Not enough people know about Pantheon.

However both Scavenger's Reign and Pantheon feel distinctly different from Japanese anime. They have a much more Western aesthetic eye visually, narratively, and especially in terms of music I feel.

I’m slowly working my way through Scavengers Reign, it’s absolutely brilliant — somewhere between Alien and Stanislaw Lem’s The Invincible.

It reminded me of Lem's Eden as well.

Having just watched Scavenger's Reign, it differs from both Lem novels in an important way. Lem uses characters as an excuse to tell something about the portrayed worlds. Scavenger's Reign uses the world as a backdrop to tell the story of the characters.

(Same goes for Solaris, although Tarkovsky's adaptation reverses that.)

Because a sibling comment said Pantheon trailer looked like Stephenson, I watched it.

To me it looks like Greg Egan's Permutation City, which I found via HN and which made me inhale about seven more of his books in quick succession.

To anyone who's consumed both - is it actually like Permutation City? Or is that too much to hope for?

I'll check it out!

I've not seen Pantheon, but from the trailer it seems very close to Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".

Dammit, they are in other livestream imperiums than where I dwell :(

There are other ways!

Pantheon is amazing. Especially the ending.