#scifi anthologies

[book0ftheday]

Alone Against Tomorrow by Harlan Ellison, cover illustration and design by Brad Johansen, author photo by Roger Conrad, published 1971.

#alone against tomorrow #harlan ellison #brad johannsen #roger conrad #kent state massacre #police brutality #speculative fiction #vintage scifi #vintage book covers #i have no mouth and i must scream #scifi short stories #scifi anthologies

[oflightandshadows88]

Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル) (1987)

Segment: Presence ( プレゼンス) | dir. Yasuomi Umetsu

#robot carnival #ロボットカーニバル #1987 #presence #プレゼンス #yasuomi umetsu #80s anime #anime #anime ova #anthology film #japan #scifi #robot #filmedit #filmgifs #my gifs

[alpaca-clouds]

An Overview Over the Solarpunk Anthologies

I thought, where I am already here, trying to get everyone to engage with Solarpunk as more than just an aesthetic and pretty flowers, I should give a quick overview over the Solarpunk antholigies, that have been released so far.

Note that so far most releases within the genre are in fact short stories. Though if anyone is interested, I can make a list of the novels I am aware of!

Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World is pretty much how the genre got its start. The book was originally released in Brazil and only recently had been translated into the English language. It only covers a few stories, but those are a bit longer than your average short story to make up for it.

Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation has been quoted by many writers in the genre to have been a massive inspiration to them. The stories are very diverse and cover lots of ground.

Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology is probably the weirdest out of this bunch. While all of the other anthologies mostly focus on either SciFi settings or stories set in the here and now, Wings of Renewal mixes Solarpunk with Fantasy elements. At times those stories are SciFi, too, at times they are really mostly fantastical.

Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers explores a wide variety of Solarpunk settings, some hopeful, some less optimistic. It is mostly set in warm and hot scenarios, though those can also vary quite a bit.

Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters then went ahead as a "sequel" of sorts to explore the concept of Solarpunk in colder climates.

Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures has probably to be my favorite one from the anthologies edited by Sarena Udaberri. It explores how humans and animals can live together in Urban settings. And once again, the stories vary from those set in a more futuristic and a more present setting a lot.

Fighting for the Future is the most recent of those anthologies, as it has only released last month. (And yes, this also means: I have not yet read it at all.) It features stories of Cyberpunk and Solarpunk futures - as well as stories where both intertwine!

Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology is exactly what it says on the cover. An anthology featuring Lunarpunk stories. So Solarpunk with a bit more mysticism to go with it. And as this also only has released earlier this year I admittedly also have not gotten around to reading it yet.

This does remind me though: Would anyone be interested in me writing mini reviews to the stories in those anthologies?

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #solarpunk fiction #anthology #short stories #overview #scifi #clifi #science fiction #climate fiction

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V/H/S/94

#found footage #anthology #horror #scifi #v/h/s #V/H/S/94 #u

[movie--posters]

I got a friend watching Beyond Belief, I'm watching Highlander with her husband while rewatching Buffy by myself, another friend is watching Murder she Wrote and another is watching X-Files and yet another is watching Star Trek: Voyager. Everyone I know is watching shit from or that started or aired in the 90's. No matter who's house I go to it's 90's time. Are we nostalgic or did TV peak?

#murder she wrote #x-files #highlander #beyond belief #star trek voyager #star trek #voyager #tv show #90s tv #tv shows #television #shows #buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #x files #highlander the series #duncan macleod #captain janeway #johnathan frakes #mystery #drama #scifi #show #tv #television show #sci fi #sience fiction #anthology #movie poster #friends

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Monsters | Parents from Space | S1E14 | 1989

#Monsters #Peggy Cass #Parents from Space #80s horror #rat #rats #practical effects #laser #seeing red #horror anthology #zap #monster makeup #80s scifi #Hammersmith Horror #horror

[breathingxspace]

Breathing Space: Fragile Futures, S04E01: Seed Money

"You know what we should do? We should rob a bank."

Two pairs of shifty individuals come together to plan a heist. It comes off with about as much success as one might expect.

Breathing Space: Fragile Futures, S04E01: Seed Money https://pnc.st/s/breathing-space-fading-frontier/035830c8/s04e01-seed-money

This episode was written and directed by @ash-alder edited by Erik Seguinte , & transcribed by @triangularandangler .

It features @satyrofstrategy, M. German, Corvyn Appleby, Quill Turner, & Sam Stark, and includes Emma Laslett, interiority, & Saph the Something.

Join us tonight at 6pm pacific for our live-listen premier!

#Breathing Space: A Scifi Western Anthology #new episode announcement #Law of Names Media #SEASON 4 LET'S GO #Youtube

[joswriting]

•❅───✧❅ joswriting ❅✧

: ̗̀➛ writeblr intro

Hello there! My name is Jo (shocker!), I am in my 20s and I write stories and poems in my free time. I used to have a writing account on here many moons ago and I really miss the community, friendship and support of talking with other writers about our projects, so I am trying to rebuild what I've lost.

: ̗̀➛ about me

very interaction friendly. we're all just people on here (also please tag me in games forever)

science fiction! science fiction is my everything. it's whatever. I'm normal about it

themes I write about a lot include: death anxiety, internalized bigotry, general dissatisfaction and the complex and confusing nature of existence

scifi flavour wise i like doing weird time or multiverse stuff

I'm also queer (lesbian, aromantic, whatever), if that matters. This comes up a lot in my writing be it explicit or not.

I write in German and English

: ̗̀➛ my wips/projects

⸻ On the end of everything 🌠

An "essay" on how the multiverse died, those who noticed, and how they learned to live with their fates

[reblog tag] [posts tag] [wip intro]

⸻ Poetry 🗒️

I don't post my poetry on tumblr, instead I self host it here. I love writing poems I get such a kick out of it!

My favourite poem of mine atm is this one: Lines Out Of Context

⸻ Starship Lovelace 🚀

The Starship Lovelace is an Earth vessel far from home. The human crew mysteriously disappeared decades ago - now a small group of aliens has claimed the ship.

[posts + reblog tag]

A collection of half-assed short trips, I'm trying to build my own kind of space ship show here. It mostly serves as a way for me to keep writing and get ideas out of my head without much drafting or anything. I've got a pretty good vague plot for it in my head and I'm trying to do it justice with my newer, more thought out chapters. You can see all entries: here.

The stories are hosted on the space story collection pubnix/website Cosmic.Voyage, which i just know some of you would get a kick out of.

: ̗̀➛ inspiration

on the comedy side: the two Dirk Gently books, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the Red Dwarf novels and Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen in particular (British people are grim, I like it)

on the more serious side: Frankenstein (my favourite book everr), many Doctor Who hiatus novels but especially Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles, the works of H.G. Wells (love that guys scifi that just completely misses the mark but was properly scientifically researched for its own time) and, to an extent, Der Tod und andere Höhepunkte meines Lebens by Sebastian Niedlich, which is a book I remember liking a lot as a young-ish teen

generally I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who and Star Trek

I sometimes reblog posts about media i really like on here too so for more check out the tag: good media

So. The first thing I’d better do is invent my audience. I'll pretend there are thousands of you out there, and I'll pretend you're all just like me; young, smart, pretty, and sarcastic (NB I’m probably being ironic here, although I’m not really sure any more). Just so we’ve got some common ground, I'll pretend you were born sometime in the late 1940s… No, sod that. I'll pretend you were born on 15 August 1948. All of you.

Well, why not? If you’re going to invent an audience, why not invent one in your own image?

-- Dead Romance, First Notebook

#writeblr #writeblr intro #writer #first book #poetry #anthology #scifi writing

[shelleyduvallsfaerietaletheatre]

Book log so far this year:

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan ☆☆☆☆

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter ☆☆☆☆☆

The Girl and The Ghost, Hanna Alkaf ☆☆ & a half

currently: St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, Karen Russell (30%)

What have you all been reading??

#mutuals if you have any recs pls feel free to shoot #trying to get in at least 1 new read a month #i love short story anthologies and mainly like horror + scifi but am also looking to read more non-fiction #i wanted to like TGATG so much more but that took a uhhh unfortunate turn #author made some Choices :/ #St Lucy's is a 3-ish star so far--hopefully the remaining stories will improve as they go #2024

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#2000ad #2000 ad #2000 a.d. #dredd #judge dredd #scifi #sci fi #science fiction #anthology #poll

[cybersexuality]

Electric Dreams - Human Is - Vera

#essie davis #vera #electric dreams #human is #gifs made by me #science fiction #scifi #terra #2017 #philip k. dick #anthology series

[dio-03]

XINO #1 is officially out! the sci-fi anthology published by @onipress features as its first story "HUE" written by Melissa Flores and art by Yours Truly! Check it out at a comic store near you!

#xino #oni press #comics #comic pages #scifi art #anthology

[alpaca-clouds]

A measured critique of Love Death + Robots

Okay, let me talk about something I kinda wanted to talk about for quite a while: The Netflix anthology series Love Death + Robots. A show with which I very much have a love-hate relationship.

Because I absolutely love the concept. The idea of turning short stories (a piece of literary media that often gets ignored) into short films (that also tend to get ignored)? Genius! It gives a chance for some authors to shine, that normally do not get that much attention. Same for smaller animation studios/teams. It really is a super cool idea.

And I gotta say, that there were some short films in there, that I really loved. My favorites are:

Three Robots (Just LOVED the humor in both stories)

Sonnie's Edge (I loved the Cyberpunk-Monster mix)

When the Yoghurt Took Over (Again, something that hit my humor nerve right)

Good Hunting (Ken Liu still is among my favorite authors)

Fish Night (Pretty)

Zima Blue (The Artstyle was just super cool)

The Tall Grass (I liked the atmosphere)

Snow in the Desert (I really liked the aesthetic in this one)

The Very Pulse of the Machine ( I mostly liked the main character)

All Through the House (Once more: My type of humor)

Mason's Rats (Because Rats)

You will notice one thing: Most of these are from season 1. Though to be fair: Season 1 had 18 episodes, while seasons 2 and 3 put together only had 17. So generally... Well, there is a few issues I had with season 1. Issues that not only I had. And seasons 2 and 3 did not improve on either.

The one critique you have probably heard quite a few times: A lot of those stories really love to objectify and/or sexualize the female characters. There is a ton of unnecessary sexualization of female characters going on. At times sexualization in a way that is not even precedented by the short stories the movies are based on.

At times this goes as far as some of those short films fetishizing violence against women. Jibaro was the worst example of this, but it is something that happens in quite a few of the short films. And that just leaves a really bitter aftertaste after watching the stories.

Again, I am not the first person to criticize this aspect.

Meanwhile the other criticism I have is one that I barely have seen anyone bring up, even though it is very much connected to that first one: Almost all of the short stories that the short films are based on have been written by men. Of the first season there are two movies based on stories written by women (Sucker of Souls and Helping Hand). Of seasons two and three, not a single short film was based on a story written by a woman. Or to put it differently: Out of the 35 episodes, 33 have been written by men. And, while we are on it, mostly white men.

And... Look, fantasy/scifi already has a big issue when it comes to major novel publishing that often female, queer and non-white authors are overlooked outside of the YA genre. Still, when it comes to the short story magazines, like @uncannymagazine female and otherwise marginalized writers get more of a voice. The same is also true for a lot of anthologies, that are not dependent on "oh, we just will publish a couple of short stories by already known authors". So... Why the hell does Netflix not give those writers a chance to shine in this anthology series?

Like, fuck... This annoys the living hell out of me. Just allow other people some time to shine as well.

#love death and robots #love death + robots #netflix #anthology #anthology series #short films #short stories #misogyny #netflix series #cyberpunk #scifi #science fiction #horror #fantasy

[chubstr]

ATTN writers! This queer-powered, chub, sci-fi anthology wants your story submissions! Get the details here: https://bit.ly/3rQjjlS

Art by James Dillenbeck!

#chubstr #plus size #anthology #scifi

[inkcurlsandknives]

A fun underwater themed #booklook for The Memory Extracts by @judyliu_author and my first blurb as an author! Thanks so much Judy for thinking of me and sharing your awesome anthology

"A vivid futuristic slice-of-life that builds upon the intriguing oceanic world building of the Vending Portal with new characters that leap off the page, while the broader conflicts and themes of its companion novel lurk in the depths and between the lines, both mesmerizing and eerie." – Gabriella Buba, Author of SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW

Go Check it out!

#writeblr #bookblr #sff #scifi #anthology #asian author #booklook

[daifukumochiin]

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#quoteoftheday #sasuhina fanfic #sasuhina #scifi #sci fi and fantasy #sci fi au #microfiction #flash fiction #short story anthology