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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
Cover for the anthology Time to Come. A rover on a Mars-like surface explores a chasm. A rocket is in the background.
Cover for Hunger and Other Stories. For the Ghoul in You... a collection of violent entertainments. A Bosch painting paired with a squatting bird/human creature with webbed feat and a beak.
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
Cover for the anthology Time to Come. A rover on a Mars-like surface explores a chasm. A rocket is in the background.
Cover for Hunger and Other Stories. For the Ghoul in You... a collection of violent entertainments. A Bosch painting paired with a squatting bird/human creature with webbed feat and a beak.
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It was sad to see a 17-year-old girl in the #RoyalInstitution #ChristmasLectures this year preaching that billionaires have given us access to space and that Elon Musk is a great guy who will take humanity to Mars.
The reality is that it is governments who gave us access to space.
Billionaires, on the other hand, have given us space *pollution*, the shuttering of NASA and NOAA, wasteful vanity projects, and the extension of the category of 'astronaut' to encompass #KatyPerry.
#ElonMusk is meanwhile recycling 20th century boy's fiction sci-fi fantasies about techno-feudal rich-equals-superior inventors-cum-capitalists, not the least of which is E.E. Smith's 'Skylark' series.
In these male fantasies the rich industrialist hero's girlfriend sometimes does indeed get to be a passenger in his rocketship.
Juvenile pulp sci-fi was not supposed to be the roadmap for the future.
It was sad to see a 17-year-old girl in the #RoyalInstitution #ChristmasLectures this year preaching that billionaires have given us access to space and that Elon Musk is a great guy who will take humanity to Mars.
The reality is that it is governments who gave us access to space.
Billionaires, on the other hand, have given us space *pollution*, the shuttering of NASA and NOAA, wasteful vanity projects, and the extension of the category of 'astronaut' to encompass #KatyPerry.
#ElonMusk is meanwhile recycling 20th century boy's fiction sci-fi fantasies about techno-feudal rich-equals-superior inventors-cum-capitalists, not the least of which is E.E. Smith's 'Skylark' series.
In these male fantasies the rich industrialist hero's girlfriend sometimes does indeed get to be a passenger in his rocketship.
Juvenile pulp sci-fi was not supposed to be the roadmap for the future.
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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.
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#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!
I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃
I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here 
#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon
#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!
I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃
I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here
#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon
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I’ve only read the first book, but I get why it’s considered to be unadaptable. Makes me appreciate this version all the more: “By prioritizing intellectual and thematic ambition over strict fidelity, Foundation accomplishes what many adaptations fail to do. It feels authentically Isaac Asimov without being constrained by his limitations as a novelist, translating his legacy into a modern, compelling, and deeply thoughtful space opera.”
I’ve only read the first book, but I get why it’s considered to be unadaptable. Makes me appreciate this version all the more: “By prioritizing intellectual and thematic ambition over strict fidelity, Foundation accomplishes what many adaptations fail to do. It feels authentically Isaac Asimov without being constrained by his limitations as a novelist, translating his legacy into a modern, compelling, and deeply thoughtful space opera.”
I'm trawling through networks like #Syfy for something good. Preferably #scifi. So far I've added #Helix, #BloodDrive, #Sliders, #LostGirl, #Warehouse13, #DarkMatter, #Gracepoint and #MarvelsJessicaJones. Where should I start? :-)
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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