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PERFECTO102: Chouette De L'espace #art#MastoArt#DigitalArt#DigitalPainting#Photoshop#Sketch#SpeedPaint#SciFi#ScienceFiction#Vehicle#Spaceship
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A Knob On The End Is Optional - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/14/a-knob-on-the-end-is-optional/
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FML.
I’ve started reading book 9 of #theExpanse and was confused by a huge jump in time. Seemed like a strange choice by the authors.
I accidentally skipped reading book 8. 🤦🏻♂️
That sure does explain things!
I’ve been reading all my life and this is the first time I’ve ever made a boneheaded mistake like that.
Guess my reading is on pause until I can get the missing book sent to me, lol.
(The book series is really fucking good, btw).
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Worlds of IF (November 1965)
I love the Little-Prince/Mario-Galaxy scale of this and the simplicity of it.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1965-11_IF
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
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Primordial black holes and dark matter, oh my! Hard SF writers will want to read this article.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-gravitational-black-holes-quantum-effect.html
@orionkidder : if recollection serves me, this article will be of interest re one of your SF universes.
#Writer#Author#ScienceFiction#SF #scifi#WritingCommunity#WritersOfMastodon#BlackHole #pbh #ligo#Science#Physics#Astrophysics#QuantumPhysics#QuantumMechanics#Space#BlackHoles #gravitywaves
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It may be a coincidence of available pulp magazines, but it could also be that someone is searching out Murray Leinster stories to upload to Project Gutenberg, and either way I'm cheering them on.
#Scifi#ScienceFiction#ProjectGutenberg
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7321?sort_order=release_date
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Astounding vol. 45, no. 3 (May 1950)
Be honest, the only thing we care about on this cover is “Dianetics”, a new science of the mind. This must have been one of its first appearances? And it's in a fiction magazine?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v45n03_1950-05_cape1736
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
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I'm a writer, and one of the things I use social media for is to promote my own work.
I also know how annoying it is when authors never post anything *else*. So I limit myself to one post a week. That's today.
Here's my most recent book, published by Ad Astra Games. This is my current last word on designing scientifically plausible exoplanetary systems for fiction, at least until I produce a second edition.
#sciencefiction #selfpromotion #ttrpg #worldbuilding
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/483143/architect-of-worlds
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Astounding vol. 28, no. 3 (November 1941)
I love the angle here, always good to get a shot from below and on a diagonal, adding drama to … I don't know, a guy on his way from one place to another looking serious. He could be going to buy space groceries for all I know.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v28n03_1941-11_cape1736
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
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PURSUIT (1982)
Acrylic - 30" x 20"
Acrylic - 30" x 20"
Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. 1/4
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Started reading Riley August's "The Last Gifts Of The Universe."
https://amzn.to/3UCGwUe
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Man, this is shaping up to be a really fun and clever #SciFi#SpaceOpera adventure story.
#books #reading#ScienceFiction
https://amzn.to/3UCGwUe
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Man, this is shaping up to be a really fun and clever #SciFi#SpaceOpera adventure story.
#books #reading#ScienceFiction
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THE RENEGADES OF PERN (1988)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20" X 30"
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20" X 30"
I was in a frenzied state trying to finish up jobs before the impending birth of our son when I had a dream about this cover. 1/3
#sciencefiction#scifi #fantasy #sff #illustration #pern #annemccaffrey
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Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 2 - 1951 - Columbia (August 1951)
Going out on a limb here but this is some guy's highly specific J G Ballardesque/Rule 34 fantasy, right? To become a human airplane with a sexy young woman chained to your back?
It's not my kind of thing but hey who am I to judge the author/artist? You do you.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_v01n02_-_1951_-_Columbia
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
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Worlds of IF (March 1962)
My first impression here is that the figure in the foreground is shipwrecked/marooned and is waving hopelessly to that ship in the distance? Pretty sad if so.
This could be because I watched “All Is Lost”, an amazing movie ever. Please watch it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1962-03_IF_modified
#Magazine#MagazineCover#PulpMagazine#PulpFiction#ScienceFiction#Fantasy#Horror#Art#Illustration
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That’s some heavy stuff you’re reading Cyrus cat! #scifi #sciencefiction #history #books #cat #cats #catsofmastodon
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Today in Labor History January 2, 1921: Karel Čapek’s science fiction play “R.U.R.” premiered. "R.U.R." stands for “Rossum's Universal Robots.” The play introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to the world of science fiction. He derived the word “Robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs, a derivation he attributed to his brother, Joseph. The play is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.
Čapek was opposed to all forms of totalitarianism, including both communism and fascism. As a young man, he worked as a journalist, in Prague, where he wrote on topics such as nationalism, totalitarianism and consumerism. As a teen, he was expelled from his high school for participating in an unauthorized student club, which he later described as a "very non-murderous anarchist society." In 1938, he had the chance to leave for the UK, but refused to leave Czechoslovakia, where the Nazi Gestapo had named him "public enemy number two." He died later that year from pneumonia.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #karelcapek #sciencefiction #scifi #robot #serf #slavery #totalitarianism #satire #play #playwright #theater #film #bladerunner #rebellion @bookstadon
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I'm starting on a binge watch of Babylon 5, a sci-fi series that ran 5 seasons from 1993 to 1998. I watched it then and so cool to watch it again. #Babylon5 #sciencefiction #scifi #television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5