#SpaceOpera

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Genevieve WilliamsHalfway to goal! The <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shakespeare</a> Adjacent <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Kickstarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kickstarter</a> has passed 50% of its funding goal. The <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/anthology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthology</a> collects 13 genre takes on Shakespeare plays, from <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> to <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/steampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#steampunk</a> to <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/noir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noir</a>. I had a lot of fun adapting Much Ado About Nothing to a futuristic western setting, maaaaaybe informed by having recently rewatched <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MadMax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MadMax</a>: Fury Road. Check out the Kickstarter here: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loutambone/shakespeare-adjacent/description" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loutambone/shakespeare-adjacent/description</a>

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Hasn’t anyone else ever noted these similarities, or am I imagining connections that don’t exist? Why on earth would Lucas hire Brackett, best known in Hollywood as a co-scripter of The Long Sleep, to write his space opera if he hadn’t already read her space operas? Still, it was an odd choice, because while Lucas uses tropes and motifs from her work, her themes are decidedly noir, which something Lucas could never be. Honestly, I would love to read Brackett’s draft of the sequel to Star Wars. I bet it would be a lot more like Rogue One than the final form of The Empire Strikes Back. And I bet that’s why he didn’t like it. But what else could he have expected? <a href="https://queer.party/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWars</a> <a href="https://queer.party/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://queer.party/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://queer.party/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://queer.party/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SF</a> (3/3)

K.N. Brindle (they/them)I'm super excited to announce this, and this is the perfect opportunity!I've just launched my open, generic, setting-agnostic, FREE (as in speech and beer), and modern <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a>It's currently in beta, and I'll be finalizing the version 1.0 release over the next few months, along with publishing an original <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> expansion, and a <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> expansion based on my novel Common Accord later this year<a href="https://versesrpg.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://versesrpg.com</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TTRPGRising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPGRising</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/@thoughtpunks/114789460090250538" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dice.camp/@thoughtpunks/114789460090250538</a>

SelfAwarePatternsA reread of Consider PhlebasIain Banks’ Culture setting is probably the closest thing to outright paradise in science fiction. It’s an interstellar post-scarcity techno-anarchist utopia, where sentient machines do all the work and the humans hang around engaging in hobbies or other hedonistic pursuits. Some do choose to work, but there’s no requirement for it since money isn’t required. Everyone is effectively immortal and lives as long as they want.It’s worth noting that in the Culture books “human” means biological humanoid since many of the stories take place before Earth is contacted. This follows a trend in sci-fi in the late 1970s and 80s, following the lead of Star Wars, of telling stories of characters who are aliens that just happen to look and act like us. Banks hangs a lantern on the implausibility of this in at least one of the books, but I can’t recall him ever addressing it in detail.There are no laws in the Culture, only reputations and consensus. Everyone is free to do whatever they want. However, someone who shows themselves to be dangerous might have a drone assigned to keep them from hurting any other sentient entities.Perhaps the most striking thing about the Culture are the Minds, vast AI intelligences who control titanic spaceships, space habitats such as orbitals, and warships, among other major functions. This notion of god-like AI might be the biggest influence these novels have had, both on sci-fi and the wider culture. (Although what’s often left out of the wider meme is the Culture Minds’ internal workings existing in hyperspace, meaning their god-like capabilities come from processing information faster than light and in a hyperdimensional realm, essentially working on magic.)All of which is to say that the Culture unapologetically solves its problems with technology advanced enough to simply render them obsolete.Banks admitted in interviews that something like the Culture probably isn’t possible, but it made an interesting backdrop for exploring philosophical questions. I recently discovered that one of the Culture books I had missed when I read them many years ago, Excession, is coming out in ebook format later this year, which I’ve already pre-ordered. And that Amazon Prime is <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/02/consider-phlebas-amazon-charles-yu-chloe-zhao-1236300861/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">planning a TV series</a> based on Consider Phlebas, the first Culture novel. Given their recent track record, I’m not sure how optimistic to feel about that.But it reminded me that it’s probably been something like twenty years since I read Consider Phlebas, and that a reread might be interesting. Particularly since the first time I initially bounced off of it, and had to be convinced by a friend to finish it and look at the other books. I enjoyed it a lot more this time, either because my tastes have changed, or because I already knew where the story was going.The Culture is at war with the Idiran Empire, a theocracy of huge warlike aliens. (They seem very similar to Halo‘s Covenant, which they likely inspired.) Horza is a changer, someone who can take on the form of other people, along with other capabilities such as poison nails and saliva. He is an agent working for the Idirans, not because he believes in their religion or cause, but because he’s opposed to the Culture, repulsed by their dependence on machines, which he is convinced will eventually turn on the biological entities. Most of the story is told from Horza’s viewpoint. He’s a tough and relentless protagonist who we are with through several adventures. He’s often sympathetic, but seems blind to the atrocities the Idirans are committing. While he is usually conscientious toward the people he fall in with throughout the story, his attitude toward machines seems unrelentingly hostile. At one point he ruthlessly destroys a friendly AI that’s in his way, and his attitude toward a drone that saves his life is not to regard it as a thinking feeling entity, but as just a mechanism. And he ultimately coerces a captured crew into perilous mission.Horza is opposed by a Culture agent named Balveda. She is a member of Special Circumstances, which Horza considers the Culture’s version of military intelligence. If there is a hero in this story, it’s Balveda. Although she spends most of the book being passive, with most of her agency offstage. We only get into her viewpoint late in the story.Horza and Balveda have a high regard for each other. Balveda attempts to save Horza early in the book and Horza is concerned when he hears the Idiran order to execute Balveda when she is a prisoner. Later in the book, Horza often feels like he should kill Balveda but always seems to have an excuse not to.The MacGuffin of the story is a Culture Mind that escaped an attack by hiding in tunnels on a world. The world is protected by a powerful alien entity neither the Idirans nor the Culture can afford to antagonize. Yet the Idirans want to capture the Mind for the information it contains, and the Culture wants to rescue it. Horza is sent by the Idirans because he may be allowed in by the alien entity, because he once worked on that world with a team of changers, one of which was his lover. He accepts on the shaky promise that afterward he might be allowed to leave with her and enough money to retire as an agent. However along the way Horza is captured by a team of pirates and ends up on a series of side adventures which show us various locations in this universe, including a “temple of light”, an orbital, and Schar’s World, a planet which is effectively the burned out grave of a civilization that destroyed itself in warfare, and which is where the Mind is hiding.Without spoiling too much, this is not a happy tale, which was the reason I reacted against it the first time. But it does have some interesting situations and a lot of action, and as an introduction to the Culture, it has the occasional philosophical discussion. I enjoyed and recommend it if you’ve never tried it. I will warn that Banks’ pacing is far from snappy, but it doesn’t feel as ponderous as some of the other stuff I’ve recently complained about.While waiting for Excession I might reread some of the other Culture novels, particularly Surface Detail, my favorite. I suspect the TV show, if it gets made, will draw material from a lot of these books, not just the first.Have you read Consider Phlebas, or any of the other Culture novels? If so, what did you think? Read anything else with similar themes worth checking out?<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/book-review-2/" target="_blank">#bookReview</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/book-reviews-2/" target="_blank">#bookReviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/posthuman/" target="_blank">#posthuman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/sci-fi-2/" target="_blank">#sciFi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/science-fiction/" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/scifi/" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/space-opera/" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a>

readingchameleonGasp, original fiction by <a href="https://sakurajima.social/@readingchameleon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@readingchameleon</a>?! In double-drabble form no less! :ngnnen_gasp: Well, you better believe it 'cause it's here! Inspired in part by <a href="https://aus.social/@Unixbigot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Unixbigot@aus.social</a>'s microfiction toots actually.<blockquote>The minutes pass and I'm left with a single task A found family builds a starship and walks the stars, until disaster strikes. A single pilot with a single task. The minutes pass, and all that’s left is me. The minutes pass and all that’s left…. is me. Standalone double drabble inspired by The minutes pass and all that’s left is me by Moonlit_Blossom (ao3) / yoroshiu (tumblr). [200 words]</blockquote>I can only imagine the world behind this little fic, and it's so cool :akko_excited: 🚀 🌠 <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/HopePunk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HopePunk</a> is underrated. Pssst, seen any hopeful!space opera fics around here? I'd love to know 🌟 <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/Fic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fic</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/NotSureIfItsMicroFiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotSureIfItsMicroFiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/But" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#But</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/MicroFiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/Space" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/SciFi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/SpaceOpera" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/Fiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/NotActuallyFanfiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotActuallyFanfiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/ButKinda" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ButKinda</a>? <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/InspiredByFanfiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InspiredByFanfiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/OriginalFiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OriginalFiction</a>

SelfAwarePatternsThe Forever WarFor some reason I had never read Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, and recently decided to remedy that. Like most classic sci-fi novels, it’s a quick read, much shorter than most contemporary novels. It’s often been called a Vietnam veteran’s response to Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Haldeman himself disputes that, although he admits it’s heavily inspired by Vietnam, and overall much more antiwar than Heinlein’s story.This novel originally came out in the early 1970s and is very much a product of its time. William Mandela is a physics student in the 1990s drafted into the United Nations army in a war against an alien species: the “Taurans”. Unlike in previous wars, a high IQ is part of the criteria. The military wants elite fighters. Women are included, so in this imagined near future military, it’s a mixed force, with roughly half female. As a morale boosting measure, the recruits in training are encouraged, even required, to have regular and promiscuous sex with their colleagues. Pot smoking is common and seen as just another recreational drug. And the automatic “Sir, yes sir!” chorus of obedience in previous generations is replaced with a “F— you, sir!” response, repeated with the same lack of enthusiasm.After some training in Missouri, the recruits are shipped to a planet in the outer solar system called “Charon” (not to be confused with the moon of Pluto discovered years after this story was written). Here they learn to use an armored exoskeleton suit so prevalent in military sci-fi. The training is grueling and dangerous. Several recruits are killed. Eventually they graduate and are sent to their first posting.Interstellar travel in this universe happens via “collapsars”, a type of naturally occurring wormhole. However the collapsars are often a substantial distance from local solar systems or each other, requiring months of travel time, typically reaching relativistic speeds. The result is that while the troops spend months in transit, years are passing at the bases and on Earth. The battles all seem to happen in solar systems near collapsar transit points.The Taurans, when first encountered, don’t seem like very good fighters, but they learn quickly, and the war becomes a long slog.When Mandella first gets back to base, he discovers that decades have passed. But he, his girlfriend, and many others are given a chance to cash out their backpay and return to civilian life, although they are warned that a lot has changed on Earth. When they take the cash out option, they get back to Earth in 2024, and discover that it is a dystopia, with overpopulation, sky high crime rates, society breaking down, and widespread misery. Mandella and his girlfriend eventually reenlist. As the war drags on and the decades and centuries pile up, Earth becomes increasingly alien from the view of the older soldiers. Governments on Earth begin to encourage homosexuality as a means to keep the population under control, and eventually make it mandatory. Mandella, as one of the longest surviving soldiers, finds himself considered a sexual deviant by the new recruits.There are some pretty good action and battle scenes in the book, but one theme throughout seems to be that military often doesn’t know what it’s doing. Also that it’s not the soldier’s friend. And that the future is going to be very strange by our standards, starting with the army a few years in the future, and getting progressively weirder as the story progresses.Reading older sci-fi is always an interesting experience. In this book, we get to see a 1970s vision of what the 1990s and 2020s would be like, and how dominated that vision is by the preoccupations of 60s and 70s culture. Certainly our 2020s is far from perfect, but it’s a picnic compared to the nightmare presented in the book. Something for us to keep in mind when contemplating the predictions made today.Obviously this book isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but I found it an interesting ride, worth considering if you’re looking for classic sci-fi to read.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/book-review-2/" target="_blank">#bookReview</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/book-reviews-2/" target="_blank">#bookReviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/sci-fi-2/" target="_blank">#sciFi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/science-fiction/" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/scifi/" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/space-opera/" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a>

Alazarin MobiusHere’s the YouTube live stream of our show this evening, Friday 13 June 2025:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehrsU7UBRyA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehrsU7UBRyA</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alazarinmobius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alazarinmobius</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/theinvisibleband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theinvisibleband</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interplanetaryliberationfront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interplanetaryliberationfront</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/progressiverock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressiverock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spacerock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacerock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/secondlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#secondlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cubase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cubase</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestream</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bandcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bandcamp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/progrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progrock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestreammusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestreammusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mastomusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastomusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/musodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musodon</a>

YoraThe Star Wars universe is ridiculously big, claiming to cover an entire galaxy. And it has more planets making an appearance than anyone could ever remember. But at leas they handwave distances and travel time.The Traveller Map has 128 sectors, composed of 2048 subsectors. The fastest ships flying nonstop without refueling would take over 2 years to cross it. Six or seven years seems more realistic. What stories would ever need such a giant map?<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Traveller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Traveller</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a>

Petra van CronenburgYeah, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/goodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodNews</a>, just coming directly from Mel Brooks himself, who is 98 yrs old and wants to play the wise Yogurt! <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Spaceballs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spaceballs</a> returns: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoAUHM7O6V8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoAUHM7O6V8</a>Mel Brooks account: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lrgcy27tyk2e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lrgcy27tyk2e</a>May the Schwartz be with you! 😂 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/parody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parody</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciFi</a>

Daniel PomarèdeJust completed watching Star Trek Voyager. 172 episods. What a journey!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Voyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Voyager</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrekVoyager</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SevenOfNine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SevenOfNine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Borg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheBorg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorgQueen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BorgQueen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/series" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#series</a>

John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻Happy Friday friends. Hope it's been a good week. Grab a book and kick back with your favorite beverage!Use “JustForMyFriends" to save 35% this weekend only when you buy direct.<a href="https://johnwilker.com/shop/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://johnwilker.com/shop/</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@scifi</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adventure</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/shopsmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shopsmall</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/smallbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallbusiness</a> Appreciate any boosts.

Thilo KrappHAPPY PRIDEMONTH! 🏳️‍🌈Mein Webcomic MILES & SALLY geht weiter! Diesmal mit der ersten NSFW-Szene der beiden, also bitte vorsichtig öffnen! 😅🥵<a href="https://www.thilo-krapp.com/miles-sally-120-dt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thilo-krapp.com/miles-sally-120-dt/</a><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/milesandsally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#milesandsally</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/milesundsally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#milesundsally</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/bl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/boyslove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boyslove</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/yaoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yaoi</a> #801 <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queerscifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerscifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scfi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/blromance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blromance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pride</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/pridemonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pridemonth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/happypride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#happypride</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/lgbtqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queerromance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerromance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queerlove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerlove</a> #🌈

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈You damn right I'm naming the superhabitable world orbiting Tollman (Alpha Centauri B) 'LeGuin' in my Worldbuilding, so many reasons to do so. Most importantly it is a statement in Universe and out, a hopepunk space opera, the old world making way for new worlds. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlphaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlphaCentauri</a>

Liana Brooks“Do you need anything?” She wasn’t offering to help clean. She was offering to help hide bodies. It was that kind of friendship.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BodiesInMotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BodiesInMotion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SFR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SFR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EnemiesToLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnemiesToLovers</a><a href="http://www.lianabrooks.com/bodies-in-motion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Book-Socials" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.lianabrooks.com/bodies-in-motion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Book-Socials</a>

Nils M HolmMy latest book is out! "Hyper 7" is a science fiction novel full of diversity, hope, cute characters, and discussions about a free and healthy community. There is a good dose of fash-bashing, too.<a href="http://t3x.org/hyper7/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://t3x.org/hyper7/</a>The book is available as paperback book and DRM-free EPUB ebook. No AI was used in the making of the book!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utopia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tanshumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tanshumanism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIfree</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DRMfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRMfree</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoDRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDRM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonduality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonduality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advaita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advaita</a>

YoraI am coming to the conclusion that the galaxy map of Star Wars (first created in 1998, I believe) makes no sense.In the first movie they are going from Tatooine to Alderaan and to Yavin, which is pretty much a trip across the entire galaxy and appears to be maybe an hour of flight at most. (More examples in replies.)If the distances and positions of the map are correct, then any jump is near instant teleportation to any location, making a map pointless.<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈In the hopepunk space opera in my head I will not be subtle over who the goodies and baddies are, and musical ques help with that. Scene: as we pan to the Protagonists arrival at an Earth-like world, a planet the Goodies brought to life and made a paradise...<a href="https://youtu.be/2twY8YQYDBE?si=LjlfqX9v7bxsWiSu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/2twY8YQYDBE?si=LjlfqX9v7bxsWiSu</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hopepunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hopepunk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TalkingHeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TalkingHeads</a>

Strange Seawolf 🕒 CETDidn't do a marketing post in a while, so, uh...If you DO like: - your protagonists a bit on the broken side of things - women who don't give a toss about what anybody is telling them - "oh, shit" conga lines (that thing starts a few minutes after an explosion destroyed large parts of the ship and it doesn't get better anytime, soon)And if you DON'T like: - toxic relationships - violence as the ultimate solution - stories without glimmers of hope<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HeraldPetrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeraldPetrel</a> might be the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> novel you haven't yet read, but might enjoy. You can get it at your favorite store here: <a href="https://books2read.com/HeraldPetrel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://books2read.com/HeraldPetrel</a> Book review by <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/@liminalfiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@liminalfiction</a> here: <a href="https://www.limfic.com/2025/02/16/review-herald-petrel-strange-seawolf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.limfic.com/2025/02/16/review-herald-petrel-strange-seawolf/</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CharacterdrivenSciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharacterdrivenSciFi</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BookReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookReviews</a>

Alazarin MobiusHere’s the YouTube live stream of our show this evening, Friday 09 May 2025:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76GpY5VrLI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76GpY5VrLI</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alazarinmobius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alazarinmobius</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/theinvisibleband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theinvisibleband</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interplanetaryliberationfront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interplanetaryliberationfront</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/progressiverock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressiverock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spacerock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacerock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/secondlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#secondlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cubase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cubase</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestream</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bandcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bandcamp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/progrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progrock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/livestreammusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestreammusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mastomusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastomusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/musodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musodon</a>

John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻Based on the size of those shells, don't turn around. There's almost certainly a giant claymation crab right behind you. At least the Space Rogues/Rogue Enterprises series is long enough to keep you busy while you figure out how to get off this freaky island.<a href="https://geni.us/shortknights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://geni.us/shortknights</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/scifi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@scifi</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CommissionsEarned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommissionsEarned</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/spaceopera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceopera</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/scifibooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifibooks</a>

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