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Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
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A common complaint people make about #SpaceOpera is that planets always feel so tiny and have only as much going on on them as in a small town at best.
But I think that's an automatic consequence of the most basic premises of this genre. When fairly ordinary people can have a space ship and just take off to leave the star system in 30 minutes, then every point anywhere on the planet can be reached in 10.
Distances on a planetary scale cease to exist. Everything is right next door.
A common complaint people make about #SpaceOpera is that planets always feel so tiny and have only as much going on on them as in a small town at best.
But I think that's an automatic consequence of the most basic premises of this genre. When fairly ordinary people can have a space ship and just take off to leave the star system in 30 minutes, then every point anywhere on the planet can be reached in 10.
Distances on a planetary scale cease to exist. Everything is right next door.
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
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With the third outing, #StrangeNewWorlds still has everything the discerning Trekkie could want.
#StarTrek #series#Streaming #review #reviews#NowStreaming #sciencefiction #scifi#Trek
With the third outing, #StrangeNewWorlds still has everything the discerning Trekkie could want.
#StarTrek #series#Streaming #review #reviews#NowStreaming #sciencefiction #scifi#Trek
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John M. Faucette (1943-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2154
L, 1970; R, Gray Morrow, 1968
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Faucette was one of only a few African American science fiction authors active in the 60s and 70s.
Cover for The Age of Ruin. Man with bow and arrow and loin cloth stands in the front shooting his weapon. Two women behind him. Three rockets zipping across the sky.
Cover for The Warriors of Terra. Man with collar stands across the cosmos. Behind him are planets, stars, and a rocket.
John M. Faucette (1943-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2154
L, 1970; R, Gray Morrow, 1968
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Faucette was one of only a few African American science fiction authors active in the 60s and 70s.
Cover for The Age of Ruin. Man with bow and arrow and loin cloth stands in the front shooting his weapon. Two women behind him. Three rockets zipping across the sky.
Cover for The Warriors of Terra. Man with collar stands across the cosmos. Behind him are planets, stars, and a rocket.
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Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
#comicstrip #jeffhawke #scifi #sciencefiction #comicstrips #spaceopera
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
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It may veer from Asimov's books a bit, but I was dreading that Apple would be as daft as Netflix were with The OA and shaft their unusually intelligent and increasingly engrossing Foundation sci-fi series.
Thankfully, they have proven wiser than Netflix.
I just wish HBO's intriguing Raised By Wolves had been able to live up to its potential too.
https://www.cbr.com/apple-tv-seals-the-fate-of-foundation/
#Foundation#AppleTV #RaisedByWolves#HBO#Netflix#TheOA #scifi #tv
It may veer from Asimov's books a bit, but I was dreading that Apple would be as daft as Netflix were with The OA and shaft their unusually intelligent and increasingly engrossing Foundation sci-fi series.
Thankfully, they have proven wiser than Netflix.
I just wish HBO's intriguing Raised By Wolves had been able to live up to its potential too.
https://www.cbr.com/apple-tv-seals-the-fate-of-foundation/
#Foundation#AppleTV #RaisedByWolves#HBO#Netflix#TheOA #scifi #tv
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@ai6yr
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #Scifi
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