This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone seems to be a popular #scifi book lately so I've been working my way through it but tbh so far it's pretty awful. I hope it gets better as I'm tempted to stop. #bookstodon
Quick plug for my song!
Skylark Duquesne, representing Atlantis, The Last Planet [ATLA], presents "Postmarked The Stars", a love letter from outer space to my dear wife, Elizabeth. It's really cute singer-songwriter stuff, with a healthy nerdiness and a reference to the classic #scifi novel by Andre Norton. Let me know if you like it!
Years after George Costanza and Jerry Seinfeld sat at Monk's debating what Tony Stark wore underneath his armor, Marvel finally revealed the answer: boxers with Iron Man's face on them....
Scrapper Ship. A repurposed asteroid mining vessel, with lasers still in place. Now home to a single crew member, scraping a living between Ceres and Mars.
Watched it for the umpteenth time last night. 42 years old and as long as you're not watching the original theatrical release, it's a near perfect film. A pure masterclass.
Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.
What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?
Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.
More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.
If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.
This dramatization shows a recorded event from the Bible demonstrating what Jesus taught about the end of religion:
"Magic Moon" - Der 14. Captain-Future-Roman gehört zu denjenigen Erzählungen, die bislang nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt worden sind - dafür aber wurde er als Animé-Episode verfilmt (Titel: "Die Rolle seines Lebens")...
@kbob I had the global shapes in mind: main part, propellers / fans at the sides, two "legs" / "arms" with guns, and the lens. The rest of the shapes and details were conceived as I went along.
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The resignations and disciplinary actions come after it was revealed that certain authors and books—including R.F. Kuang's hit novel Babel—had been inexplicably deemed not eligible for the Hugo at Worldcon 2023 in Chengdu, China.
