Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart  路  3 weeks ago

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From the Odyssey archives: in April 2011 we began our voyage through the BIS archives, uncovering this photo of a man who knew a little bit about space shuttles, real and imagined. #Odyssey #ArthurCClarke #BIS_Odyssey #scifi #Space #sciencefiction@victrix75@rob_coppinger
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)  路  2 weeks ago

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@futurebird So tell me, she who knows, I've got some bugs coming up in the next section of my series of novellas. What's a good documentary on ant behaviour, possibly bees, for me to steal some cool bits for my alien bugs? My characters will be literally crawling into the nest, so I need a good primer. A lecture recorded at a university might also work.

#SciFi #bugs #ants#AmWriting #writing

myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandist  路  2 weeks ago

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@golgaloth

The most common error I've seen in #scifi representations of social insects is a deep misunderstanding about the role of the queen and the nature of the "hive mind" (such as it is)

1. Queen ants are not rulers, they are more like ovaries. The colony is like a body every cell is important.
2. Ants are individuals and do whatever they want. It just so happens that what they want is for the colony to thrive, but they can get in 'arguments' about HOW to do that most efficiently.

Rafael
Rafael  路  last month

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I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse#ProjectGutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461-images.html

K.N. Brindle (they/them)
K.N. Brindle (they/them)  路  last month

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I've been playtesting these rules for a bit, and one of the things I love about them is that they're FAST

You make 1 roll, let's say for an attack. That roll of Xd6s (it's a dice pool system) tells you if you succeeded or not, & also what damage you did, & also resolves against armor (passive defense) & active defense (parries, dodges). With the right weapon, the defender can riposte (counter attack) & it all happens in seconds.

Really fun!

#ttrpg #fantasy #scifi #writers #sff #readers

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