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From NASA Finding asteroids before they find us! 🛘 Happy International Asteroid Day. NASA’s new NEO Surveyor mission is our next-generation near-Earth object hunter. science.nasa.gov/mission/neo-... 1/2

I mean, c’mon. #amwriting #writingcommunity

Happy B-Day to the legend, Mel Brooks. 100 trips around the sun, hoo boy 🥂 #sci-fi #film

Want to know why Martal Strand is the man he is at the start of Judgement? Sign up to my monthly newsletter and get the free, exclusive short story that shows you. www.rikohare.com/free #scifi #freefiction #booksky

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

Holborn’s brilliant. The Factus Sequence that begins with Ten Low is absolute fire. A must-read for #sci-fi fans. I plan to devour these Triggernometry books. Maybe something other than mathematics makes Frege tremble…

Okay, #WriteSky, what makes a story emotionally satisfying? I ask myself, what does "emotionally" mean? Intellect isn't part of the deal? As for "satisfying," I can list generalizations, but shouldn't this prove specific to the story at hand? What say you? #WritingCommunity #Sci-fi #AmWriting

Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

Happy Father’s Day to all who celebrate. #StarWars #Sci-fi #FathersDay

A peaceful death 🏴‍☠️

Okay, #WriteSky, what makes a story emotionally satisfying? I ask myself, what does "emotionally" mean? Intellect isn't part of the deal? As for "satisfying," I can list generalizations, but shouldn't this prove specific to the story at hand? What say you? #WritingCommunity #Sci-fi #AmWriting

After getting a couple of short stories done over the week I have now definitively started the new book with a hell of a weirdass first chapter.

Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.

Post a robot that is not from Star Wars or Transformers

From NASA This asteroid is a little… quirky. Shaped like a five-mile-long peanut 🥜 Wobbles like a top 🌪️ Encountered water, but lost it 💦 Published today, NASA’s Lucy mission reveals close-up imagery and data from its flyby of oddball asteroid Donaldjohanson. More: go.nasa.gov/3Qx5F3Y

#OTD in 1983, physicist & NASA astronaut Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman to go to #space. 🚀 She launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger as a mission specialist on STS-7. At 32, she was also the youngest American to travel into space (at the time). #WomenInSTEM

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

Piled through Secret City in a couple of sittings today, good stuff. Complete change of pace next. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera 📚🪐💙

Spending a lot of time today thinking about what makes a story emotionally satisfying.

I’m drafting the #amquerying letter for the #sci-fi novel: "My research for Ananya entailed an eye-rounding delve into laboratory testing on chimpanzees. What I found chilled my blood to slurry. I stared into the abyss, frankly, and the abyss had a few hard words to say." A devastating read 👇

I had a blast drafting the synopsis for the new #sci-fi novel. But editing! Synopses are all about telling, so... "As the battle rages" replaced "Railgun shells cannon into hulls, a riot of missiles blazing through the dark as ships ignite into ephemeral stars." #writingcommunity

“Time could be a quantum illusion,” my yogi said.

do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along

Hey #WritingCommunity do we have any fans of fun Sci-fi? Want to read a little, have a great time, and help another writer? Look to CB. I can vouch for the excellence of the opening chapter. Comment on his post to learn more. You will not regret it.

JITTERBUG by @garethlpowell.bsky.social is an action-packed adventure in which a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. 🪐⭐ Have you picked up a copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/4cjm9zxu 🚀

Yes, a #sci-fi novel titled The Harakiri Code, a homage to Akira Kurosawa and Japanese period dramas. The story's finished and edited, though I never found suitable comps and, in turn, gave up on selling the project. Fonda Lee's new novel, The Last Contract of Isako, has me wondering however…

Congratulations to last night's winners at the Nebula Awards, which include @stephengrahamjones.com, @amalelmohtar.com, @effies.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social among others, and which formally installed @nkjemisin.bsky.social as a Grand Master! file770.com/sfwa-announc...

This Nebula Ceremony, in Chicago & online, is a time to reveal our latest winners & also celebrate our special award recipients. It is OUR honor at #SFWA to thank N. K. Jemisin for her tremendous contributions to genre. Our 42nd Grand Master is a powerhouse whose work is not yet done! #61stNebulas

Terrific read. I enjoyed all three novellas in this collection, though “Walking to Aldebaran” is utterly off the hook.

Hell-o #writesky! I just finished dev editing my new #sci-fi novel, and I've run into a dilemma. I can outline ten reasons why I should keep the final, short scene before the epilogue. But I can also give you ten reasons to cut it. What would you do? All advice welcome. #writingcommunity

Hello there, #BookSky. For #sci-fi lovers, I'd thought to post about this recent duology by M.R. Carey, which explores the question of selfhood across a multiverse of infinite Earths. The prose is breathtaking, the characters diverse, and the scope immense. Highly recommended reading.

Hey-o, #booksky! I just finished this debut #sci-fi novel, Judgement, by @rikohare.com. What a compelling read. A character driven, cinematic story that draws you into its central mystery masterfully. In the end, the only thing sharper than the stakes is O'Hare's prose. Highly recommended.

Howdy, #WriteSky. This is a long shot, but... I'm looking for beta readers and/or a writing group to join. About me: M.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in Editorial Studies, Ph.D. in English Lit. I focus on #sci-fi. Currently #amquerying my debut novel and dev editing a new novel. #WritingCommunity

Whew. I just reread last night's pages on the new #sci-fi novel and added "The End." The first draft concluded at a tight 95k. Right on target. Feels good. #writingcommunity #writesky

Ms. Stephanie, 4th grade. I wrote Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars fan fiction for an assignment…she accused me of plagiarism and gave me an F. I didn’t write anything creative again until high school. Gotta love the 80s. #sci-fi #writesky

As writing advice, this is top-notch. #writingcommunity #amwriting

This is great: @mikecollins99.bsky.social character concept sketches for Salvation's Child, along with my notes from the original script.

Aristotle Says Your Character-Driven Story Is Still Plot-Driven The emotional draw of a story comes less from explosions and arguments, and more from the interplay between plot and character. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/a...

From NASA On her 75th birthday, we remember Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space! At the age of 32, this physicist and astronaut launched aboard Challenger in June 1983 for her first of two space missions. Her example inspired generations to reach for the stars. ✨

Here's the US purchase link for Salvation's Child, out today! www.amazon.com/Final-Archit...

the boats were free to fly

Happy 49th Birthday, Star Wars!! 🎉

A space pirate steals a monkey 🙈 🚀🏴‍☠️ #TTBCountdown #Sci-fi

A space pirate steals a monkey 🙈 🚀🏴‍☠️ #TTBCountdown #Sci-fi

Calling all #sci-fi geeks, nerds, and all around know-it-alls! A trivia question... I'm an American idiot who has read a truckload of modern British sci-fi. I'll often catch the prose slipping from metric to...not. On page 10, distance is in kilometers. But on page 45? Miles. Why? #BookSky

oh another "I can't believe Ann Leckie, who writes about fictional AIs, doesn't like Spicy Autocomplete!!!!" My sibling in Amaat, if you actually read my books you might want to work on your reading comprehension and then try again.

Love this ring ship design! #scifiart #spaceopera www.artstation.com/artwork/EvV1Aq

⭐ Best Collection: WHO WILL YOU SAVE? by @garethlpowell.bsky.social

I’ve meant to shout about the two most recent #Sci-fi novels by @garethlpowell.bsky.social for a while now. They’re brilliant. His knack for threading together heart-clutching action and thematic acuity impresses me the most. Fun adventures? Sure. But they also reward a close read, akin to Le Guin.