@ewdocparris
Zpace Corp. created the first 100% modular space station. Their secret was not its design but its building material. It looks organic, but it is more artificial than the burgers DacMonlad's sold at schools everywhere. Their secret is this thing sticks. Simply put two of those modules together and voilà. Your space station is a little, or a lot bigger. It withstands cosmic radiation, spaceships crashes, frat parties, and you can clean it with soap and water. #WritingPrompt
@ewdocparris
Fall, 2123
Vesper town drifts along at about 12 km, riding the jet stream above the Canadian Rockies. The trick is staying above the Troposphere but not going too far into the Stratosphere, that avoids the Earth’s heat while letting us process enough oxygen for living. When climate change stopped the Gulf Stream the planet went into chaos, the northern hemisphere iced over, the tropics burned. Our community made a life in Vesper; it’s difficult but we may be the only humans left.
I'm so happy that the second season of #Foundation has begun! Finally serious #SciFi again! Don't get me wrong, I really like #StarTrek, but it doesn't take itself always serious enough. I'm talking especially about the forced jokes, like in Strange New Worlds.
Back to Foundation. I still didn't read the books 😭, but maybe that's a good thing or else I'm going to compare it, and you shouldn't do that, because they are different pieces of #ScienceFiction. I really admire how everything is done, the acting, the world building, computer effects, politics, etc. I know Lee Pace especially from Halt and Catch Fire, and admire his acting (although his body is much to masculine for my taste 😉, or is it AI/CGI 🤔). Every person is acting terrific btw.
So if you didn't see it, watch it! You can throw your money to Apple or find it somewhere else. 🏴☠️
Hopefully the third season won't take that long as the second season.
@joenepraat@nyrath not reading the books means missing out on the casual sexism of the day. Young Isaac Asimov was brilliant, but the avant-garde of then feels corny today.
I like the series way better for concentrating on the themes and the message, not the trappings of cigar-chomping capitalists.
I just sold a novelette to THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Next year this classic mag going to have its 75th Anniversary issue. I wonder how many readers of science fiction and fantasy still read the great sf magazines printed on paper...? I'm thinking of "F&SF", linked below, Analog, Asimov's, and Interzone. My story, The Corporate Soul, will be out sometime next year. I had a story in the December '22 issue too. #sff#scifi#fantasy
Check out F&SF: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/
@JohnShirley2023
wow…congrats! 👏👏👏👏👏
I loved those old magazines (not old when I was reading them!).
They paid Pennie’s per word then…
And so much of what the greats wrote about has happened.
Special series sale alert! Until the end of July, grab all the books in The Iamos Trilogy by @lyssachiavari at 25% off on Smashwords! And yes, this includes the pre-order for the third book, ONE WORLD (coming Oct. 24th!)
“Love doesn't have a cost. It's just a choice you make, the way you choose to keep breathing or keep living. It's not about worth and it's not about price.”
― Sunyi Dean #Booklovers#scifi#quotes
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History PhD. I map the more esoteric inclines and declines of science fiction published primarily between 1945-1985. When SF tackles the greater morass of things and our oblique interiors I am happy. My website Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, with over five hundred reviews, charts these movements. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
Idea for a #scifi novel, outsourcing it to whoever wants to write it because I'm incapable of doing so✨
🌍 Earth becomes unlivable due to climate change. Humans are forced to explore space and they have to move to [planet of your choice] and colonize it, fighting for survival.
Fast forward to some centuries later, a bunch of astronauts are sent back to Earth to see how well things are going down there.
They land and see that Earth is now gorgeous, full of animal and plant life, it's thriving.
What does our protagonist, a climate scientist, do after they realize that bringing humans back to the planet would destroy it again? 🪐