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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
#comicstrip #jeffhawke #scifi #sciencefiction #comicstrips #spaceopera
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
#comicstrip #jeffhawke #scifi #sciencefiction #comicstrips #spaceopera
Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1253
L, Hieronymus Bosch and Heinrich Kley, 1959; R, Robert E. Schulz, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #horror #books
Okay, crowdsourcing suggestions of video clips to use for the background video during my dance at Norwescon this year, which has the "First Contact Galactic Gala" theme: First contact scenes in movies/television.
Off the top of my head, some obvious ones:
- Vulcans arriving on Earth in Star Trek: First Contact
- The mirror universe version of that scene from Enterprise
- Many scenes (particularly the end) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The UFO over Mulder in some X-Files episode (and there are probably many other X-Files scenes)
- A few scenes in E.T.
Any suggestions for others? (Bonus points if you can provide episode names or numbers for TV show suggestions.)
#LazyWeb #FirstContact #aliens #UFO #UFOs #StarTrek #CloseEncounters #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1253
L, Hieronymus Bosch and Heinrich Kley, 1959; R, Robert E. Schulz, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #horror #books
Getting a little tired of lazy #SciFi. Capitalism cannot survive a multi-planet, spacefaring civilisation. If you need scarcity, introduce something rare and important (Dune: spice). Logistics is always the most interesting part of economics. How to get stuff to where its needed, raw materials to manufacturing, manufactured goods to distribution. Food, furniture, clothing. That should always be the first step in your #WorldBuilding.
Getting a little tired of lazy #SciFi. Capitalism cannot survive a multi-planet, spacefaring civilisation. If you need scarcity, introduce something rare and important (Dune: spice). Logistics is always the most interesting part of economics. How to get stuff to where its needed, raw materials to manufacturing, manufactured goods to distribution. Food, furniture, clothing. That should always be the first step in your #WorldBuilding.
Jamming the two together: I'm alternately amused and annoyed by how much #ScienceFiction has #humans doing things like #flying #spaceships, but relegates #medical care to #robots. Uh ...
As both a #medic and a #writer, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the ethical bar for #fiction #writing is *far* lower than the bar for #medicine. Reading a bad story may make you feel like you've wasted an irretrievable chunk of your life, but it's very unlikely to land you in the morgue. So the idea that there might be ethical uses for #AI in medicine but not in writing seems rather strange to me.
Another addendum: like many #SF writers, I'm a bit of a #Luddite when it comes to the writing process. After decades of messing around with various word processors, these days I do my writing in #Markdown using a text editor, then convert it to Word for sharing it with the rest of the world. I'm genuinely happier that way. #Grammar checkers and the like can fuck right off.
But I'm uneasy with people who create #sciencefiction rejecting the *idea* that #AI might be useful for #creative endeavors. I don't yet know what a good use case would be, and I doubt I'll ever want #ChatGPT or one of its descendants to write a draft for me. Making it my work would feel like editing someone else's manuscript, even if it's good—which of course current AI writing isn't, but that could change. I just don't want people who think about the future professionally to assume that we'll never advance past the present.
हिति , in Nepāl Bhāṣā, is the word for a shared community water tap. Even in modern Newar cities, these ancient structures still pour out fresh mountain water piped through ancient underground filters and conduits. They are a place to wash, to talk, to drink, to meet the locals: a nourishing, refreshing social-ecological place.
