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A praver for the crown shv was a humorous and enjovable sequel to the book a psalm for the wild built. This second book in the series does what few sequals rearly achieve: its better then the first. its everything 1 loved about the storv characters chemistry and world building of the first with out the slight pacing issues. im hopeful that the author Becky Chambers will write another installment soon!
#scifi #bookrec #solarpunk #queer #polyamory
Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing
"We are living in the world John Brunner predicted in Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up—one of corporate dominance, political instability and environmental collapse. We are, all of us, in the Torment Nexus. So why would we want to read what future horrors Silicon Valley merchants of human misery are trying to produce next."
I read 2 of 5 #books listed in this article: 'The Martian' and 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and don't agree their films were better.
Both books had different focuses than their #films. For ex, 'The Martian' featured the main character's monologue, providing the reader a deeper understanding of his loneliness & solitary steadfastness in space.
The #movies differed from the books, making them exciting for cinema but not necessarily better.
#MyThoughts #SciFi
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https://www.looper.com/2126182/sci-fi-movies-better-than-books/
One question I’ve been getting lately is about what the characters in Beneath Still Stars actually look like.
It’s an interesting question, because the answer is a bit intentional. I’ve chosen not to describe most of the characters in too much physical detail.
I’ve always liked the idea that readers can build their own version of a character in their imagination. The way someone looks in your mind can make the story feel more personal, more connected to you.
That said, there are a few small details. Marcus, was born and raised in England. Holland has a mixed Canadian, and First Nations background, which carries through slightly to Tessa. Serenai is described as slim with purple eyes, something common among the Orani.
For me, the most important part of a character isn’t what they look like—it’s how they think, how they act, and how they respond when things go wrong.
I’m curious—when you read a book, do you prefer detailed descriptions, or do you like to imagine characters in your own way?
The amazingly talented @labdweller thinks this might be one of my best #Voidfront pieces yet. I don’t know about that, but please enjoy my Junker boi.
#art #drawing #scifi #worldbuilding
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a young man with long dark blonde hair is leaning against a broken vending machine, it’s display glitching out behind him. He is quite ripped, wearing a green crop top and a golden chain under a sleeveless studded leather jacket. Broad studded bands around his wrists and a studded collar around his neck. He is looking at the viewer through grey eyes with a hint of purple, wearing a judging look, as if trying to seize them up. Cables, some of them sparking, hang from the ceiling behind him. The “Voidfront” logotype is superimposed over the image to the left.
We're back! Better late than never. Speaking of which, time for a late night excursion. Two new pages to kick off Chapter 2!
⚡ New: https://schism.org/01-002-01/
⚡ ComicFury: https://schism.the-comic.org/
#webcomic #scifi #comic #SchismComic
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Update graphic with the date 03.17.26 - b&w comic panel crop shows a man putting on his shoes while being interrogation by an agitated woman
It took hours until June, and the crew of the Tori could finally find some rest. It was obvious that each and every one of them was tired beyond reason, but no one stopped talking until Captain Konrad put his foot down and sent the crew to their cabins.
June was now lying on a cot in a tiny spare room and trying to sleep, but her eyes were burning and her head was still buzzing. They were the first people she had shown her discovery, but revealing the secret had not provided the relief she had hoped for. What if they told someone else? What if she had made a mistake and there was nothing? What if they all died in a pirate ambush?
She tried to concentrate on her breathing and refocus.
Seven gates. That was a fact she had learned in kindergarten. They trace a route following the galaxies spiral, and the second gate is closest to Sol. She tried to remember the nursery rhyme but could not find it in the chaos left by the day. Humanity had worked for decades until they had gotten the Sol gate to open, but soon after that, any interference was forbidden. No experiments on the gates were allowed; they were 'vital infrastructure'.
June realized she was grinding her teeth in frustration. The greatest alien artifacts ever found, held hostage by politics and money, were reduced to an all-too convenient interstellar highway. The new gate belonged to her and she was planning on interfering.
She sighed and checked the levels on her dispensers: they were running on fumes. It had to suffice for now. She sent the command and felt her body relax. 'I shouldn't use them so much.' were her last thoughts before her consciousness drowned in black.
8/X
For the next couple of days, June was fascinated by the speed with which things developed. For all the rag-tag impression the Tori and her crew made at first glance, they were very effective at getting things done, and despite the importance of the situation, there was a lightness in the way they worked together.
When Rip came back to the Tori with a black eye, a sour mood, and confirmation that there was indeed a colony of freedom fighters – as they liked to call themselves – on the flight path, Ada handed them a bag of frozen peas and declared the need for 'team-building exercises', which consisted of laughter, food, drinks, and a board game which pitted the crew against an A.I. and was aptly called 'Cooperative'.
Marga could dive in the feeds for hours, unmoving and rarely blinking, which would regularly prompt one of the others to coax her out of her cabin – usually with a hot beverage – and go for a walk and talk. All June had ever gotten when she had vanished in her work for the corporation were report requests and health penalty warnings.
Captain Konrad and Bjorn were gone so much, she barely saw them, but every time they returned, she could see their faces light up a little. June tried to remember the last time she felt joy for a place, for a home, and found only child memories, faded and unsharp.
The daily reports felt like a get-together with friends, albeit very well informed friends with connections in all kinds of savory and unsavory places, both digital and physical.
Project 'Gatekeeper' was well on its way.
9/X
After another night with too little sleep, June and the crew of the Tori were assembled at the breakfast table (which was also the dinner, meeting, and board game table). Spending some of the meals together seemed important to them, which seemed alien to June, who had spent most of the meals in her life alone while reading through feeds, and she had turned out fine.
"'Project Gatekeeper' is a stupid name." Marga was nursing a bowl of soggy cereal with a pensive face.
"It's my gate; I found it and I'll keep it." June shrugged, then corrected herself. "OUR gate." She bit into her toast with jam, the fifth that morning, one for each available flavor. Apparently Rip was quite fond of making preserves. "What's your idea then?"
Rip had returned with an armful of coffee mugs and passed them around. "How about 'Project Gateaux'?" They accepted the communal groans with a bow.
"Always with the food puns!" Bjorn eyed the jars of jam. "I mean. Not that I'm complaining. You're just so... jam-packed with them." A short and awkward silence fell over the table.
Captain Konrad yawned into his hand and took a hearty sip of coffee. "I say we keep it; it's stuck in my head now anyways. Apropos: Emergency movie night tonight."
Marga groaned. "Noooo! Not another one of those boring, non-interactive, 2D snoozefests."
June looked confused. "Emergency? Movie?"
"Oh you'll see." Bjorn grinned. This time he got his groans. "What are we watching?"
"It's an all-time classic." The captain smiled. "Ghostbusters."
10/X
June awoke with a headache and a clogged nose. Her brain felt slow, and she had trouble reading her autodoc report. Apparently it had tried to fight whatever pathogen had struck her down and lost. Too ill to decide what to do next, June sent out an SOS on the ship's feed, and a minute later Ada knocked on her door and entered.
"I'm dyim!" June lamented. "Eberytim hurbs!"
"There, there." Ada gently patted June's arm, helped her sit up, and handed her a hot drink. "I take it you didn't travel a lot?"
June shook her head, sipped the beverage, and grimaced.
"It's just ginger tea." Ada smiled. "I'll also update your autodoc with the latest signatures, but station-flu is station-flu, still nothing to be done than fluids and sleep. It'll be over soon." She handed June a nasal spray. "This'll free up the airways."
"Pfanks." June finished the tea and laid back down. A minute later, loud snoring filled the cabin.
11/X
Lol
https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3knrunx5nrs2y
#Dune #PaulAtreides #SciFi #FrankHerbert
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Bree (aka Kit Rocha) (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com):
idk I did see this meme today which made me laugh so hard. lol
[two parody book covers with the titles: "Paul is bad" and "Ok, I guess I wasn't clear..." by Frank Herbert]
Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki) – I’m never going to do this justice in a description and I’m sad it took me so long to get to this book. This was tugging my heartstrings nonstop for the past 2 days.
Shizuka Satomi is a renowned violinist who made a deal with the devil. To save her own soul, she must deliver 7 prodigies to sign over their own. In 48 years she has nurtured 6 students and convinced them to hand over their souls to the devil. Not just any souls, but exquisite souls which make beautiful music in the flames. For her 7th and final student, she is looking for something spectacular for hell.
She feels she has found it in Katrina, a trans girl running away from her abusive family and friends and surviving in parks and sex work. While she has had no formal training, Shizuka sees raw and beautiful talent in Katrina. A soul to deliver worthy of Shizuka’s moniker, Queen of Hell.
But a chance interaction between Shizuka and Lan, a woman who runs a donut shop with her family who happen to be galactic refugees fleeing a plague, leads to more. As they grow close, Shizuka doubts whether she can hand over Katrina and save her own soul.
Combining demons and space empires in a synopsis confused me before I started reading, but as the themes thread together it works beautifully to give such humanity to the fantasy. I connected deeply to their trauma, pasts and the choices they face. You feel the intricate music of the soul. Katrina is beautifully written and an excellent representation of trans youth. I loved the depth of Shizuka’s apparent amoral character and her connection to Katrina and Lan. Maybe it’s not for everyone, but it deeply affected me.
#Bookstodon #Books #QueerBooks #Queer #LGBTQ #SciFi #Fantasy #TransBooks #Transgender #Trans
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Cover of Light From Uncommon Stars
An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon) – Set on a generational ship set for a mythical promised land, the HSS Matilda, humanity is divided by a strict class and racial system. Aster lives in the slums as a doctor, attempting to help the workers through the strict “moral” laws of the Sovereign and the harshness of the guards, though she is often singled out for special punishment from those above.
When the Sovereign dies of a mysterious condition, making way for someone even more ruthless, Asther sees a link between this and the death of her mother. This begins her path to finding out the truth about the ship, what happened to her mother and how to overthrow the brutal regime.
It’s an interesting dystopian world with strong connections to slavery, the slave trade (the upper decks being the white owners while the black lower deckers, often referred to as less than human, pack the lower decks) and the intersection of those processes with native queerness in how the upper decks’ rigid gender binary clashes against the greater fluidity of the lower decks. The characters are compelling as they try to navigate and survive in this world though I feel some of the side characters could have been more developed.
#Bookstodon #Books #QueerBooks #Queer #LGBTQ #SciFi #Trans
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Cover of An Unkindness of Ghosts
I have thoughts on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and they are only somewhat positive.
https://sheep.horse/2026/3/i_have_thoughts_on_the_dungeon_crawler_carl_series.html
The microwave is powered by atomic fission and uses tesla coils and energy blasters to fry the food and has rocket engines on the bottom so it can launch out of your home to cook the food safely but if you put grapes and tinfoil inside it will explode #scifi
Random panels I have drawn.
An exciting moment from my story for the next issue of the German underground anthology U-Comix.
#screwytuesday #randompanelsihavedrawn
#cartooning #brushinking #scifi #scifiart #aliens #surlyhack
Qapla'!
Der #Klingonisch-Kurs in Kooperation mit den Kolleg*en aus 'Erlangen war ja drei Tage nach Ausschreibung schon voll, daher gibt es ab 17.6. eine zweite Chance für Euch, endlich Hamlet im klingonischen Original lesen zu lernen! (https://klingon.wiki/De/Hamlet)
Mehr Info und Anmeldung:
https://www.vhs-karlsruhe.de/p/699-C-262-79340
DaH jIyInchu'!
#vhs #Karlsruhe #Trek #Sprachkurs #SF #SciFi
#ScienceFiction
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Titelbild von Star Trek: Das offizielle Wörterbuch Klingonisch - Deutsch - Klingonisch. von Marc Okrand / Heel-Verlag: https://www.heel-verlag.de/star+trek+das+offizielle+woerterbuch.htm
Posting this after the New Zealanders have gone to sleep
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Sam Neill in the film Event Horizon but his futuristic Australian flag has been poorly replaced in the GIMP with a futuristic New Zealand flag (a silver fern with the southern cross)
ugh this #startrek book is only getting 4 stars the author leans heavily on that old garbage #trope of thhe "bitter"barren" woman" yuuuuck and yikes! its the federation in like 2400 CE! yeetus that feetus and get a surrogate! next plotline plzzzzz ugh it was written before 2012 so things have come a looooong way for #scifi in 14+ years! #books #bookstodon i'm a cis male and i accept a cis woman may not be so cavalier about abortion but the context is making it yikes!
Finally! I am so excited! Firefly will be back. Uhhhh!
#BringBackFirefly #Firefly #Serenity #comics #Browncoats #SciFi #cartoon #webcomic #wash #AlanTudyk
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Comic. A blue hyena dances on one leg, arms outstretched as if flying. It says, "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." Hearts dance around its head. In the background, the "Serenity" from the series "Firefly" is landing, kicking up a lot of fog. A question mark can be seen from its cockpit.
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Le BIFFF, à travers 44 éditions, a transcendé son statut de festival pour devenir une expérience immersive unique dans le paysage cinématographique mondial.
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A 44-year-old festival faces a strategic pivot as its core identity is diluted by commercial pressures.
Cosmic voids may be driving the universe's expansion through dark energy. Even emptiness has power. Funny, I've been thinking about voids a lot recently. My novel "A Crimson Void" is out this spring. #science #space #scifi #writing #cosmology ziply.pk/cosmicvoids
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An image of cosmic nebula in gold and blue, shewing vast voids between them
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Ein etabliertes `Event` sieht sich mit der schleichenden Kommerzialisierung seines Kernprogramms konfrontiert.
Joined Mastodon a couple of weeks ago but just moved servers, so here is my #introductions post (again)!
I am a #music lover, a #rambler, a #gig and #festival goer, a #scifi #geek, a #gamer and a #beer drinker from #Derby #UK.
I'll be mainly posting random thoughts about #nerd stuff, #TV, #movies, #games, #retro or whatever pops into my head.
Recently took part in #Inktober, didn't draw a Mastodon but I did do a baby Armadillo.
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Black and white drawing of baby armadillo
Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/
Folks it's about an hour until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party. If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963), featuring some of Harryhausen's best work! Think of it as a reward for surviving Lou Ferrigno's Hercules and Hercules 2 :P
The flick's available free with ads on Tubi over here: https://tubitv.com/movies/674726/jason-and-the-argonauts
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/jason-and-the-argonauts-1963_202511
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along!
"If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood, Who you gonna call?" ☎️
All shot practically using real lighting, figures, a blender from the kitchen and a price tag I designed and printed out.
#ghostbusters #marshmallow #minimarshmallowman #miniatures #movies #scifi #visualart #photography #whoyougonnacall #ghostbustersafterlife #staypuft #chaos #blender #photo #productphotography #actionfigurephotography
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Mini Stay Pufts mess around a blender in a store one of them stands in the glass jar sticking its tongue out.
'Rook'
One year ago today I posted this miniature Alien Romulus phot I created practically using real lighting, figures and miniature sets.
#alien #alienromulus #xenomorph #synthetic #android #facehugger #photography #scifi #horror #rook #ash #miniatures #visualart #art #lighting #practicaleffects
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Rook stands in the science lab examining a contained facehugger and making notes
#Firefly animation series confirmed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21lBG-9tVI
#SciFi #SF
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 288.
Laura Elliott's part sci-fi, part body horror Awakened (2025) is difficult to describe without revealing a central plot spoiler, but its a close & claustrophobic read, which has an (possibly frustratingly) elliptical ending. However, for the most part this is a highly readable dystopian tale of science & scientists going wrong, which centres on a post-disaster community in the Tower of London. I liked it a lot.
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
"The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves"
All shot using real lighting, figures and miniatures.
The Endo skeleton's eyes I digitally added a glow too. The rest is all in camera.
#terminator2 #scifi #miniatures #terminator #photography #miniatures #movies #art
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An army of Endoskeletons prepare for battle. One Endo looks directly at you
Silent Sunday 💫
#art #mastoart #fediart #fantasy #scifi #speedpaint #krita #silentSunday #digitalArt #noai
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We are on an alien planet. A psychedelic sun in the far distance catches our attention. Cities are aligned to the sunbeams, reaching far into the distance. Giant stone statues are worshipping the sun. On the left, they are holding planets with different colorations from blue to yellow. On the right, the statues have empty hands. Do they take turns with this precious responsibility? The clouds follow the sun, and stars shine brightly.
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-01122025-1270235963
Weekend read
Métal Hurlant n°11 (November 1976)
Cover art by Chris Foss. Featuring: Exterminateur 17 by Bilal and Dionnet, L'Univers est bien petit and Le Garage Hermetik by Mœbius, L'herbe Noire by Nicole Claveloux, Vuzz by Druillet, Polonius by Picaret and Tardi.
#MétalHurlant #ChrisFoss #EnkiBilal #JeanPierreDionnet #Mœbius #NicoleClaveloux #Vuzz #PhilippeDruillet #JacquesTardi #Polonius #scifi #art #MetalHurlant #Humanos #HumanoïdesAssociés #WeekendRead #read #reader #reading #comics
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The cover of Métal Hurlant issue 11. Cover art features a science fiction scene with a strange mechanized device in the foreground and a starship taking off in the background.
It just turned midnight here so I guess it is #SolarPunkSunday and I'll plug my novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, about an old woman who has to organize the defense of her decentralized country when a colonizer invades to steal the technology that makes it a #solarpunk utopia. It's available on pre-order in all your favourite stores, and on my new small press site, where you can read a free sample. https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
Neofeud is 70% off! Neofeud 2 will be out in March, if all goes smoothly! "Secretly the greatest and also funniest cyberpunk game on Steam" -Steam Reviewers https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #cyberpunk #indiegame #visualnovel #indiedev #SteamDeals #scifiart #art #artist #retrogame #scifi #NoAI
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Neofeud 70% off - over Neofeud title screen
Finished PrideCore commission for @ankhZero ! :3
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#furry #furryart #pride #PrideCore #cyberpunk #scifi
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Anthropomorphic feline character with wings flying over an epic, cyan glowing, cityscape. They're wearing a cyberpunkish / techwear inspired outfit with non-binary flag colored accessories.
#sf #scifi #scienceFiction #writers #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon Heads up. This #robot article will amuse and give ideas.
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/police-escort-robot
Died this day: 03/12/2015 (b. 04/28/1948)
Terry Pratchett sold over 100 million books, best known for his 41 Discworld comic fantasy novels. He also wrote SF including Strata and The Long Earth series with Stephen Baxter, exploring infinite parallel worlds. His work earned Nebula, BSFA, and Locus recognition and a knighthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #TerryPratchett @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
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The title "The Dark Side of the Sun" is printed in dark red serif capital letters across the top of the cover, arranged over three lines. Below the title, the author name "Terry Pratchett" appears in large black serif type, preceded by a small circular emblem to its left. The background is a warm, mottled yellow-orange tone with darker amber hues toward the top and lighter yellow toward the center. The lower two-thirds of the cover is filled with a dense illustration rendered in black ink outlines and flat areas of yellow, orange, red, and amber. The central figure is a large insect resembling a wasp, shown in profile facing left. It has a segmented orange-and-red striped abdomen, translucent wings with visible vein structures, and large dark compound eyes on an orange head. Its legs are detailed with joints and small claw-like feet. Surrounding the insect are oversized stylized flowers with broad rounded petals in golden yellow and orange, some with dark centers. A second smaller insect of similar design appears in the upper right, with outstretched wings and striped markings. Additional smaller insect forms are faintly visible at the left background. The composition is densely packed with overlapping organic shapes filling the lower area. Thin black outlines define each element against the warm background. Small rounded pebble-like shapes line the bottom edge. The palette is restricted to yellows, oranges, reds, and black, giving the cover a cohesive warm appearance.
In about 30 years, it’ll be released—featuring an Indiana Jones fully reconstructed from 40 terabytes of archival footage.
The plot is peak recursion: an AI generates code for Harrison Ford's digital twin to battle a rogue algorithm in virtual pixelated jungles. Pure digital cyberpunk wrapped in a "cassette futurism" and Cold War aesthetic:
"Soviet scientists in a secret bunker under Magadan accidentally awakened an ancient Sumerian algorithm trapped within copper circuits. This proto-AI doesn't just want to conquer the world, it wants to rewrite history by purging everything chaotic and illogical... namely, the USSR."
In the end, Indiana defeats the virus by simply pulling the plug. A digital silence falls over the world, while the 2056 audience pays for their tickets in crypto-yuan, fully aware that the film itself was created by the very AI the hero was fighting on screen.
#futureofcinema #GenerativeAI #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CassetteFuturism #RetroFuturism #DigitalTwin #DeadInternetTheory #Recursion #Dystopia #TechNoir #ColdWarAesthetic
Born this day: 03/11/1952 (d. 05/11/2001)
Douglas Adams was an English author who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comic SF saga that began as a 1978 BBC radio series and became a five-book "trilogy" selling over 14 million copies. He also wrote the Dirk Gently detective novels. He died of a heart attack at age 49.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #DouglasAdams @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
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Book cover art for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. The image is cropped to show only the central illustration; no title or author text is visible. The artwork depicts a whimsical green alien creature against a dark outer-space background of deep indigo and violet hues speckled with pale blue and white stars. The creature's body is a large, smooth, bright green sphere with a lighter highlight near its center suggesting a reflective surface. A wide, curved mouth stretches across the lower portion of the sphere, revealing two rows of pale blue-white teeth in a broad grin. A thick, flat red-orange tongue hangs from the left side of the mouth. Two small reddish-orange eyes sit atop the sphere, partially hidden by a crumpled cream-colored sun hat perched jauntily on the head. The right arm, thin and dark green, extends upward to tip the hat brim. The left arm reaches down to grip the handle of a worn brown leather suitcase with brass-toned clasps. A polka-dotted fabric, white with red spots, peeks from beneath the suitcase lid. A small gray camera with a dark lens hangs from a black strap looped around the creature's neck, dangling near the suitcase. The creature stands on two spindly dark green legs ending in flat, flipper-like feet. The overall style is a detailed, painterly illustration with rich color saturation and a slightly grainy quality characteristic of printed book cover art from the early 1980s.
Anyone remember Unknown Orbit?
I reviewed thousands of iOS games on TouchArcade way back when, and one of my favorites of all time was Exbleative's Unknown Orbit, which was basically Tiny Wings .. in 3D .. in space. It was awesome.
Last night the Steam store put a game called Exo One in front of me. In the preview, it looked something like Tiny Wings .. in 3D .. in space. It's 70% off in the Steam store for a few days (currently $5), so I gave it a go.
"A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time."
Long story short, it's from Exbleative and appears to be a massive evolution of Unknown Orbit (for PC and Xbox), set on strange, eerie worlds and with a mysterious storyline to unravel.
Having been such a fan of the earlier iOS title, I am thrilled to have found this and am having a great time exploring this universe.
"Tiny Wings, Journey and Kubrick collide in this sci-fi delight," says EDGE.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/773370/Exo_One/
#ExoOne #Exbleative #games #gaming #gamers #Steam #PCgaming #Xbox #XboxSeriesX #Xboxgamepass #onsale #TinyWings #iOS #iPhone #iPhonegames #iOSgaming #TouchArcade #SciFi #SciFiGames #SteamSale
Updated introduction. I've been in the Fediverse for about 3-4 years now, and really like it here. I'm a Generation Jones mom of Gen X kids, and Grandma to some Gen Z and Alpha youngsters. I read, mostly #SciFi, #fantasy, #mystery, #historicalfiction, and #LouisLAmour westerns. Fandoms include #StarTrek (all iterations), #StarWars, #DoctorWho, #LOTR, #MCU, #DC, #Godzilla. Other interests: #archeology, #dinosaurs, #HashtagGames, #uspolitics, #art, #music (60s-90s, mostly), #games, #cats.
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This is Miss Lucia. She's a large Siamese car lying curled on her side on a footstool with her nose pointing up at the camera. She's snoozing as usual.
June followed Captain Konrad into the spaceship. As soon as they had entered, the bulkhead closed again with a soft hiss and a satisfying clunk, and the ever-present hum of the space station subsided. June let out a sigh of relief and felt her cramped neck relax, just a little. There was still so much to worry about. Then she realized that it was not just the hum, but the feeds as well. Her connex tried to ramp up transmit power briefly, then gave up.
The corridors were much tighter than June had imagined. The only ships she had ever been on had been corporate, all shiny, spacious, and soulless. The TORI felt different, not tight and shabby but lived-in and cozy, where things that were used had polished handles and the walls were decorated with more graffiti.
The captain led her into a room with a big table where someone was already waiting for them. A small person with long, iridescent hair, wearing oversized, baggy clothes covered in patches and logos June could not recognize. A stark contrast to the tidy captain. As soon as they entered, June got an introductory feed packet from Marga, who sat up and stopped biting her nails.
"So how does this work, exactly?" June sat down and set her backpack on the table. "I give you the data, and you let me join the cooperative?"
"Something like that." Captain Konrad smiled. "We'll take you to co-op space either way. If you can stay there or on the Tori, is up to you. For now, Marga would really like to see the data; you were pretty stingy with details."
"Here goes nothing." June sighed and emptied the backpack onto the table, producing dozens of paper notebooks. Another load off her shoulders. Literally.
Marga's eyes bulged.
"Paper?!?"
2/X
June sat next to Marga at the big table in what seemed to be the ship's common area. She had sorted the notebooks chronologically and recognized the glint in Marga's eyes as she leafed through the notebooks, indicating that she was recording what she saw. Captain Konrad was watching them with an unreadable, but not unfriendly face.
"Please don't digitize this." June laid a hand on Marga's shoulder. "If this leaks I'm dead."
"Don't worry." Marga gestured around the room. "This part of the ship is caged and gapped, we're on a private node."
June was surprised when a feed for a workspace opened for a shared database with the transcribed entries. In her old lab no one would have done that without payment, orders, or a subpoena.
"Yeah, that's above my paygrade." Captain Konrad stood up and headed for the door, then looked at Marga. "You let me know." Marga nodded absent-mindedly.
June checked the data and was surprised how much of it was already processed and annotated.
"You are very fast." She looked at Marga, whose eyes had the unmistakable glaze of someone deep in a feed. "And very thorough."
"Got a little help." Marga smirked without looking at June. "Explain this to me."
Tables and plots popped up on June's feed and the two of them spent the next hours pouring over the data, until Marga finally closed the workspace and looked at June with big eyes.
"Well I'll be damned."
3/X
The rest of the crew had joined June and Marga in the meeting room, and together they were looking at a big screen showing a star chart with a destination marker. Although she found it interesting that they were not using a feed instead, June was not paying the screen much attention; she was much more interested in the three new people she had not met before.
Bjorn, apparently the second in command, wore the same brown, not-quite-uniform, as the captain. With his clean shaven face and tidy haircut he looked much more like he belonged on a spaceship than the others. He had asked lots and lots of questions. Good questions to build a mental picture, while accepting her expertise. June liked that.
Then there was the one called 'Rip'. They were bald, tall, and massive – a mountain of a person – but had come wearing an apron and bearing fresh cookies of excellent quality. Their genuine smile, when June had praised the treats, stood in stark contrast to the crooked nose and scars all over their rugged face.
The last person staying in the background and observing with a stoic face was Ada. Her long, black hair was bundled in a ponytail and her simple, but elegant clothes matched her demeanor. When June asked what she did on the ship, she had said: "They get in trouble and I patch them back together, and in return, they keep me out of trouble."
"Listen up." Captain Konrad's voice pulled everyone's attention. "Marga still wants to cross-check details, but it looks like June has actually found a new fold-gate."
Attention silence turned into stunned silence. June remembered the first time she had accepted that what she had found was not an artifact in the data or a mistake and smiled.
He tapped the marker on the screen. "And it is sublight reachable." A series of waypoints appeared on the display. His face grew stern. "This does not leave the ship."
Ada was now standing next to June, staring at the display with a smirk.
"So you come bearing trouble."
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June watched the shared feed as Marga put the finishing touches on the data. Cleanups, annotations, and references appeared all over the place with extraordinary speed. Unease started churning in her stomach, and a cold, calculating part in her head began going over her contingency plan.
"I thought we were on an island node?" June leaned forward and studied Marga's face while she sent out stealth probes to scan the perimeter of the feed.
"We are." Marga kept staring into infinity. "But we do have a powerful neural subsystem." She blinked and looked June in the eyes with a gentle sadness. "We don't lie to you. If we need what you have, we take it."
June's probes were terminated.
"I want to send these queries out on the global. Can you check if they're vague enough?" A series of documents appeared on the feed, and Marga stood and stretched. "I'll get us some drinks." She took the last cookie and left.
The unease in June's stomach was replaced by something else. A deep loneliness.
5/X
Captain Konrad was studying the projected route to the new gate while slowly shaking his head and grumbling dissatisfied.
"Who made this?" He looked at June.
"Uh, me." June blushed. "I couldn't really go to nav control and ask for a route. What's wrong with it? I had to kinda learn starnav on the fly."
"It's technically fine." The captain rotated the view on the screen and zoomed in on a slightly blurry part close to the beginning. "It'll take a couple months, if all goes right." The projected path went right through the unsharp blob. "You know what this means?" He pointed at the aberration.
"It said unreliable sensor readings." June sighed. "It's not, is it?"
"It might be, but if we look at the surroundings, it looks like a very good place to play hide and seek from." Captain Konrad looked at Rip. "Far enough to make it impractical to attack, close enough to work as a base." He highlighted some darker spots. "Asteroids to mine."
"Pirates?" June's eyes widened.
"Maybe." The captain connected to the screen, and several alternative routes appeared. "Or some con hiding a secret." The routes shifted, and some vanished again. "Or something else." Only a handful of routes remained. "Taking a detour would add weeks." He looked at Bjorn. "We'll add 'finding out what that is' to the list."
"Oh, I have something else for the list then." June said. "I'm loanbound; I cannot leave the station."
Captain Konrad groaned.
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"So, how much do you owe?" Bjorn asked and paled when he received June's latest statement. "How? Did you buy a planet?" He gasped.
"Some of it is inherited; my parents weren't good at playing the corpo game." June shrugged. "But I used most of it for my clandestine operation." She nodded towards the star map on the screen. "You can't hide anything from the corps, but you can disguise and distort it enough to pass for something else."
"So someone there might piece this together as well?" Captain Konrad looked concerned.
"There's a slight possibility." June said while chewing her lip. "I did my best to hide it in legitimate deep space research and made sure to produce enough output so I wouldn't draw attention and get more funds." She looked at the notebooks. "The most interesting stuff is only in those, but they have all the underlying data."
"So they must not get suspicious when you leave." Bjorn nervously thumped his fingers on the table. "We'd have to buy you out."
June nodded. "Only way out of a corps is via cash or corpse."
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Scientists in Sweden have created a cartilage scaffold that guides the body to regrow bone. This is almost exactly how I imagined limb regeneration working in my books. One of the amazing things in writing #SciFi is that sometimes what you dream up actually becomes reality. #science #medicine #health
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260305223231.htm
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Image of a bone joint with cartilage highlighted in red
Random panels I have drawn.
This is from my story for the British comics anthology GOOF.
#screwytuesday #randompanelsihavedrawn
#cartooning #brushinking #scifi #scifiart #aliens #surlyhack
Trying British #space series #Space1999 for the first time. Are you a fan? #SciFi
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Woman in beige single piece jumpsuit uniform enters spaceship's room vis an orange doorway. Ceiling is illuminated with light blue light panels. There's a walkway in front of her which has dark brown modular furniture flanking both sides. There are screens on the wall (nothing is on the screens).
Subtitles say: at Moon base Alpha at 2335 lunar time.
Yes, but what female scifi (NOT fantasy) authors would you recommend?
I'd say Ryka Aoki Light from Uncommon Stars, The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley, and Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion.
🧵 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.
Next GlitchCore commission - for Kylub!
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#furry #furryart #scifi #glitch #glitchcore
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Very glitchy computer screen of some sort of Windows OS - a character sits inside that screen, leaning onto a file browser window, causing the entire screen to glitch.
*Absurd inter-franchise weekend poll time…*
There seems to be a trend for our favourite scifi franchises towards ***adorable-but-horrific-creatures*** featuring rounded faces, huge eyes and big mouths full of sharp and nasties.
We’ve been discussing this over at Quark’s Bar at StarTrek.website on Lemmy, but a poll here sounds like an idea too.
Please boost after voting to increase the reach.
You can check out photos in the Lemmy posts here…
https://startrek.website/post/36523225
#Monsterdon #Monsters #StarTrek #DrWho #SciFi #StarTrekLowerDecks #MonarchLegacyOfMonsters #Godzilla #Horror #Television
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| **pting** (Dr. Who): | 0 |
| **Moopsy** (Star Trek - LDS): | 1 |
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In classic #scifi, you get one "weird", one pass on the laws of physics, one new weird tech. Then you see what descends from that.
(Clean example: the 'Slow Glass' stories by Bob Shaw)
In classic #fantasy, you get one "weird" in an otherwise consistent world. Usually this is the viewpoint character, whose weirdness drives the story. ("Yer a jedi, Arthur!", to invoke three.)
There is this cool project where universities use science fiction to teach, in a project called Applied Science Fiction, and one of my short stories is on the syllabus, so to speak. It's an action story, about a village under attack from monster mosquitoes, and it is freely available to read here.
"Miss Doe and the Leafy Man – Applied African Speculative Fiction"
https://appliedafricansf.com/miss-doe-and-the-leafy-man/
"There will be no bargain. I will not give up my favorite decoration. I like Captain Solo where he is."
All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets
#starwars #miniatures #jabbathehutt #jabba #returnofthejedi #scifi #photography #visualart #photooftheday #creativephotography #toyphotography #practicaleffects #actionfigurephotography #movies #productphotography
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Jabba talks to C3PO and R2 D2 in his Palace. Boba fett stands behind him along with Bib Fortuna and Gomorrean guard
Feed It by Marco Melgrati
#illustration #art #robot #creepy #scifi #MarcoMelgrati #Melgrati
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Robot eating human
🧵 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).
#LowPoly #space #spaceship #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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Minimalistic, faceted, low-polygon style spacecraft design.
🧵 Space-themed work, 14/x
Lunar Lander ─ Low-polygon style game concept art (2021).
#LowPoly #space #spaceship #GameDev #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 rocket, standing on a moon surface with craters.
Hello! I've moved here from hosting my own solo instance. Looking forward to making more friends.
I tend to use Mastodon for the things I love and enjoy, and I'll include a few of them in the hashtags.
Also I'm neurodivergent, genderfluid, and my pronouns are she/they.
#knitting #crochet #music #cats #WomenInTech #reading #CosyGames #CosyGames #SciFi #introduction
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Black and white photo. A woman with dark hair and a septum piercing is looking to the side of the camera. Her chin is slightly tucked into her black hoodie which has an embroidered Dustrial patch which reads, Hi-Tech, Lo-Life.
Whoaah!!! Doo doo Doo doo...
#RealXFiles #Aliens #IWantToBelieve! 😆 #BeamMeUp #ThisPlaceSucks (Yes I own this shirt) #SciFi #StrangerThings #XFiles
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Screenshot from The Independent.co.uk
News > World > Americas
Former US Air Force general linked to UFO research goes missing in New Mexico
Disappearance of Air Force veteran William Neil McCasland sparks concern as silver alert issued and sheriff's office appeals to public for information on his whereabouts.
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Navy t shirt with white graphic.
Shows a 60s style scifi movie woman yelling with hand extended by cheek to broadcast what she's saying.
Beam me up this place sucks
Four shocked amazed blown away by surprise people are pointing at a triangle.
June was annoyed. The pervasive, low hum of the space station seemed to have seeped into her bones and brain and made her fingertips tingle. She could not wait to leave this archaic rustbucket behind, and to that end she pushed her way through the crowded docking floor with more vigor than required.
Past the popular liners and freighters, the crowd thinned, and June's stress monitor dropped to yellow. As she followed her nav-line towards the smaller docks, the ships grew more varied and the crowd rougher.
"Hey! You! Cheap fare!" A bearded person waved and thumped their fist on the hull of a rickety freighter, which seemed to be made of more welds than panels. June made the universal gesture of refusal, which was answered with the universal response for self-love, and quickened her steps.
She had to catch her breath when she finally found the end of the nav-line. What she could see of the ship in front of her looked martial in form but was decorated with artful graffiti; even the name of the ship was painted in beautiful, curved letters: TORI.
She was interrupted by a comms ping from the ship: «Ah, ya made it.»
A bulkhead released with a heavy thud and swung open, and a person walked down the gangway. They were smaller than June, but maybe twice as wide, with short, salt and pepper hair and a matching, neatly trimmed beard, dressed in formal, brown clothes, reminiscent of a uniform.
"Welcome aboard the Tori, June. I am captain Konrad." The captain said and extended a hand.
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Another older review, I'm not sure what being a ride means, but I think it's good 😁
Free eBook in comments.
@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#WIPWednesday #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook #eBooks
#SpecualtiveFiction #FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire #Cynicism #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #FantasyBooks
#Review #Bookreview #Recommendation
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That black hole is something else.
By Arthur Inverse
The Last Philosopher is a ride.
The story starts with a black hole named, wait for it. Di- I mean Richard. And as a black hole should be, he think's hes the absolute center of the universe, able to bring everything to him and underfoot.
Then we are brought to our chrotchity old headmaster of our school.
The story so far has been good with worldbuilding, pictures and maps in the story adding just the right amount of touch and immersion to help visualize wheer you are and what is going on within the chapters.
I found little to no errors in word choice, flow, and spelling. Solid all around.
No solace was found in its assessment being absolutely correct.
Things went downhill from there."
#writing #worldbuilding #scifi #voidfront
THIS SUNDAY at 9PM Eastern (that's 1 am UTC) it's #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! Come watch a goofy monster movie with a bunch of nerds!
This week we're watching HERCULES (1983)! That's the version with Lou Ferrigno, directed by the Starcrash guy. Should be a blast, there's gonna be enough ham on that screen to serve a midwestern Christmas dinner.
The flick's available free with ads on Tubi over here: https://tubitv.com/movies/466219/hercules
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/hercules.-1983
See you this Sunday!
"I go where I'm needed"
All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.
#ahsoka #starwars #scifi #ahsokatano #photography #miniatures
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Ahsoka walks cautiously through an industrial looking area with lightsaber lit
The second best #stawars movie, a review
https://michal.sapka.pl/reviews/movies/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-1983/
Starting #StargateAtlantis for the first time. Did you like it? #SciFi
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A hand holding a champagne bottle. The gift tag reads "Bon Voyage! General Jack O'Neill"
Gemini just helped me solve a mystery that’s been plaguing me for years! 🛸
I’ve had this distinct, very early memory of a TV show I watched as a kid, but for ages, I couldn't find it. No search engine, database, or social media group could crack the code.
I finally decided to try a simple prompt with AI...
// Scientific Lab YCH
Heavily inspired by the 'Frutiger Aero' aesthetic !! x3
About the YCH, rules:
• any gender / species
• anthro, no wings, mostly any bodytype
• outfit can be edited
• can edit what's inside the tube and glass
• BG is mostly finished
Starting Bid: €200
Minimum Bid: —
Autobuy: €600
Finishing style will be shaded - like most of the pieces I posted lately!
(Check my last art post or the pinned one for example)
Auction rules:
• Ends in 48hrs or if ABd
• Must comment to this post AND to last bid for bids to be valid
• Must have money ready, no holds or reservations (I can wait until Mo tho :3)
• Payment plans available for AB, for returning clients I trust (ask before placing your bid!!!)
• Will be finished after my current queue - don't bid if you cannot wait!!
For any questions pls don't hesitate to comment!!
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Telegram Crosspost:
https://t.me/dancrescentwolf/9452
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#furry #furryart #furryych #ych #scifi #solarpunk #frutigeraero #blender #blender3d #blenderart
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YCH (= Your Character Here) concept of a character up close. They're in some kind of narrow laboratory room, handling test tubes. One of the tubes and a jar contain some kind of greenery. The overall color palette seems to be inspired by the 'Frutiger Aero' aesthetic.
Background is modeled in Blender and further edited in Clip Studio Paint.
Time is running out on this bundle!
If you're a fan of epic tales, either Fantasy or SF, this is for you - but only until tomorrow!
Check out these 60+ books, all on sale, some even free!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/febsff002b/hf1y0b7lh9
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Promotional image for the BookFunnel bundle Epic Sci-Fi @Fantasy
The image shows a scene reminiscent of a Star Wars town, with humans and aliens walking the streets (including a small rotund robot). The stores have signs like Food and Outfitter, but the atmosphere is somewhat dark.
The orange text reads:
Epic Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Bazaar
Where Worlds Collide
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Un film B de 1988 révèle les mécanismes pernicieux du contrôle social contemporain.
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John Carpenter's 1988 dystopian satire provides a prescient framework for analyzing modern media manipulation and ideological control.
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John Carpenters "Sie leben" fungiert als zeitlose Blaupause für die Analyse moderner Medien- und Konsumgesellschaften.
Whew! I guess I have to stop tweaking this site. It won't get any better than this, but yay! I'm announcing my venture into small press publishing with a new novella! Now on PRE-ORDER!!! (available in major stores too!). It's a #solarpunk about a seventy-something year old woman, probably autistic, who has to organize the defense of her decentralized country when a colonizer invades. See a sample chapter here https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
Ihr #SciFi Liebhaber, #Weltraum Fanatiker und #FreeTV Konsumierer, leiht mir euer Ohr.
Nach dem unglaublichen Erfolg meines letzten Beitrags über die Ausstrahlung von #TheExpanse auf #Tele5, hier mein nächster Hinweis für euch.
Jeden #Montag Abend läuft nun #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds in Doppelfolgen.
Der Clou?
Nach Ausstrahlung liegen die Folgen in der #Tele5Mediathek und können für einige Tage abgerufen werden. Ich denke auf diesem Wege werde ich mir das auch mal ansehen.
Ich persönlich bin noch nicht überzeugt aber Quelle Internet meint die Sendung wäre brauchbar. Übrigens deutsche #FreeTVPremiere.
Wie immer, viel Spaß und gute Unterhaltung.
Finished #reading #scifi book God's Junk Drawer by Peter Clines. Neanderthals, future humans, dinosaurs, an alien, and a contemporary astrophysics professor and his grad students all thrown together and fighting to survive in an ever-changing environment consisting of many small ecosystems butted up against each other. No one knows how they got there or how to return home. This book seems at times to be a junk drawer full of bits and pieces from stories you've already heard, not least of which is Land of the Lost. But that doesn't mean it's a weak story. It's intriguing and entertaining to the end. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #bookstodon
Silent Running (1972) review with spoilers [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Douglas Trumbull died on February 2022
https://youtu.be/DNjKUnz-vsQ
Introduction post!
I make fantasy & sci-fi illustration, all digital. Lots of it involves dragons, and most of it is creature concept art. 🐉
You can find my other socials here, if interested:
https://sites.google.com/view/sarah-draws-links
#Intro #Introduction #CreatureDesigner #CreatureArtist #Fantasy #SciFi #FantasyArt #SciFiArt #Creature #Monster #DigitalArt #CreatureArt #MonsterArt #Illustration
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Creature Concept: Greek Chimera
A pale tan, muscular humanoid lion woman with goat's legs hangs upheld by her long snake tail, which ends with the horned head of a European Adder. The adder breathes smoke, and the lion hold a streaming fireball in her left hand. The other hand is upraised in a flex. The snake tail is covered in polished bronze jewelry, and the lion portion wears nothing but a shawl of goat hide, the back of which has 2 horned goat skulls stitched onto it.
Art by @Sarah_Draws.
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Creature Concept: Northern Dragon
A white dragon sits up on a snowy tundra plain. Black rocks litter the ground, and grey clouds cover the skies, which are grey with blizzard clouds. Beneath the dragon's front claw is a human skull.
The dragon has folded pterodactyl-like wings with hairy claws for fingers. Its back legs are also fluffy, and look much like the talons of a snowy owl. 3 horns grow from the dragon's head; 2 short ones from the back, and 1 longer, forked one from the center. The tail ends in a triangular barb made from the same material as the horns, and sensory bristles stick out from the length of the tail like whiskers. Similar whiskers, only shorter, are found on the cheeks and the tips of the ears.
Art by @Sarah_Draws.
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Illustration: Stormfront (Sci-fi Art)
Illustration of a pale orange stone desert, with mountains in the background. Behind the mountains looms a churning, deep blue stormfront, which is split by a single bolt of lightning that reaches to a nearby floating island, and from there to the nearest peak. Dust blows violently across the landscape in front of the storm, and in the foreground, two dragonfly-like mechs perch on some eroded rock formations. They have scrap solar panels for wings, and twin cockpits for eyes.
Two characters stand on top of the nearest mech; one sitting upon the wing rotator joint, and the other looking towards the storm through a pair of binoculars. In the further mech, the pilots remain in the eyeball cockpits. One appears to be viewing a holographic display within the glass, and the other is looking over his shoulder, eyes shaded, at the storm.
Art by @Sarah_Draws.
uh... I'll just leave these right here for you all to ponder...
#aliens #ET #SciFi #SFF #movies #Films
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A man with medium-length hair and a beard (Steven Spielberg) and alien (ET) pose together against a light blue background. The alien stands behind the man with its long arms wrapped around his chest, while the man turns his head to look up at the alien’s face.
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A man with medium-length hair and a beard (Steven Spielberg) sits against a dark blue background beside a small brown alien with large blue eyes and a long neck (ET). The alien’s arm rests around the man’s shoulders while the man leans forward with his hand under his chin, both facing the camera.
#Pluto now has all episodes of #XFiles streaming! I do love me some Scully & Mulder. #SciFi What's your fave episode? Mikki says her fave is the werewolf episode. What's yours?
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Scully & Mulder both giving enigmatic side eye to the camera. Just their heads against a black background.
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