#sciencefiction
Read Rebecca Fraimow's "The Iron Children" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3MKRe7S
📖🤖❄️
Interesting...but not as good as I was hoping it would be. Ah well.
#books #reading #SciFi #SciFiBooks #ScienceFiction
Planet Stories vol. 5, no. 11 (March 1953)
So much going on here that I missed one detail, the guy in the cloak is holding a musical instrument?
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/PlanetStoriesV05N11195303
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Who here has seen Coyote Ragtime Show and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Crime
Who here has seen Cowboy Bebop and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #BountyHunter
Who here has seen Code Geass Akito the Exiled and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Mecha #Superpowers #Spinoff
Who here has seen Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Mecha #Superpowers
Who here has seen Clockwork Planet and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Harem
Who here has seen Casshern Sins and what were your thoughts about it? #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic
For your entertainment, today's #flashfiction
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03803-j150-handy-crafts
#sciencefiction #shortstory #writingprompt
I think," George said, "I know a little bit more about him than you do. And I think if he'd maybe come talked to somebody like me first, we could have maybe worked somethin' out where he didn't have to go and get himself and some little girl in trouble. About him or the girl, I don't think nothing; I don't know them. But I think what you told me about is very," and George dropped his chin, "very, very sad.
Future News 5/29/23 C.E. | 5/30/38 T.A.D.
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Taaffeite Discovery Shines Spotlight on Small New Mexico Town
Taaffeite is extremely rare, and the size of the deposit found would be unprecedented in mineralogy.
Read on:
https://futurenews.app/taafeite-discovery-shines-spotlight-on-small-new-mexico-town/
#scifi #sciencefiction #timetravel #NM #NewMexico #mining #geology #news
Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 14, no. 4 (June 1953)
Really weird to see Ayn Rand in this context, even weirder to see Kafka's “Metamorphosis”. These people are overjoyed to have freed themselves from their chains. What are they looking at? How did the guy harness the power of lightning?
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v14_n04_1953-06.Popular_UNZ
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto while going over Dave Cook & Craig Paton's Killtopia from BHP Comics again, ahead of chatting to Dave, @everdundas & Mike Carey at @cymerafestival this coming Sunday https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-events/2023/6/4/cyberjunk-with-mr-carey-david-cooke-and-ever-dundas
#books #comics #Edinburgh #ScienceFiction #Cymera #CyneraFestival #livres #bandedessinee #Killtopia #LiteraryFestival
Looking for something to read or listen to on a holiday? Three free reads and a spooky listen for your speculative reading/listening pleasures at: https://bookworminthedark.blogspot.com/
#shortstories
#sff
#sciencefiction
#horror
#weirdfiction
#podcast
#WritingWonders 5.29 — What type of government exists in your story?
Absolute monarchy.
For most people, life is pleasant, predictable, peaceful, and under the rule of laws far fairer than any in our time. You would have little to complain about. However, you wouldn't have today to compare to. Director Rainy Days, the Director of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, has rewritten history. She is immortal (not invulnerable).
All property stems from her. The best you can hope for is a lease, and then property stewardship laws limit what you can do with it, especially beyond your lifetime.
All rights are at her whim. She fosters bureaucracies as she can't handle all her goals alone. All rights she revocably grants come with laws that make lying and abuse of those rights an offense against the absolute ruler. That offense is always worse than the crime.
She favors stability over anarchy. Usually. It isn't a world without crime. Criminals as well as other nations mostly understand they enjoy autonomy and their governmental paradigm so long as the Director of Home values the experiment they represent. When wars occur, it's often part of the experiment. She works to ensure weapons she can't defend against are never created—or are quickly destroyed with their makers and masters.
Rainy Days doesn't aways win her wars, but civilization starts renewed soon after. With her at the helm, or sometimes with only her influence. Some believe she's committed genocide.
She has goals. Maintaining the gene pool and increasing humanity's diminishing population seems the greatest amongst them, which is strange considering the blood on her hands.
These people live in interesting times.
#BoostingIsSharing
#CommentingIsCool
#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
🇪🇸 La serie de ciencia ficción "NEBULAR".
La 5ª edición de mi serie traducida al español ya está disponible como libro electrónico. Las novelas publicadas hasta ahora están disponibles en la tienda #Kindle de Amazon, en #Kobo, en #GooglePlaystore y en #AppleBooks.
¡Hasta la vista y a las estrellas!
#sciencefiction #cienciaficcion #libroelectronico #espanol #espana #argentina #chile #mexico #peru
what type sports might evolve for low to no gravity? Any supplements out there? (for any system?)
Luchadores in space just struck me, for some reason, though that is entertainment, not sports...
The science behind why 'exploratory preferences' could explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories: https://rdcu.be/ddg0E
Hab mir jetzt die ersten beiden Bände der #Singularity-Reihe von #WilliamHertling gekauft, gibt es beim #BeamShop für 2,99 bzw. 4,99. #ScienceFiction
Nachdem ich erst Band 4, dann Band 3 gelesen hatte, versuche ich es mal klassisch: erst 1, dann 2. 😄
The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.
S02E15 - Tracks In The Dust:
On the furthest edge of the known universal territory, an unidentified species arrives and immediately sets to destruction.
Incensed at this violent intrusion, the godlike Eyrians intervene and promptly get annihilated. For the first time ever, they ask for help.
But against that level of power, what can be done?
https://www.ratchman.com/episodes/the-void-the-long-cold-dark-s02e15-tracks-in-the-dust
#scifi #sciencefiction #thevoid #scifibooks #writingcommunity #writing
India Bentley returns in TECH HUNTER - this July!
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#writing #authorsofinstagram #creativewriting #london #reading #writing #adventures #sciencefiction #scifi #scifibooks #dystopian
#bookstodon
Went to see Jules Verne's house in Amiens, France today. Well worth a visit if you're ever in the area.
That is just a dang nifty graphic to have around.
Our season finale drops this Wednesday! Are you excited? We are!
#sciencefiction #scifi #scificomedy #audiodrama #podcast #Comedy #audioplay #radioplay
New #podcast alert! The first episode of the #TeachingWithMagic podcast is now available.
Are you a teacher who enjoys teaching and using fantasy texts in the classroom? This podcast is meant for you.
#Teaching #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SFF #Pedagogy #SpeculativeFiction #Tolkien #StarWars
Sorry." The clumsiness and sincerity of Tak's amateur therapy made him chuckle. "Not that way.
#WritingWonders 29 May: “What type of government exists in your story?”
(1/2) They say TTMA supersedes the State and its supporting concepts, including Law itself. TTMA signatories are said to flow with it rather than attempting to control their environment. Anything that looks or acts like a coercive social structure gets swept away in this flow.
Heck yeah! PBS Space Time has a fun video w/ Matt O'Dowd using science to explore how far humanity could possible get if we tried to spread out into the cosmos.
Love this kinda stuff :D. #sciencefiction #space
Announcing the début of a podcast by Elise Trudel Cedeño about teaching fantasy to primary-school students. #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Teaching
Come to our online book launch celebration for @sarenaulibarri's ANOTHER LIFE next week! June 6 @ 7pm ET. Tickets are free, or grab a discounted book. We'll have an author reading, interview by @ToryStephens q&a and prizes to give away.
🎟️ via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/anotherlifelaunch
#bookstodon #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #smallpress
Amazing Stories vol. 30, no. 9 (September 1956)
If space is the final frontier, the space men are the final cowboys and there must be final Indians out there with final arrows.
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v30n09_1956-09_cape1736
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
They had just gotten another group settled when Takyra summoned them to the primary control room. “I wonder what’s going on now? It’s too soon for the ship from Aria’naa to have arrived,” Jevan wondered.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/artifact-of-the-dawn-discord-a-queer-sci-fi-adventure-f4bb6eba9dc5?sk=7e9cb34df87ce701b8ce8fc2ac9c0593
#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SerialFiction
Seven meets the gang from her old unimatrix but the reunion they want isn't swapping stories. It's to literally travel down her Memory Lane to find out how after a sphere crash they got their thoughts melded but not Seven.
Listen to the full episode at http://gagh.biz/greatestgeneration
#GreatestGen #StarTrek #GreatestTrek #MaxFun #MaximumFun #Podcasts #FriendsOfDesoto #Fod #Comedy #StarTrekVoyager #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Podcast
Today's the launch day for "Dread Space 2" from Shacklebound Books. #MilSF and #horror flash fiction.
And here's the full list of places you can buy it:
My review of The Twilight Zone: Volume 7 – Once Again Four Episodes about Death and Dying #death #DennisWeaver #sciencefiction #sciencefictiontelevision #TwilightZone
Today is the book birthday for my debut novel "The Dent in the Universe," a terrifying #sciencefiction thriller that feels all too plausible.
https://www.amazon.com/Dent-Universe-W-Doc-Parris-ebook/dp/B0BWK3KHFJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Began making rewiews in science fiction in Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/koraykaratay
#sciencefiction #scifi
Might be boring, but it's definitely important:
"[The] forensic problem of anthropomorphism arises when researchers are biased by their anthropomorphic tendencies, leading to inaccurate assessments of [an AI's] intelligence."
https://www.turingpost.com/p/anthropomorphism-in-ai
#ai #bots #chatbots #chatgpt #sciencefiction #science #research
The 4 most terrifying #AI systems in #sciencefiction
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/ai-literature-scifi/
It was a joy to narrate the powerful “More Real Than Real” by #GretaHayer for the #CastOfWonders podcast.
#SFF #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #YoungAdult #Podcast #SpeculativeFiction
https://www.castofwonders.org/2023/05/cast-of-wonders-537-more-real-than-real/
#5yrsago 8 years of #austerity have turned the UK into a bleak Victorian dystopia, where pensioners without electricity die from fires ignited by their candles https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/world/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html
#5yrsago Canadian Conservative parliamentarian accuses black rival of “thinking the world revolves around her skin colour” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bernier-cesar-chavannes-tweet-1.4680467
#5yrsago RIP #GardnerDozois, pioneering, genre-defining #ScienceFiction editor who helped launch my career https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/28/rip-gardner-dozois-pioneering-genre-defining-science-fiction-editor-who-helped-launch-my-career/
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Growing up being different than everyone around you can't be easy. Growing up being the only one of your species is pretty hard. Not knowing what species that is makes it even worse.
And when you finally find someone of the same species that turns out to be a murdering villain, it's enough to give you an ...
Identity Crisis, by Clayton Pulsipher!
Please read my review:
http://crossingthepond.reviews/2023/05/29/arbiter-trilogy-1/
#bookReview #ScienceFiction #youngAdults #amReading
@bookbubble @bookstodon
Science Fiction Stories vol. 8, no. 4. (January 1958)
A religion has grown up around this abandoned space ship, it seems. The creators of these covers love upstretched arms.
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v08n04_1958-01.
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
What a great place for a photo 🤗🛰️🚀
#JNovelClub #PerryRhodan #sciencefiction #GigiEdgley #Farscape
https://twitter.com/gigiedgley/status/1662924607370788864?s=46
I spent a chunk of last year and this one judging for the Aurealis Awards. The awards ceremony is this Saturday, but the call is already out for the next batch of judges.
If you're an Australian resident with a keen interest in speculative fiction and are able to read in digital format, please consider applying!
Details at https://aurealisawards.org/2023/05/29/aurealis-awards-2023-call-for-judges/
#bookstodon @bookstodon #scifi #fantasy #AmReading #SpecFic #ScienceFiction
Amazing Stories vol. 33, no. 4 (April 1959)
Test rocket! I feel like it failed, is it just me?
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v33n04_1959-04_cape1736
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Spent a portion of dinner last night explaining the phenomenon of Canadian Literary Nationalism and how it effect the (lack of) publication of #ScienceFiction (& #genre fiction) in #Canada until recently to Dr Min Hyoung Song from #BostonU. I hope I wasn't talking his ear off; he seemed interested.
Interactions like this make me think that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to turn the thesis into a book after all... @academicchatter #CanLit #AcademicPublishing #ButHow
It’s a gorgeous volume, the LoA has been really stepping up their #sciencefiction game in recent years. There is also a second volume covering the 1970s, and you get an additional discount when purchasing them together.
https://loa.org/books/724-the-future-is-female-classic-science-fiction-stories-by-women-2-volumes
Phtanum B - Lactismids! An enormous deuvertebrate group with over 4000 species. Characterized by large size, high limb count and inhabiting megafaunal niches on most portions of the planet. Some like Polycnemis ayhani are terrestrial apex predators!
Hashtags: #scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #speculativefiction #specevo #artist #art #fediart #mastoart #speculativeevolution #phtanum #creaturedesign
#ScienceFiction fans: why on Earth (and beyond) should #aliens invade or destroy us?
There's no scarcity in the universe (enough energy and water for gazillions of species, along with enough materials to build all kinds of large technostructures), no need to have the space equivalent of a "war for oil".
I can see no "economic" reason for starting and winning a large-scale interstellar war. Also given the vast scales of time and space, most species would probably kill themselves anyway.
S is for THE SOUND OF STARS by Alechia Dow
Back to YA sci-fi and Alechia Dow's wonderful work with this alien invasion story starring a Black biromantic demisexual MC with a secret library. Also: alien/human roadtrip, lots of music and book nerdery, and an instance of two demisexual relating to each other through their aceness that was super well done.
#ASpecToZ #scifi #sciencefiction #YA #QueerBooks #QueerYA #QueerBookstodon #asexual
I asked #chatGPT to write five brief descriptions of scenes from an alien planet, and then had #midjourney illustrate each of them. Here's the first.
"A celestial ballet of pastel ribbons and luminescent petals adorns the alien sky, painting a serene dreamscape."
Science Fiction Quarterly #6 (1942)
One of those strangely static action scenes. Is this an offensive portrayal of Native Americans or are they aliens? What's the cage for? Did the bad guys get out or are they trying to put the couple in?
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_06_1942-Spring
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Since I'm trying to spread the joy everywhere: current Humble Bundle has 20 #sff audiobooks for $20 and it includes ALL SIX MURDERBOT AUDIOBOOKS!
Go, do yourself a favor and get them. Murderbot is a literary comfort food.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/marthawells-agriddle-and-more-audiobooks-books
I completed a translation from English into Esperanto of Larry Niven's short science fiction story Neutron Star.
I think I got better compared to my first translation effort.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xcd5_Sw6Epak2ZSL_FUMPmMp0NNALSOYYQgaCdBbOX8/edit?usp=sharing
An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first.
#BookSeries #books #SFF #dystopian #DystopianFiction #DystopianBooks #DystopianNovels #scifi #ScienceFiction #ClimateFiction #ClimateChange
Wahr & weise! 🙏🧡👍
Genau deswegen finde ich übrigens #ScienceFiction so wichtig & habe z.B. #PerryRhodan im Dialog mit @rfe hart gefeiert! https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-alphabet-leuchtturm-des-aschkenasischen-japhetismus-podcast-interview-zu-und-fuer-perry-rhodan/
They say "the Golden Age of #ScienceFiction is 12" - that is, the thing that makes "the good old stuff" so good is its suitability for preteens, and rereading that stuff as an adult (much less continuing to read it in adulthood) is a childish regression.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/mannerpunk/#ask-anyone
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SHARP NEAR-FUTURE NOIR sets a gig-working hacker and her private eye mentor on the trail of a multiple murderer. Shades of Chandler and Gibson, but with a distinctive, witty, contemporary voice. B PLUS
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bang-Bang-Bodhisattva/Aubrey-Wood/9781786187017
@bookstodon
#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #cyberpunk #scifi #sciencefiction #lgbtq #lgbtqia
Book Review: _The Archive Undying_ by Emma Mieko Candon Sunai would like to avoid getting in the robot. (He might have to get in the robot.) https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/05/26/book-review-the-archive-undying-by-emma-mieko-candon/ @bookstodon @sciencefiction #sciencefiction #bookreview #books #blogging
Call it an homage, a parody, or an unofficial crossover. Just, uh, don't call their lawyers, please? Jump Leads episode 5, "Slicers", is out now!
#sciencefiction #scifi #scificomedy #audiodrama #audioplay #podcast
#FinlayFriday meets #MerMay part 2
Virgil Finlay cover painting for Fantastic Universe, July, 1957, which I guess is kinda-sorta illustrating August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos story which was later changed to "The Seal of R'lyeh." I don't remember any mirror-obsessed mermaids from that but part of it does take place in the sea!
#VirgilFinlay #AugustDerleth #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WeirdTales #CthulhuMythos #Mermaid #Illustration @fantasy
City Night, by Zak Sham
Storytime, I took an interest in reverse engineering through playing video games. Researching about them, and archiving data. Right now my goal is to find as many modern resources on the subject as I can, then curate all of that information into a book or maybe even a tutorial series.
There's a long road ahead, but I'm at least halfway there. If you're a beginner like me or you've an interest in game hacking or binary analysis you're welcome to join me.
Some of my favorite games are #celeste #sekiro and #ApeEscape
My interests include but are not limited to:
#infosec #gaming #reverseengineering #gamehacking #cybersecurity #programming #art #mindfulness #zen #music #sciencefiction #writing
I'm writing my own sci-fi novel as I delve into the windows API, if you want beta readers for your book, I might read it, haha. #introduction
Great article about one of the most pivotal sci-fi television events of the 80s: V
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/the-v-files-legacy?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser) from Stargate SG-1. Picture is from 2005.
#TGIQF – Alien: Nicht alle Außerirdischen sind freundlich!
Vor 44 Jahren gab es Erstkontakt mit einem fiesen Alien, das die Crew eines Raumfrachters fast auslöschte. Wie gut kennen Sie sich aus im "Alien"-Universum?
Picking out some books ( #ScienceFiction #novels and #comics / #manga to sell or give away. Includes works I like but will never read again, works I used to like but now dislike, and works that didn’t do it for me. Guess which one of these I’ve never read?
New Worlds vol. 24, no. 70 (April 1958)
This person is a space-mechanic on a break, that's how I interpret it. Taking a break, with their shoes off, in a featureless yellow void, as you do.
Read the original magazine here: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_070v24_1958-04.Nova
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Is James Patrick Kelly on Mast?
Is Justina Robson?
Is Greg Egan?
Or Megan E O'Keefe?
I feel immensely privileged to have found John Shirley on here, who I've read and idolised for decades. It's made me wonder - who else is on here?
#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionWriters #ScienceFictionAuthors #SFWA #BSFA
Making my way through Octavia Butler’s Lilith Brood / Xenogenenesis Series. Loved Dawn, excited for Adulthood Rites
#bookstodon #scienceFiction #octaviaButler #books
🔭🚀🛸📖📚
I'm on Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" today, with a guest blog talking about the way worldbuilding and character can mirror each other.
#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #SciFiBooks #worldbuilding #ClimateFiction
Here goes, attempting to finish this big drawing, been on hold for at least a year. Photo is of a section #art #drawing #pencil #sciencefiction #nature
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Available from Libro fm, Audiobooks(dot)com, Kobo Books, Google Play, and 🤢 Audible.
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#SFFBookClub #books #reading #bookstadon #MiddleGrade #SFF #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Unmasked - A De-Extinct Zoo Mystery by Carol Potenza: https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Extinct-Zoo-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B0C445Z4NF/ref=sr_1_18?keywords=free+science+fiction&qid=1685014621&sr=8-18 #ScienceFiction #GeneticEngineering #Mystery #FreeBooks
The books I’m sharing are free as of today in Canada and usually the United States of America, too. If you do not live in those countries or are reading this after May 25, 2023, I do not know if they are free or available for you.
Please tag me if you want a boost for your lists of free speculative fiction books from other parts of the world. 💜
It’s a short but sweet list this week.
#SpeculativeFiction #Horror, #Paranormal #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy #FreeBooks
#NowReading Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon.
I had a weird dream that there was a human base on the moon that got blasted into deep space by a nuclear explosion, and then every week they would somehow make it to a new solar system tens of thousands of light-years away.
And their laser guns looked like staple guns from Home Depot.
And there was an alien with caterpillars for eyebrows.
Then I remembered, that was a TV show from the 1970s.
#70sTV #sciencefiction
This nerd will always remember her as a badass who ran Bartertown and shot crossbows.
#Intro: Opted to come back to #Mastodon after some time away. I will mostly be following hashtags on #climate, #climatejustice, #climatechange, #climatecrisis.
I will also be posting new posts from #ScienceFiction and #Ethics, https://www.scifi.global/, and follow #StarTrek, #Babylon5, #TheOrville, & #BattlestarGalactica.
I will also post my mostly daily #playlists from https://www.minorkey.net/, #classicalmusic, #jazz, etc.
Random #science articles will follow.
"Narratives that use robots and androids to represent the Other often don’t interrogate the assumptions about humanity at their core because they fail to answer one question:
Why are so many androids white?"
Read the rest of my essay "Androids and Allegory" at Twelfth Planet Press.
https://motherofinvention.twelfthplanetpress.com/2018/07/02/androids-and-allegory/
#SFF #ScienceFiction #SciFi #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #JanelleMonae #ChesyaBurke
Updated my library and my catalouge! Click the following link
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhgxQq5A_s50iEKRKvvWqPOXVzJ8
#book #bookstodon #sciencefiction #scifi #bookreview #bookrecommendations #fantasy #free #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersofmastodon
Delighted to hear from fine @orbitbooks crew that long-gestating project to bring The Culture drawings of the late, & still much-missed Iain M Banks to print, now has a November 2023 release.
"Faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks kept in the 1970s & 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail."
#FinlayFriday meets #MerMay
Virgil Finlay preliminary cover design for the July, 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels, which the editor rejected in favor of this basic Lawrence Stevens woman in peril by blue meanie cover. Unbelievable.
#VirgilFinlay #LawrenceStevens #Mermaid #Fantastic #Pulps #WeirdTales #Illustration #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF @sciencefiction
I’m honored to present “The Gentleman Cat’s Guide to Training Human Kittens”, which is new in Nature today! 🐈⬛
The 🌠 Nebula Award Winning 🌠 middle grade novel Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion has...
🔬 A Black girl who loves science
🕵🏾♀️ Mystery & Adventure
🐝 BUGS
👵🏽 Loving family
👭🏽👭🏽 A ride or die friend group
💕🏘️ A tight-knit community
👇🏽 Join Ruby's adventure today 👇🏽
https://ktempestbradford.com/books/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=rubyfinley2023
#SFFBookClub #books #reading #bookstadon #MiddleGrade #SFF #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Hear me out: The Sixth Element. Korben and Leeloo's half-diety, half-perfect daughter must fight a new generation of Zorg followers. #Movies #Films #SciFi #ScienceFiction
This week's #GreatestTrek Spring Break edition will be our loudest show yet when we watch @jontaffer again try to save another business from permanent last call on @BarRescue S4E24 with DS9's Alexander Siddig.
Listen to the full episode at http://Gagh.biz/greatesttrek
#GreatestGen #StarTrek #GreatestTrek #MaxFun #MaximumFun #Podcasts #FriendsOfDesoto #Fod #Comedy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Podcast
Just finished Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. Hugely enjoyable. Science fiction’s ability to present different possibilities is so welcome & her AIs are very much more nuanced than present debate would allow.
It is one of the reasons I love Iain M Banks’ Culture world - the AIs were the quirky stars of his novels!
PS please don’t @ me with a flood of techie detail!
#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bookstodon #AnnLeckie #IainMBanks #TheCulture #AncillaryJustice #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
When otherwise reliable Gravync engines fail, the field disturbance can lead to an extreme warping capable of tearing the fabric itself.
One can only imagine how stressed the engineers aboard this ship must be while trying to fix this glaring malfunction before it gets worse.
The books I’m sharing are free as of today in Canada and usually the United States of America, too. If you do not live in those countries or are reading this after May 18, 2023, I do not know if they are free or available for you.
Please tag me if you want a boost for your lists of free speculative fiction books from other parts of the world.
#SpeculativeFiction #Horror, #Paranormal #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy #FreeBooks
At Nerds of a Feather, Review: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
@carturo222 covers the last book in the Shards of Earth Trilogy
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/05/review-lords-of-uncreation-by-adrian.html
Ad Astra: A low key great hard Scifi Film
Okay, so I saw this movie when I was flying overseas (there was nothing else to watch), & I was surprised how great Ad Astra was. One of my favorite scenes (spoilers below) is the moon battle which displayed how majestic & perilous space is when compared to Earth.
https://youtu.be/il23tuSVTPg
Ad Astra is full of surprises, but not much action (it’s more of a technical/logical film with some emotion thrown in.
I would recommend watching for it’s realistic approach towards space travel, but it’s not something you would sit with the family to see.
#AdAstra #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Movies
Bumbling time travelers, magical anime girls, confused Daleks, tentacle monsters, and more at Marcon in our celebration of the 60th Anniversary of "Doctor Who"! Catch "Dottore Who & the Fantastic Fanservice Folly" Saturday May 27 at 8:30pm!
#DoctorWho #anime #Dalek #MagicalGirl #TARDIS #parody #improv #improvisation #theater #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Several studies, including one from Harvard & MIT, have discovered that going into a nap with a problem in #mind helps the #brain find solutions. Extending that, use of a prompting device called Dormio during hypnagogia (the transitional stage between wakefulness & #sleep) increases #creativity & may show a way to prevent nightmares (and maybe finish a long-stuck novel). Shades of Inception!
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview/
What are some good sci-fi podcasts. Anything - drama, book and film reviews, deep dives…
OK, time to get off the #fediverse and do some #ScienceFiction #writing.