#Sci-Tember

[morn-2]

Back with a new sketch

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[trainorstudios]

#spice #sci-tember #sci-tember2022 #daily #pentelpocketbrush (at Hagerstown, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9JqsvOltA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[paris-torres-month]

SeP/Tember Day 20: Alice

“Alice needs me.” “So do I.”

Today’s feature episode isn’t just a great P/T ep, it’s a great old-school sci fi/horror story. Tom, who doesn’t even know he’s bored, is enticed by a slightly-dull-but-soon-to-be-shiny new toy: a ship with a neural interface that he finds in a scrapyard. He figures out how it works & fixes it up to the point where he’s spending all of his time in the shuttlebay: off duty hours & on.

He’s missing shifts, ignoring B’Elanna, & stealing parts. He looks like hell because his ship is actually a sentient life form that has manipulated his behaviour and rooted into his head.

Alice isn’t so much vindictive & cruel as she is single minded. Nothing will stop her from getting home. And Tom is the only pilot she’s found who has the ability to facilitate that for her.

Tom attempts to break away from her, but he can’t, and he’s forced to leave his family and do what Alice wants.

But in the end, B’Elanna takes a little trip of her own: into Tom’s consciousness. Beware the day okd pizza lying around! This is a fantastic P/T episode not just because of the tension & the amazing argument where Tom *almost* attacks B’Elanna, but because she doesn’t back down an inch. She rescues him even after he’s treated her that way, or at least she distracts him long enough for KJ to beam him home.

All that plus an actual resolution after the upheaval Alice forced on their relationship. ❤️ It does get better than this (Lineage), but this is a fantastic second!

I forgot to ad that it’s National Pepperoni Pizza Day so it was either Alice (comfort him with pizza) or Threshold...

Today’s prompts are Alice: Pizza & Champagne- Sleepwalking - Wake up call

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[masked-fox-creations]

For Sci-tember Fox looks at a generations spaceship novel with queer characters.

Hello and welcome back to the shelves! I’m your host Fox, and it’s Sci-tember, so today we’re looking at “An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon. It follows a woman named Aster living on a generations spaceship and dealing with the racist societal structure therein, while trying to unravel the secrets her mother left behind twenty-five years ago.

This may be the best sci fi I’ve read in a very long time. Like, it floored me at every turn. It is brutal and it is incredible. This book opens with the amputation of a child’s foot and that is not the worst thing that happens even in the first quarter of the story. It’s quite heavy. “An unkindness of Ghosts” examines a lot of things like racism, gender, fluidity, and how others views of you can affect you just to name a few. And there are a lot of bad things that happen to the characters. A lot a lot.

I mean it about heavy things happening. There’s mentions of rape, including rape against children, beatings, basically slavery, a lot of violence, ableism, racism, colorism, homophobia, transphobia, violence against animals, straight up torture. Suicide attempts, self flagellation. This is no light summer read. I will say though none of it is gratuitous, and many things happen off screen or aren’t exceptionally detailed.

Not to say there’s nothing but suffering in this book, because the author does give breathing room with some tender moments between Aster and her love interest Theo, a less-than-cis it seems individual, and moments of wonderment as Aster starts figuring out what’s going on. There is a stubborn sprout of hope at the end. It’s not just all bleakness.

But on a lighter note, there’s some great representation in here. Aster, our main protagonist, is autistic though never stated in text to be so, it’s just heavily implied. Also Theo, who’s mixed race, reads like he has OCD, but again no on screen confirmation. We have a minor character who’s aromantic and asexual, Aster is bi or pansexual, and there are other minor queer characters throughout.

This is such a good book, and I could gush for ages but I don’t know what else to say that wouldn’t spoil the story. Definitely if you can handle heavy subject matters I recommend this. Especially if you’re in the market for adult science fiction, like the generational spaceship sub-genre, or like a sci fi story with mystery and attempts to overthrow a tyrannical society that mirrors real life oppression. I’m definitely going to check out anything else this author puts out because their writing is fantastic.

Anyway, that’s if for this time. I have absolutely no clue what I’m reading next. Until we meet again.

[End]

“The point is what you do when you don’t have the details. Do you interrogate? Do you examine? Or do you settle for the obvious answer?”

#From Fox's Bookshelves #An Unkindness of Ghosts #science fiction #books #booktube #booklr #review #queer #media representation #video

[jessiethewitchzard]

So, like, the sci fi Lego community on Flickr is so much fun. It’s just a bunch of nerds hanging out and showing off the cool things they made and then talking about how cool the things other people made are. They have all sorts of fun little traditions, but my favorite is that each month, there’s a theme for what to build. It’s not like, a rule, and literally no one cares if you don’t, but each month has a default thing to draw inspiration from if you’re out of other ideas:

January - Droneuary - Build automated robotic drones, usually humanoid.

February - Febrovery - Build rovers for driving around on other planets, or just cool sci fi trucks in general.

March - Marchikoma - Build robots inspired by Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell

April - ???

May - ???

June - ???

July - ???

August - ???

September - SHIPtember - build big spaceships. we’re talking Star Destroyers, Space Battleship Yamato, that sort of thing 

October - Ma.Ktober - build things inspired by the sci-fi world war 2 Maschinen Krieger universe

November - NoVVember - Build space fighters inspired by the Vic Viper from Gradius

December - ???

Unfortunately, I only know the themes for about half the months, but it’s a cool little tradition.

#lego #flickr #sci fi

[masked-fox-creations]

Fox takes a look at a Shakespeare inspired choose your adventure book.

Hello and welcome back to the shelves! I’m your host Fox, and today we are looking at “To Be Or Not To Be” by Ryan North. It’s a choose your own adventure book—but not in those exact words because that’s trademarked—following Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Does that sound awesome? Because it’s awesome.

Choose your own adventure style books have always been one of my favorite genres, honestly, so I’ve read a good amount through the years. The worst crime I feel that these books can make is having boring, uncreative choices. “To Be or Not To Be” does not have that issue at all. It’s a blast from beginning to end to beginning all over again.

It’s innovative right from the start where you get to choose which character to be—Hamlet, Hamlet’s ghost dad, or Ophelia. All of them have some great paths, but personally I preferred Ophelia because she’s the best. Her bloodiest choice paths leave a larger bodycount than the other two.

And speaking of choices, there are some fantastic ones here, offering a variety of situations. Pirate battles, chess battles—I’m not kidding, you can play chess in this—cannibalism, fighting terrorists. It can get pretty wild. You can even play a choose your own story inside the choose your own story, that is how meta this book gets. Oh and also I am serious about the cannibalism, you can eat your girlfriend’s dead father—whom you killed. This book is not boring.

There’s some great and varied artwork in here, too. Some artists you might recognize like KC Green from “KC Green Comics”, Zach Weinersmith from “SMBC”, or Noelle Stevenson who created “Nimona”. Or if you’re a filthy homestuck you’ll be surprised to see Andrew Hussie’s work and then your soul will promptly leave your body.

Also it’s diverse! By that I mean there’s references to characters not being straight, and then this part that references asexuality which is what brought this book to my attention in the first place after I saw it in a tumblr post.

This is a fun update to a classic play, classic in the sense everyone knows of it. I honestly prefer “To Be or Not To Be” just because it addresses a lot of the weird and unfortunate misogyny. Also I like to think good ol’ Willy Boy would have appreciated this retelling. This is highly recommended for fans of the genre, especially if you want more adult choose your own adventure books. Adult in the sense they’re not crafted around an audience of children, not adult as in sexy times.

Well that’s all I have to say here. Next time we’re heading into Sci-fi-tember with “An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon. Until we meet again.

[END]

Of course Hussie’s artwork is for the choose your own adventure book inside the choose your own adventure book. Of course it is.

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