Assoc for Scottish Literature
Assoc for Scottish Literature  ·  2 days ago

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“If you want to know how Banks views capitalist tech billionaires, you don’t have to hunt very hard. In the Culture series, a capitalist tech billionaire is the literal devil, only he couldn’t be bothered to build hell himself.”

—Constance Grady on how the broligarchy misreads Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels

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https://www.vox.com/culture/413502/iain-banks-culture-series-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg

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retech
retech  ·  4 days ago

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Discovery of a still functioning Rovelli Ansible. It is still connected, however only to an automated beacon. Plus doubt it is currently paired to a functioning base.

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A video showing a device with a art deco wooden body to which are attached various electronic devices. The top is crowned with a functioning CRT screen playing video.
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan  ·  3 weeks ago

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OUTBOUND (1974)
Oil on Primed Illustration Board - 20" x 15"

An early oil painting done for myself. I was attending the Art Center at the time, but this was painted outside school.

It won first place for “Science Fiction Art—Professional” in the art show at the World SF Convention that year. 1/5

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A spaceship with spherical bow—reminiscent of the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey— maneuvers past an oblong asteroid. The ship is so close in the foreground that part is off panel. The rock behind it is set on a diagonal rising to the right with a flaring sun in the distance. On the asteroid's surface is a dome. Other structures hint at a colony or starbase. A line of thin red windows indicates the bridge. Not far above two communication dishes rise. A cluster of cylinders run along the long shaft of the ship. From the aft, solar panels extend out to both sides.
A spaceship with spherical bow—reminiscent of the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey— maneuvers past an oblong asteroid. The ship is so close in the foreground that part is off panel. The rock behind it is set on a diagonal rising to the right with a flaring sun in the distance. On the asteroid's surface is a dome. Other structures hint at a colony or starbase. A line of thin red windows indicates the bridge. Not far above two communication dishes rise. A cluster of cylinders run along the long shaft of the ship. From the aft, solar panels extend out to both sides.
A spaceship with spherical bow—reminiscent of the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey— maneuvers past an oblong asteroid. The ship is so close in the foreground that part is off panel. The rock behind it is set on a diagonal rising to the right with a flaring sun in the distance. On the asteroid's surface is a dome. Other structures hint at a colony or starbase. A line of thin red windows indicates the bridge. Not far above two communication dishes rise. A cluster of cylinders run along the long shaft of the ship. From the aft, solar panels extend out to both sides.
Patrick O'Beirne
Patrick O'Beirne  ·  3 weeks ago

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Question for old #scifi readers.
Which story (maybe 50 years old) opened with a sentence about a tall apartment where "... a piano was playing a man"?
Like Huxley's feelies.
Google failed me and LLM (I know, but sometimes you gotta try to peek around copyright walls in the interest of 'fair use' research) invented the usual plausible but wrong answer.

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