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jayrockin · 3 days

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Simon Roy (@simon-roy) asked me to invent a guy (alien organism) for his newest book, Refugium, which comes with a guy emporium (alien life guidebook). There's a kind of radially symmetrical bug called pinwheels on the planet that will split into wedges as a defensive mechanism, so I Junji Ito'ed them into a eusocial spiral that workers snap off of once "ripe."

Refugium is out on Kickstarter right now and if you like alien ecology, failed utopias, and frontier stories I can highly recommend it. I've greatly enjoyed the previous books from the same universe.

#speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec bio #specbio #spec evo #specevo #scifi #hard scifi #aliens #alien #refugium

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ivebeentotheforest · 4 months

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Sandworms in battle - Dune: Part Two (2024)

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spyglassrealms · 3 months

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October 4, 2181: The UNSS Skyward Spirit ignites its massively powerful fusion drive in cislunar space, beginning its 24-year round trip to Proxima Centauri. Visible on the Moon are the cities of Byrd, Guǎnghángōng, Apollo City, Tsiolkovskiy, Tycho, and Shackleton, as well as many smaller settlements, all connected by the lunar rail system. Off the sunward limb of the Moon one can also spot the city-station Tsukuyomi in low orbit, with half a dozen vessels in its vicinity. Taken by an unknown photographer at dawn on the west bank of Lake Tanganyika (DRC), using a telescopic lens.

a rare Spy Art appears! photobash of the moment humankind started their very first journey to another sun in my hard science fiction setting Astra Planeta. edited in Paint.NET using a screenshot from Space Engine.

#Astra Planeta #spyglass’ realms #spy arts #worldbuilding #space #space art #futurism #future history #science fiction #hard science fiction #scifi #hard scifi #scifi art #scifi writing #photobash

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revginapond · 10 months

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I've started reading my second book, Unity, on my podcast Tales from Flat Space.

I read these episodes live on Twitch (http://twitch.tv/worthyadvisor) on Fridays at 9 pm Central European Time (3 pm Eastern/Noon Pacific US). The podcast usually comes out a week later.

#writing #books #novel #hard scifi #lgbtqa scifi #queer #lgbtqa #neurodivergent #scifi #science fiction #podcast #reading out loud #audiobook

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vepuei · 4 days

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Tembren Poetry [Zïlïz] - Veflä "Gleaming" (Corrected Transcription)

Veflä Kelfīä Alessandro Kevītä Ombra V 2.0 – April 5th, 2024 C.E. Crōn brät ïztäre. The black hole feeds. Ölz brätän vefe:Zäült ïztäre![A singularity is gleaming,Blackness is feeding!] I’ve added lowercase letters to the Ar’Tembren script since I first introduced the language here on vepuei.com. V 1.2 – Drafted: 2022 C.E.; Corrected: 2024 C.E. Ölz bretÄr'VïsterveflenÏztãre[A…

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carocineasta · 3 months

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Netflix Anuncia o Lançamento Épico da Série "O Problema dos 3 Corpos" para Março de 2024 - Veja o Novo Trailer

Prevista para estrear em 21 de março de 2024, a série promete ser um espetáculo visual, construindo um mundo que se estende por décadas, onde decisões do passado afetam a humanidade diante de uma ameaça nunca antes vista no futuro.

O trailer está épico!

#o problema dos 3 corpos #netflix #séries #série #series #netflix series #scifi #hard scifi #audiovisual #Youtube

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chroniclesoftheinterregnum · 6 months

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What is Etrafea?

Etrafeans are unique in the Cluster for harboring a sense of national identity that extends across the entire system. Some speculate that this unusual level of unity arose out of the fact that Usehiri, the only remotely survivable planet in the system, contains the largest collection of pre-collapse historical records to be found anywhere in the Cluster. This theory has a roughly equal number of detractors.

It can not be disputed, however, that the treasure trove of pre-collapse technology allowed Etrafea to rediscover the secrets to FTL travel by way of Hoveskeland Points before anyone else, and by proxy allowed them to enact a monopoly on interstellar travel via the Interstellar Trade Union.

Now, Etrafea is a nation-system governed by an oligarchic technocracy, with the ITU providing a service in high demand, due entirely to the ITU itself creating the false scarcity of interstellar travel. The ITU isn't operating entirely out of greed, however. Etrafea relies on the business generated by the ITU to import the resources necessary for its own subsistence, such as uranium and helium-3.

#scifi #sci-fi #hard science fiction #sci fi #science fiction #hard sci fi #writing #creative writing #worldbuilding #etrafea #hard scifi

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thebestbookrecommendations · 2 years

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Congo - Michael Crichton

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death.

Read if You Like:

Science Fiction

Thrillers

Adventure

Horror

Mysteries

Suspense

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Michael Crichton (Sphere, Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain)

Mira Grant (Into the Drowning Deep)

3/5

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lorenzonuti · 9 days

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Hard. Soft. Deep. Wet.

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 3 months

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Vincent Price

The Tingler (1959) dir. William Castle

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hardspaceships · 2 months

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Pacifica Space Shuttle

By Mac Rebisz

#hard science fiction #hard sci fi #spaceship #space #science fiction #space art #radiator award #scifi

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jayrockin · 23 hours

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The two main characters of my short story Airsled, Vrazi the diver avian and Piawii the pygmy avian.You can read more about their species here. Vrazi is holding the cord of money they used to buy Piawii's indentured labor, and Piawii is holding Vrazii's tea pipe.

The tea pipe was a funny compromise that turned into worldbuilding, because Vrazi felt like the type of character to smoke a cool pipe, but avian lungs are too delicate to handle the high concentration of airborne particulates found in leaf smoke. Smoke inhalation has a lot more immediately deleterious effects to them than to humans. I split the difference by giving them a steaming hot cup of [insert addictive stimulant here] with a pipe-like handle for drinking on the go.

This design got turned into stickers and put on the back cover of the new printed edition.

#runaway to the stars #speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec bio #specbio #spec evo #scifi #hard scifi #aliens #alien #vrazi #piawii #avians #airsled #jayart

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ivebeentotheforest · 4 months

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Dune: Part Two (2024)

#my gifs #dune part two #denis villeneuve #timothée chalamet #zendaya #dune part 2 #dune movie #dune #dune 2021 #dune 2024 #war scene #action scenes #fight scene #sci fi and fantasy #science fiction #space movies #hard scifi #chani #paul atreides

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spyglassrealms · 3 months

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"We're finally out of the cradle. Of the hundred billion humans who ever lived, we're the first to stand beneath an alien sky."

— CDR Anna Wilson's first words on Mars; Oct. 3, 2018 CE

The Ares program was a crewed spaceflight project led by NASA, in collaboration with other members of the United Nations Aerospace Coalition, that succeeded in its milestone goal of landing humans on the surface of Mars. From its announcement in 2010 it took another eight years of preparation, training, and construction before the first mission was ready to begin.

Ares 1 was launched in mid-2018 and reached the red planet a few months later. At 10:45:33 UTC on October 3rd, 2018, commander Anna Wilson of the United States became the first human being to ever set foot on Mars and the first living thing on the planet in almost four billion years. Ares 1, and the four missions to follow, greatly enriched humanity's understanding of Mars. Ares 5 returned home in early 2028, ending the first crewed Mars exploration phase and opening the door for the next.

The Ares program was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to humankind at the time, and captivated the public imagination for over a decade. Like its predecessors Apollo and Artemis, it is widely recognized across the 30th-century human diaspora as a key reason for humankind's modern status as adept starfarers, best expressed by Commander Wilson in her first words upon touching the Martian surface: "We're finally out of the cradle."

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revginapond · 8 months

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In this futuristic adventure, computer scientist Kiah Hasan, physicist Nigel Evans, and Captain Josh Walker embark on a mission to the Kuiper Belt on the space station known as Trinity. When simmering political tensions on Earth erupt into war, the Trinity Station crew disappears, only to be found a century later by Admiral Darren Winters. Dr. Hasan's AGI experiments have led the descendants of the former Trinity crew to make remarkable technological advancements in order to survive on massive ships in deep space, culminating in the birth of the new nation of Survey. But when Admiral Winters is tasked with finding the youngest AI, Loki, who vanishes after a tragic accident, he discovers a dangerous secret that could threaten Survey's future. Can Admiral Winters and psychologist Dr. Alex Campos uncover Loki's fate before it's too late?

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Also available on my podcast "Tales from Flat Space."

#science fiction #scifi #space opera #hard scifi #lgbtqa #queer #sex worker positive #transgender positive #novel #novels #fiction #queer fiction #lgbtqa scifi

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vepuei · 1 month

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Īxäl Family Album

Ambassador Täzī Īxäl (Age 67) Länzī Īxäl (Age 27) President Mäwlkī Īxäl (Age 27) First Lady Zälī ��xäl (Age 29) Rähzī Īxäl (Age 12) Ambassador Mähwī Īxäl (Age 12)

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#ai art #ai generated art #cats #hard scifi #illustration #Illustrations #indie author #light #oc #original characters #republic of light #sci-fi #science fiction #scifi #tembren #tembren people

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