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Foundation (2021): Trantor's Star Bridge terminal, art by Paul Chadeisson
@PaulC04

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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?😉

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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.

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Great piece by @cstross on the relationship between #scifi and creating a worthwhile future, apparently delivered as a keynote yesterday.

“We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus”

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

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“This is the paradox of tolerance, the treason of free speech: we hesitate to admit that some people are just fucking evil and need to be stopped.”

  • The Ones Who Stay and Fight, by NK Jemisin

#bookQuotes #quotes #NKJemisin #sciFi #sff #shortStories #bookstodon @bookstodon

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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 🫶🏻

@bookstadon @scifi

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🫣People could find traces of The Closed Tunnel at the Young Adult Literature Convention in London!

🎁11-12 of November 500 attendees will find our tickets to the underworld in their goody bags.

If you are there these days, don’t forget to scan the QR-code on our leaflets to join The Closed Tunnel club and receive gifts from time to time✨🦄

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon @scifi @bookstadon

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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.

"We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary"
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 108.

Ave Barrera's The Forgery (2013/2022) is a Mexican caper story about an 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.

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@muirinnmac @bookstodon

Yes, I'd say realism needs internal coherence (which is what I value in #scifi) rather than explicit 'reality'

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This week we attended the Cyprus Dance Film Festival, supported by my publisher Deep Immersion (sorry, , I didn’t write that day😅).

So honored to present my upcoming book The Closed Tunnel on the red carpet and give an interview to Cyprus TV☺️


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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.

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Calling all sci-fi nerds. If you haven’t seen Pantheon yet you need to.

I just found out about this show a few days ago. It’s not streaming here in Canada but you can purchase it on Apple TV.

I’m halfway through the first season and I’m hooked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2D4uYqQNs

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Has anyone got #sff #scifi #fantasy recs for good books with ambulatory #wheelchair users? Big bonus if there’s an audiobook available.

My sweetie is yelling about how the wheelchair user in her current read was written (among other things) and I’d like to get her something better. :)

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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.)

This show has already joined my sci-fi pantheon, so I'm counting on the finale to confirm my enthusiasm. 🤞 #scifi #animation #scavengersreign #max

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The End of the World: And Other Catastrophes

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.

@bookstodon
#books
#scifi
#doomsday

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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.

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Menace of the Machine

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.

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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 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!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/solarpunk-magazine-2024/

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aram, to bookstodon
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Spotify users can now listen to the of @rachelcleves's and my new novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY, read by Cindy Kay. Coauthored as @RASinn.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5enA23TBBadQBwChbO6N75 @bookstodon @scifi

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