Anyone else find themselves missing scifi experiences of yore – I have, that’s why I started ‘Make Your Own Scifi Adventure.’
#sciencefiction
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Just finished re-reading the 9th and final book of Iain Banks's Culture series.
What now? Any recent #sciencefiction recommendations?
Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
https://news.mit.edu/2025/concrete-battery-now-packs-ten-times-power-1001
Ein durch und durch hörenswerter Beitrag - nicht nur für die #Schreibcommunity, sondern auch für alle, die im Bereich #Bildung unterwegs sind.
https://overcast.fm/+AA9SgLSrVtc
At long last, @bdcollins95.bsky.social has completed his review of Robert Silverberg's " #ScienceFiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 "
It's a terrific piece, and very useful—practically a primer on classic SF. Check it out!
Sentinel robot design.
Re-reading Iain M. Banks's Culture series, now at book 8 of 9. How I miss you, Mr. Banks...
A brand new episode of the Future Lab—a conversation with Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore, Sourdough, and Moonbound. The focus is on maker culture, with some diversions into AI and being a publisher. #books #sciencefiction #fantasy
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#solarpunk, to me, means exploring stories that are BOTH realistic and optimistic about the future. I am not so sure about them being #utopian per se. I would describe them as NOT #dystopian
New Worlds vol. 18, no. 52 (October 1956)
Love the composition of this. As mentioned by one of my followers, the UK magazines had a different approach, a different aesthetic.
Is this earth, in the desert, or a sandy red planet?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_052v18_1956-10
"And this is one of the strangest intelligent species we've recorded so far. They live in tunnels, and their bodies are long, serpentine stalks. Lacking limbs, they use robotic prosthetics; how they built them or who provided them remains a mystery."
New book review on my website!
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
★★★★★
A short but joyful tale of creating the future you want out of the present you've been stuck with, told by robots who would rather make noodles than war.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/automatic-noodle/
#robots #identity #food #ScienceFiction #AnnaleeNewitz #books #review
Kelson Reviews Stuff · Automatic Noodle - ReviewA short but joyful tale of creating the future you want out of the present you've been stuck with, told by robots who would rather make noodles than war.
This week's net.wars, "Blur", goes to #gikii 2025 and finds its surrealism struggling to keep up with the weirdness of real life: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/19/blur/ #NetWars #AI #ScienceFiction #privacy
Some exciting solarpunk news - the future smells like onions! No, seriously - a new nanocellulose material uses onion to increase the longevity of solar panels.
Chapter 20 of The Next Horizon is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts
Amelia visits the Palace of Judgement, where she speaks with the new Matron of the Order of Newts, who turns out to be Alice Talbot from Ice Palace Two.
Alice gives Amelia a book about The Book of Newts, then she visits the local machine shop, to contract out work on her new project.
@fantasy @scifi
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction #webseries
Royal RoadThe Book of Newts | Royal RoadHome, safety, and a place to belong – they seem so easy to find, at least for everyone but Amelia Blackwell and her sisters, who run from accusations of witchcraft at every turn.
It started so simply, with a book. No one might have predicted that a book apparently filled with pictures of newts might lead to so much trouble, but The Book of Newts is (...)
By the time we reached the medical section, it was already too late.
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One of my favorite #ScienceFiction short stories is Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling.
I've said before it could be a perfect story to adapt for an episode of Love.Death+Robots.
Edit: Sterling himself was just talking about his works being adapted for Love.Death+Robots here:
MastodonBruce Sterling @bruces (@bruces@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image
*Magazine cover stories of mine that turned into Netflix "Love Death and Robots" cartoons. I forgot that I had these around here in Turin.
The Wanderer
The spaceship SOL approaching one of the incarnations of the disc world Wanderer, anchor point of the superintelligence ES. Perry Rhodan Fan Art.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #PerryRhodan #PerryRhodanFanArt #Sol #SpaceShipSol #Wanderer
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The title story in the Sturgeon collection--“The Stars Are the Styx” (1950)--is good!
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations · Magazine Review: Galaxy Science Fiction, ed. H. L. Gold (October 1950) (Simak, Sturgeon, MacLean, Matheson, Leiber, Brown, Asimov)
Artist Rowena Morrill (1944-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21339
L, 1979; R, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art