The movies/shows that inspired Surfing Chance

Mihai Avram
Surfing Chance
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2 min readDec 8, 2022

The main inspiration for the novel is National Geographic’s Cosmos (2014) series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. This show was a remake of Carl Sagan’s original 1980s series. I admire Carl Sagan’s legacy as both an astronomer and as a science fiction writer, but I did not manage to see the 1980s series as of yet.

Other major inspirations for Surfing Chance:

  • History of the Universe Youtube channel created by JD Voyek,
  • A Brief History of Time book, by Stephen Hawking,
  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions book, by Stephen Hawking,
  • The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth book, by Michio Kaku,
  • The Elegant Universe book, by Brian Greene
  • The Three Body Problem book, by Liu Cixin,
  • His Master’s Voice book, by Stanislaw Lem,
  • Everything is illuminated book, by J.S. Foer,
  • Slaughterhouse Five book, by Kurt Vonnegut,
  • Chainsaw Man Manga (& Anime) written by Tatsuki Fujimoto,
  • Attack on Titan Manga (& Anime) written by Hajime Isayama,
  • Vinland Saga Manga (& Anime) written by Makoto Yukimura,
  • Dark series, co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese,
  • Raised by Wolves series, written by Aaron Guzikowski,
  • Sandman series, written by Neil Gaiman,
  • Rick and Morty series, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon,
  • Short sci-fi stories of Andy Weir and Isaac Asimov,

… and many many other Sci-fi and non-Sci-fi works.

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Mihai Avram
Surfing Chance

Founder @zenzylab. Lover of SciFi, Absurdism, Nihilism and the Moldovan emotional cuisine.