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MidgePhoto @midgephoto@photog.social · 2 days ago

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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

Axel Gutmann @virbonus@sueden.social · 4 weeks ago

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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)

Let's hope he's not also right about the ensuing 90 years of theocratic dictatorship...

#Trump #USA #GOP #project2025 #SF #Fascism

Cover of the Signet paperback edition of "Revolt in 2100." Against a futuristic backdrop, a canvas depicts a fanatical preacher, with a group of armed revolutionary people in front of it.

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe · last month

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Welp, check seeing an exoplanet off my bucket list!

#BoostingIsSharing

#Exoplanets #Astronomy #Exoplanet #Writer #sf #ScienceFiction #scifi #Author #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/webb-hr-8799?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=skyatnightmag/magazine/Space+and+astronomy+news

Dianora (Diane Bruce) @Dianora@ottawa.place · 2 months ago

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Looking at a cut on my hand then thinking about the “instant” healing of Star Trek (and it’s not just StarTrek) devices. Inject a drug/vaccine and magically it cures!

And then I imagine just how much *heat* that would cause healing at that speed and the burns as the body heals?

TANSTAAFL

#Humour #StarTrek #SciFi #SF

Vincent Waciuk @waciuk@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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'Star Winds', while entertaining enough, lacks the charisma needed to elevate it to greatness.

#sf #scifi #books #bookreview

http://incompletefutures.com/2025/02/03/star-winds-sets-its-sights-on-pulp-sf/

Vincent Waciuk @waciuk@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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'The High Crusade' is high adventure in space but it also layers on deception and treachery for a more flavourful experience.

#sf #scifi #books #bookreview

http://incompletefutures.com/2025/01/27/the-high-crusade-brings-high-adventure/

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe · 3 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) @jdavidnet@me.dm · 4 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

Vincent Waciuk @waciuk@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

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'Timelike Infinity' by Stephen Baxter takes Golden Age SF and drags it into the future with compelling results.

#sf #scifi #books #bookreview

http://incompletefutures.com/2024/12/02/timelike-infinity-is-sharp-and-compelling/