I just moved to a new instance, so here's a new #introduction
I'm the host of the Grammar Girl #podcast. You may have hit my website searching for something like "semicolons." I love #writing books, #teaching online courses, and I founded the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.
I'm in this huge CYBERPUNK book, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and lots more.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”
At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre, with authors from over two dozen countries. #bookstodon#sff#scifi#books
Denis Villeneuve's Arrival was released 7 years ago today.
I love this "close encounter".
"A linguist is recruited by the army to communicate with an extraterrestrial life-form after twelve mysterious spaceships land around the world." #scifi#arrival#movie#spaceship#alien#villeneuve
This week, I wrote about a type of lemur that picks its nose with an incredibly spindly finger that's so long it can reach up through its nasal cavity and touch its pharynx.
It's a pilot for a show that is Kickstarter funded, run by folks whose shows got cancelled or in some cases were recently laid off.
It hits harder, emotionally speaking, than I thought it would considering I expected a comedy. But I want episode 2 so bad. Hoping the next few episodes can get funded!
I need your help #bookstodon. One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.
Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?
A question for the Mastodon hive mind. Do you know of any #scifi + #science crossovers #writing about future perspectives? Leaning more, or at least, based more, on the science?
I have an insane idea for a project that could make my worlds* collide... or never happen. Thoughts?
*Harry is my scifi writing (trying) alter ego, by day I'm an actual scientist.
A #scifi question: are there any novels set in protoplanetary disk systems? Everyone seems to go for fully formed planets, but you could play an excellent game of hide and seek in the Hill sphere of a forming gas giant, no?
As "Doctor Who" turns 60, it's time to pose that perennial question: Who is the best Doctor of them all? The BBC asked five fans to make their arguments. But which of this quintet do you think is the greatest? Tell us in the comments if your pick isn't on the list (we're fans of Christopher Eccleston).
Bound in black goat leather with hand-painted edges,
hand-painted endpages, and a foil design on the cover.
I did a write-up on my blog about my design choices
and techniques for this bind. If you're ineterested head
on over to my website (blackoakbindery.com)!
Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold, @cstross and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.
Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.
Ich suche utopische Kurzgeschichten oder Romane, die in einer Nachhaltigen und Postfossilen Gesellschaft spielen, welche auch wir zeitnah erreichen könnten. Gerne Teilen! #solarpunk#scifi