I’ve finally completed the so-called “dystopia canon” – Orwell, Atwood, Burgess, Huxley… and now Gattaca. Completion should feel triumphant, but the cost was two hours of cinematic determinism. The premise is sharp – genetic caste systems, eugenics as destiny – yet the script is as rigid as the society it condemns: zero degrees of freedom, every beat preordained. Satisfaction minimal.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/09/01/gattaca-1997-completing-the-list-but-at-what-cost/
https://books2read.com/FeyFighters
Fey fighters is soon coming to a close on #RoyalRoad (5 more chapters) and I just finished scheduling it for an Ebook and print on demand release on Septermber 26, 2025.
I don't know if print copies will be ready by then, because processing time can be wildly variable in that regard, but you can rely on me to post about it when the time comes.
@fantasy @scifi
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction #fairies
"Violent Horizons" is a #SciFi twisted take on the classic tale of Pinocchio by Sam Clover.
Silas has lived with his lover Eshan on a remote space station for as long as he can remember. Eshan takes care of Silas' sexual needs, which keeps him happy. But then, one day, the station is boarded by a man hell-bent on finding something he thinks Eshan has. The man kills Eshan and thinks he's killed Silas, but the young man somehow survives and finds himself on a planet occupied primarily by lizard-like refugees. Loc has seen his share of battles, mostly with humans. He lost one eye in one of those fights. He shouldn't give a second thought to the scared young man he spots on the street, but Loc can't quite stop himself from helping the frightened Silas. It might be a case of no good deed going unpunished.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-violent-horizons-sam-clover/?ref=mastodon
My first science fiction story, "The First Felumans," is now available for free for a limited time at https://amazingstories.com/2025/09/the-first-felumans-by-harrison-bae-wein-free-story/. #scifi #sciencefiction #cats
Hal Siegel's cover art detail for the 1973 US hardback edition of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
LayerBeneathEarth2
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGou1FkeJg
Blogpost: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wcccearth2
#Earth #WCCC #wccchallenge #Livecoding #CreativeCoding
For the Creative Code challenge by @sableraph : “Earth”, The first time around had LayersBeneathEarth coded in #PuzzleScript, #Hydra & #LiveCodeLab. For LayerBeneathEarth2, I have added a #Locomotion component to the voyager perspective.
The LayersBeneathEarth Series follows a Voyager’s journey through the various layers beneath the Earth. Entering a dungeon that seems to never end and is constantly changing. This is done through the game engine: PuzzleScript , the effects of Hydra and the 3d audiovisual components of LiveCodeLab & Locomotion. While also having earthy colors in the visual concepts.
Voyaging to the Layers
Senses have to adjust
Below the Depths of the Craters
Nothing to impress
As the goal
Is simple
Clearing the levels
Regardless of the elements
The pivots,
Incurred through the found metals
What these Layers Hold?
The three covers of Zero Zone!
They are better than before, they have more... color?
> No Man's Land
> City of Corporations
> Overthrow
Fun fact - all my short stories are pumpkin spice-flavored.
When you need instant comms across any distance...
When you need to know the State is watching over you...
Plus elegant design, scientific brilliance, the Rovelli Ansible connects you to the world.
#scifi #sciencefiction #retrofuturism #cyberpunk #scifiart #sciencefictionart #sculpture
@SciFi @sciencefiction@a.gup.pe @sciencefiction@lemmy.world @sculpture @CyberPunk
Hello fediverse!
Consider taking part in the creative #writing challenge on https://mas.to/@VisualInspiration
- The game master provides an image twice a week and the players write a (very) short story.
- The images are often #scifi or #fantasy related. Even if they're not, you can choose whatever genre you like ore none at all.
- No sign-up necessary, you can skip (or leave) any time.
- It's just for fun and no contest!
- The game master awards every story with a personal comment and more.
- To be fair, I have to point out that the images are AI generated. The stories we write are not.
- On the other hand, there's a 0.42% chance coming with every story that the lovely fairy Quindalinda shows up and brings a barrell of Ghorgal Brew with her (and then disappears - gigglng nastily - behind the next corner).
Please boost! Thank you!
No Man's Sky reaches highest concurrent player count in 7 years with 93,000 concurrent players.
Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
#comicstrip #aceohara #comicstrips #sciencefiction #scifi
I have to say that, for every Unreal Engine 5 games being released today, almost all look different.
We are far away from Unreal Engine 3 when every game that released "looked like Unreal Engine 3".
For example, look at #HellIsUs.
Day off today, which means I get to write without the usual interruptions.
Hoping to wrap revision on this chapter of Book 3 and maybe start the next. Not a bad way to spend a quiet holiday.
Interested in a rootin', tootin', beam-shootin' space-western adventure Kirkus Reviews called "a reflective allegory for contemporary times"?
Preorder your copy of Gas Giant Gambit before it comes out on Sept. 16th!
Explore a #postapocalyptic world in two stories delving into the sense of self, empathy, and human psychology in Station in the Sky by Caye Marsh!
#scifi #queer
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/station-in-the-sky
Lawrence's interior art for C. L. Moore's "Doorway Into Time" in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (September 1943)
