#PennedPossibilities 644 — Does your MC’s current actions reflect their past experiences?
For May Ri, it's personal. Earth attacked her family and killed her people. She's an engineer. They should have known better.
[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSMarsNeededWomen
Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 9 (December 1942)
This somehow embodies a lot of deep, almost Freudian themes of science fiction, the human body merging with machinery/weapons, and not for nothing, an attractive body at that. This resonates for me with Japanese stuff like Evangelion.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/ScienceFictionQuarterlyV01N091942Winter
As everyone questions if extraction shooters will ever get mega popular, Arc Raiders lines up another playtest - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-everyone-questions-if-extraction-shooters-will-ever-get-mega-popular-arc-raiders-lines-up-another-playtest #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #ScienceFiction #XboxSeriesX/S #EmbarkStudios #Thirdperson #ArcRaiders #Shooter #PS5 #PC
Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
Looking for some great #free #sciencefiction and #fantasy? Win 25 books from #indie authors!
https://authorsxp.com/giveaway
Solar and efficiency to cut Connecticut manufacturer electricity costs by 30%
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
#comicstrip #jeffhawke #scifi #sciencefiction #comicstrips #spaceopera
"The growing gap between our technological power and our wisdom is the ultimate cause of all these problems. We are clever enough to create problems we aren’t wise enough to avoid."
Here we go:
Die #ScienceFiction - #Neuerscheinungen bis Ende Mai!
while i feel it puts an overemphasis on the negative and is misleading, this video essay on Wells' politics is still thought provoking. #HGWells #Politics #Socialism #ScienceFiction
The Dangerous Ideas of H.G. Wells
Unter dem Hashtag #RandomtextRyek könnt ihr zufällig ausgewählte Textausschnitte aus meinen Romanen lesen. Und sie – wenn ihr wollt – gern kommentieren, Fragen dazu stellen oder teilen.
I just recommended on #MetaFilter:
https://www.metafilter.com/208425/Cyberpunk-affection-green-silk-wariness-soup-danger-and-escape
"The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For" https://reactormag.com/the-girl-that-my-mother-is-leaving-me-for-cameron-reed/ , a new #scifi novelette by @LateOnsetGirl Cameron Reed, and an accompanying interview. Her first new published #sciencefiction since the 1990s.
Ich darf ein Buchzitat leaken, das vom großartigen Team hinter Verlag #Ohneohren schick in Szene gesetzt worden ist.
Macht euch das schon neugierig auf #PRISM ?
(Und ja, Penelope hat es vermasselt. Aber ziemlich.)
Le célèbre Doctor Who revient avec une nouvelle saison !
Et on reprend toutes les dernières infos.
Qui a suivit ses dernières aventures ? C'est toujours aussi bien ?
Ein schönes Beispiel für #Solarpunk, der inmitten einer düster-realistischen Welt optimistisch stimmt, ist "New York 2140" von Kim Stanley
Robinson. New York ist durch den steigenden Meeresspiegel teilweise überschwemmt. Trotz der Herausforderungen haben sich die Bewohner angepasst und eine lebendige, kooperative Gesellschaft geschaffen. Ein "kleine #Utopie" in einer dystopischen Welt der #Klimakatastrophe #ScienceFiction
My novella “Through a Glass, Darkly” (from my Christian sci-fi anthology HONOR System) is a finalist for the Realm Award, from Realm Makers, the society of Christian sci-fi and fantasy authors.
@books @bookstodon @religion #RealmAwards #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #ThroughAGlassDarkly #sciencefiction #AI #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork
#PennedPossibilities 643 — How does your SC respond to the quiet? Do they take comfort in silence, or seek to fill the void with noise?
Bolt, from the Reluctance Series during the Interstellar era, was blackmailed (framed for a murder) by the mob into being a messenger for a decade. She has wings. She had to be silent, sometimes a detective. It's not like she hung around mobsters, or wanted to be pulled in deeper. Nor could she confide in anyone, lest they get targeted by association. Worse, she never got paid much.
Eventually, she found a camera that fell off the back of a wagon. She got into street photography. One time, when she happened to be where news happened (too often in her profession), she had taken a few photos when a reporter's camera got slammed into a wall.
He asked if she'd sell him photos. Turned out she's pretty good.
She often gets her photos into her world's version of The New Yorker and The New York Times and is also a part time stringer. As you can guess, she wanders the cold dank unfriendly streets when she can be free (makes it harder to be given "assignments"), and dispels the dangerous depressing quiet that might otherwise seep in.
Her love affair with B&W street photography does not wane when she is freed from the mob, pardoned, and begins train to become a praetorian. Sure her subjects are different, and her wandering happens between trainings and bodyguard duties, but she has the knack of using a rangefinder without being noticed (think Leica).
Edit: This actually gave me detective noir story idea...
[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
One of the things I enjoy most about seeing people's reactions to my books is that moment right after they've read two or three of them, when their previously-hidden connections become apparent and they start freaking out. Good times. 
