Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

🪐📚 LocusMag recommended reading list for 2025 publications 3 novels are in my tbr When We Were Real- Daryl Gregory The Essence - Dave Hutchinson Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Dedicated to all #Greenland ers #music youtu.be/DvxxdZpMFHg?...

An Idworx mountain bike with a 1x14 Rohloff hub gear and its owner are having a blast in the snow in western Germany... No freezing of the front derailleur here, since there isn't one... (unlike my other bike) 👍😃 🚲sykkel #bicycle #MTB #Mountainbike 🚴‍♀️

🪐📚 "Ice" by Jacek Dukaj ("Lód", 2005 Polish, 2026 English). The review in Locus Magazine impressed me—but it seems like a challenging text, even for native Polish or English speakers... we'll see.

🪐📚 Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg (1974) I was lucky enough to read the novella as young adult - that's when I realized what science fiction in the hands of a competent author was truly capable of - it drew me deeply into the genre.

🪐📚 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946) written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture 1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'

Memories of Ronnie James Dio's fantastic voice! He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing. youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?... #musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic

🪐📚 "Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such. A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005). Now a re-read of the English original.

🪐📚 1926- 2026... One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories… Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.

🪐📚 2026 re-read: John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980) Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up

🪐📚 Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪): Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"

Here we go then! All 150 books i read in the last year, brief remarks and a slightly haphazard ranking for each one. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc

🪐📚 "The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015) Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction? Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with The Weight of the World The Tropic of Eternity Let's find out!🤗

🪐📚 You can't change reality by lying to it. Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale. One of the most important novels of 2024

🪐📚 💙📚 Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original) "Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.

📚🪐 Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon" Oops. Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔 Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!! However...

📚🪐 Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz" from 1960 ... ...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters

📚🪐 Who hasn't experienced this: You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless! Spontaneously, I think of:

📚🪐 "SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015 Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...

😆 No way... (you get what you asked for)

📚🪐 "The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner) ... no human characters ...deep time ...awesome worldbuilding will be released on July,15th See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...

Post a robot not from Star Wars or Transformers.

📚🪐 "Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space by M. John Harrison I've struggled through the 850+ pages ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up. not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton

📚🪐 Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001) Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries: "Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity") ...

📚🪐 "Galactic Pot-healer" by Philip K. Dick (1969) Every now and then, there's a PKD. His "Galactic Pot-healer" showcases Dick's dark humor, which is rarely found in his work. The novel passed even Stanislaw Lem's critical scrutiny.

📚🪐 "Black Easter" / "The Day after Jugdement" by James Blish (1971/1972) All hell breaks loose - in Blish's two-part satire, a lapsed priest summons demons to Earth, who are only too happy to take advantage of power-hungry politicians and the nuclear annihilation potential of Earth's powers...

📚🪐 Daryl Gregory's Gregory's interesting take on the living in a simulation theme "When we were Real" focuses on a road trip of a group of ordinary people who try to deal with the discovery made a few years ago -in very different ways check out his interview locusmag.com/2025/04/dary...

"The Substance" by Coralie Fargeat (2024) 🩸📚 I wouldn't be surprised if one of Coralie's inspirations for "The Substance" is David Cronenberg's 1986 body horror classic! #horrormovies

A black hole, a quirky utopia, spaceships, an attempt to walk on the iron core of a planet, a malevolence, fandoms as science, a spectacularly unlikeable 300 yr old scientist, blood on the walls, illiteracy, amusing cultural references, disappointed AIs. Plenty going on. Buy it. Several times. 🪐📚

"Color out of Space" by by Richard Stanley (2019) While not a faithful adaptation of the Lovecraft story, the creatures in this cosmic horror film capture the indescribable horror quite well, and the mutations of the Gardner family are truly disturbing. #horrormovies

📚🪐 "The Little Goddess" novella by Ian McDonald (2005) part of the "India 2047" Sequence The story in a near-future India tells the captivating and fascinating tale of what it feels like to become a goddess... and then to have to navigate an uncaring world on the other side of divinity ...

📚🪐 "The Glamour" by Christopher Priest (1985) The novel is certainly a prime example of philosophical sf and, along with "The Affirmation" and "The Extremes," is the core of his work, which explores the reliability of personal identity and the perception of reality.

My short story, "A Scratching at the Door," has been published in the March issue of Suburban Witchcraft Magazine. It's free and a quick read (the story starts on page 132) @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue8 #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚 #SFF #SFFWriting/Writers 🔱

"Final Prayer" by Elliot Goldner (2013) British found-footage horror film with a dark atmosphere and a really nasty ending that I haven't forgotten to this day Released in the UK under the original title "The Borderlands" #horrormovies

📚💙 "The Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson (2003/2004) * Quicksilver * The Confusion * The System of the World A fantastic re-read that demands stamina (3,000 pages), but no other has portrayed the path to the Enlightenment (scientific and political) from the second half of the 17th century...

"Pontypool" by Bruce McDonald (2008) What's unique about this zombie-themed film is that the disease is transmitted through language. An underrated B-horror movie with a dark atmosphere. The action takes place in and outside a radio station, the last bastion against the creatures. #horrormovies

"Suspiria" (2018) by Luca Guadagnino Is it the film's dark atmosphere, the unforgettable, gruesome dance scene, outstanding performances of Johnson and Swinton (the latter in a strange dual role), Yorke's perfectly fitting score that makes the film a perfect Halloween rewatch? #horrormovies

“The Bay” (2012) by Barry Levinson Underrated "found footage" horror During a town's annual 4th of July Crab Festival on Chesapeake Bay, townspeople become sick, exhibiting a variety of symptoms, which leads local news reporters to suspect something has infected the water there #horrormovies

📚🪐 Back to the roots... Theodore Sturgeon "Baby is Three" (1952) Is this the best PSI story ever written? The novella became Part 2 of the also awarded novel "More Than Human" (1953) It is the only part that was published separately from the novel. Even in the best anthology of the "Golden Age"

Keep on... rockin' in the free world - Neil Young youtu.be/3q751WgE2RI?...

📚🪐 Back to the roots... Henry Kuttner and C .L. Moore "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (1943) by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym for the author couple) All parents want their children to be smarter than they are, but if the learning materials appear in our present day through a time travel accident, ...

📚🪐 Back to the roots... John W. Campbell "Who Goes There?" published 1938 under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart (Astounding cover) A gripping mixture of SF and horror. The novella served John Carpenter in 1982 for his genre classic "The Thing", whose genius added a visually impressive interpretation.

ICYMI, a look at some great SF books that imagine our first interactions with our aliens chums. 🪐📚 #scifbooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/OeXw2z4X5kY

📚🪐 Back to the roots... A. E. van Vogt I have an ambivalent relationship with the author. Some of his works are fast-paced and gripping (Isher duology, "The Voyage of the Space Beagle", "The War Against the Rull", "Future Glitter") , but I have to struggle with others (e.g. "Null-A")...🤷

!! On Feb 26th, Amazon is changing the way that you can access your Kindle books: Downloading to a device for offline reading or keeping the books when you delete your account will stop!! 🪐📚 💙🪐🌶️🩸 Check out the YT video from @CriminOllyBlog for detailed info www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoC...

📚🪐 Novels told from a robot's perspective ... * Barrington J. Bailey's "Soul of the Robot" (1974) * Asimov's "Bicentennial man (1976)" * John Sladek's "Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine" (1980)

📚🪐 "The Nimrod Hunt" / "The Spheres of Heaven" by Charles Sheffield (1986 / 2001) Books that I would never sell! The story of the Morgan constructs (semi-organic guards constructed by humans who run amok and pose a threat to humans and the three known alien races primarily through psychogenic ..

#movies #horror Watched recently "Eden Lake" from 2008 ... O M G ! The real horror is that man is his own worst beast. There is no need for supernatural horror. Or jump scares. A gem that is easy to miss. In its consistently bleak, dark development, unwatchable for many.

📚🪐 I have a soft spot for SF that draws on the past by showing an alternative development or simply tells a good story about people who were important for space travel Baxter does the former with great attention to detail in "Voyage", the latter movingly in Andy Duncan's "The Chief Designer"...