sciencefiction

In our latest newsletter: author Mir Seidel on cosplay as "ritual magic."

https://newdoorbooks.net/so/a4PUTseFC?languageTag=en

#fictionwriter #cosplaying #sciencefiction

I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/special-interview-with-ada-palmer-history-of-ideas-and-our-climate-imaginations

#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse

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

#sciencefiction #film #books

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.

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

#AmWriting #WritersLife #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books

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

Introduction Appendix 3: This project will be a bit less socially minded, more just creative, and hopefully even a little lucrative, but I'm not holding my breath.

That's right, I'm writing a novel. I know that novelists are a dime a dozen, but I actually really enjoy writing, think that I'm fairly decent at it, and certainly have no shortage of ideas. There will be sequels, many of them (and prequels, and side stories...).

So what's it about? It's science fiction, because that's what I know and like best. The basic idea is the well-known "lost in space" idea, but I'm hoping that the unique setting, characters, and story are able to carry it. It takes place in an alternate history where the United States, Canada, and Mexico joined together to form a Technate, a country that employs Technocracy (see my Intro Appendix 1), not long after World War 2. Technological progress happens much faster until the start of the novel, where we find our crew of four performing a test flight of a prototype fusion rocket engine. Naturally, something goes horribly wrong and... science fiction weirdness ensues as the crew has to try and find their way back to Earth while navigating several strange (and often hostile) alien civilizations.

The background and setting are fairly detailed, enough that I already have ideas for prequels and side stories in addition to the main series. "Epic" world building appears to be my jam. Now we just have to see if anyone else happens to like it.

#Writing #fiction #amwriting #WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction

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

Chapters 27 and 28 of "A New Faith" are 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

#solarpunk #hopepunk #clifi #book #bookstodon #novel #fiction #scifi #climate #adaptation #migration #mystery #thriller #booksky #amwriting #authorsky #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers #PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #climatefiction

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

@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #pacifism #ecology #feminism

Synthetic planet - omicron class

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

#Avoyd #Rendering #Voxel #VoxelArt #3DArt #Planet #SpaceArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SciFiArt #ScreenshotSaturday #MastoArt

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

#solarpunk #hopepunk #books #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

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

#Books #Astronomy #Sciencefiction

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.)

@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #secretscifinetwork #amwritingSF #sciencefiction #space #interstellar

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

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/

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/

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

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

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 :)

#books #amreading #reading #kindle #literature #booktoot #book #knihy #scifi #sciencefiction @bookstodon @scifi @knihy

the starline pass

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

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

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