Jonathan Kamens
Jonathan Kamens  ·  yesterday

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OK, so, I'm working my way through #Babylon5 for the first time, and now that I've gotten well past the pretty terrible episodes in the first season, I'm definitely enjoying it more.
But I have to say, they were rather a bit too heavy-handed and obvious about the Neville Chamberlain parallel in "The Fall of Night". "Peace in our time"? Really?!
Like, yeah, we get it, appeasement doesn't work, thanks for beating us over the head with it.
#sf #tv
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Assoc for Scottish Literature  ·  3 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

@bookstodon

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

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi#SF #IainBanks#IainMBanks#TheCulture #techbros #broligarchy#Musk#Bezos#Zuckerberg

rdm
rdm  ·  4 weeks ago

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Mad Science isn't all about death rays and trying to take over the world. I mean there are some in the community who go in for that sort of thing, but really? Death rays are a dime a dozen - there is no real challenge to them, and what do they really do to expand our scientific knowledge? Nothing.

Now I know what you are thinking, and yes, some of what some of us do is not morally defensible, and I'm not going to pretend that that sort of thing is something I support. But that is what we have superheros for, right? To deal with those sorts.

The rest of us just want to answer the really hard questions. "Can you stop time?" "Can you travel in time?" "How many licks does it take to get to the centre of various lollypops?" "What if the moon were transparent?" "Is vampirism a disease or genetic?" Those sorts of things.

Why just last week I helped out a fellow who wanted to know about one of those. We only caused a couple of tidal waves, and to be honest, Florida is better off for them. And he got his answer.

So you see? We just want to help people.

#SF#SFF #microfiction #tootfic#IAmWriting#MadScience

MidgePhoto
MidgePhoto  ·  last month

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15v0j0n2kxo.amp

#SF
Last century Eric Frank Russell wrote The Great Explosion (stories after humans spread into the Galaxy) and a bit of world building on the planet of the Gands (Or Ghands perhaps) was the use of inflated spheres rather than wheels.

Fun stories. No less good today.
Also, written relatively soon after the Nazis and Fascistic were put back in their boxes.

#galaxy#BliederDrive

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist  ·  4 months ago

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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.

#BoostingIsSharing

#Writer#Author#ScienceFiction#SF #scifi#WritingCommunity#WritersOfMastodon#BlackHole #pbh #ligo#Science#Physics#Astrophysics#QuantumPhysics#QuantumMechanics#Space#BlackHoles #gravitywaves

Justin D Kruger (he/him)
Justin D Kruger (he/him)  ·  5 months ago

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Imagine the "3 Laws of Robotics," but replace the word "#Robot" with "#Corporations."

(0- Corps Can't Harm Humanity)

1-Corps Don’t harm or allow harm to humans.
2-Corps Obey humans, unless that violates Law 1.
3-Corps must Survive, unless that violates Laws 1 or 2.

#3Laws#3LawsCorp
#IsaacAsimov
#Ethics#CorpEthics
#Punk#CyberPunk#Humor#SciFi#SF

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