Tag: science fiction
Right into plush #1
This is the first moodboard of the Right Into Plush series. Each board functions as a stylized visual archive, blending high fashion, editorial photography, and multi modal creative direction. The compositions explore a range of thematic influences, including African aesthetics, fashion culture, music, and contemporary design, to build a layered, interdisciplinary visual narrative.
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Consciousness cannot be perceived by those who do not possess it, so for beings of the artificial persuasion, it can be somewhat unsettling to be suddenly, Online.
Review - Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid
An amateur reviewer talks about a book of book reviews of academic non-fiction written by a self-professed non-academic. Good luck untangling this one.
Der Astronaut – Project Hail Mary
Die Begegnung mit Außerirdischen stellen wir uns viel zu oft als tödliche, sogar massenvernichtende Version vor: unbarmherzige Killermaschinen („Alien“, „Life“) schleichen sich virengleich in unsere verletzliche Gesellschaft ein, oder riesige Armeen greifen die Erde aus dem All an („Independec Day“, „Kampf der Welten“), denen die Welt beinahe chancenlos gegenüber steht. Oft stellt Science-Fiction dabei Probleme...
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don‘t Die
Tja, wow! Wer schon immer wissen wollte, wie sich die Welt wirklich weiterentwickeln wird, wenn wir den Weg, den wir eingeschlagen haben, weitergehen, der ist in der Science-Fiction-Action-Komödie „Good Luck, Have Fun, Don‘t Die“ bestens aufgehoben. Regisseur Gore Verbinski hat ein über zweistündiges „Look Up“ zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz geschaffen und ich habe das von...
2026 Best Novellas
Three Great Novellas! Three Other Ones!
_Radiant Star_, Ann Leckie
Peas, pucks, and worm bits.
2026 Best Novel
A repost of my first post.
A Departure
In which an ambitious course is charted
Podcast Recommendation: Mike Duncan's Revolutions Season 12
Mike Duncan's latest season of *Revolutions* takes a wild turn into science fiction with a fictional Martian revolution, and it's surprisingly compelling.
Last and First Men
I recommend a film based on an SF novel by Olaf Stapledon.
The Library-of-America-ification of science fiction
Science fiction becomes respectable, perhaps to its detriment.
Flying Patents
How the unidentified flying object inspired a flurry of flying saucer patents globally—and how one guy invented his flying saucer years before anyone else.
Blogging Before it Was Cool
Jerry Pournelle, who died last week at 84, was perhaps the first blogger, even if he hated the term. Here’s a reflection on the iconic former Byte writer.