We invite you to journey to the Moon... 16th Century style with a zany cast of commedia dell'arte characters with space travel as envisioned by medieval and Renaissance writers! "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon" blasts off this Saturday, April 11 at the Ohio State University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on "Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination"!

See more about the event: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/star-gazing-astrology-and-astronomy-medieval-and-renaissance-imagination

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateUniversity #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Renaissance #History #Conference #ScienceFiction #SciFi

Belated #intro.

I'm Masha du Toit, a writer of #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy. I live in #SouthAfrica #CapeTown

I post about my pets a lot (#rats, #birbs) , as well as random #UrbanDetails and stuff about my #BackyardGarden. I'm also all about #bicycles and #CyclingLife

I'm #nonbinary and #ActuallyAutistic with #anxiety and #depression so I will occasionally post resources I find helpful for my own #MentalHealth

I don't usually post about politics and upsetting topics that anger me, for my own mental health.

I try to keep my posts compassionate and not too ranty and complaining but I'm pretty weird so you might see things you don't understand.

A film version of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” is in the works! This book predicted so many things that are happening today. I’m excited: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/octavia-e-butler-parable-sower-225524144.html

#FilmMastodon #ScienceFiction #OctaviaEButler #Books

@bookstodon

Demon Hunters and Space https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/demon-hunters-and-space/ #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Television

When dinosaurs escape a genetic experimentation complex, the result is never good! Try out The Carborundum Conundrum by Robin C.M. Duncan!
#detective #sciencefiction #mystery
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/the-carborundum-conundrum-

Book promotion: Power changes everything in this mosaic novelset in a world where 10% of the population develops uncanny abilities at midlife.

Some people’s lives change for the better. Others face the loss of all they hold dear.

priced at $0.99 on my website AT THIS LINK --> https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/rough-passages-fedi

Other vendors & formats:
https://books2read.com/Rough-Passages

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The ebook cover for Rough Passages by K M. Herkes (cover image of a flaming figure set against a nighttime cityscape) set diagonally on an impressionist background of reds, golds and earth tones. Beside the book are words describing the tropes and themes of the book: chosen families definitely hopepunk but also science fiction fantasy feisty heroines superpowers fighting the system older protagonists defying expectations

Take a chance on one of my otherworldly stories about people who risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & cooperation. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty, but never grim.

Get epubs DRM-free for $0.99 on my website at this link:
https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop

Other formats at regular prices:
https://books2read.com/kmherkes
(DRM-free where I can make them so)

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Descriptive text falling like snowflakes around a paperback and ebook edition of Controlled Descent by KM Herkes on a blue snowy background. Text snippets are: chosen family vibes, like a heist, but for justice, hopepunk-y, disability rep. lots of swearing, no love triangles, not dystopian, sweet romance side plot, a little violence, but not grimdark! The book cover images show two tiny figures walking across a snowfield toward a distant futuristic cityscape and stepp mountains while a plane leaves a contrail overhead on blue sky.

Astounding vol. 53, no. 6 (August 1954)

Interesting image, you'd have to admit—is this fate going to happen to her in the story or is it just metaphorical?

I could describe the background for the alt text but it's just "futuristic stuff" let's face it.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v53n06_1954-08_Sirius-Starhome

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

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A woman wrapped in a cloth looks up and out of the image; half of her face is young and the other half much older with grey hair and wrinkles. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1954.

READ → https://open.substack.com/pub/ficklefutures/p/cyberpunk-shattered-reflections-of?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#cyberpunk #literature #futurism #sciencefiction #postmodernism

#Masto

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Silhouettes of people in front of a blue, abstract digital display with text about a cyberpunk theme.

Having a lot of fun reading the third book of Skyler Ramirez' "Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes" series, " The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe".

This series really has something which makes it highly entertaining and fun to read. It is probably the combination of the setting (space!), a light-footed way of narrating the stories with just the right amount of humor, and - probably most importantly - the characters, which are both original and credible, and especially their development within the series.

Hat tip once again to @nlowell for having drawn my attention to the series in the first place!

#book #sciencefiction #spaceopera

Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

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Worlds of IF (June 1955)

The colours of this guy's clothes are amazing, they go with his hair don't they? I had to squint a bit to see what was going on in the background. The crutch is an intriguing detail.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1955-06_IF

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A man in contemporary clothes, one hand clenched in a fist and the other using a crutch, stares determinedly out of the image at the viewer. The background contains a stylised/blurred image, possibly a night sky with clouds/stars, which turns out to be a face. Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1955.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116330288496840996

If you are interested in queer cyberpunk themed science fiction written by women and looking for something interesting, check out both this thread (thanks @mekkaokereke!!!), and this featured New Yorker article about fellow Mastodonian @LateOnsetGirl...

#sciencefiction #SF #queer #cyberpunk

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#Cyberpunk #LiteraryTheory #Futurism #ScienceFiction #Postmodernism

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#FickleFutures

https://www.ficklefutures.com/p/cyberpunk-shattered-reflections-of

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#FickleFutures

Science Fiction Stories vol. 8, no. 4 (January 1958)

Love how much of a story this tells with its few components.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v08n04_1958-01

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A woman in revealing clothes lifts her hands in apparent worship toward a dilapidated rocket ship seen against a black sky. Next to her a similar male figure is on hands and knees. Food and drink, apparent offerings, are in front of them as is a small wood fire. Science Fiction Stories magazine cover from 1958.

Games and Dragons https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/games-and-dragons/ #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Bookstodon

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Sigourney Weaver and Jonesy the orange cat from the film Alien

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“I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction , this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsk...”

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Creepy no. 111 (1979)

This screams Bowie to me, am I crazy?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-111

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A young male vampire with slicked-back hair and a huge jewelled necklace, stares out of the image, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth and arms crossed on his chest. Creepy magazine cover September 1979.

Someone at Bluesky reminded me that we do have the book in our catalogue:

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/73727

#books #literature #sciencefiction #movies

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Hayo just finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells

I was sick and watched the series. I loved the main character. But as we all know, the book is always better. So I read the book. It is indeed much better. But desperately short. I love that the book is much more no-nonsense, doesn't feel the need to explain every single thing and goes forward in a much brisker pace than the series. So I will definitely read all the other parts as well.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/all-systems-red-679934

#Reading #Bookstodon #Fiction #ScienceFiction

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Cover of book: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Creepy no. 49 (1972)

This is inherently comical. Who cut off his head? Where are they now? Why didn't he die? What's he doing right now, just considering his options? As an image, it's terrifc. As a narrative element, it's useless to me.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-049

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A muscular figure stands in front of a guillotine. It has been decapitated and it is holding its head in its left hand by the hair. The expression on its face is unhappy. Creepy magazine cover November 1972.

This list of 42 publishers that accept direct submissions of speculative fiction (not all are currently open) may be helpful to those who publish in #fantasy, #scienceFiction, #horror, or intersections of such genres. https://authorspublish.com/42-publishers-that-accept-direct-submissions-of-speculative-fiction/

#publishing

Magic and Technology https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/magic-and-technology/ #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Bookstodon

Le roman dystopique 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟰 de George Orwell en nouvelle version Audio sur le site de France Culture : 10 épisodes d'environ 30 minutes #ScienceFiction #Audio 🎧️ https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-1984-mil-neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-quatre-de-george-orwell

The kitties of the Patchwork Palace wish you a beautiful first #Caturday of Spring! Dalek Skarino also mandates that your Spring be a superior season.

#Cat #Cats #Kitty #Kitties #Dalek #DoctorWho #ScienceFiction #SciFi

Book Review: Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall
Horny and intellectual by turns, this sapphic, spacefaring adventure is Moby Dick for the digital age.
@chloroform_tea has our full review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-hells-heart-by-alexis-hall.html
#bookstodon #books #sciencefiction #review
@bookstodon

#introduction: Hi I’m Farah. I’m originally from a small South Asian country; now live in Iowa, USA. I talk about my hobbies, #books, #gaming, #sciencefiction and #StarTrek and other isssues like #mentalheaIth #science #psychology. Occasionally I’ll talk about #USpolitics. I complain about the world a lot. I am pathologically anxious and make jokes to compensate, they aren’t always funny. Trying to connect with people because it’s hard to make friends in real life. Peace! 🖖🏼

I am reading "The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles" by Malka Older and she tosses in a reference to "the second 'Murderbot' aria." Now there's an opera I'd go see!

(Start with "The Mimicking of Known Successes" - this is the second book in sci fi/mystery/romance series)
#Murderbot #MarthaWells #ScienceFiction

THIS ALIEN SHORE (1998)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 20”

Most readers will remember author C.S. Friedman for the Coldfire Trilogy, but this was her most critically successful book, a New York Times notable book of the year. 1/4

#sciencefiction #illustration #csfriedman #dawbooks

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In a busy spaceport, a young redheaded woman wearing a glittering gold mini skirt and loose long sleeve top stops to lean against a metal support pillar. Discreetly, she holds a thin horseshoe shaped device with the head of a serpent and a green glowing eye. Behind her, the background is split into two levels. The upper deck is tinted purple while the lower level is bathed in gold. Wearing black cloaks, humanoids with disfigured faces are sprinkled among the panoply of alien lifeforms. Some fight through the press of bodies toward the girl.

Are space cruises feasible? https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/are-space-cruises-feasible/ #ScienceFiction

The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.

Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series

https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know

"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."

The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.

#IAimToMisbehave #Firefly #Serenity #AwesomeCon #nathanfillion #animation #animatedseries #entertainment #entertainmentnews #hollywood #SciFi #nostalgia #actors #spacemovies #ScienceFiction

Astounding vol. 37, no. 4 (June 1946)

This is such a montage/collage of things, it's hard to make out what's happening or the scale. Are the spherical ships causing the weather event(s) or merely reporting on them?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v37n04_1946-06_cape1736

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

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Spherical space ships or possibly satellites are depicted flying across the image, with a twister behind them, all this superimposed over a contour or weather map. At the bottom of the image are figures with headsets and microphones. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1946.

Amazing Stories, May 1934 (May 1934)

Hard to know what to make of this, indeed hard to know if this is a stylised image, or the depiction of a statue. He's been working out, I know that much, if he's lifting the stone lid of a sarcophagous off his back.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/ams_1934_05

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

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Either a stylised image of a bearded man reaching a hand up from a tomb, or a statue of a bearded man reaching up from a tomb. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1934.

Part 3 (of 6) of our series on Godzilla films takes a look at the Heisei era. Read for free at Rêverie, https://flyingfiddlesticks.com/2026/03/12/godzilla-part-3-heisei-era-1980-1998-2026/ #Godzilla #Gojira #horrorfilms #scififilms #kaiju #daikaiju #sciencefiction #monsters #giantmonsters

THE NONBORN KING (1983)
Mixed media on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”

Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did here.

A number of paintings I’ve done—including SNOWFALL and SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC—began with an overall wash of color and maybe some background elements painted in acrylic. After that layer had dried and set, I’d paint over that with gouache—which allows for excellent detail rendering. 1/4

#sciencefiction #illustration #julianmay #delreybooks

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Mid-leap, a black war horse is captured regal in profile against a backdrop of gray-clouded sky. The claw-like hooves and furry lower limbs of the mount suggest an alien world. Turning in its saddle, a red-haired man in gold armor, black cloak, and feathered cap holds a smoldering ball of fire in one hand and a mace in the other. In the low background, a city rises constructed of tall white towers topped with gold spires. Green grows throughout, nature in harmony with the classical architectural detail that includes spired domes and elegant columns.

Astounding vol. 50, no. 5 (January 1953)

This is like Hands Across America, only in space? Whatta concept, as Natasha Lyonne says.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v50n05_1953-01_AK

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A man's head and shoulders are right at the bottom edge of the image, his hand outstretched behind him toward a long chain of similar-looking men, all clothed in white, holding hands. The chain disappears off into the distance with no apparent end. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1953.

Creepy no. 144 (1983)

This is a Frazetta? I honestly wouldn't have picked it. It's not bad, it's got some good contrast between the central figure and the pastel-toned outer images.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-144

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A vampire figure is at the centre of the cover, strongly set out from the rest of the pastel tones of the background imagery: ghostly faces crying out; a tree, bats and gravestones. Creepy magazine cover January 1983.

🧵 Space-themed work, 24/x

Alien species (2024).

Modeled and rendered using the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.

#alien #space #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CharacterDesign #fantasy #monster #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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A worm-like, kind of cute alien worm with multiple eyes, captured in a glass capsule.

🧵 Space-themed work, 25/x

A stylized celebration (2012) of the Astronaut song by the Dutch musician Spinvis.

#music #AlbumArt #album #moon #space #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Stylized 3D artwork of an astronaut figure standing on a small moon.

And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it...
Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from "La Guerre des Mondes" by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906 #illustration #art #ScienceFiction https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/raised-tube/

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A tall, robot-like figure with long stick legs holds what looks like a cannon above its head in a landscape lined with other similar creatures.

Amazing Stories vol. 23, no. 10 (October 1949)

Love the angle, and love that they gave her a big honking tiger claw not a delicate hint of long fingernail. The artist chickened out rather when depicting breasts and hoped we wouldn't notice.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v23n10_1949-10

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A woman is seen at a dramatic angle from below, her face part covered in red, and her hand, prominent in the middle of the frame, is a feline clawed foot. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1949.

We're in the middle of an amazing weekend performing at Cleveland ConCoction and though the kitties of the Patchwork Palace aren't here they wish you have an Out-of-This-World and Stellar #Caturday!

#Cat #Kitty #Cats #Kitties #Alien #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Parody #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon

New Worlds vol. 9, no. 27 (September 1954)

All very strange. The artist seemed to want to avoid drawing arms. Also had never seen a gun. Why are there a single blank fencepost and some dead vines at the top of his tiny mountain?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_027v09_1954-09

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

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A man wearing a top with the collar up and tight blue pants awkwardly holds a long gun or some kind, looking down from a rocky vantage point at the word "MURDER" on a darkened landscape below. New Worlds magazine cover from 1954.

🧵 Space-themed work, 2/x

3… 2… 1… Liftoff! 🚀 (2026)

#space #spaceship #astronomy #ScienceFiction #SciFi #tech #technology #science #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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A graphic design style rocket, lifting off from a base into a starry night.

🧵 Space-themed work, 3/x

Bad luck (2018)

#space #astronaut #astronomy #stars #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CharacterDesign #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic design / cartoon style dead astronaut, floating through space with a sad expression.

🧵 Space-themed work, 4/x

Alien Express (2020)

#space #alien #UFO #stars #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CharacterDesign #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic design style artwork of a friendly alien in a hybrid between a UFO and a vehicle.

🧵 Space-themed work, 5/x

Retro-futuristic style SpaceX poster design, made in 2018, back when Mister Musk still seemed OK to me. 😏

#space #spaceship #astronomy #SpaceX #ScienceFiction #SciFi #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic design style SpaceX poster design, featuring a rocket lifting off from a futuristic base.

🧵 Space-themed work, 6/x

They forgot one thing when they designed the baby astronaut helmet…

Modeled in Blender, rendered using LuxCoreRender (2020).

#space #astronaut #cartoon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Cartoon-style 3D baby astronaut character who has barfed into his plexiglass helmet.

🧵 Space-themed work, 7/x

Cartoon-style spacecraft (2024, inspired by an Oliver Kurth concept).

Modeled, colored and rendered in the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.

#space #spaceship #cartoon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #stars #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Futuristic spacecraft with round, cartoon-style shapes, flying through space.

🧵 Space-themed work, 8/x

Spacecraft design (2024).

Modeled, colored and rendered in the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.

#space #spaceship #HardSurface #ScienceFiction #SciFi #stars #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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3D space fighter design, flying through space with stars visible in the background.

🧵 Space-themed work, 9/x

Space base (2024).

Modeled, colored and rendered in the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.

#space #cartoon #HardSurface #ScienceFiction #SciFi #stars #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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A cartoon-style 3D space base with a landing platform for spacecraft.

🧵 Space-themed work, 10/x

Cartoon for the Dutch NU.nl news site, regarding a news item about Japan sending a spaceship to the ISS space station (mid-to-late-2000s).

#space #cartoon #HardSurface #HelloKitty #SciFi #stars #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #ScienceFiction #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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3D cartoon, showing a flying spaceship that looks like a giant Hello Kitty character head.

🧵 Space-themed work, 11/x

Graphic design tributes to Star Wars and Star Trek (late 2000s or early 2010s).

#space #StarWars #StarTrek #film #movies #series #ScienceFiction #SciFi #design #artwork #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Graphic Star Wars poster design, showing a 3D depth gradient of a Star Wars X-wing fighter.

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Graphic Star Wars poster design, showing a 3D depth gradient of a Star Trek Enterprise spaceship.

🧵 Space-themed work, 12/x

Space failure (2013).

Low-polygon style 3D scene, made in Blender.

#moon #LowPoly #space #ScienceFiction #SciFi #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Faceted, low-polygon style 3D artwork, showing a rocket that has crashed into a moon.

🧵 Space-themed work, 13/x

Low-polygon style spaceship design, in a few rendering variations (2016).

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Minimalistic, faceted, low-polygon style spacecraft design.

🧵 Space-themed work, 14/x

Lunar Lander ─ Low-polygon style game concept art (2021).

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Faceted, low-polygon style rocket, standing on a moon surface with craters.

In meinem Blog schrieb ich über den klassischen Science-Fiction-Roman »Tuzub 37«, der in einer schönen Neuauflage im Hirnkost-Verlag veröffentlicht worden ist.

Hier geht's zu meiner Rezension:

https://enpunkt.blogspot.com/2026/02/ein-sf-klassiker-das-schon.html

@hirnkost
#rezension
#sciencefiction

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Titelbild des Rpmans »Tuzub 37« von Paul Gurk, in einer neuen Auflage vom Hirnkost-Verlag veröffentlicht.

#RobGrant #obituary | #RedDwarf | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/04/rob-grant-obituary

#UK #TV #Comedy #Humour #ScienceFiction

Amazing Stories vol. 9, no. 6 1934 10 (October 1934)

My best guess is that the catlike, floppy alien in the chair is missing a skeleton and the device is going to put one in? Someone please read the magazine.

Sadly Miles' 2nd-hand bookstore is not only gone but is demolished entirely: https://maps.app.goo.gl/q9Pyf53tDbUyak1YA

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v09n06_1934-10_Teckneeds_cover

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A man aims a device on a tripod at a cat-like creature, apparently unconscious in a chair, beaming red light at it. A skeleton stands upright nearby apparently sentient. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1934.

Life after Kaiju?

Space.com put the question to scientists.

Enjoy!

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/if-godzilla-attacked-could-we-survive-we-asked-the-experts

Hope you’ll join the discussion here or at https://startrek.website/c/monsterverse, the new community on Lemmy for all things Godzilla, Kaiju and Toho creatures.

#Godzilla #Monsterverse #MonarchLegacyOfMonsters #Kaiju #MLOM #ScienceFiction #Television

Omega: The Last Days of the World. Camille Flammarion, 1894.
There’s an explanatory text followed by chosen illustrations, AFTER the whole text of the novel, which you can scroll past unless you want to read the whole thing. An early science fiction text, post-Verne but pre-H.G. Wells, who wrote The Time Machine the following year.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/omega-the-last-days-of-the-world-1894/

#sciencefiction

Information on aliens, UFOs, or UAPs might be interesting... but B'Lazzo the Phlop'Globben, the resident alien human anthropologist researcher in our troupe, believes it's best we not get distracted from the big issues we have to face today so in the future we an join our galactic neighbors in peace and prosperity!

#Improv #Improvisation #Comedy #Theater #Parody #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Alien #Aliens #UFO #UFOs #UAP #FlyingSaucer #XFiles

DESCENT (1989)
Acrylic on Canvas - 28” x48”

When I was asked to do a new cover for Ray Bradbury's classic THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, I reread it and found I was deeply moved by the sense of inevitable tragedy that permeates the first half of the book. 1/4

#sciencefiction #illustration #raybradbury #bookcover

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A comet streaks across the Martian sky over a distant city and descending past a massive rectangular horned arch. Mountains run along the horizon like irregular plates jutting from its spine. The familiar red-orange of Martian regolith is broken by deep blue canals that wind through the landscape. In the immediate foreground, a trio of domed towers, each unique, dwarf tall slender pyramids clustered just beyond. Set above all that to the foreground right, a raised pool reflects the sky in a gray-blue gradient. A pair of bronze skinned humans sit next to it on an ivory overhang dotted with amber beads. The surface is elegantly patterned ending in a lace-like edging. One man holds an ornate mask over his face, casting a distinctly alien gaze at the viewer. In contrast, his companion cups his mask in his hand, exposing slightly elongated features in profile, as he gazes up at the contrail that crosses the sky.

You've just reached your age of majority (or maybe you're starting your second career). Which ship do you sign onto for your first tour?

I can only post four choices, if yours isn't listed, let me know what it is in the comments.

#ScienceFiction
#SpaceShips

Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

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Astounding vol. 34, no. 6 (February 1945)

The expressions and the body angles are really intense, against a very calm sunny background. And, you know, knives when this society has definitely invented laser beams and so on.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v34n06_1945-02_AK

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Two men with futuristic clothes are fighting with long knives/short swords in front of a window through which can be seen a futuristic city. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1945.

'Dark Fantasy and...Sneakers?'.

https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/dark-fantasy-andsneakers/ #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Bookstodon

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
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“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career

@bookstodon

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

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A head and shoulders photo of Iain Banks. He has brown, curly, untidy hair, and a reddish beard beginning to whiten on his chin. He is wearing glasses and a red, white, and blue checked shirt. He's looking up at the camera, which is above head height; we only see grass behind him. He appears to be carrying a toy rocket: its yellow nose-cone pokes up into the bottom of the photograph.

@bookstodon

Iain’s debut novel THE WASP FACTORY was published 42 years ago today…

Available on BBC Sounds – Iain Banks discusses THE WASP FACTORY with James Naughtie & readers at the National Library of Scotland

🚨CONTAINS SPOILERS🚨 – read the book before listening!

2/13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

Also on BBC Sounds: Inside THE WASP FACTORY

Iain Banks’s 1984 debut THE WASP FACTORY was described in the media as “a work of unparalleled depravity” & also “a masterpiece” – both reviews ended up on the cover. Simon Pegg discusses his favourite novel

3/13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“I love plot, I love stories. I hate these novels that just stop… I don't think it’s good enough. I want closure. I don't want any of this existentialist post-modern shite, pal. I want a story, with an ending”

—an in-depth profile of Iain Banks, from 1999

4/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/aug/07/fiction.iainbanks

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“THE BRIDGE bends reality, breaks the rules of physics, invents technologies & plays around with impossible inventions”

—Sam Jordison explores the link between Iain Banks’s “mainstream” & science-fiction novels

5/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/23/iain-banks-the-bridge-link-mainstream-literature-science-fiction

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

HIPPY COMMIES WITH HYPER-WEAPONS

“I think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrained”

A Few Questions About the Culture – an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons

6/13

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/a-few-questions-about-the-culture-an-interview-with-iain-banks/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

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Photo of Iain Banks standing in front of a display of his 2012 Culture novel THE HYDROGEN SONATA. His hair and beard are both grey. He is grinning as he extends one hand towards the display – and to a large banner that reads 25 YEARS OF CULTURE THE ONLY *BANKS* YOU CAN TRUST

@bookstodon

“As a humanist, atheist, and socialist, he preferred to place his trust in techno-scientific development, rather than his faith in gods, or his capital in the market”

Joseph S. Norman on the legacy & utopianism of Iain M. Banks’s #scifi Culture series

7/13

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/better-to-create-your-own-on-the-legacy-and-utopianism-of-iain-m-bankss-culture-series/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia

@bookstodon

“Banks… envisions the overcoming of scarcity as the signal achievement of the civilization made by the Minds, & yet he focuses time and again on objects of unfulfilled desire”

—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis

8/13

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ambiguous-utopia-of-iain-m-banks

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia

@bookstodon

“Our strange wee country is as complex as any alien civilization, & getting it as right as Banks did in The Crow Road required every bit as much world-building skill as his Culture”

—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine

9/13

https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for Blood Knife

10/13

https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #billionaires

@bookstodon

The New Scientist Book Club read the science-fiction masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author Ken MacLeod discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel

11/13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“Pay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflection…Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are”

—Dr Bethany Jacobs for the New Scientist

12/13

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506129-why-sci-fi-novelist-iain-m-banks-was-an-astounding-world-builder/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks, the final interview

13/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

Amazing Stories vol. 32, no. 7 (July 1958)

Simple, powerful, tells a hell of a story. Love those dorky space suits.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v32n07_1958-07_cape1736

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Multiple figures in space suits, apparently on the moon, look up at the earth which is exploding in the sky behind their rocket ship. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1958.

Just a reminder that the world's greatest book ever written in all of history is available for you to purchase from Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/water-dogs-eric-gordon/1147799755?ean=9798988816157
#ya #scifi #sciencefiction #writing #author #books #fantasy #adventiure #youngadult #humor #aliens #unicorns #specfic #speculativefiction #Ramones #punkrock #1970s

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The cover of a book, called Water Dogs, featuring an illustration of an underwater dog with shadowy forms of aliens and unicorns and other creatures in the background.

This:

In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.

and this:

In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.

Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R. Čapek coined the term "robot,” deriving it from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #play #playwright #KarelCapek #robot #RUR #totalitarianism #fascism #antifascism #serf #slavery #sciencefiction #scifi #czech #bladerunner #books #fiction #playwright @bookstadon

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Male robots, in metal vests and helmets, breaking into the factory at the end of Act III. One has his arm raised to strike a human.By Unknown author - http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/RUR/RURsmry.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8442825

THE TROUBLE WITH TYCHO (1976)
Acrylic on Illustration Board

While excavating on the Moon, an astronaut bites the dust (I couldn’t resist) and another fights vainly against a malevolent alien energy. 1/3

#sciencefiction #illustration #clifforddsimak #acebooks

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A man in spacesuit with bubble helm throws up his arms as he’s swarmed by blue lights. The fuzzy dots of light leave a trail back to the horizon, obscuring some of the star field. In front of man, face down in the regolith lies the remains of another astronaut whose helm is cracked. All that remains of his head are the bones of his skull.

Amazing Stories Quarterly vol. 1, no. 1 (1928)

This is a scene I've seen so many times in this collection: scientists study outlandish [semi] naked creature in glass case. Normally its a woman being examined though so that makes a change anyway.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesQuarterlyV01n011928Winterc2c

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Two men in long robes stare thoughtfully at a large glass case in which a naked man can be seen lying on a mattress, connected to a complex machine by wires attached to his arms. Magazine cover from 1928.

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Une exploration de la guerre et de l'absurde à travers le prisme d'une fiction spéculative

#war #sciencefiction #specfic #emergency #bookrecommendations

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A narrative of the final human confronting apocalypse with only an AI for company.

#war #sciencefiction #specfic #emergency #bookrecommendations