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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXI https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/20/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxi/
Come join the discussion!
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Four books: Jean-Louis Curtis’ The Neon Halo (1956, trans. 1958). I’m a sucker for lesser-known SF in translation. Here charts the evolution of modern society between 1995-circa 2100 with an unusual focus martyrdom and persecution.
Edgar Pangborn’s Davy (1964). One of my absolute favorites. I should have a review of another Pangborn novel posted soon. Stay tuned.
Octavia Butler’s Mind of My Mind (1977) is the second-published and second chronological installment of her Patternist series of novels (1976-1984), that chart the dystopic and hyper-violent development (and destruction) of a telepathic society.
Damon Knight’s Far Out (1961)–worth acquiring for “The Enemy” (1958), “You’re Another” (1955), and “Cabin Boy” (1951).
John Boston and Damien Broderick’s Building New Worlds: 1946-1959: The Carnell Era, Volume One (2013), New Worlds: Before the New Wave, 1960-1964: The Carnell Era, Volume Two (2013) and Strange Highways: Reading Science Fantasy, 1950-1967 (2013)
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It was stories of Galactic Empires which inspired me to make my own in Worldbuilding, now I'm finally putting form to the vast story of meta-civilisations, meddling Precursors and planets named after 1000 year old Terran memes.
I know there are others like me out there with their own galaxies and histories, it's the joy of Worldbuilding!
I know there are others like me out there with their own galaxies and histories, it's the joy of Worldbuilding!
If you hear Jungle music, it's because all Galactic starmaps play Jungle. I don't make the rules.
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@nyrath still so bloody good value after all these years. The big version makes it so much easier too.... gotta paint those minis me thinks.
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The bravest and most horrifying book I’ve read in ages https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/04/the-bravest-and-most-horrifying-book-ive-read-in-ages/#newsF #reading #recommendations#RecommendedReading #revies#ScienceFiction #scifi
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I’m rereading the 1952 #ScienceFiction classic #TheSpaceMerchants by #FrederikPohl and #CMKornbluth before teaching it again this summer. It’s always been compelling, but wow, it hits different in 2025.
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Short Story Reviews: E. C. Tubb’s “Without Bugles” (1952), “Home is the Hero” (1952), and “Pistol Point” (1953) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/13/short-story-reviews-e-c-tubbs-without-bugles-1952-home-is-the-hero-1952-and-pistol-point-1953/
Gerard Quinn's cover for New Worlds, # 15, ed. John Carnell (May 1952). Man stands in anguish in what looks like a red hand clutch at earth with a galaxy at his feet.
Gerard Quinn’s cover for New Worlds, #13, ed. John Carnell (January 1952). Man with two cables connected to his head is surrounded by a crab-like creature, a rabbit, and a spaceship.
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#captainfuture #kult #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #80er #70er #zeichentrick #anime #pulps #retro#lieblingsserie #kultserie
Captain-Future-Fan-Art von Samy Hadj Ammar
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Mass Scenario > Development > Bic on copypaper
https://iamgerardthomas.com/?p=102739
#BallpointPen#ConceptSketching#DailySketch #drawing#FediArt#MastoArt #pendrawing#ScienceFiction#SciFiArt#SketchBook
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James White (1928-1999) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?304
L, Dean Ellis, 1970; R , Dean Ellis, 1972
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Hospital Station. It depicts a large space station with a spacecraft approaching. The space station contains two major parts -- a spherical end and a long tube with various other tubes along its outside. It has a medical red cross on it.
Cover for The Watch Below. Shows a man looking outside of an underwater craft. Fish and plants float and swim around him
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This is a fun list of bad books to begin with if you're getting into science fiction literature.
Some great books here, actually, but yes, hard ones. I've started 5 of these, and finished, um... 3. ( I do have plans to finish reading the other two, but I have a large to-be-read pile).
https://screenrant.com/sci-fi-books-series-bad-for-beginners-list/
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Mass Scenario > GYMARMOUR > Hide and seek > Uni-ball on copypaper
Bigger > https://iamgerardthomas.com/b/USu
#art#ConceptSketching #drawing#GYMARMOUR #pendrawing#ScienceFiction #scifiart#Sketch #sketchbook#SubOrbitalMachine #fediart #mastoart
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FOUR DAY PLANET (1978)
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"
With science fiction covers, I’m more interested in having a painting be about the figures in the composition, so the technology almost always takes a back seat to whatever else is going on. 1/3
#sciencefiction#scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration#hbeampiper
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With every Hunger Games book, Suzanne Collins gets blunter about the messages readers keep missing
https://www.polygon.com/analysis/547538/hunger-games-suzanne-collins-explained-meaning #scifi #sciencefiction #art #scifiart #fantasy #space #cyberpunk
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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
https://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #scifiart #fantasy #space #cyberpunk
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Amazing Stories vol. 6, no. 5 (August 1931)
Love the drama, the depth, the diagonals everywhere, lots of story being told.
Spherical space ships again! I know we have a few fans out there.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesV06N05193108
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
@steaphan
The current standard is the Langston Field that originated in Niven and Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye. It was invented by Dr. Dan Alderson as per spec the limits desired by Niven & Pournelle. It was specifically designed in order to allow dramatic space opera combat scenes in scifi stories, but with interesting rules making interesting limitations.
For that reason it is also used in some scifi war games.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardefense.php#langston
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@nyrath @steaphan
Fascinating... this is making me want to re-read Mote, as I didn't recall this element of the story.
I did remember the term "Alderson Drive" though!
Apparently Dan Alderson appears in-world as the discoverer of the "Alderson force" that enables the interstellar drive:
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In SciFi great ship tech, what is the general lore behind why shields start at 100% and lower when confronted with any type of weapon or physical blow? Most shields deflect objects (not electrify/torch them) in SciFi. This infers more of a mag field or gravity. If that were so, a mag field wouldn't weaken when a non-mag force is applied.
It's fiction...I know...but so many ships have been needlessly blown up.
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Let someone say #sciencefiction is unrealistic...
Robert A. #Heinlein foresaw the decline of American #democracy in "Revolt in 2100" (from the early 1950s!) with frightening acuity (and set the presidential election of the quite Trumpesque "prophet" only four years too early, at 2012): https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html#:~:text=%22Throw%20in,majority%20in%20Washington.%22
(via @davidbrin)
Robert A. #Heinlein foresaw the decline of American #democracy in "Revolt in 2100" (from the early 1950s!) with frightening acuity (and set the presidential election of the quite Trumpesque "prophet" only four years too early, at 2012): https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html#:~:text=%22Throw%20in,majority%20in%20Washington.%22
(via @davidbrin)
Let's hope he's not also right about the ensuing 90 years of theocratic dictatorship...
