#hard SF

[whirligig-girl]

COMMISSIONS by Luna (Whirligig-Girl)

Contact: DM me on social media or email me at WhirligigGirl [at] gmail [dot] com

Humans & Humanoids

Prices subject to change based upon complexity and props Backgrounds priced on a case-by-case basis. Very rough ballpark: triple the overall price for a complex background.

Choose a Line Art Style

Sketch: Head or Bust: $14 Full torso: $18 Knees or full body: $20

Clean: Head or Bust: $31 Full torso: $40 Knees or full body: $44

Lineless: Head or Bust: $41 Full torso: $50 Knees or full body: $54

Add on a Coloring Style

Solid Color Head or Bust: +$14 Full torso: +$18 Knees or full body: +$19

Cartoon Shaded Head or Bust: +$19 Full torso: +$23 Knees or full body: +$24

Rendered Head or Bust: +$24 Full torso: +$28 Knees or full body: +$29

Non-Humanoid Aliens & Robots

Prices subject to change based upon complexity and props Backgrounds priced on a case-by-case basis. Very rough ballpark: double the overall price for a complex background. Choose a Line Art Style Sketch: $25 Clean: $55 Lineless: $65

Add on a Coloring Style Solid Color: +$20 Cartoon Shaded: +$25 Rendered: +$30

Vehicles:

Prices heavily subject to change based upon complexity. Backgrounds priced on a case-by-case basis. Very rough ballpark: double the overall price for a complex background. Choose a Line Art Style Sketch: $30 Clean: $65 Lineless: $76

Add on a Coloring Style Solid Color: +$30 Cartoon Shaded: +$35 Rendered: +$40

Planets and Space Objects

Prices heavily subject to change based upon complexity. Sketch: $10-30 per object Solid Colored: $20-60 per object Rendered: $30-70 per object Full globe equirectangular map for games or 3D renders: $94-220 per map. (Heightmap and Color map) Kopernicus planet mod with configuration: Double the price above.

Examples of Previous Commissions:

#Long Post #Commission #Commissions #Taking Commissions #Open Commissions #artist #digital artist #sci art #science art #space art #fan art #star trek #trains #spaceships #planets #rockets #spacecraft #hard sf #fantasy art #original characters

[kerboid]

Large deployment structure of a Belus Linea operations group. Total weapon inventory of this group:

72 Standard ASSMs

[72x 1 Mt Casaba Howitzer warheads or 288 MKV Units, usually a mix of both]

16 LRASSMs

[64x 1-3 Mt Casaba Howitzer warheads, variable yield.]

8x Beam Pointers (Mw level)

2x Neutral Particle Beams.

#a-hydrogen-sky #hard sf #initially made this tumblr for posting sf worldbuilding stuff #but then signalis happened

[progradevector]

Most modern torch drives use a specialized fusion method known as sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch fusion, in which a bolt of electricity is dumped into the fuel plasma, generating a very powerful axial magnetic field. This field crushes the plasma to incredible densities until it fuses, in brief pulses happening several times per second. Rather than attempting to confine the plasma within a magnetic bottle, the plasma is instead allowed to flow axially down the length of the reaction chamber. This mutes the various instabilities that arise in other Z-pinch devices. This also makes it a very convenient rocket engine, as channeling the resultant plasma stream out of one end with a magnetic nozzle can generate significant thrust. Magnetohydrodynamic generators bleed off a small portion of the plume’s energy to recharge the supercapacitor banks for the next fusion pulse. Due to the large flux of thermal and neutron radiation from the star-hot fusion plasma, torch drives are an open cage of magnetic coils and filigree-like truss work in order to let the majority of the radiation escape into space rather than be absorbed by the engine. In addition, the delicate superconducting coils are protected from direct exposure to the fusion plasma by thin, knife-like blade shields. These coils must be kept cool in order to remain superconducting. The shields present their knife-edges towards the plasma stream, absorbing a small margin of radiation while scattering the rest. Their extremely thin cross-section means that they have a very large surface area, and thus function as passive radiators. As such, tungsten is the material of choice, being able to heat up to nearly 3000 K before beginning to sublimate. The blades are placed at a standoff distance of 2 or 3 meters from the plasma itself, with the tips just barely below the sublimation point. Ironically, the blade shields and radiators of a torch drive are often far brighter than the exhaust plume, often glowing at around 2800 K (as bright as early incandescent light bulbs).

#Lore #Hard SF #Beyond #Torchship #Torch Drive #Fusion Rocket

[siryl]

#andrew fraknoi #science fiction #hard sf #astronomy #solar system #i lost the link #and spent a long time hunting for the site #twice #this time i'm sharing it to tumblr #where it won't get lost

[nicdevera]

i liked the story in Schild's Ladder, and many have said greg egan strays into impenetrable physics textbook territory: Clockwork Rocket etc

#youtube #greg egan #science fiction #hard sf

[librinudi]

Greg Egan INCANDESCENCE 2010 Urania (Mondadori)

#libri #citazioni libri #antología #fantascienza #greg egan #urania #hard sf

[deepdarkspaceblog]

'The Revolution From Rosinante' Is Compelling But Flawed Hard SF

'The Revolution From Rosinante' has compelling hard SF but is stuck with cultural imbalances. #scifi #hardsf #books #bookreview

The Revolution From Rosinante (1981) is the debut novel of Alexis A. Gilliland. It is a story that makes rigorous use of science but unsettling use of racial dynamics and politics. However, despite the social misgivings, the story is one that fans of ‘hard’ science fiction can appreciate. In 2039 the proposed Proud Tower project, the plan to build a space elevator, is defeated. The Mitsui…

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#Alexis A. Gilliland #Book Review #Hard SF

[sleepycatmama]

Woo, he caught the Banned from Argo reference!

#sf #science fiction #hard sf #filk #karl k gallagher #leslie fish #Heinlein

[lawrencedagstine]

Red Penguin Books: "Shoot for the Moon" Space Adventure Anthology...!

It is with great pleasure to announce that yet another anthology featuring one of my tales has been released this month, this time a science fiction adventure story featuring a team of old school astronauts (think the days of Apollo & Sputnik, that style). So it has a pulp bent to it, but with an unexpected finish. Red Penguin Books presents, SHOOT FOR THE MOON. I’m not sure if it is available on…

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#Anthologies #Astronaut Stories #Astronaut Tales #Books #Dagstine #Dagstine 2023 #Dagstine Stories #Hard SF #Lawrence Dagstine #Lawrence Dagstine 2023 #Lawrence Dagstine Science Ficiton #Lawrence Dagstine Shoot for the Moon #New Anthologies #Pulp Science Fiction #Red Penguin Books #Red Penguin Books Anthologies #Red penguin Books Dagstine #Red Penguin Shoot for the Moon #Science Fiction Anthologies #Science Fiction Literature #Science Fiction Stories #Science Fiction Writing #Shoot for the Moon Space Advebnture Anthology #Short Stories #Space Adventure Stories #Space Adventures #Space Stories

[lebibliocosme]

Le Jardin quantique

Titre : Le Jardin quantique (The Quantum Garden) Cycle/Série : Cycle de l’évolution quantique, tome 2 Auteur : Derek Künskhen Éditeur : Albin Michel Imaginaire [site officiel] Date de publication : 2 mars 2022 (2019 en VO) Synopsis : Belisarius Arjona, le magicien quantique, a réalisé la plus audacieuse escroquerie de tous les temps. Il est riche, son grand amour partage de nouveau sa vie, et…

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#Albin Michel #Albin Michel Imaginaire #hard SF #littérature anglophone #littérature canadienne #space opera #voyage temporel

[teasteeper]

15:42 ♱ 18+

you're squirming against the cool sheets, which feel all too uncomfortable on your burning skin. you press your knees together hard for some friction, digging your heels into the mattress and arching your back, tiny strangled whines leaving your throat as arousal swirls in your tummy.

hendery's dark, narrowed eyes meet your wide and watery ones. he's simply studying you, kneeling before you on the bed and ghosting his slender fingers up and down the side of your thigh, watching you gnaw on your plush bottom lip, your cheeks flushed hot pink. your chest heaves with shaky breaths, and he reaches a big hand forward to tug at one of your perked nipples.

"cock- your cock" your voice is so weak and desperate, hendery can feel his heart swell against his ribs, "fuck me, please"

he offers you a quiet moan that's more of a sigh as he takes his hands off you, closing his fingers around the silver chain around his neck and pulling it over his head.

"c'mere"

you lift yourself to sit up, feeling his knuckles brush your hair as he puts his necklace on you. it somehow feels longer around your neck than his, the pretty crucifix pendant resting between your breasts, the cool metal making you shiver.

"beautiful"

he leans down to kiss you, making you fall back against the pillow. you don't fight his hand pushing your thighs apart, laying between your legs to line up his cock to your soaked centre.

"be good. need you to take it all" he whispers against your parted lips, giving you another kiss to swallow your moans as he buries his length in your cunt. his deep thrusts hit the spongy spot inside you over and over, sending shocks of warmth through you. it makes your head fuzzy, scratching your nails down his flexed biceps on either side of you, staring up at his face.

his pale skin glows with a thin sheen of sweat, dark brows furrowed and pretty lips parted, his deep sighs fanning over your cheek. but his eyes are fixed between your breasts where his pendant sits. your pathetic whining snaps him out of his trance, looking up to your flushed face. he swallows thickly, eyes flitting over your face to take in your kiss swollen lips, lashes wet with unshed tears and pupils blown wide before meeting your lips in another kiss.

hendery can be so soft like this, all lazy thrusts and messy kisses. his chest is flush against yours, moaning into your mouth at the feeling of the cold chain on his skin. he melts at the sight of you in his clothes, even more when you wear the chain that means so much to him. he's adorning one of his prized possessions with another. you look so much like you're his, and it's enough to drive him to fuck you for hours, his pained moans getting raspier, dark hair falling over his eyes, pretty lips wet and swollen.

"y'so pretty when you take it. you know it, don't you. pretty fucking girl"

"my baby.. all mine. say it to me. mine mine"

#oh we are so back #famous last words #NOT sf!hen #timestamps #hendery #wayv #nct #hendery smut #hendery x you #hendery x reader #wayv smut #wayv timestamps #wayv hard thoughts #wayv hard hours #nct smut #nct timestamps #nct hard hours #nct hard thoughts #mine #kpop smut

[exsqueezememacaroni]

Mike in the Mission 2006

photos by Jay Blakesberg

#having some hard second hand nostalgia for these photos #i walked around this part of the mission last year and it is.....not the same #and i wonder if Mike himself ever walks around there anymore #or what he thinks of SF in general these days #also - if i just saw this guy out and about I would stop him on the street and tell him how beautiful he is #i'm glad the kid discovered white suits #mike patton #this was for #peeping tom #but everyone thinks it's for #mondo cane #please appreciate his sunglasses

[il-predestinato]

Charles Leclerc and the Tifosi at Monza. 🇮🇹 🎥: 2023 Italian Grand Prix

#charles leclerc #f1 #* #my edit #f1edit #monza 2023 #italian gp 2023 #hope he had fun at least... #and glad to see he is well loved at least #hard to find anything positive about this race but still holding onto hope for charles to turn his season around #at least every race that passes is one less remaining race for that dreadful sf-23

[juergenklopp]

BRYCE HARPER hits an inside-the-park home run to make it 5–2 for the Philadelphia Phillies vs the San Francisco Giants. The Phillies take the first game of the series with a final score of 10–4 (August 21, 2023)

#Bryce Harper #Philadelphia Phillies #MLB #baseball #baseballedit #mlbedit #sportsedit #usernrzr #.gif #.original #MLB 2023 #SF @ PHI #:kittyrun: #'What‚ like it's hard?'

[golden-snackoos]

I think we as a society need to watch more Monk in 2024.

#monk #snacktalk #imagine a man so riddled with anxiety due to trauma that he develops severe OCD #his life is upended but he remains a damn good detective and warm and openhearted #tony shaloub #monk's actor has said it's not all that hard for him to identify with OCD #and there's a new movie with so much monk fanservice #the movie's ending made me and my sister cryy #it's the kind of movie to see where you realize how much time has passed for all of us #and how even through the worst times you've remembered how to be happy whenever you watch monk overcome his struggles #with living in SF

[rustyreveries]

decided to torture myself a bit and attempted to doodle canon sal. never doing this again

is this what the people want. boring ass green twink /lh

#i forgot how different my sal is from canon in terms of like. physical appearance #my version is soooo much better 😘 /hj #salad fingers #this sucks soooo fucking bad i’m sorry #i could not bring myself to finish this it is vile #i used up all my energy on my little pony fanart 💔 #i can never draw sal’s head right it’s driving me crazy #i have no idea how to draw skinny people either forgive me #i was fighting myself so hard not to add eyelashes… he’s so incomplete without the 2 fat lashes i give him all the time #why did his fingers change sizes in this you may be asking? i have no fucking clue please stop asking questions . #maybe check out the other art i posted earlier it's sm better than this. i love sal but he makes my art shitty for some reason #he's like a curse #i just noticed smth. why does sal look like he’s jacking off in the one doodle ☹️☹️ #maybe he is idk #why does this look better than my actual sf art :[ #i think it's bc i spent like 10 minutes on the head losies #> rust's art <