#SciFi
#ThankAFictionalCharacter
#HashtagGames
Thanks, Doctor, for being the first show my dad and I both liked.
'The War of the Worlds - In Real Time'
Posted throughout June at http://wotw.name https://haguepublishing.com/WotW/ and on twitter at https://twitter.com/1897WotW
Today Sunday 6 June 1897
''The Battle of Horshall Common and the loss of HMS Goliath"
Today, with evacuations beginning the London newspapers begin to take notice, and the Army moves to capture the Martians.
Stuck in Oxford, Morant and Vogan decide to cadge a ride back to London on a troop train, and volunteer to take the Curies with them.
As the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies encourages their members to organise – just in case – Toni finds herself placed in a team with Elizabeth Cadbury, and also Grace Harwood Stewart – who will later become the first woman to become a medical doctor in England. They’re to be based at Queen Anne’s Mansions, where Elizabeth Cadbury owns an apartment (the Mansions are the first true high-rise in London)
Wells has taken his wife to Leatherhead, where his cousins live. And we meet Lieutenant JR Dullanty, Coldstream Guards, 4th Company (Special Operations), even as the 1st tripod emerges.
#alternatehistory #althistory #scifi #TheWarOfTheWorlds #hgwells
Photograph: Queen Anne's Mansions 1905, Public Domain, Wikipedia
#gayBookReview The Archangel #SciFi #MMRomance series by C.J. Dragon follows the adventures of Raphael, a child of the Mars colony, the main outpost for humanity since Earth is no longer habitable. He is also a powerful empath, so while he loves his extended family, he sometimes needs time alone to keep their thoughts from overwhelming him. That's easily accomplished by taking his small scout ship Agatha out to look for minerals in the asteroid belt. It's on one of these trips that he encounters a Chi'NoSa ship that accidentally damages Agatha. Lord Commander Teo of the ship orders Agatha and Raphael to be brought aboard. Teo has never met a human, is fascinated by Raphael, and wants to keep him around. Thus begins a series of adventures as the two men become lovers and attempt to bridge a vast cultural gulf between their two races.
OMG, this story is light on the #SciFi but so full of sexy #Queer #POC joy that when it ended, I immediately rewound the #podcast to hear it all over again.
A slightly #NSFW bit of #ScienceFiction just in time for #Pride Month…
Wanderlust, by LP Kindred
https://escapepod.org/2023/06/01/escape-pod-891-wanderlust/
okay, #scifi folks, last month i asked for world-building recommendations, and i’m having a great time reading them! meanwhile, what are your space opera pet peeves?
a couple of mine:
- ships or tech named after current or classic sci-fi writers (too wink-wink for me)
- unplanned pregnancies in the space military (i see you, Star Trek Picard)
- artificial gravity that never breaks down even when the power’s out
A lonely man is recruited into a supernatural agency focused on fixing people's lives in The Bystanders https://eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-bystanders-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #SciFi #film #comedy #movies
Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 06/05/23!
Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork
Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for June 5th, 2023
Write a single toot reply #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #SFF #freewrite #dreamAI #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory #SmallStories #FlashFiction
This line from "This Island Earth" drive me crazy every time I hear it. :
"It's only Neutron, we call him that because he's so positive" - Ruth Adams -This Island Earth
No Man's Sky is 50% off on Steam right now for PC, Mac -- $29.99.
https://nmsspot.com/2023/01/20/upgrading-the-gaming-pc/
#NoMansSky #NMS #games #gaming #gamers #sale #gamesale #macgaming #Mac #Apple #macOS #PC #Windows #procgen #SciFi #SpaceGames #Steam
And here's a gross ol' alien for today as well.
(A.I. generated with Midjourney then slightly enhanced on my PC with Automatic1111)
#aiart #generativeart #generativeAI #scifi #sciencefiction #alien
Very important to keep the nose if you are going to replace your parts with alien cyberware... at least according to this cyborg.
A.I.-generated with Bing Image Creator, lol (which runs DALL-E)
#aiart #generativeart #generativeAI #scifi #sciencefiction #alien
What are you even doing if you’re *not* wearing a #StarTrek uniform to the space museum?
Who here has read Cyborg Roggy and what were your thoughts about it? #Manga #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Comedy #Action #ShonenJump
Viriamo verso un altro franchise grazie al nostro Andrew Riker, che ci avvisa che anche qui in Italia arriva la build up dedicata Optimus Prime, il leggendario leader degli Auto-bot dei TRANSFORMERS
Nothing to see, just a test render. Move along!
#SF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Render #RenderedArt #Female #CGArt #3DArt #MadtoArt #MastoArt3D
On my blog, I review Translation State by Ann Leckie. A brilliant addition to Imperial Radch series that asks who gets to be human.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2023/06/translation-state-by-ann-leckie-review.html?spref=tw
Who here has read Candy Flurry and what were your thoughts about it? #Manga #Superpowers #PostApocalyptic #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShonenJump
Deep Impact (1998): Early design by Sean Hargreaves
#scifi #conceptart #spaceship
Sci-Fi Fantasy/Action: When a world of conquerors run out of enemies to kill, will they find a new purpose for their existence, or just more enemies among their own? https://books2read.com/u/bMYvRk #scifi #bookstodon #SFF
#Dungeon23 Day 156
- Incubation suite
- a dozen eight foot tall tubes on metal pedestals.
- The fluid remaining in each one is dark and smells vile.
- Each tube is open, smashed, fallen or entirely shattered.
- exposed wiring, battle damage and acrid fluid make this a hazardous space to spend time in
#dungeon #map #writing #drawing #gaming #dnd #ttrpg #amwriting #art #scifi
Hey friends at #amWriting
How does this sound for a quick blurb on the back of the book?
#scifi
#queer
I kinda like the color on this version. My piece "Ignition, full thrust in gold".
#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #scifi #sciencefiction #starship #stars #nebula #iondrive #spaceship
The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.
S03E04 - Vox Machinae
The Nova Sapien revealed, Schafer and Voight have the task of convincing Orin to help defend their section of the universe from The Silence.
Major Varma and Namor Skenn lead a prisoner of war rescue mission deep in UCH space. With a fleet of Poltergeist stealth ships at the ready to evacuate, it's a high-risk, high-reward mission.
https://www.ratchman.com/episodes/the-void-the-long-cold-dark-s03e04-vox-machinae
#scifi #sciencefiction #thevoid #scifibooks #writingcommunity #writing
It's time for a #Kickstarter #campaign! Check out these #scifi, #fantasy, #mystery, #urbanfantasy, #spaceopera, #queer, and #LGBTQIA #books by #indieauthors!
#readerscommunity
#NewRelease
#BooksWorthReading
https://books.bookfunnel.com/kickstarterjunepromo/e78zlvl2mj
I was mentioning a while back that a lot of time travel shows tend to hit the big moments of history that everyone knows.
I started watching the new Quantum Leap, and it (and the original) are an exception to that. Occasionally they touch or take place near big events. But for the most part, they just tell smaller, personal stories. And that’s fantastic.
It’s really too bad it’s only streaming on Peacock.
#writingwonders 06-05: What is the meaning of your MC's name? Does it fit their personality?
Altair was named after the brightest star in the Aquila constellation. It means flying eagle. I think it fits him for many reasons, especially because of his desire to travel freely wherever he wants. His crew is also known as the Aquila crew and I thought since Altair was the captain, it was fitting that he was named after the brightest star in that constellation.
Voy a hacer uso del hashtag #Booktodon para darle un poco de vida a mi libro Convenio Aegis.
Este libro fue parte de una actividad en la que participé en #wattpad, un concurso que buscaba crear una historia de 10 capitulos con una idea que daban semanalmente. El resultado fue que no gané, pero me gusta mucho la historia que termine creando.
Let’s face it: it hurts to try, fail, and try again. If you’ve crashed and burned, you know the pain and shame of failure. Can damaged people be true heroes?
https://inkican.com/feel-seen-call-of-the-void-free-scifi-ebook/ #scifibooks #scifi #sciencefiction #bookstagram #sciencefictionbooks #scififantasy #books
What does the future hold for speculative fiction?
https://abastrabooks.com/2023/06/05/the-future-of-speculative-fiction/
@Trek_Academy This assumes they developed their own space programme as opposed to reverse engineering an alien ship that came to their world, perhaps piloted by a race they found to be worthy prey.
We've live, pal!
24/7 Vintage Sci-Fi, Horror, and Ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain
https://live.retrostrange.com
In my new interview with author Jacob Holo, he discusses his new time travel sci-fi novel "The Weltall File," the fourth book he's co-written with David Weber in "The Gordian Division" series.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-the-weltall-file-co-author-jacob-holo/
📖⏰🕵️
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#JacobHolo #JacobHoloInterview #JacobHoloTheWeltallFile #JacobHoloTheWeltallFileInterview #Books #AuthorInterview #AuthorInterviews #SciFi #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #Mystery #DavidWeberTheWeltallFile #JacobHoloDavidWeberTheWeltallFile #JacobHoloGordianDivision
Can a world cope with overcrowding and overpopulation? 'The World Inside' by Robert Silverberg examines this with uncomfortable conclusions.
https://incompletefutures.com/2023/06/05/the-world-inside-reveals-cracks-in-utopia/
https://clnichols.substack.com/p/writing-specfic
"Writing SpecFic"
on C. L. Nichols, SpecFic Author
Speculative fiction, a genre that encompasses science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural elements, has captivated readers for centuries. SpecFic transports readers to imaginative worlds and explores the depths of our imagination.
#writingcommunity #speculativefiction #fictionreaders #reader #mastodon #MeWe #substack #worldbuilding #plot #story #scifi #fantasy #writers #writing
Very confusing! http://www.stationv3.com/d3/20230605.html
Exouncanny
Hope you like it! (^v^)
#weird #surreal #futuristic #fantasy #scifi #character #skeleton #art #artist
Reading @annaleen The Terraformers and loving it. A beautiful story in a future that manages to be dystopian as an extension of our present capitalist and colonial world, and then simultaneously hopeful and radical in the possibilities it opens up, including radical environmental futures that include technology and better political lives. And I'm only a 3rd through. The audiobook is wonderfully immersive too. #scifi #solarpunk
@jsit I still think this is one case (very rare!) where Hollywood big-budget #scifi #movies have gotten it more right than Silicon Valley vendors. You don't see everyone wearing VR/AR goggles in movies; you see them interacting via arm gestures with huge screens (Minority Report) or massive #3D #holographic maps and annotated displays (Avatar). If Apple revealed THAT, then I'd pay attention. Group-shared holo display info is gonna win, not individual headsets ('cept for gamers, niche use) imho.
#RecentlyRead How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, starring a #TimeMachine repairman, a non-dog named Ed, & a neurotic, seriously lovable #AI named Tammy. This playful look at the nature of memory, reality, & loneliness has writing as captivating as time itself.
"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/30/adam-roberts-fictional-universe-review
If you missed any of my 3D renders in the past two months, they're now collected in one blog post. Have a look and let me know which one is your favorite.
Joanna's 3D Art, April & May 2023
https://authorjm.com/archives/32275
#fantasy #fantasyart #scifi #scifiart
REAL ARTISTS is an EMMY Award-Winning sci-fi short film about art and AI released in 2018. It's more relevant now than when it was first released. Check out my conversation with the film's talented director @Cameo here:
https://www.the7thmatrix.com/eosfpodcast/2023/6/4/episode-193-backtrack-emmy-award-winning-director-cameo-wood-on-ai
#ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #scifi #eosfpodcast
Wir sind nach wie vor super happy über die Gelegenheit und die Kooperation mit dem Weltmuseum Wien, und dass @ohneohren einen Live-Stream
möglich macht, ist wunderbar!
Deswegen würde es uns sehr freuen, wenn ihr reinschaut.
#lesung #livestream #phantastik #scifi #wien #progressivephantastik
Here we go, my Book Blast Tiny Talk on Dust, the conclusion of Hugh Howey's Silo Trilogy. Spoilers on the 1st 2 books, but safe if you haven't read THIS one yet. Epic conclusion to a masterful trilogy. #Silo #SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction https://youtu.be/FR06yMQ4i8Y
Well, “The Space Merchants” by Pohl and Kornbluth is a crisply written #SciFi satire about an attempt to escape an overcrowded Earth in an advertising-saturated future (so, just like our present). It’s like “Mad Men” but with rockets and recycled meat. Very funny and definitely anti-capitalist, it’s well worth a read.
Also, I demand to be called a “star-class copysmith” now.
Future News 6/5/23 C.E. | 6/6/38 T.A.D.
🔘 Reporting live via the Kuznetsova Gateway 🔘
Stardust Symphony: Are Ancient Aliens Communicating Through Galactic Harmonies?
A cluster of stars in the distant galaxy SDF-46975 appears to emit signals that, when rendered as sound, contain unmistakable musical structure.
Read on:
https://futurenews.app/stardust-serenade-are-aliens-communicating-through-galactic-harmonies/
#scifi #sciencefiction #timetravel #astronomy #space #writing #news
Continuing to push my color palettes into unknown territory #scifi #painting #conceptart #spaceship #futurecity
#MicroPrompt: Wrap
The Measurement Problem
A small person appeared behind her, tugging at her fingers. I'm no judge of kids' ages, but this one was walking, sucking a thumb. About a metre in height.
She picked him up. "What is it Marko?" He wrapped his arms around her neck.
"I'm actually trying to find someone he used to work with," I said. "Did you ever meet any of the people at VirGenTech? Erica Fallon?"
I bought in to another #Giveaway 🎁
Theme is #FoundFamily for fans interested in #IndieAuthors of work bonded by this central trope!
🚀 Follow us at our listed socials and be entered to win 4 bestselling books plus some awesome bookish swag! 🫶
🗡 https://clcannon.net/2023/05/18/ffamily 🗡
Heh. My writing is ALL about this trope!😎💪❤️🩹 (ahem, "Sister Seekers" 😂)
@sffbookclub @lgbtqbookstodon #BookToot #Bookstadon #Bookstodon #DnD @ttrpg #Firefly #SciFi #DarkFantasy #Swag
Sci-Fi Fantasy/Action: When a world of conquerors run out of enemies to kill, will they find a new purpose for their existence, or just more enemies among their own? https://books2read.com/u/bMYvRk #scifi #bookstodon #SFF
I bought in to another #Giveaway 🎁
Theme is #FoundFamily for fans interested in #IndieAuthors of work bonded by this central trope!
🚀 Follow us at our listed socials and be entered to win 4 bestselling books plus some awesome bookish swag! 🫶
🗡 https://bit.ly/ffamfans 🗡
Heh. My writing is ALL about this trope!😎💪❤️🩹 (ahem, "Sister Seekers" 😂)
@sffbookclub @sffbipoc @scifi @lgbtqbookstodon #BookToot #Bookstadon #Bookstodon #DnD @ttrpg #Firefly #SciFi #DarkFantasy #Swag
New from Solzy at the Movies: 65: Adam Driver Fights Dinosaurs In Laughable Sci-Fi Thriller
#65Movie #film #movies #SciFi #thriller #dinosaurs #PhysicalMedia
Is a Tasty Nibble 🍪 the winning mood over a Huge Binge? 📚
#Sample for #Free
30 #IndieAuthors of #SciFi & #Fantasy 💫
#Novellas & #Anthologies Only!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/shortsandnovellasmay-june23/oz8sr79d1p
Interested in "Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe" by C. Gockel 😁
Has a cute (and familiar) white ferret on the front! :blobcataww:
#ShortStory #Novella #SFF #Humor #Android #DarkFantasy #EpicFantasy #AlternateHistory #Dragons #Aliens @sffbookclub @scifi @sffbipoc
Page 162 of my scifi webcomic is released! Go check it out!
https://leavingthecradle.com
#webcomic #aliens #graphicnovel #leavingthecradle #spiderforest #comic #update #MastoArt
#aliens #graphicnovel #leavingthecradle #spiderforest #comic #update #scifi #webcomic
On today's #GreatestGen, it looks like BLT is DOA when a shuttle crash lands her on the Barge of the Dead with her mom! The EMH brings her back but BLT demands to go back through Death's door to save mom from Klingon Hell.
Listen to the full episode at http://gagh.biz/greatestgeneration
#GreatestGen #StarTrek #GreatestTrek #MaxFun #MaximumFun #Podcasts #FriendsOfDesoto #Fod #Comedy #StarTrekVoyager #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Podcast
@StarTrek
Three weeks had passed since the heist. Although the first call with Hugo and Adele was heartwarming and tears were flowing, Hana felt a change. They barely worked together and they met in their real Avatars. At the same time, they were closer and more distant to each other. Hana decided that it was time to do something. She took the train to Hamburg. ...
#Mesh, #Hamburg, #SciFi, #Cyberpunk
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/operator/12-real-life?c=mst
Background art for an ad to promote a local Scifi convention.
#DigitalArt #SciFi #MastoArt
Paying markets seeking submissions from speculative fiction writers this month. https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2023/05/87-calls-for-submissions-in-june-2023.html #CallsForSubmissions #CallForSubmissions #Writers #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #SFF #Horror #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritingCommunity
Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 06/04/23!
Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork
Back to drawing a more cartoony kind of style, which I did more years ago.
#cartoon #scifiart #sciencefiction #scifi #illustration #drawing
Took a dive into my old #CD box because so many things aren’t on streaming services (or at least on my platform).
This is why hoarding physical media is necessary, not cray.
“Ed Wood” soundtrack
“Mars Attacks” soundtrack
“Carnival of Souls” soundtrack
“Follies: The Complete Recordings”
“The Worst of Black Box Recorder”
“Brazil” soundtrack
"Mr. Fifteen was a hand-me-down Camera from Aunt Lucy when she died. She used to dress him up in a little suit and call him Herbie. When the Cameras were invented, so were many excuses to think of them as people."
Read "Mr Fifteen" by Tom Pike in Issue 6 🤖
#SFF #ShortSFF #ShortStory #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction
I can't remember who it was here that I saw posting a recommendation for Space Opera by @catvalente but whoever you were, thank you so much.
I bought it pretty much on a whim based on that post and it's terrific. It's kind of as if Douglas Adams was still around and was writing about an intergalactic version of Eurovision.
Perfect fodder for a Sunday afternoon lazing in the garden - especially as one of my neighbours seems to have decided to soundtrack themselves doing the same by playing George Michael's entire musical output.
May Monday morning never arrive!
I found it!
"All the Electric Things by Francine Witte"
#ShortStory #WritingCommunity #Literature #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror
https://www.ellipsiszine.com/all-the-electric-things-by-francine-witte/
The 2022 Aurealis Awards were presented last night.
For those of you unfamiliar with them, they are Australia's premier juried award for speculative fiction. I had the great honour of judging the Best Fantasy Novel panel.
Congratulations to all the winners!
https://aurealisawards.org/2023/05/31/2022-aurealis-awards-winners/
#AurealisAwards #scifi #ScienceFiction #fantasy #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #Australia #bookstodon @bookstodon
Just got this great new album from @cosmality https://circuitstatic.bandcamp.com/album/cosmality-scifantapunk-ost #funky #music #scifi
Playing No Man's Sky in bed. All setting on Ultra.
#NoMansSky #NMS #M2 #MacBookAir #Mac #AppleSilicon #MacOS #gaming #games #gamers #procgen #SciFi #Apple #tech #HelloGames
The house is clean-ish, the rabbit’s box is fresh, and I’m exhausted. So it’s time for #SciFi and coffee.
Until it’s time to make dinner.
Lancer Eidolon fight for a client graciously allowing me to draw my two main interests, big robots and fucked up meat demons from another dimension
#lancer #lancerrpg #art #artist #illustration #mech #mecha #SciFi
Hello, updated #introduction!
I'm a #poet, #professor, literary #translator, new media #artist, and #SFF writer.
I work in #experimental #poetics, speculative fiction, digital-visual collage, and hybrid works that blend the textual with the digital (including experimental film, #videogames, glitched imagery, and AI generated artwork).
I'm also an avid D&D player and Dungeon Master.
#DigitalLiterature #eLit #Erasure #Collage #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror #AIArt #VideoGames #DnD #TTRPG
『 Alabastrum Trees 』
An Alabastrum tree is incredibly rare red andesine surface deposit with an intricate bio-mimetic patterning.
They grow only on planets glassed by quasi-dimensional Δ𝜏-beam weaponry. They were named after their first discovery on Alabastrum, located in shard A1 after the Incident War.
When mature, they produce a single superdense Yakamura-Erhart crystal - a vital component in modern hypergate lensing design.
Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 06/03/23!
Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
(This is the LAST of this week's prompts brought to you by my debut #scifi novel, THE DENT IN THE UNIVERSE available everywhere!)
#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork
These worlds we go through
Helmeted, masked, we muffle
Our alien cries
#575Prompt worlds
#haiku #SciFi
Chapter 19 - Full Duplex
There are three ways to know a man: Put him in a tight situation, get him drunk, or put a beautiful girl in front of him. As Elizabetha starts flirting with him, Pearson is struggling with his hardest decision in years.
#amWriting #amWritingSF #Writing #SciFi #WebNovel #indieAuthor #Cyberpunk #PandoraDownloaded #CrimeDrama #NeoNoir
#introduction post
Hi,
I'm a #Gentoo Linux and #SwayWM user. I'm learning to program and I selfhost a Nextcloud instance.
Digital #privacy is important to me.
I enjoy reading #scifi and #selfimprovement books. I'm always looking to improve my self.
I love drinking #espresso and play #tennis regularly. I've settled on playing #CounterStrike from time-to-time too. #StarWars is my favourite movie genre.
Hope to interact with you soon 😀
Stephen Colbert to Produce ‘Chronicles of Amber’ TV Series Adaptation
[I've always said that Nine Princes in Amber by Zelazny, et al, should be adapted. And I see now it's been set up as of January. I missed the announcement. But that's great. Colbert will see it's reasonably faithful and high quality.]
Roger Zelazny and I were friendly and I am his fan.
Today, June 3, 1982, humans cut into the alien ship that has hovered above Johannesburg, South Africa for the last three months. Upon entering, they discover more than a million sick and malnourished insectoid alien refugees (District 9, 2009)
Topic: Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club (Of greatness!)
@bookstodon I'm popping this up once more, just in case anyone else wants to join before our first meeting in late June.
Is anyone out there interested in being a part of a Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club where we read whatever the hell we want individually and meet up once a month on the newly formed Contrarian Barbarian Discord server to tell each other about it for a couple of minutes each and then discuss? (All genres/fiction/non-fiction on the table.)
The key focus would be sharing books we love with other people in a positive way. It'd have the diehard rule that if you freakin' love a thing, no one can be negative about it because that would be raining on your parade and your parade is spectacular dammit!
All time zones welcome to say hi!
LGBTQIA++, disability and neurodivergent friendly, with a structure with set rules of conduct--meaning that boorishness (repeatedly talking/typing over people and not respecting boundaries) or trollishness gets booted with the might of Gandalf warding off the Balrog.
If you like the sound of this, reply to this and tell me about the book you love most with the power of the sun.
We've already got a bunch of amazing people and the more the merrier! :blobsmilehappyeyes:
#books #bookstodon #sff #horror #scifi #crimefiction #nonfiction #reading #genrefiction #scifi #mystery #literature #history #botany #romance #science #reading
I'm just remembering how I felt when I heard we had a vaccine. AND the relief I felt when my friends & family got vaccinated. #COVID wasn't a death sentence anymore!
#Science did that. We also had enough people with the will & resources to get it out to the people.
#SciFi can show us a world where we succeeded. Where we didn't kill ourselves.
Where we defeated Fascists & made a better world.
#StarTrek #IDIC
#Spock
#VaccinationsWork
New Weird Luck chapter launches in 2 weeks––watch for page 1 on June 15!
#webcomic #webcomics #comics #graphicnovel #urbanfantasy #fantasy #scifi #crime
Oh hey I have an author interview over at BookTrib
"I hope people will think about what they want from healthcare. From their doctors. What does it mean to keep the human in healthcare? I also hope they get a glimpse into the pressures on doctors and nurses and how the system can strip away their humanity"
AI Doesn’t Swear the Hippocratic Oath: A Biochemist Author’s Timely Thriller
#books #bookstodon #thriller #MedMastodon #AI #SciFi #healthcare #humanism
Neal Stephenson, whose 1992 novel Snow Crash brought the term metaverse to the world, is optimistic about XR thanks to better tooling. But even with Apple getting involved, it's a hard sell.
My newsletter reports on some AI games issues and news, including a review of playing the Kraken Wakes, the LLM-augmented game https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-43-ai-agents-mispronouncing?sd=pf #games #scifi
🆕 blog! “Book Review: Invisible Planets - Ken Liu”
★★★★☆
Yet another compendium of Chinese sci-fi stories - and there are some great stories in this collection. There are also some essays about what makes Chinese science fiction Chinese. Based on my (limited) experience, I'd say one of the defining characteristics of the Chinese SF I've read is the way exposition is dis…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/book-review-invisible-planets-ken-liu/
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#BookReview #chinese #SciFi
I asked yesterday:
> Can anyone recommend hacker / cyberpunk / cypherpunk fiction written in the 70s/80s/90s, please?
I got a wealth of amazing replies - thank you *so* much!
Here's a consolidated list of the replies/recommendations:
#books #reading #scifi #hacker #cyberpunk #cypherpunk #fiction
#TropesAndArchetypes: Aliens
I'm starting with one of the most obvious tropes of all: Aliens. Other intelligent species are at the heart of at least half of all sci-fi and a good bunch of mystery stories. Aliens are fascinating for us because they represent both, a threat and great opportunities. ...
#Archetypes, #Tropes, #SciFi, #Fantasy
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tropes/02-aliens?c=mst
The next chapter of the Weird Luck webcomic, "The Corvus Drive Caper, Part One," launches on Thursday, June 15th!
Get ready for a night of scheming, treachery, and mayhem, as Smiley meets with the Feral City mob bosses and makes an ambitious proposition.
#weirdluck #weird #webcomic #webcomics #comics #urbanfantasy #fantasy #scifi #graphicnovel #crime
Is there a good example of positive #AI/robot in #StarTrek? I can only think of episodes where they've gone rogue/highjacked instead of being useful to their original creators. I find it a very lack of imagination, an overused concept, always fearing technology and always portraying AI/ #robots in bad light. I want to believe that the overall impact of technology is beneficial to organic life. Hope so 😂 #sciencefiction #scifi
#TheBond: Scientific Entanglements
Martin and the other leads of the first contact crew regularly spent their evenings together with dinner and discussions since the launch of the mission. One day, about four months after the first contact, Amanda, the chief biologist, came out of nowhere with a topic. "These are no aliens", she said and got the attention of everyone in the room. ...
#Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/11-scientific-entanglements?c=mst
Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for May 29th, 2023
Write a single toot reply #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #SFF #freewrite #dreamAI #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory #SmallStories #FlashFiction
