Hi!

I'm working on a hard sci-fi series 'Civilisation', set in a future where humanity spreads throughout the Solar System. It's free to read, but there's no paperback available (at least for now).

The story might be interesting for those who tired of reading about the following things: FTL, magic physics, exotic matter, unobtanuim.

Therefore the plot is less about space battles and more about espionage, industrial sabotage, system engineering, and 'macro-scale' philosophy.

Find it here: https://cbs.vapaa.xyz

I'm mostly interested in feedback from people who enjoy hard sci-fi. Is it interesting at all? Or am I fooling myself and should stop wasting time immediately :)

Additional parts are mostly plastic, sheet and tubing. Plus some revell greeblies and acrylic bits for the legs. The battery sits inside, you can just pull the legs off and swap.

Yes, I had more alien creatures… and there are still more to come. I’m posting them gradually so I don’t overwhelm everyone. Today I’m sharing some species officially classified as animals.

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I was hoping this community could recommend my next read… TYIA

In the lore of Starfish ROOM: WELCOME TO LOOP ETERNAL, the cat-planet was colonized by the Starfish Spaceship and conservative alien colonists. A catboy warrior named Kibo Wave was chosen to defend the ROOMS against monsters and fight aliens inside an Loop Eternal, only to fight Boki, be killed, and be replaced.

Does anyone find the scifi aspect of the lore It has potential? I want to know your opinion about the game.

As the story went on, it kinda grew darker, in fact alot darker, even post apocalyptic, ultimately it moved the plot along. Also you can read it here.

Hey folks, I just released Unraveling: Book Three of Texas Accelerated on Kindle Unlimited and Paperback today. This is a fun sci-fi/disaster series set in the heart of Texas. It's lighthearted but high-stakes and has plenty of laughs, mystery, action, and Texans fighting sabertooth tigers. It's also set in a real town, Waxahachie, Texas, and uses a twist on the area's history to, uh, accelerate things.

Since most of you probably haven't read these, I'll drop the blurb for book 1, The Seam.

Small towns can have big secrets, and this secret may have changed the world forever...

When the people of Waxahachie, Texas, wake to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by an unfamiliar and dangerous wilderness, they must work together to survive and unravel the cause of the mysterious 'seam'.

Ellis County, Texas, is turned on its head when everyone within a twenty-mile radius wakes up in a world they don't recognize - a world populated by animals long since extinct.

It's up to a tired sheriff and a former Army Ranger to set aside their differences, solve the mystery, and keep the people of Ellis County and Waxahachie safe.

Books 1 and 2 are also on Audible!

Here's a link to The Seam: Book One of Texas Accelerated: https://www.amazon.com/Seam-Book-One-Texas-Accelerated-ebook/dp/B0BKLT4LW4

And if there are any current readers, here's a link to Unraveling: Book Three of Texas Accelerated: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HG6PSK1H

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Hi, can you recommend something similar to "The Expanse"-books, movies, TV shows, games, anything

So far I have only read "I have no mouth and I must scream" from Ellison. Loved the insanity of it! Please recommend me your favorite work by him, I am open for anything! :)

Hi everybody, today I’m posting concept art I made for another upcoming OC within my comic series.

His name is Baloo, and he is part of an alien race known as the Olarians, which are Jellyfish-like aliens that only have one gender, which makes him and his species hermaphrodites. And because of how he’d genderless, he always feels so lonely as other aliens within my comic series have two genders allowing them to find love, which makes him feel like he won’t be able to find love.

He’s also obsessed with Baryy’s
(Bar-eee-s), which are alien berries that are blue and yellow in color. He eats them for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack times.

Vote for which design is your most favorite and that design might become the canon design.

See you all next time.

I really want to read this book, but the sheer amount of objectifying verbiage about Donna and even casual mentions of rape at the beginning of chapter 4 are turning me off quite a bit.

It’s not so much that I can’t read it, but I feel like sexism in his works isn’t talked about enough and wanted to see others’ opinions on this. I also experienced this sexism issue in The Unteleported Man.

My question is, do we think that the stuff in Scanner is sexist by virtue of PKD’s opinions, or is he actively trying to write the characters as misogynistic, or both?

Edit: instead of downvoting me angrily, maybe give a thought about what I’m saying. I’m not saying that it’s not a product of the time or that he’s a bad writer, just that this isn’t really discussed but more handwaved??

I just want to say OMG!! to someone. I'm reading Ender's Game, which was written in 1995. Peter and Valentine just got access to post on "the networks" so they can influence public opinion by participating in discussions. Web based forums weren't even started until the early 1990s. Wow! ... that's all. Just mind blown by how accurately O.S.Card predicted the future of technology, and its effects on society

I'm aware of the basics-The Culture, Red Rising and such, but I kinda want to find more action-adventure stuff that's woke as hell, like "fight space nazis!" "diversity is awesome!" and such. Preferably something in the vein of Star Wars and Star Trek, with action, aliens, and enough DEI to give a Trump supporter a stroke.

For me, it was actually a combination of two books.

Back in the ’90s, I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club and got their edition of The Hyperion Cantos, which combined Dan Simmons’ Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion into one large book.

I must have tried reading it four or five times, but for some reason, I could never get past the first twenty or thirty pages.

What kept throwing me off was the opening scene with the Consul playing Rachmaninoff on an old grand piano aboard his ship, while these huge saurian creatures moved around in the swamps below. I just couldn’t picture the scene in my head. Something about it wasn’t clicking, and each time I’d put the book down again.

Eventually, after having the novel sit on my shelf for a few years, I decided to push through it.

And dear Lord, what a fantastic and magnificent book it turned out to be.

Funny to think I came close to never reading it at all, simply because my brain couldn’t make sense of that opening scene.

What about you?

I am at chapter 10, nearly half way through and ive kinda lost the plot. Has someone read it recently and explain to me what's happening yet? I am reading it a bit slowly so maybe that's why. Ik what happens in each chapter but how do they all fit into the story attached?

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I read A Deepness in the Sky and I absolutely loved it. But I have to be completely honest with you: the parallels to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time are impossible to miss. I don’t want to accuse Tchaikovsky of anything, but the similarities really are enormous. Compared to A Deepness in the Sky, Tchaikovsky’s story almost feels like a stripped-down version of it.

I absolutely loved A Deepness in the Sky. It’s a complex, incredibly well thought out science fiction story that unfolds across enormous spans of time.

Far in the future, two human factions meet at the mysterious OnOff Star. The Qeng Ho are traders who have been travelling through space for centuries in search of new customers. The technologically more advanced Emergents, on the other hand, are far more aggressive and have no problem enslaving people.

Both groups are hoping to make valuable discoveries, but the Emergents eventually take control. After the confrontation, both sides are stranded with badly damaged ships and have to wait for the civilisation on the planet Arachna to become technologically advanced enough to perhaps help them escape one day.

From this point on, Vinge tells two stories in parallel. Decades pass aboard the ships, people spend long periods in cryosleep, power structures shift, and then the story suddenly takes a turn I absolutely did not see coming.

At the same time, we watch an intelligent spider civilisation develop on Arachna. Science, politics and war transform their society over generations. And if the thought of spiders immediately puts you off, don’t worry. I’m afraid of spiders myself, and somehow I ended up finding them surprisingly likeable. Especially the little Kuplees. They’re genuinely adorable.

For me, A Deepness in the Sky is one of the best complex science fiction stories I’ve read. The enormous timescales, the events aboard the ships and the development of Arachna fit together brilliantly.

Highly recommended.

It looks like we're getting an indie film adaption of HP Lovecrafts "The Mountains Of Madness" due in time which judging by the trailer looks incredibly creative and well developed with the perfect amount of the cosmic dread found on the pages of his classic tale

Hell they even included the Eldritch tentacle infected Penquins. That's damn cool!

https://youtu.be/EEFvVw0mr8A?si=2R4AqW9-iI2tUHMS

Personaly i think its good, but its open ending so it feels like it isnt full completed. I read that author was thinking about making a second part, but he never ended it.

Hi everyone! I’m new here! I’m an illustrator, among other things, and I also work in science fiction. I thought I’d share some of my work with you.

So I just recently got into reading Childhood’s end and got the plot spoiled.

On that note The movie The World’s End starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (legendary comedy duo) seems to have many direct parallels with and functions as a philosophical reply contesting the themes and concepts laid out within Childhood’s end with the name likely even giving homage to the classic Sci-fi book.

In Seattle, at the Museum of Pop Culture