lunalein, to books
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I’m seeking recs for books with great sci-fi worldbuilding! Hit me with your faves, especially if they aren’t completely dystopian. @bookstodon #books

DenOfEarth,
@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar

@lunalein @bookstodon #SciFi #Books

William Gibson - the Peripheral, also an excellent series on Amazon Prime

Neal Stephenson - Anathem, already mentioned but worth repeating

Iain M Banks' Culture books, including Look to Windward, the Player of Games, Consider Phlebas

Dan Simmons' Hyperion cantos

Almost any book by Kim Stanley Robinson, try perhaps the Mars trilogy, or the Memory of Whiteness for a concert tour of the solar system

pseudonym, to random

There exists the timeline T0, which is all of history if nobody messed it up with time travel. T1 is created when the "first" time traveler messes with it. Now an other traveler makes T2, trying to "set things right" as close to T0 as possible.

Pretty standard, yeah? But what I can't think of is a story where the native residents of T1 (who don't exist in T0) want to defend their home timeline from the T2 invader from the future, who wants to effectively unmake them.

Usually the story has the extras helping T2 "fix" things back to how they were "originally" but for them, T1 is the original.

Any stories like that?

youronlyone,

@pseudonym Hmm… there is something similar, but it isn't the main plot.

Check out #NathanVanCoops's #InTimesLikeThese series. I can't remember which book, but IIRC, there was one wherein natives of a particular timeline is actively defending their existence.

#Goodreads profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7334851.Nathan_Van_Coops

#OpenLibrary profile: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7510828A/Nathan_Van_Coops

#Bookwyrm profile: https://bookwyrm.social/author/33796/s/nathan-van-coops

@scifi @books @books @bookstodon

#TimeTravel #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Novels

ewdocparris, to random
@ewdocparris@writing.exchange avatar

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 04/27/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

Grandalf,

@ewdocparris

This is it. They're here.

I've trained for this. A decade of hard work, pain, study, more pain, and trauma.

It all comes down to this: a moment in time. The nightmare is at the door.

Why, oh why, did I choose xenodentistry? 😩

#SecretSciFiNetwork #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #SciFi

EGumeny, to random

60 hours left! This is your last chance to pre-order GREATER THAN HIS NATURE and OPEN ALL NIGHT and get yourself new stories from Lydia Bugg, Nathan Crowder, Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Gabino Iglesias, Ally Malinenko, J.A.W. McCarthy, and Danger Slater!

Boosts very much appreciated, #WritingCommunity. We're a small press trying to get the word out and make ourselves into something great. #SciFi #Horror

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egumeny/electrical-sweater-weird-fiction-for-weirdos

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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servingworlds, to random
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Buckle up! In Enemy Lines #37, Alliances are formed, as Pusher leaves the planet.

Listen free:
https://servingworlds.com

Help make more!
https://patreon.com/servingworlds

#podcast #scifi #audiobook #Indie

PanzerDragoonLegacy, to gaming
@PanzerDragoonLegacy@mastodon.online avatar

This official Panzer Dragoon Orta wallpaper was once featured on the official site. It depicts many of the Empire's airships and other weapons.

https://www.panzerdragoonlegacy.com/pictures/480-imperial-force-full-screen-wallpaper

#パンツァードラグーン

SliceBarGames, to gamedev

Happy #AlienDay2023! To celebrate the franchise which inspired Astra Protocol, we're putting Astra Protocol 2 on sale for the next 24 hours. Pick it up on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2026750/Astra_Protocol_2/

#gamedev #indiegamedev
#cassettefuturism #retrofuturism #alienday #scifi #indie

video/mp4

Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux, to random
@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux@floss.social avatar

🕹️ Title: Space Quest 0: Replicated (with ScummVM engine)
🦊️ What's: A free prequel to Space Quest 1, a humorous sci-fi adventure point-and-click game
🏡️ http://www.wiw.org/~jess/replicated.html
🐣️ -
🔖
📦️
📖 Our entry: http://www.lebottindesjeuxlinux.tuxfamily.org/en/online/new/

New 💥️
Reviewed 🔍️ (1.04): 🙏️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐘 From: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ramon_wilhelm/110209585712720648

🕹️ https://yewtu.be/plhj4jKiGyA
🕹️ https://yewtu.be/F4a0L72tYQ4
🕹️ https://yewtu.be/yaxVd06PxII

lex, to solarpunk
@lex@floe.earth avatar

Done! I translated my #solarpunk article to english 🙂

You can check it out here:

https://medium.com/

Let me know what you think!

#climatejustice
#scifi

eldritch48, to random

Return to Alflynd: Emily Enonchong

Emily had an extremely aggressive auto-immune disease that attacked her skin cells. She began receiving cybernetic transplants when she was five, and by the time I met her, her entire outer body was essentially completely synthetic. She worked in the reactor on Qwabe Station, and had the most biting sense of humour I'd ever seen. She was also my closest friend.

#MastoArt #FediArt #ConceptArt #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Blender3d

Over the shoulder shot of Emily looking at the monitor.
Medium close shot looking at Emily as she makes an adjustment to the system.
Close up of Emily's face.

kasdeya, to programming

Hi, all! Very new to Mastodon and a little overwhelmed. I'm kas, and my main interests are #programming, #writing, #worldbuilding, #scifi, and #horror. Also #vampires and #succubi. You can see more info about me in my bio.

Favorite books: Diaspora by Greg Egan, The Martian by Andy Weir

Favorite games: Metroid Prime, Doom, Hideous Destructor

Favorite movies: The Empty Man, The Dark Tapes

Currently working on a recommendation engine for Booru posts. Learning about SQL and collaborative filtering in the process.

I'm also trying to find time to worldbuild my Gyremar setting and finish up my story outlines.

Mainly, though, just getting through each day and managing my chronic illness.

#introduction

pug50, to random
@pug50@toot.community avatar
JumpLeadsScifi, to random

The FIRST EPISODE is now live! Link in bio.
.
#sciencefiction #scifi #scificomedy #audiodrama #audioplay #podcast

ChrisPirillo, to photography
@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social avatar

lieutenant commander bortus on an away mission to find his lost mustache ~

silverspookgames, to random

"Well, Rome 426 is a bust. Liquidate the survivors & colonize the next planet, call it Rome 427, admiral."
Fight galactic plagues, in Neofeud 2! Neofeud 1: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

Saltybretzel, to random

My old Ripley sketch for #alienday Gotta do a Xenomorph tonight!

#digitalart #ripley #scifi #mastoart

pseudonym, to fediverse

#introduction #CalcKey

Greetings.

[One year edit]

Been here on #mastodon for a year now, and settled in nicely. Calckey for a day.

I'm an older geek dad in the California bay area.

Please talk to me about #coffee , #puns , #infosec , #books , #scifi or other geeky topics.

I've already discovered #mastocats hash tag, and #mosstodon and #photography and they've all made this a much more humane place.

I like seeing the "slice of life" posts from real people. These kinds of moments are what connects us.

Cheers

jturiano, to books

Just posted a new trailer!
Short and fun to watch.
Could use a boost with a like, and don't forget to subscribe for more.
https://youtu.be/OjPRgGuDFVU

#booktrailer #scifi #sciencefiction #books #bookrecommendation #thriller #suspense #scifibooks #writingcommunity

strydernotavi, to politics

Just another Mastodon user coming to try out CalcKey to see what it can do.

Interested in #TTRPG #Numenera #miniaturepainting #boardgames #scifi

Also try to stay informed about #auspol and #politics in general.

tencenttakes, to random
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In honor of #AlienDay show us some of your favorite comic book aliens!
#aliens #1980s #scifi #alienlegion #Comics #ComicBooks

gibbondemon, to books

Without meaning to, I've stumbled into reading several scifi books about the environment recently, & it was interesting to see the different approaches they took. So naturally I rambled on about it on the blog...

https://andrewknighton.com/fiction-for-a-threatened-world/

MissQuerade, to art
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I need to go through half finished canvases. Ten or so years ago I did but we moved to an apartment and I lost space to do it. I hadn't finish this because of the cracks that got worse over time until I forgot it existed. Last night on a zoom call with some local writer friends I decided to fix it up. One of them was a huge fan and I offered it to her as a gift.

Finally it'll have a home. Every thing has a place even if you don't know it yet.

eldritch48, to random

Return to Alflynd: Qwabe Station - Tunnel

Between the inhabited areas of the station, foot-traffic tunnels were dug straight through the asteroid, with frequent bulkheads and seal-able blast doors in case of decompression.

#MastoArt #FediArt #ConceptArt #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Blender3d

Medium close shot - Over the shoulder of a tech facing a closed safety door in a tunnel.

etaski, to books
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Fantastic 🧙‍♀️ &

Over 100 from
https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyheroines/oexidthlv0

The Doc Tales: A with rather unusual patients." 😂

"Squeaky Hatchling" showing a baby dragon stealing a cookie! 🍪 :ablobcatheart:

"Like James Herriot went to ."

@sffbookclub @bookstadon

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