the book is filled mostly with characters from the 40's, 50's, maybe 60's. They live in a city sitting on a strip of land between a bottomless depth and an endless cliff. The city moves. Old districts get shut down, new ones built. The sun is a lamp. Strange things happen. Hordes of baboons suddenly appear. A traveling house lures people inside for them to never be seen again. The farmers outside the city are allowed to own machineguns to deal with pests. A Nazi, a Communist, and a israelite are friends.
Just because M&M is a sci fi setting doesnt make Enroth a sci fi setting. Enroth was originally a HoMM world and was only high fantasy, not part of the M&M setting until M&M6.
Instrumentaily of Mankind. You get space travel, you get catgirls and if you whine too much to somebody too high up in the hierarchy, you will be shipped off to planet Cougar where mature women will sexually molest you until you're ready to accept a conservative, christian marriage.
Also dragon frickers and witches are real and important members of colonization ventures whenever megafauna and primitive living are an issue.
Yeah, but if you send a cat back through time to become a feline warrior race to save you from troony space pirates they send you to Shayol, where you really don't want to be.
Planet Guro has the best drugs and it's where your waifu will find you and claim you and you'll uncover an interstellar pot together, so it's not all bad, leaving being the target of repeated, eternal organ harvesting after you've been bio-modded into some kind of mole person aside.
Ok, frick, my internet connection is shit so you'll have to be satisfied with Humanity Lost as pic related, it's also a good and kinda not well known sci-fi setting, so it counts.
I'm not sure how obscure you expected the suggestions to be, but here are mine: >Ulysses 31
The cartoon is basically "the Odyssey, but sci-fi". Odysseus is aboard a spaceship; he has a blaster that can turn into a light saber and an energy shield; the monsters are usually robots; the gods are still gods. Could be easily expanded into a much broader setting, with a full scifi-ified Greek mythology. Could even be combined with Dan Simmons' Ilium, which does pretty much the same thing but with the Iliad. >The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Yes another 80s cartoon. Starts as an exploration of conquistador-era Central and South America, but then drift into Graham Hanwiener and Ancient Aliens territory.
If this doesn't make you want to get a horse, a musket and a fine brown piece of ass that will help you bring syphilis back to the old world, I don't know what will. >Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane, or Salammbô
Everyone knows Moebius, but not so many people outside of France are familiar with his dark twin: Druillet.
Everything he does is grandiloquent and epic. Lone Sloane is taking place in a grandiose scifi universe where you can meet with Cthulhu as well as your evil self from the future.
Salammbô is basically the "Punic war but sci-fi".
Speaking of comic book: >Wake/Sillage
It's basically the Cantina scene of A New Hope, except it's an entire empire. There's only one human (initially) and it's the main character. And it's a hottie, btw.
With a few friends she runs special missions for the alien empire's government, as a special agent, because she has a power that's unique in the universe: she can't communicate telepathically at all and her brain cannot be read.
Could work great as either a tabletop RPG or a wargame.
Honorable mention: >Orion's Arm
>what are some good sci-fi settings that aren't really well known?
that sounds dumb with the Tower picture from HoMM 3
it's just like that Reddit post I found that tries to explain all the fantasy away and say "it's all science"
that setting then would be neither science nor fantasy but conspiracy
but we know that's not the case because the world transitions from fantasy to science
It's just generic planetary romance with a lot of gardening and random bikers, right?
The spider plant cringed as its owner brought forth the watering can. "I am a spider plant!" it cried indignantly. "How dare you water me before my time! Guards!" it called. "Guards!"
Borin, its owner, placed the watering can on the table and looked at it. "You will be watered," he said.
"You do not dare to water me!" laughed the plant.
"You will be watered," said Borin.
"Do not water me!" wept the plant.
"You will be watered," said Borin.
I watched this exchange. Truly, I believed the plant would be watered. It was plant, and on Gor it had no rights. Perhaps on Earth, in its permissive society, which distorts the true roles of all beings, which forces both plant and waterer to go unhappy and constrained, which forbids the fulfillment of owner and houseplant, such might not happen. Perhaps there, it would not be watered. But it was on Gor now, and would undoubtedly feel its true place, that of houseplant. It was plant. It would be watered at will. Such is the way with plants.
Borin picked up the watering can, and muchly watered the plant. The plant cried out. "No, Master! Do not water me!" The master continued to water the plant. "Please, Master," begged the plant, "do not water me!" The master continued to water the plant. It was plant. It could be watered at will.
The plant sobbed muchly as Borin laid down the watering can. It was not pleased. Too, it was wet. But this did not matter. It was plant.
"You have been well watered," said Borin.
"Yes," said the plant, "I have been well watered." Of course, it could be watered by its master at will.
"I have watered you well," said Borin.
"Yes, master," said the plant. "You have watered your plant well. I am plant, and as such I should be watered by my master."
The cactus plant next to the spider plant shuddered. It attempted to cover its small form with its small arms and small needles. "I am plant," it said wonderingly. "I am of Earth, but for the first time, I feel myself truly plantlike. On Earth, I was able to control my watering. I often scorned those who would water me. But they were weak, and did not see my scorn for what it was, the weak attempt of a small plant to protect itself. Not one of the weak Earth waterers would dare to water a plant if it did not wish it. But on Gor," it shuddered, "on Gor it is different. Here, those who wish to water will water their plants as they wish. But strangely, I feel myself most plantlike when I am at the mercy of a strong Gorean master, who may water me as he pleases."
"I will now water you," said Borin, the cactus's Gorean master.
The cactus did not resist being watered. Perhaps it was realizing that such watering was its master's to control. Too, perhaps it knew that this master was far superior to those of Earth, who would not water it if it did not wish to be watered.
The cactus's watering had been finished. The spider plant looked at it.
"I have been well watered," it said.
"I, too, have been well watered," said the cactus.
"My master has watered me well," said the spider plant.
"My master, too, has watered me well," said the cactus.
"I am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the spider plant.
"I, too, am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the cactus.
"I wish you well," said the spider plant.
"I, too, wish you well," said the cactus.
"Tal," said the spider plant.
"Tal, too," said the cactus.
I did not think that the spider plant would object to being watered by its master again. For it realized that it was plant, and that here, unlike on Earth, it was likely to be owned and watered by many masters.
The cactus plant next to the spider plant shuddered. It attempted to cover its small form with its small arms and small needles. "I am plant," it said wonderingly. "I am of Earth, but for the first time, I feel myself truly plantlike. On Earth, I was able to control my watering. I often scorned those who would water me. But they were weak, and did not see my scorn for what it was, the weak attempt of a small plant to protect itself. Not one of the weak Earth waterers would dare to water a plant if it did not wish it. But on Gor," it shuddered, "on Gor it is different. Here, those who wish to water will water their plants as they wish. But strangely, I feel myself most plantlike when I am at the mercy of a strong Gorean master, who may water me as he pleases."
"I will now water you," said Borin, the cactus's Gorean master.
The cactus did not resist being watered. Perhaps it was realizing that such watering was its master's to control. Too, perhaps it knew that this master was far superior to those of Earth, who would not water it if it did not wish to be watered.
The cactus's watering had been finished. The spider plant looked at it.
"I have been well watered," it said.
"I, too, have been well watered," said the cactus.
"My master has watered me well," said the spider plant.
"My master, too, has watered me well," said the cactus.
"I am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the spider plant.
"I, too, am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the cactus.
"I wish you well," said the spider plant.
"I, too, wish you well," said the cactus.
"Tal," said the spider plant.
"Tal, too," said the cactus.
I did not think that the spider plant would object to being watered by its master again. For it realized that it was plant, and that here, unlike on Earth, it was likely to be owned and watered by many masters.
>War on Chtorr
It's basically a setting where an alien ecology invades Earth. Leviathans that can swallow aircraft carriers patrol the seas, strange alien trees full of ravenous tenants are marching about, a vast number of people have succumbed to plagues, and primitive worm monsters the size of SUVs are building increasingly massive nests. A disorganized 21st century mankind is trying to fight back with all sorts of advanced weapons like robot beasts and creative usage of solar mirrors, but the situation is becomingly increasingly dire. The alien intelligence behind the invasion (if there even is one) is winning and mankind will either be folded into the Chtorran ecosystem or perish.
There's a cool GURPs setting book for it if you want a listing of alien flora and fauna. Otherwise it's just 4 or 5 books with no ending and answers for what's behind the invasion in sight. I personally think it's some kind of hive mind like Avatar's Pandora, and eventually it'll either convert all of humanity (one of the big twists is that some of the alien animals called bunnydogs are actually children that have been heavily altered by the parasitic "fur" on the monster worms) or maybe humanity will gain control of it, but I'm not that imaginative.
The Dumarest Saga
Stainless Steel Rat/Deathworld
Known Space
World of Tiers
Riverworld
Dan Dare
Lensman/Triplanetary
Foundation/Robot
Strontium Dog
Schlock Mercenary
Perry Rhodan
Blakes 7
The Tomorrow People
Honor Harrington
Hammer's Slammers
Nemesis The Warlock/ABC Warriors
space viking
Sc-fi is such a broad genre in what you would want out of a system or setting that you need to describe it better on what you want but I'm sure you already know that
>Can't even be assed to make one sentence on what the frick you are talking about
You have Google.
Anyway, The Doomed City is a city filled with people partaking in what they are told is an important experiment. At low points in their lives a human-like being appeared before them and promised to take them away. The setting in the book is filled mostly with characters from the 40's, 50's, maybe 60's. They live in a city sitting on a strip of land between a bottomless depth and an endless cliff. The city moves. Old districts get shut down, new ones built. The sun is a lamp. Strange things happen. Hordes of baboons suddenly appear. A traveling house lures people inside for them to never be seen again. The farmers outside the city are allowed to own machineguns to deal with pests. A Nazi, a Communist, and a israelite are friends.
The Doomed City.
Runestaff
id tell you but i dont want /tg/ or content farmer youtubers to know
Mine.
Just because M&M is a sci fi setting doesnt make Enroth a sci fi setting. Enroth was originally a HoMM world and was only high fantasy, not part of the M&M setting until M&M6.
Instrumentaily of Mankind. You get space travel, you get catgirls and if you whine too much to somebody too high up in the hierarchy, you will be shipped off to planet Cougar where mature women will sexually molest you until you're ready to accept a conservative, christian marriage.
Also dragon frickers and witches are real and important members of colonization ventures whenever megafauna and primitive living are an issue.
Yeah, but if you send a cat back through time to become a feline warrior race to save you from troony space pirates they send you to Shayol, where you really don't want to be.
Planet Guro has the best drugs and it's where your waifu will find you and claim you and you'll uncover an interstellar pot together, so it's not all bad, leaving being the target of repeated, eternal organ harvesting after you've been bio-modded into some kind of mole person aside.
Ok, frick, my internet connection is shit so you'll have to be satisfied with Humanity Lost as pic related, it's also a good and kinda not well known sci-fi setting, so it counts.
I'm not sure how obscure you expected the suggestions to be, but here are mine:
>Ulysses 31
The cartoon is basically "the Odyssey, but sci-fi". Odysseus is aboard a spaceship; he has a blaster that can turn into a light saber and an energy shield; the monsters are usually robots; the gods are still gods. Could be easily expanded into a much broader setting, with a full scifi-ified Greek mythology. Could even be combined with Dan Simmons' Ilium, which does pretty much the same thing but with the Iliad.
>The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Yes another 80s cartoon. Starts as an exploration of conquistador-era Central and South America, but then drift into Graham Hanwiener and Ancient Aliens territory.
If this doesn't make you want to get a horse, a musket and a fine brown piece of ass that will help you bring syphilis back to the old world, I don't know what will.
>Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane, or Salammbô
Everyone knows Moebius, but not so many people outside of France are familiar with his dark twin: Druillet.
Everything he does is grandiloquent and epic. Lone Sloane is taking place in a grandiose scifi universe where you can meet with Cthulhu as well as your evil self from the future.
Salammbô is basically the "Punic war but sci-fi".
Speaking of comic book:
>Wake/Sillage
It's basically the Cantina scene of A New Hope, except it's an entire empire. There's only one human (initially) and it's the main character. And it's a hottie, btw.
With a few friends she runs special missions for the alien empire's government, as a special agent, because she has a power that's unique in the universe: she can't communicate telepathically at all and her brain cannot be read.
Could work great as either a tabletop RPG or a wargame.
Honorable mention:
>Orion's Arm
>Salammbô is basically the "Punic war but sci-fi".
Salammbo is fundamentally a Conan story written by a very capable writer.
Transhuman Space (GURPS)
Sillage is only good for the ass and breasts, the plot is kind of moronic
>Ulysses 31
I thought I was the only one who remembered this. I almost believed it was just a fever dream I had while I was a toddler.
>It's basically the Cantina scene of A New Hope, except it's an entire empire
Sounds a bit like Buck Godot.
>what are some good sci-fi settings that aren't really well known?
that sounds dumb with the Tower picture from HoMM 3
it's just like that Reddit post I found that tries to explain all the fantasy away and say "it's all science"
that setting then would be neither science nor fantasy but conspiracy
but we know that's not the case because the world transitions from fantasy to science
Depends - most people don't even know the Xeelee sequence which I like very much.
Gor.
It's just generic planetary romance with a lot of gardening and random bikers, right?
The spider plant cringed as its owner brought forth the watering can. "I am a spider plant!" it cried indignantly. "How dare you water me before my time! Guards!" it called. "Guards!"
Borin, its owner, placed the watering can on the table and looked at it. "You will be watered," he said.
"You do not dare to water me!" laughed the plant.
"You will be watered," said Borin.
"Do not water me!" wept the plant.
"You will be watered," said Borin.
I watched this exchange. Truly, I believed the plant would be watered. It was plant, and on Gor it had no rights. Perhaps on Earth, in its permissive society, which distorts the true roles of all beings, which forces both plant and waterer to go unhappy and constrained, which forbids the fulfillment of owner and houseplant, such might not happen. Perhaps there, it would not be watered. But it was on Gor now, and would undoubtedly feel its true place, that of houseplant. It was plant. It would be watered at will. Such is the way with plants.
Borin picked up the watering can, and muchly watered the plant. The plant cried out. "No, Master! Do not water me!" The master continued to water the plant. "Please, Master," begged the plant, "do not water me!" The master continued to water the plant. It was plant. It could be watered at will.
The plant sobbed muchly as Borin laid down the watering can. It was not pleased. Too, it was wet. But this did not matter. It was plant.
"You have been well watered," said Borin.
"Yes," said the plant, "I have been well watered." Of course, it could be watered by its master at will.
"I have watered you well," said Borin.
"Yes, master," said the plant. "You have watered your plant well. I am plant, and as such I should be watered by my master."
The cactus plant next to the spider plant shuddered. It attempted to cover its small form with its small arms and small needles. "I am plant," it said wonderingly. "I am of Earth, but for the first time, I feel myself truly plantlike. On Earth, I was able to control my watering. I often scorned those who would water me. But they were weak, and did not see my scorn for what it was, the weak attempt of a small plant to protect itself. Not one of the weak Earth waterers would dare to water a plant if it did not wish it. But on Gor," it shuddered, "on Gor it is different. Here, those who wish to water will water their plants as they wish. But strangely, I feel myself most plantlike when I am at the mercy of a strong Gorean master, who may water me as he pleases."
"I will now water you," said Borin, the cactus's Gorean master.
The cactus did not resist being watered. Perhaps it was realizing that such watering was its master's to control. Too, perhaps it knew that this master was far superior to those of Earth, who would not water it if it did not wish to be watered.
The cactus's watering had been finished. The spider plant looked at it.
"I have been well watered," it said.
"I, too, have been well watered," said the cactus.
"My master has watered me well," said the spider plant.
"My master, too, has watered me well," said the cactus.
"I am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the spider plant.
"I, too, am to be placed in a hanging basket on the porch," said the cactus.
"I wish you well," said the spider plant.
"I, too, wish you well," said the cactus.
"Tal," said the spider plant.
"Tal, too," said the cactus.
I did not think that the spider plant would object to being watered by its master again. For it realized that it was plant, and that here, unlike on Earth, it was likely to be owned and watered by many masters.
This is just 50 Shades of Grey but about plants
Congratulations, you now understand why Gor is terrible and fans of it are smooth-brains.
But 50SOG is a stunning and brave exploration of female sexuality, right?
It's a fanfic on a Vampire Jesus fanfic series.
>luv me master gremlins
>luv me master genies
>luv me titans
Tower is the best town
Tower is my favorite but it is objectively 2nd worst castle
They have like 1 good hero and even he has useless feat
Plus it's so fricking expensive
>War on Chtorr
It's basically a setting where an alien ecology invades Earth. Leviathans that can swallow aircraft carriers patrol the seas, strange alien trees full of ravenous tenants are marching about, a vast number of people have succumbed to plagues, and primitive worm monsters the size of SUVs are building increasingly massive nests. A disorganized 21st century mankind is trying to fight back with all sorts of advanced weapons like robot beasts and creative usage of solar mirrors, but the situation is becomingly increasingly dire. The alien intelligence behind the invasion (if there even is one) is winning and mankind will either be folded into the Chtorran ecosystem or perish.
There's a cool GURPs setting book for it if you want a listing of alien flora and fauna. Otherwise it's just 4 or 5 books with no ending and answers for what's behind the invasion in sight. I personally think it's some kind of hive mind like Avatar's Pandora, and eventually it'll either convert all of humanity (one of the big twists is that some of the alien animals called bunnydogs are actually children that have been heavily altered by the parasitic "fur" on the monster worms) or maybe humanity will gain control of it, but I'm not that imaginative.
Don't forget all the pedophilia that's for some reason necessary to the plot
Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind
The Dumarest Saga
Stainless Steel Rat/Deathworld
Known Space
World of Tiers
Riverworld
Dan Dare
Lensman/Triplanetary
Foundation/Robot
Strontium Dog
Schlock Mercenary
Perry Rhodan
Blakes 7
The Tomorrow People
Honor Harrington
Hammer's Slammers
Nemesis The Warlock/ABC Warriors
Not op, but yeah a sentence or two about what makes them so good would be very welcome.
By the way
how "not well known" do you want them, OP?
"Treasure Planet" not well known, or "Imperatoris" not well known?
>Perry Rhodan
Suffers from Big Man History though. You aren't going to do or see shit if you aren't on the Big Man's crew.
fading suns
CwCville
Urth