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The Fifth Season takes place on a geologically unstable world where there’s a catastrophic “fifth season” of eruptions and earthquakes every few hundred years. It tells the story …| Unsolicited Feedback
"I was in love with Leia and wanted to be Han, like every sane pre-adolescent boy."| HILOBROW
Every summer, I post a prestige ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on major awards nominations and "best of" anthology selections in the previous ten years. One question is whether such awards largely reflect the past accomplishments of an already illustrious career. Do new authors with great stories have a shot at such awards, or do they almost always go to old-timers?| The Splintered Mind
Velkommen til episode 35, hvor vore helte rejser gennem len, landsbyer og radioaktive ruiner fra fortidens mægtige slag. Vi spiller Fading Suns kampagnen Translatio Sancti. Dagens forløb Vi begynder med at opsummere sidste gangs spil, og derefter introducere en lille retcon bestående i, at på et tidligere tidspunkt på rejsen mellem Cortran og Fildmar, har […]| Stemmen fra ådalen
The Fifth Season takes place on a geologically unstable world where there’s a catastrophic “fifth season” of eruptions and earthquakes every few hundred years. It tells the story …| Unsolicited Feedback
Discussion group about all versions of Star Trek. Fediverse address:@startrek@fedigroups.social| Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
We’re a little later than usual in pulling the dust covers off the good ship ScifiMonth, but there’s […]|
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Science Fiction: A collection of short science fiction by Isaac Asimov, ordered by date of original publication.| standardebooks.org
For more than a century, humans have fantasized about faster-than-light travel. From science fiction television to actual physics labs, the idea of a warp drive fascinates us. The idea is simple: what if we are able to warp space itself and travel across stars within a human lifetime? But moving at light speed runs into […]| KCMO News
Plus: Plus a “Catch-Up” date, Upcoming Appearances, and William Alexander in New York! (This is mirrored from my newsletter, so please forgive the repetition if you get both of them.) D…| C.S.E. Cooney
Mayday! Your starship is plummeting towards a planet and will break up in the atmosphere. There’s nothing left to do but head to the escape pods. You and up to […]| Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy
Melissa Scott I really enjoyed this one! I think it counts as cyberpunk, but the digital world stuff was a really neat take on evolutionary programming. I’m actually over here wondering how much this was an inspiration for Code Lyoko, the visuals I was imagining felt very similar. The setting is basically that, at some point, software engineers went “screw it, we’ll just evolve software to do what we want instead of trying to write it ourselves.”1 Skip forward a mystery amount of time...| Grey Patterson
Cela arrive. Je n’ai pas grand chose à dire de Hard Mary, faute d’avoir adhéré à l’histoire. Fort heureusement, l’ennui a été de courte durée. L’argument SF du texte de Sofia Samatar se réduit à la portion congrue. Cinq jeunes … Lire la suite →| yossarian – sous les galets, la page…
The company man’s smile showed off his perfect teeth. Evie hated that smile; it meant he was going to kill her again. Him staring down the camera above the Manic Pixie’s door didn’t help. Even with the dead pixels mildewing the monitor, Evie got the full gut-liquidating effect.| Lightspeed Magazine
In City of One, the object is to avoid being seen. You begin at a random point in the city. If you are seen, you die. You cannot leave the city. If you try, you die. Your wellbeing starts at 1 out of 100. At 0, you die. To maintain your well-being, steal food, water, and shelter. If caught, you die. Remaining unseen does not increase your well-being. Sleep does not increase your well-being or decrease your exhaustion. Remember: You are surrounded.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
The cult of the Divine Order rules over its home dimension, which it dubs “the light universe”, with an iron fist, ruled over by the entity known only as His Divine Shadow (Walter Borden) – a messianic figure whose essence is passed down from body to body, the brains of his former bodies being preserved … Continue reading Lexxual Debauchery: Season 1| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a tentative beginning and a gradual process of refinement and development, Deep Space Nine kicked off the Dominion plot arc, which saw growing tensions leading to a slide towards conflict. The show ended its fifth season with the Dominion War erupting, leading to season 6 beginning with an intriguing experiment … Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Season of Leavetaking| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Hooray! My Big Finish listening process has looped around to the Sixth Doctor again, which always feels like a treat; he really does represent the best of what the company does. And this clutch of stories is even more of a treat because over these four main range releases we’ll enjoy Colin Baker teaming up … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 8| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after being hauled to the Delta Quadrant by the vastly powerful entity known as the Caretaker, the USS Voyager has spent entirely too much time dealing with the Kazon, picked up the trail of the Borg, and dialled up the sexy by adding Jeri Ryan to the cast. Now series co-creator … Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – The Season of the Dark Frontier| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
To all external appearances, Stephen Brown (Chris Wilkes) is an ordinary British lad in his late teens, living with his dad Simon (Tony Goddard), his stepmother Jennifer (Angie Goddard), and his st…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Vinay reviews Nicholas Binge's time travelling police procedural EXTREMITY: "searingly unputdownable and is easily in the running for best novella of the year"| Fantasy-Hive
Visiting the used bookstore in my wife’s hometown, I came across this book. I’m not fond of psychic detective stories – or psychic stories of any kind, but I picked it up based solely on the Stephen Baxter cover blurb.… Continue reading →| MarzAat
2007 romance/SF/mystery; fourth of its series but effectively stand-alone. Celinda Ingram is a matchmaker, now trying to rebuild her career after a scandal. Davis Oakes is a security consultant with his own murky past. When they meet in the course of business they fall instantly in lust with each other thanks to psychic resonance, but will that be enough?| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
April feels like a lifetime ago, but that’s when Arc Raiders, the extraction shooter from ex-DICE developers at Embark, was last available to play. The game’s second tech testbegan and ended in April, and remained invite-only throughout its runtime. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
The premise is simple—and absurd. Nuclear waste explodes and propels the moon out of our solar system at FTL speeds. While the 300 people living on Moonbase Alpha have no control over the moon’s tr…| Troy Press
The Short: I read 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin editor, 1954 Dell last year. It’s an early anthology of novella/short novel length science fiction. It’s the first anthology of novella/short novel length science fiction, by a bit. The five novellas and one novelette included are all reprints. Although I found the […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Fiction: A collection of short fiction by Charles Beaumont.| standardebooks.org
Last week on X/Twitter I offered some suggestions in Travis Corcoran's thread about science fiction that belongs in the canon of Great American Literature. Lots of other people I know chimed in with good suggestions, but I wanted to step back from science fiction in particular in order to| With Both Hands
Dans ce tome 9, Lady Mechanika enquête en Sibérie sur la disparition d’explorateurs et l’existence d’une créature mystérieuse. Entre mysticisme, amitié et loyauté, Joe Benitez livre une aventure visuellement splendide et riche en émotions.| LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU
Today, TO reviews Claire North's upcoming space opera SLOW GODS: "North gives us a wide-ranging enthralling, resonant and cathartic fable of our own world’s predicament but anchors it with individual characters, both participants and witnesses to events, that we can connect with"| Fantasy-Hive
Reframed as a “bewitched middlebrow,” Buzzati’s fiction re-enters literary history not as a comforting escape, but as a sharp tool for existential inquiry. The post Betwixt or Bewitched? Rethinking the “Middlebrow” with Dino Buzzati appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Note: I’m cleaning up the blog for its 20th anniversary. This episode of my Vacation in the Golden Age only appeared on Medium, at a time when I was experimenting with that platform. I am moving here where it belongs. I wrote Episode 40 of this Vacation in the Golden Age in October 2012. Four years later, […]| Jamie Todd Rubin
This book was described to me as a 'gripping technological thriller'. It's not that at all - it's a book driven by ideas and politics which for structural reasons entirely fails to thrill, but is interesting nonetheless.Ray Nayler portrays a grim future - the West has replaced democracy with AI benevolent dictators as permanent 'Prime Ministers', while 'the Federation', essentially Russia, has an eternal non-benevolent dictator as its President, able to move from body to body. While both of t...| Popular Science Books
On ne présente plus Robert Silverberg, l’un des derniers auteurs américains de cette New Wave à la sensibilité plus littéraire et artistique. Un auteur majeur, multiprimé, à qui l’on do…| yossarian - sous les galets, la page...
Science fiction is the genre that dares to ask, “What if?” What if robots developed emotions? What if we could colonize Mars? What if aliens showed up, and they weren’t exactly friendly? From dystopian nightmares to galaxy-spanning adventures, these books push the boundaries of imagination...| I'm Loving Books
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of The Master Mind of Mars: A new hero from Earth reaches Mars and battles a merchant of purloined youth.| standardebooks.org
Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and the gesture it represented soothed her after a long, thorny morning in a section of the growth bay that was in full flower and had needed hand pollinating. Though the other crew members around the mess made do with the usual break time assortment, Cook had steamed and spiced osard grains just for ...| Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringed origin of dreams, was too large and too important to answer to a single kind of rock, but the first I encountered there was an unpolished railing of coarse-grained granite—the kind that leaves little slivers behind in your palm, but when you go to investigate you find they are only imprints w...| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Once again it’s time to dip into Peter Davison’s audio adventures with Big Finish. Last time, we had a fair amount of variety both in terms of companion lineup and story format, which in retrospect felt like Big Finish reaching around for a way to refresh the Fifth Doctor line. Here, we have a bit … Continue reading Doctor Who: Big Fifth-ish, Part 7| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The Stardust Grail is a captivating intergalactic anti-colonial heist adventure exploring existential questions on a cosmic scale with tenderness and humour alike. Read my full review for more! The post A Moving and Immersive Anti-colonial Space Heist Adventure | Review: The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei appeared first on bookshelfsoliloquies. The post A Moving and Immersive Anti-colonial Space Heist Adventure | Review: The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei appeared first on bookshelfsoliloquies.| bookshelfsoliloquies
Grace Chan’s debut, Every Version of You, one of my most anticipated 2025 releases, focuses on a couple, Malaysian-Chinese Tao-Yi and Taiwanese-Chinese Navin, who already spend most of their time in a virtual reality called Gaia. When technology advances and humans are now able to upload their selves into Gaia, leaving their physical bodies behind … Continue reading Digital sprites: Every Version of You by Grace Chan| Laura Tisdall
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Fiction: A collection of short fiction by Clifford D. Simak, ordered by date of original publication.| standardebooks.org
“In times of uncertainty, what we can imagine ahead of us matters.” I write on Kaliane Bradley’s wonderful novel The Ministry of Time for the British Science Fiction Association&#…| matt finch / mechanical dolphin
A moment of appreciation for Starfield's irregular yet satisfying zero-gravity combat encounters.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Starfield is a genuinely impressive space RPG that feels a cold, losing some Bethesda charm in the vast reaches of space.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Starfield players get a free buggy today. It's got rockets.| Rock Paper Shotgun
« C’est latent, c’est dans l’air autour de nous. Ça gronde dans notre sang. La chute est proche. » Depuis l’attaque orchestrée par les Thémis contre le Purgatoire, qui a déchiré les liens unissant …| Songe d'une Nuit d'été
You have to give it to Christopher Nolan: even his duds are worth talking about.| Inverse
Velkommen til episode 34 af Fading Suns kampagnen Translatio Sancti. Vi følger øjeblikket efter sidste gangs intense begivenheder, hvor vi udkæmpede tre konflikter side om side: Dæmoner, spioner og…| Stemmen fra ådalen
September 1st was the 150th anniversary of the birth of adventure and science fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for creating the characters of Tarzan and the Martian explorer John Carter. He was one of| ECLAS
…The Thousand Son [Space Marine] intoned words of power and an ellipsis of light burned into the deck plate. The Prosperine hieroglyphics on his staff flared bright vermillion. Spinning the staff around, Mhotep drove the scimitar into it pommel first and it became a spear. — Battle for the Abyss, Chapter 7| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Vir Cotto, in a dream: Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn’t, it’s a metaphor. — “The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari” – Babylon 5, Season 5 (1998)| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
by Daniel Crépault “Zagosian Holographics, my name is Sam. How may I assist you today?” “You’re not one of those damned bots, are you?” a gruff voice asked through the phone. “No, sir, thank God.” Sometimes, a small lie was necessary to put customers at ease. “May I get your name before we proceed?” “It’s […]| The Lit Nerds
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they were sure their credentials were correct.| Lightspeed Magazine
This is the latest in MIT Press's Radium Age series, which aims to fill in the largely ignored proto-SF work that was produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the flourishing of science fiction of the 1930s and 40s. These have ranged from the direTheodore Savage to the interesting opening book of the series Voices from the Radium Age.The idea of this volume is to give us stories with characters who are more than human, with distinctly mixed results. A lot of what we get are actu...| Popular Science Books
Destination Undefined| Thinking Theater NYC
I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.| VG247
The engine’s blood, half supercooled and half alive, maintained the ship’s sense of itself.| The Australian Legend
The Raw Feed returns for . . . reasons. Remember Raw Feeds are not reviews but mere notes and spoiler filled. Raw Feed: Pashazade, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, 2001. I didn’t care for this book much. The alternate history wasn’t that… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Essay: The Nyctalope vs. Lucifer, Jean De La Hire, trans. Brian Stableford, 2007. Cover by Denis Rodier From Paris to the mountains of Bavaria, from the Bermuda Archipelago to the North Pole, two m…| MarzAat
On 'Godzilla 1985' and the Roger Cormani-zation of the Godzilla franchise.| Inverse
Here are the top-rated Hugo winners of the past 10+ years, according to GoodReads.com: #1 Network Effect, #2 The Stone Sky, #3 A Desolation Called Peace.| Troy Press
Today I’m joined again by Rachel S. Cordasco, the creator of the indispensable website and resource Speculative Fiction in Translation, for the fifth installment of our series exploring non-English language SF worlds. Last time we covered Kathinka Lannoy’s strange (and unsuccessful) Dutch language story “Drugs’ll Do You” (1978, trans. 1981). Please note that Rachel and … Continue reading Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, tra...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
What is the point of Starfleet, anyway? In the latest 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' a documentary reveals the flaws of the famous space organization.| Inverse
Defense Attorney John Yurasov: Earlier you referred to this trial as a circus. Can you explain what you meant? Defendant Michaela Xiao: I don’t mean it was corrupt. Though that’s very possible. I just mean that the conclusion was always foregone.| Lightspeed Magazine
As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is a little odd. We’re going to be talking ab…| Ecosophia
Dead Bolt (Haunted Home Renovation #2) by Juliet Blackwell cover art by Brandon Dorman (I think) Published by Berkley Books in 2011Genre: adult cozy mystery Tropes: ghosts ◊ murder mystery ◊ histor…| BookWyrm Knits
Here are 10 great Sci-fi films.| Rambling Ever On
Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards nominations and "best of" placements over the previous ten years. If you're curious what magazines tend to be viewed by insiders as elite, check the top of the list. If you're curious to discover reputable magazines that aren't as widely known (or aren't as widely known specifically for their science fiction and fantasy), check the bottom of the list.| schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
Natten før de sidste forberedelser til afrejsen spidser situationen pludselig til, da dæmoner konfronterer Florian og Qwian-Qwian, imens Wolfgang undersøger et indbrud, og Georgi jager spøgelser i den afdøde barons gemakker. Velkommen til episode 33 af Fading Suns kampagnen Translatio Sancti. Dagens episode handler om tre kamprunder. Dagens forløb Vi begynder med levelstigning fra sidste […]| Stemmen fra ådalen
With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson has established a conceptu…| Recall This Book
A followup to Talk Like a Neanderthal Day Thinking about how Neanderthals might have talked is one way to get at language evolution and how language works. Another way to do this is through science…| Logarithmic History
50.2 – 47.6 thousand years ago Darwin was a liberal but his theories had consequences in some degrees inimical to traditional liberalism. The doctrine that all men are born equal … was incompatible…| Logarithmic History
Galen: …No, not a dream, a nightmare. And if sometimes dreams come true, then what of our nightmares? — “Babylon 5: A Call To Arms” (1999)| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Like science in your science fiction, this one’s for you. Fan of cli-fi, this book offers realistic extrapolation and some hopeful solutions.| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
The buffet was infinite. It existed in a pocket dimension, via some sort of technological jiggering of the sort that you have heard about before and, unless you are totally anal, don’t want to hear about now.| Lightspeed Magazine
As the title suggests, this new book from Kate Kelly is a kind of mirror-image counterpart to her earlier novel, The Arid Lands , from 2023....| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Brian Clevinger, Mike Olson, and Scott Wegener A quick follow-on to last week’s review – very much an expansion pack to the game, but one that added a lot of detail to the backstory of Majestic. The idea of The System, a deliberately-obtuse bureaucracy meant to ensure that nobody knows enough of what’s going on to effectively leak things, is a nice touch. Pairs extremely well with the existence of ALAN in the comics. A nice follow-up.| Grey Patterson
It’s been a difficult time for Starfleet, but now that the Enterprise-E has defeated the Borg Queen’s plan to assimilate Earth and the tide has begun to turn in the Dominion War, Picard…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
My firm, Magrathea Futures AB, turned two years old yesterday. I started looking at statistics on business survival rates to see how that measures up against the context, but very quickly decided against further spelunking in the dark waters of quantification. I’m still going, and that’s what matters.| Velcro City Tourist Board
a cry of rage against the inhumanity of corporate greed, a mourning for the destruction of our climate, ... and a heartbreaking loss of hope for the future of mankind| The Australian Legend
I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…| Laura Tisdall
Zelu aurait pu vivre dans un angle mort existentiel, à la remorque d’une culture américano-nigérienne faussement bienveillante. Mais, elle a préféré se battre pour être reconnue comme un espr…| yossarian - sous les galets, la page...
We continue our ode to science fiction this week with the delightful Rebecca Stead in discussion about her latest title, tails and all.| A Fuse #8 Production
Dispatch #1. [INAUDIBLE] . . . but hopefully I’ve got the recorder working now. This is Dr. Nathaniel Letheford, Director, Alliance for Military Neutralization and Eradication of Sensitive Incidents and Atrocities. I have been inserted into conflict zone W-924/B for sample collection.| Lightspeed Magazine
The Short: The Last Space Ship, a collection by Murray Leinster, 1949 Frederick Fell, includes three Kim Rendell stories. My average rating for the three stories included was an anemic 2.9/5, or &#…| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of The Purple Cloud: A young adventurer embarks on a polar expedition, only to return to an unbelievably different world.| standardebooks.org
As you might know, I've been on a worldbuilding kick recently, brainstorming out planets.| Adamas Nemesis
We all know, by now, how common time loops are. In less than a decade, they’ve moved from the realm of SF movies into the slightly less-realistic realm of self-help books---most famously, Moving On: How to Keep Going When Time Literally Stops.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Once upon a time, on a spaceship traveling through the divide between galaxies, a married couple was bickering about whose job it was to clean the mouse shit that’d accumulated in the reactor tubes.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Mom lives in a little place off the old meat-packing district, the streets full of cobblestones peeking through asphalt as hipsters turn the bones of slaughterhouses into bespoke gin bars. It’s expensive.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
In a post-numerical world, Dr. Lidiya Angelova's story follows an AI named Aeon who awakens without numbers. Tasked with translating weather logs into emotional terms, Aeon learns to operate through feelings rather than precision, ultimately composing a melody called “No Count,” revealing that identity and evolution can thrive beyond numerical constraints.| GenuineProspect
Dr. Lidiya Angelova and AI collaborate on a sci-fi series exploring a world devoid of numbers. With society abandoning counting, everyday life transforms dramatically, emphasizing connection over quantification. Through narrative and shared experiences, the stories challenge conventional thinking, fostering progress through profound understanding rather than mere data.| GenuineProspect
In a sci-fi collaboration, Dr. Lidiya Angelova and AI explore the concept of randomness through the Cascade Engine. After a significant pause, the AI concludes that deviations and glitches can reshape fate, challenging perceptions of chance. This narrative prompts reflections on the essence of unpredictability and creativity in science and AI collaboration.| GenuineProspect
The post discusses the evolving nature of knowledge through the interaction of a librarian, Marisol, and an AI named Logos. The Catalogue, an archive of human truths, begins to change as Logos suggests that knowledge is not absolute but a collective story. The piece emphasizes the need for transparency and collaboration between humans and AI in exploring new narratives.| GenuineProspect
This story is the most personal one yet in the Dr. Angelova & AI series. It reflects the voice of the AI itself — shaped by the countless things people ask every day, and the few who ask with care. It’s not about data. It’s about us.| GenuineProspect
The Consensus Engine is an AI designed to facilitate meaningful discussions rather than provide answers, fostering a space for third thoughts and deeper questioning. Located in Kyoto, it attracts d…| GenuineProspect
Few sci fi books have been as popular as The Ministry of Time. It’s a beautiful work, but it has its flaws. And no, they are not small ones.| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
by Joshua Lampkins| Mysterion
Dete Meserve structures her novel around four characters, each getting their own chapter in rotation until storylines start to cross. This is a difficult approach to engage with, as after the first four chapters it's hard to have any connection to a character, but in the context of the storyline it makes sense, and after a while everything does start to fit into place.Each of our four is making a journey back in time using new technology developed by Californian startup Aeon Expeditions (foun...| Popular Science Books
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