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technicallyclassyperfection · 1 day

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logging on. art by robert tinney

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texaschainsawmascara · 3 months

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Angela Sarafyan, Westworld 1x07

#angela sarafyan #clementine pennyfeather #westworld #tv #television #tv shows #gifs #gif #tvedit #tv series #science fiction #sci fi #sci fi and fantasy #scifi #science fiction and fantasy

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troythecatfish · 4 months

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scifigeneration · 1 year

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"The Monolith" by Mattia Tomasi

#art #scifi art #space #space art #Mattia Tomasi #science fiction and fantasy

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seldnei · 2 months

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Angels and demons at war in the desert. The king of a court of whispers. An ex-lover hidden in the mirror. A box full of letters; a red tulip in a green glass vase. A house that only wants to love you and a superhero who deserves better than he's got. And camels. Don't forget the camels.

My first short story collection, coming out in ONE WEEK! You can pre-order it here!

#seldnei writes things #writing #books #science fiction and fantasy

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fox-bright · 2 months

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If you're part of the SF/F fandom or have been following the whole Hugo awards nomination debacle from a more popcorn-eating perspective, welp--here's more popcorn, because jiminy christmas what a goddamn ugliness this is.

SUPERBLY unhappy for everyone hurt by this situation, not least the Chinese fans whose safety in fandom is now potentially endangered.

(Also, not best pleased by the persistent misspellings of the Asian authors' names. This is why editors are important. RF Kuang is not SL Huang, and it's Zhao, not Zhou, and the fact that someone In SF didn't catch it over and over again on an important story is not super impressive.)

#hugo awards #chengdu worldcon #SF/F #worldcon #hugos #science fiction and fantasy #science fiction #fantasy #writing

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ariaste · 2 years

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AHHHHH Finished copies of A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON are here!!! Less than a month until release day, August 30th! If you're looking for queer fantasy romance between an exquisitely beautiful prince and his stoic beefy bodyguard, make sure you preorder!

Fanfic tags include: ✨️ only one bed ✨️enemies to lovers ✨️kissing to avert suspicion ✨️found family ✨️chronic anxiety ✨️hurt/comfort ✨️slowburn ✨️washing each other's hair and talking about ethics ✨️oaths of fealty

US and Canada residents: If you’d like to buy from the place that supports me best, you can preorder the hardback here: https://shop.aer.io/AlexandraRowlandBooks/p/A_Taste_of_Gold_and_Iron/9781250800381-13099

And here are all the other places to buy it: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250800381

#books #fantasy #lgbt #queer books #romance #science fiction and fantasy #alexandra rowland #a taste of gold and iron #book #lgbt books

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theitcharchives · 20 days

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(Ao3 heads-up: all my works are only shown to registered users)

Once upon a time, I wrote a really short story about pitfalls and downfalls of the one and the collective. In truth I'd had a brief spark of inspiration about a time-travelling plot twist.

Teenager me was very proud of this short piece of very amateur literature, because I thought being extremely vague about the gender of the space tyrant was incredibly progressive and not at all a manifestation of my own oblivious and not unique agender ass.

My go-to idea for publication was self-publishing, so a few months ago I had decided to test it out with a novelette titled Inferno. Well, self-publishing is darn hard, and I've had enough of testing, so Inferno has been retired and is not only free in full on Ao3 and Wattpad, but I've changed its title into Legacy of Mayhem and several paragraphs while I was at it.

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[Interesting tags: Science Fiction & Magic, Self Fulfilling Prophecy, Time Travel, Fall From Grace, Reluctant Allies To Dysfunctional Friends, Angst, Gen, First Person POV]

Star-children aren’t an oddity, but Ember, volatile like fire, born of death and new light, sure is–a very troublesome, talkative one, who has been kidnapped (twice) by a very miffed warrior, survivor of an apocalypse yet to come.

Duly named Miff, said warrior has the mission of challenging Time itself and its rule over History. After a first merciful, failed attempt he must find another way to avoid the rise of a tyrant to lunacy.

To avoid Mayhem.

Two stubborn people on the run from governments and monsters, from the past that becomes the future, with the task of saving the universe twice–once each. If they don’t drive each other crazy first.

Focusing on the interactions between Ember and Miff and their conversations, this work's purpose is to explore how the burden of society’s greed and expectations brings about the downfall of the individual and of itself.

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coldalbion · 1 year

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Give me More Crip SF/F

Give me More crip SF.

Deep narratives of cyborgs that go beyond tryborgs, the cybernetic-punkery of a care collective taking down medical medicorps, their epileptic neurologies monitored by lines of symbiotic more-than-human hybridities that go beyond 'service animals. Give me Baradian-Ballardianisms.

Give me crip-wizards who crawl and gimp and limp as they send forth their souls to shatter extractive Empires and return stolen lands to their custodians - human and otherwise. Let them be feral and leaking, never-to-be fixed. Let them be not "strong, independent characters" alone, but "deep, inter-and-intra-dependent, living characters" together with their kin.

Let the carrier-bag of such fictions be woven by the queer entanglements of anormate bodyminds - let the madfolks bring forth better worlds, the "obsolescent" bodies long abandoned by hypercapatalists be seen as the smiths and the artisans they are, the true deliverers of that phrase "the street finds uses for things".

Let uneven, discarded, forgotten, uneven dis/personed presences laugh and show that "the futures" (plural) are not only here, but that it is their very unevenness that dis/eases fixity and solutionism, making that same bag *bulge and warp* with the gravity and joy of its creativity. Let it dis/rupt our obsessions with uprightness, rectilinearity.

Let all this, and More, be so. Because it is. And has been. And will be.

(And before anyone posts existing examples, understand this is an unending call for More, that will never be satiated.)

But if you want some of what already exists, try this: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction

#cripkult #criplit #disability fiction #science fiction and fantasy

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studiochriscinthia · 8 months

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Looking for unique and stylish Afrofuturistic embellishments for your home, office, or dorm room? This sea goddess knows how to quench your thirst!

#afrofuturism #afro futurism #scifiart #afrofantasy #black woman beauty #african american art #sea goddess #water goddess #science fiction and fantasy #black women are beautiful #wall art #wall decor #afrofuturistic #Etsy #etsyfinds #etsyshop #etsyshowcase #digital art

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piratemousey · 3 months

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"She travels in time and space"

Inspired by the episode, "The Doctor's Wife" of Doctor Who (S6 E4) written by Neil Gaiman.

With all my love to the Tardis:

This episode was such an amazing piece of storytelling. The Tardis being alive made me so happy. Neil Gaiman's work and Doctor Who have had such an impact on my own writing and creativity.

The image I used for reference and inspiration.

#love of my life #she's everything #it's not about him #Tardis #The Doctor #the doctor's wife #Neil Gaiman #doctor who #science fiction #fanart #bbc doctor who #science fiction and fantasy #my art #11th doctor

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technicallyclassyperfection · 8 days

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mr. spock by virgil finlay, 1973

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texaschainsawmascara · 5 months

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troythecatfish · 5 months

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scifigeneration · 6 months

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An X-Files expert on the show’s enduring appeal – 30 years on

by Bethan Jones, Research Associate at the University of York

On September 10 1993 the pilot episode of The X-Files aired. Thirty years later to the day, I was at a convention centre in Minneapolis with 500 other fans and the show’s creator, Chris Carter, celebrating its legacy.

Ostensibly a show about aliens, The X-Files swiftly became part of the cultural lexicon and remains there to this day. In part its success was down to the chemistry of its two leads – David Duchovny, who played FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson, who played FBI Special Agent Dana Scully. After all, it was the X-Files fandom that invented the term “shipping” (rooting for characters to get together romantically).

But, as I argue in my new book, The Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files, what really made the series successful was its ability to tap into contemporary cultural moments and ask us to really think about the times we’re living in.

When the series began in 1993, the US was still grappling with the effects of Watergate and the Vietnam war, but concerns were also rising about the approaching millennium and the economic and cultural divisions within US society. It also coincided with Bill Clinton becoming president – marking the end of more than a decade of Republican leadership.

It’s little surprise that fears about immigration, globalisation, national identity and technology emerged and were adopted – and sometimes foreshadowed – by The X-Files’ writers. Several episodes throughout the first nine seasons dealt with artificial technology, for example, and Eve, an episode in season one about clones, came four years before the birth of Dolly the Sheep.

Critical theorist Douglas Kellner argued in 1994 that The X-Files “generated distrust toward established authority, representing institutions of government and the established order as highly flawed, even complicit in the worst crimes and evil imaginable”. Though I’d argue it was less that the show generated this distrust and more that it leveraged the growing number of reports about the government’s secretive activities to inspire its storylines.

As the public became more aware of the government’s role in – and surveillance of – public life, so too The X-Files considered the ways in which technology could be used as a means of control.

In the season three episode Wetwired, for example, a device attached to a telephone pole emits signals that tap into people’s paranoid delusions and lead them to kill. And in the season six episode, SR 819, a character’s circulatory system fails because he has been infected with nanotechnology controlled by a remote device belonging to a shadow government.

These themes reflected growing concerns about government agencies using technology to both spy on and influence the public.

The X-Files’ enduring appeal

During my X-Files research, carried out with viewers after a revival was announced in 2015, it became clear that the show has remained part of the cultural lexicon. As one fan explained: “The cultural context of conspiracy theories has changed since the beginning of X-Files. Nowadays, every pseudoscience documentary uses similar soundtrack and narrative.”

Of course, the X-Files didn’t invent conspiracy theories, but as one of the show’s writers and producers, Jim Wong, points out, it did “tap into something that was more or less hidden in the beginning when we were doing it”.

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The focus on the rise of the alt-right, disinformation and fake news in seasons 10 and 11 seemed like a logical angle from which to approach the changing cultural context the revival came into. Carter and his co-writers dove straight in to what Guardian critic Mark Lawson calls “a new era of governmental paranoia and public scepticism”, fuelled by the 2008 financial crisis, the fall out of the war on terror and scores of political scandals.

Season 10 saw the introduction of a right-wing internet talk show host who argues that 9/11 was a “false flag operation” and that the mainstream liberal media lie to Americans about life, liberty and the right to bear arms. The parallels to conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck were obvious.

Carter’s incorporation of topics like surveillance, governments’ misuse of power and methods of social control meant that seasons ten and 11 were very much situated in the contemporary moment. This is perhaps most obvious in the season 11 episode, The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat, which deals with the disinformation of the Trump era head on. The episode’s protagonist, Dr. They, tells Mulder that “no one can tell the difference anymore between what’s real and what’s fake”.

While The X-Files’ search for the truth in the 1990s may have ultimately been a philosophical endeavour, in the 21st century it is a commentary on how emotion and belief can be more influential than objective facts.

Watching the show again while researching my book, I was struck by how it was dated predominantly by its lack of technology, rather than the ideas it expresses. In the second season episode Ascension, Mulder pulls a phone book off a shelf in his search for Scully – now we’d use Google. But in other aspects the show remains as relevant today as it was in the 1990s, encouraging us to think about the big questions relating to faith, authority and truth.

#science fiction and fantasy #science fiction #sci fi television #the x files #x files #sci fi tv #featured #Youtube

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seldnei · 2 months

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Tomorrow!

Angels and demons at war in the desert. The king of a court of whispers. An ex-lover hidden in the mirror. A house that only wants to love you and a superhero who deserves better than he's got. And camels. Don't forget the camels.

You can still pre-order so the e-book is ready and waiting for your weekend (or your slow Friday at work; I won't tell on you). Kindle friends, you'll have to wait for the PDF to go up tomorrow morning, but it will!

(What? No, I'm not quietly screeching over here, I am dignified and incredibly cool about this.)

#seldnei writes things #the stars the silence #books #science fiction and fantasy #short stories #laura e. price

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