sciencefiction

229d

Synthetic planet - omicron class

voxel world built and rendered in Avoyd editor
https://www.avoyd.com

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A small purple planet with a light blue ocean and a thin green atmosphere is lit from under forming a small crescent against a pitch black background.
Artificial lights dot the dark side along coastal lines, roads and cities.

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227d

Part 3 begins!

Finally, the stakes come into focus.
How does it all end?

Chapter 29 of "A New Faith" is up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

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243d

I've finished: Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead

This is a generation colony ship sci-fi novel.

One of the first scenes introduces a Terra-formed Mars. The technological hurdles have been solved. Overcoming technical issues inherent in such a grand project is not the subject of this novel.

It is not nature but human nature Calypso struggles with.

What form should such a colony take? What toll will such a project take on its crew?

Calypso is also a literary experiment, giving different view point characters different literary styles. Including a view point written entirely in verse. I enjoyed this aspect and applaud the audiobook Producers for using distinct narrators for the different viewpoints.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3fa3baaf-5616-4dca-b251-affb0cc05a00

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242d

75 Years Ago, The Most Influential Filmmaker You Never Heard of Sparked The Golden Age of Sci-Fi

Short overview of George Pal and “Destination Moon,”1950–template for sci-fi epic films.

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https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/destination-moon-75-year-anniversary

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242d

Amazon is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain—Futurism.com reporting on NYT story

Whose brain? See Frankenstein, 1931, and Young Frankenstein, 1974.

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https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-anthropic-ai-data-center

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7d

Chapter 15 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Aurora Rosegrass, Queen of Queens, looks back on the day Minerva died, when her successor challenged her for her title...

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241d

Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life

By Matthew Shindell

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet

Camille Flammarion at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8763

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7d

A Review of Medium Error: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-medium-error/

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Book cover for Medium Error by Eyal Avissar. Image on cover shows something red growing in a Petri dish. The centre is dark red and there are red tendrils spreading out in every direction. It feels ominous.

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217d

I just gave a presentation on the biblical themes in Interstellar. But as the article says, still no chance of getting information or yourself back out (unless you’re Matthew McConaughey.)

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a65487140/how-to-enter-black-hole-safely/

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217d

The realm of science isn't the only dubious one this month. Take a gander at the latest issue of #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction to see what I mean…

https://galacticjourney.org/july-20-1970-the-goat-without-horns-among-other-things-august-1970-fantasy-and-science-fiction/

$Cover of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction's August issue, featuring 'The Goat Without Horns' by Thomas Burnett Swann and 'Isaac Asimov on astrology'-- the cover illustration is a black-haired nude white woman facing away from the viewer, standing thigh-deep in a claret sea and peering downward. Three improbably large & erect black dorsal fins tightly orbit her, cutting a circular wake, and an onyx platform floats above, out of her reach. Three crescent moons hang large in the sky, the largest one refracted through the only other feature projecting from the waves-- left of the woman is an enormous lenticular crystal within which is embedded vertically a chalky nude man, twisted to face the moon. Red and white flares lay a track of parabolic arcs charting from the horizon towards the crystal.$

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217d

For our second of July's Galactoscopes, we have quite the mixed bag: two winners and two losers. Aren't you glad you've got us to navigate the dross for you? #ScienceFiction

https://galacticjourney.org/july-19-1970-july-galactoscope-2/

Covers of four books. The first cover is for the novel Quest for the Future by A E van Vogt. The illustration shows a huge, green, tentacled monster about to eat a human whole. Text at the bottom right corner says: In the palace of immortality, all the probabilities of time are waiting for you. The second cover is for the novel The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock. The illustration shows a man sitting on a throne, holding a sword in one hand and a big, shiny crystal ball in the other. A naked woman is kneeling in front of him, pouring a drink into his mouth. The third cover is for the novel Anti-Man by Dean R Koontz. The illustration shows a multitude of people struggling to walk in order. In the foreground, a human face is half covered by a hand. The palm of the hand shows the eye that the hand covers on that face. Text in the middle says: Sam was a miracle being—and a curse to a dangerously overpopulated planet. The fourth cover is for the novel A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick. The illustration shows blue clouds half-covering an orange setting sun. Beneath the clouds, half-closed eyes look downward.

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238d

Transmission #28 – From the Head of Sericulture
Transmission from: Briony Ash, Head of Sericulture, Luxembourg Base, Copernicus D Crater, Moon
Earth Received Time: 12 June 2045, 10:13:49 UT

The latest report from Project Abeona, a small group of poets living off-world in a speculative future

(Transmission #28 by Pippa Goldschmidt)

https://projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-28-from-the-head-of

#Scottish #literature #poem #prosepoem #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction

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238d

It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics

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210d

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn

1 of thi moust entataynink syfy reeds ov ol, hooj recomindayshn :)

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scifi book cover

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238d

the starline pass

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two individuals stand together holding hands at the foot of a giant ancient archway. The archway adorned with mysterious symbols and history, on the other side is the open unknown.

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221d

You are walking at a nearby park when suddenly a beautiful being with pointy ears asked you question in a language that seems alien. What will be your first thought or yoyr first words?

Tags: #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Elf #Vulcan #Warcraft #DnD #StarTrek #LordOfTheRings #Fae

18% ELF! Can you show me some elven magick?
55% VULCAN! Live-long and prosper.
27% FAE?! Run!

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221d

You finished your lunch meeting and on your way back to your office when suddenly a handsome being with pointy ears asked you question in a language that sounds elvish and a voice that is soothing to your ears. What will be your first thought or your first words?

Tags: #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Elf #Vulcan #Warcraft #DnD #StarTrek #LordOfTheRings #Fae

23% ELF! Can you show me some elven magick?
51% VULCAN! Live-long and prosper.
26% FAE?! Run!

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9d

“Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION was one of the most addicting games of my life… I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Iain M. Banks shared the addiction and that his Culture novel EXCESSION was in part inspired by it.”

—Peter Tieryas on how Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION helped inspire Iain M. Banks’s 1996 Culture novel EXCESSION

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https://reactormag.com/on-iain-m-banks-and-the-video-game-that-inspired-excession-sid-meier-civilization/

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238d

Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:

https://inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/

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5d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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157d

📚 Planetfall by: Emma Newman

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Su...

https://bookblabla.com/book/planetfall

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Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart...

From the Hugo Award-winning author of Between Two Thorns comes the first novel in a captivating science fiction series where a secret withheld to protect humanity’s future may lead to its undoing…

“Cathartic and transcendent.”—The New York Times

“An exceptionally engaging novel that explores the complex relationship between mythology and science.”—The Washington Post

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2d

Book Review: Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann
Queer space pirates fighting the mundane evils of AI
Christine Baker , one of our new contributors, has our review at the NOAF blog

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-ignore-all-previous.html

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2d

Chapter 17 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Irkith, the first king of the Ulkun, is restored to life, while Nicole's neck continues to ache.

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201d

Project Hyperion awards best generational spacecraft concept. Runners-up and honorable mentions also presented. I’m working on Christian sci-fi novel Basilica Obscura about space ark—bioship a la Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, haves and have-not per Metropolis.

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https://www.projecthyperion.org

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