So nobody gets the t-shirts I wear in the small town where I live (okay, not completely true - they got my "Bigfoot claims he saw me once, but nobody believes him.") So I've decided to lean into it and get new t-shirts that nobody here understands. So far I'm going to order the following:
#FinishedReading a cosy organic farming postapocalypse is visited by a sinister figure in a giant nuclear powered vehicle... and what a great cover by #DexterMaurer . Book was fine but running with a passive and disengaged main character was an odd choice. #JonathanLethem#Bookstodon@bookstodon#SciFi
Erotica author Lisabet Sarai is my blog guest today, with a guest post and an excerpt from her newest release, Bodies of Light. https://wp.me/p9O7pv-3nE
Haha, Ted Chiang is awesome. Here's a story about deeply religious people who have a heliocentric cosmology and believe that God made the universe specifically for them. Then their astronomers discover that the universe is actually geocentric. And it's centred on a planet in a nearby star system, not on their own world. :-D
And what about the RoboNomics staff? Have you ever had that experience of bumping up against people who, while doing something that is guaranteed to have a negative impact (#ai) are still self-congratulatory? Do you think you'd be able to keep it together as well as Andrea did? @bookstodon#scifi#books
No Time Like the Past (Jodi Taylor) 7/10
Book 5/14
Don't get me wrong - I love the Chronicles of St. Mary's series, but this is probably the weakest entry so far, and hopefully not a sign of things to come.
The romp through time felt a little samey, and the overall plot arch really didn't advance much when compared to the previous four books. Ditto for character growth.
Even when mailing it in, Taylor's prose is still a lot of fun.
You're all going to love the #space battles in my upcoming big-budget #scifi#movie. Completely soundless! Beam weapons are targeted by computers, fire continuously for several minutes, are invisible to outside view, and never miss! Protective fields don't exist! Hull punctures cause explosive decompression and the immediate death of the entire crew!
I just sold a novelette to THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Next year this classic mag is going to have its 75th Anniversary issue. I wonder how many readers of science fiction and fantasy still read the great sf magazines printed on paper...? I'm thinking of "F&SF", linked below, Analog, Asimov's, and Interzone. My story, The Corporate Soul, will be out sometime next year. I had a story in the December '22 issue too. #sff#scifi#fantasy
Check out F&SF: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/
Special series sale alert! Until the end of July, grab all the books in The Iamos Trilogy by @lyssachiavari at 25% off on Smashwords! And yes, this includes the pre-order for the third book, ONE WORLD (coming Oct. 24th!)
Idea for a #scifi novel, outsourcing it to whoever wants to write it because I'm incapable of doing so✨
🌍 Earth becomes unlivable due to climate change. Humans are forced to explore space and they have to move to [planet of your choice] and colonize it, fighting for survival.
Fast forward to some centuries later, a bunch of astronauts are sent back to Earth to see how well things are going down there.
They land and see that Earth is now gorgeous, full of animal and plant life, it's thriving.
What does our protagonist, a climate scientist, do after they realize that bringing humans back to the planet would destroy it again? 🪐