#WordWeavers 12: Antagonist POV: What food would you serve to your enemy?
😏Antagonist? Food? That would be too simple.
First off, in The Closed Tunnel, in the deep underground cities, you should try to guess who the MC should avoid, who he should be scared to death of, and who is just watching him (yet).
Unobvious villains: Isn't that what we face in real life?😉
Scavengers Reign ended three days ago, but another original sci-fi show starts today! It's an adaptation of a Hugh Howey (Silo) novel.
Welcome to Beacon 23 (MGM+), where a man living in the 23rd Century works at a remote "lighthouse" in space that serves as a beacon to help passing ships. #scifi#tvshow#beacon23#spacestation
This weekend is my first test of the waters with ads and leaflets for The Closed Tunnel at YALC (Young Adult Literature Convention) in London🫣 You may see one page from it below 🤗
Of course, the book isn't finished yet, so it's just an invitation to my newsletter, where I plan to send out gifts from time to time.
It’s my first contact with the big world, and I'm super nervous🙈 Just send me some good vibes, please 🫶🏻
This article discusses how a group of excessively wealthy individuals(we know who they are), driven by a passion for young adult science fiction literature, is influencing global politics. It's genuinely worth exploring.
Ave Barrera's The Forgery (2013/2022) is a Mexican #art caper story about an #artist forced to complete a forgery as part of an inheritance fraud. But by the end its unclear (perhaps purposefully) whether the narrator has experienced imprisonment & exploitation by a violent & rich mastermind, or whether its all a fever dream brought on by a hand injury (turning to sepsis). While quite enjoyable its also finally unsatisfying as a novel.
The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema
Essays on the Art and Principles of Ten Films
This volume of essays examines 10 films, with a focus on discerning the possible, the unlikely, and the purely science fictional. With essays by scientists in relevant fields, chapters provide analyses of the movies themselves, along with examination of the actual science (or lack thereof) in each film.
"The Spiral and The Threads," the long-awaited "conclusion" of The Nod/Wells Timelines," is coming soon! Begin your preparations with this official teaser trailer, featuring the six books that started it all.
Today marks the end of Scavengers Reign on Max.
(no, we don't know if there will be another season, but I have no confidence in Warner. And maybe it's just not necessary.)
13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s.
Extreme climate change, nuclear annihilation, comet strike; calamities self-inflicted and from beyond the steer of humankind vie to deal the last blow in this countdown from the first whisper of possible extinction to the Earth's final sunrise.
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction
This volume explores a range of prescient and thoughtful stories from SF’s classic period, from accounts of exhausted resources and ecocatastrophe to pertinent warnings of ecosystems thrown off balance and puzzles of adaptation and responsibility as humanity ventures into the new environments of the future.
The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics)
Assembled with pieces by SF giants such as Isaac Asimov and Brian W Aldiss as well as the less familiar but no less influential input of earlier science fiction pioneers, this new collection of classic tales contains telling lessons for humankind’s gradual march towards life alongside the thinking machine.
I made a pledge on Kickstarter for "Solarpunk Magazine" 2024 with only a few hours to go - I've loved reading the magazine this year and am really happy to support them!
Got waylaid by all the great perks but
ended up going with the #Lunarpunk collection because I loved the short story "Midnight Serenade" by @jendiagammon (@jendiagammon) and I wanted to read their novel "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" - very excited!
Spotify users can now listen to the #audiobook of @rachelcleves's and my new #scifi#sff novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY, read by Cindy Kay. Coauthored as @RASinn.