sciencefiction

LAST LOOK BACK (1989)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 36" x 24"

The way to the far horizon can only be made by transcending the red hill...beyond is only sky. 1/4

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Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/read-the-original-32-page-program-for-fritz-langs-metropolis.html

The book "Metropolis" by Thea von Harbou (wife of Fritz Lang) at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73727

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This is a book for the Fediverse. It's called OVERSCAN, and it's an anthology of #sciencefiction and #fantasy from #NantucketLit writers.

Learn more at https://nantucketlit.com/overscan.

I met many of the writers and artists involved in this book on the Fediverse, including @NylaWoethief, @amin, @atgonzalez, and @dinchenix. It will be published on Friday, August 9, as a free ebook on my site, and as a paperback. I am also selling an Apple II ebook edition on floppy disk... more on that later.

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Haven't joined my email list yet? Never received your free book? Now's a great time to sign up; I'm changing up my marketing strategy to keep in better touch with my fans!

https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/352eda48-44de-11f0-a3a4-37b9c031cb04

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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "What if? 2" von Randall Munroe. Band1 hatte ich auf Papier aus der Stadtbibliothek, 2 jetzt über Libby/Overdrive in der Wil Wheaton Fassung als Onleihe. Wievele Römer braucht es, um Rom an einem Tag zu erbauen? Auch viele andere Fragen sind für #Fantasy und #ScienceFiction #Weltenbau interessant. #WhatIf @bookstodon @buchstodon

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How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality

By Fleur Hopkins-Loferon

https://aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality

Maurice Reynard at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50553

#books #sciencefiction

I've finished: A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski

If you want to read a book from the 80s that isn't horribly outdated, your best bet is to seek a female author.

A Door Into Ocean is about non violent resistance to an imperialist patriarchy. About the dangers of deadly technology to humanity and the environment. About a path to a society that will not destroy itself.

It pits a women lead planet that has learned to live in balance with nature and is governed through consensus against a men lead planet that is governed by a hierarchy and the threat of force.

The far future setting and restrictions on technology create a clean break from current trends and help prevent the novel from dating itself. Though the fear of nuclear war is a major aspect of this universe.

The complexity of the Sharer culture, it's language and philosophy and the powerful will of the women that make up it's collective are very compelling.

I appreciate that Slonczewski gives us two main points of view, that of a mature noble woman and of a young commoner man. This allows us to experience migration to Shora at two different levels, (and we don't have to spend all of our time with a stupid teenager).

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/779f8a08-a9e6-4bd4-bc7d-e5cf394fb522

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#ScienceFiction #pacifism #ecology #feminism

first post on mastodon, here’s some of my work!

I’m a sci-fi / fantasy illustrator and hoping to connect with other artists on here as well✌🏼✨

#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart

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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

@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #Colonization #books #bookstdon #AudioBooks

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.

@bookstodon @books @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork #space #sciencefiction #1950sSciFiFilms #GeorgePal #DestinationMoon

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

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.

@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #AI #Amazon #Frankenstein #amwritingsf #sciencefiction #secretscifinetwork #AbbyNormal

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

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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stop and smell the harvesting spires

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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

the starline pass

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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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