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Inkican<p>Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solarpunkart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunkart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecopunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecopunk</span></a></p>
Frankie ✅<p>No Direction Home by Karl Elf </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BzVrq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">artstation.com/artwork/8BzVrq</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/characterart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>characterart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artsky</span></a></p>
SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers<p>Weird Tales vol. 23, no. 5 (May 1934)</p><p>The guy is holding the knife rather noncommittally, as if to say "I have this knife, would that scare you at all …?”</p><p>Cannot unsee, her bejewelled bra thingy looks like a goofy bird looking out at us. </p><p>Original magazine: <a href="https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v23n05_1934-05_sas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Weird_Tale</span><span class="invisible">s_v23n05_1934-05_sas</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Magazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MagazineCover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MagazineCover</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpMagazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a></p>
Silver Spook Games<p>Crapitalism &amp; baloneyalism gettin' terminated by the Revolutionators -- A Neofeud 2 visualization! Grab Nf 1 and help me finish this! <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/673</span><span class="invisible">850/Neofeud/</span></a> <br><a href="https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">silverspook.itch.io/neofeud</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/steamdeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steamdeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualnovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visualnovel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Carolyn Barber, MD<p>Terminations hit hard on April Fool's Day, but it's not a joke. As many as 10,000 workers are expected to be laid off at HHS, including many top health officials. Peter Marks, the FDA's top regulator overseeing vaccines, was forced out last week. Additionally, Peter Stein, director of the Office of New Drugs, and Brian King, director of the tobacco center, both will be leaving the agency. <br>"The cuts affected people who help approve new medicines, track emerging pathogens,<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTMD</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfwrtr</span></a></span></strong></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HeliaXyana</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>[I] fear sending my female MC into the kitchen as it might be considered anti feminist. Are there any key aspects I could keep in mind to avoid this?</p></blockquote><p>It is all about the point you are trying to make. </p><p>All cultures cook. </p><p>Sure, she could be trapped by her gender role; it can be the only creativity she's allowed; you can emphasize subservience and frustration that leads to a break. That's one story. Or the kitchen could be a solace she escapes into, a place where she can stop fighting and eat by herself where nobody will judge her cooking her mother's recipes as weakness.</p><p>For me, feminist writing is about self-determination and agency contrasted against either the gender roles in the story or in those in the reader's head. As a writer, you <em>must</em> entertain. That doesn't mean you can't enlighten.</p><p>My current story breaks the rules. She's a fighter, but learns it works better when she works with the system instead of against it. She marries because she has to, but does get the pick of the litter. Gorgeous. She has five children, all girls. She even cooks for her husband, whom she adores, but we get that scene is a special occasion. What's important is she's also escaped being a housewife to become an engineer (her dream) on colonial Mars, and her specific efforts shapes that world's female future (and maybe ours). Along with her woman friends and her girls, the reader watches gender roles melt to insignificance..</p><p><strong>To answer your question:</strong> Assert what's <em>true</em> for the character in her quest to become more than she's allotted. The fear you feel is you imagining other people's judgement. Feminist writers always make somebody angry.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE ULTIMATE ENEMY (1979)<br>Acrylic and Gouache on Illustration Board - 28" x 18"</p><p>Sometimes the simplest statements have the strongest force. The image is ostensibly a representation of the struggle to preserve life against the onslaught of the Berserker war machines described by Fred Saberhagen. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scifiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifiart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fredsaberhagen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fredsaberhagen</span></a></p>
Gerard Thomas ⭕️<p>Design + sketch</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sketchbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sketchbook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFiArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFiArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sketch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sketch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InkDrawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InkDrawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PenDrawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenDrawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conceptdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conceptdesign</span></a></p>
Paul Semel<p>Read Arkady Martine's "Rose / House" tonight.<br><a href="https://amzn.to/4hw38i0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">amzn.to/4hw38i0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>📖🌹🏡<br>Really interesting A.I. / architectural / <a href="https://toot.community/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> twist on a locked house murder <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a>.<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a></p>
SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers<p>Worlds of IF (January 1953)</p><p>Love it. Completely mad but instantly understandable.</p><p>Fun fact, the farming term for doing this used to be "broadcasting".</p><p>Original magazine: <a href="https://archive.org/details/1953-01_IF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org/details/1953-01_IF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Magazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MagazineCover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MagazineCover</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpMagazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a></p>
BC BY-NC-SA<p>Jessica Law – ...Apparently<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dieselpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dieselpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freakfolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freakfolk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musicaltheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musicaltheatre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nufolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nufolk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/singersongwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singersongwriter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/steampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steampunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cheltenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cheltenham</span></a><br>CC BY-NC-SA (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccmusic</span></a><br><a href="https://jessicalaw.bandcamp.com/album/apparently" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jessicalaw.bandcamp.com/album/</span><span class="invisible">apparently</span></a></p>
Wendy Palmer<p>APRIL selection for the Queer* Romance Club — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell</p><p>As is fairly standard for QRC, the voting ended in a tie, so I’ve deployed my coordinator tie-breaker to go for Ocean’s Echo (the one I would have voted for, if I took part in the poll).</p><p>This should be widely available at libraries. Though it’s in the same world as Maxwell’s first book, Winter’s Orbit, it is a stand-alone. I’m looking forward to this one :) </p><p>***<br>Blurb:</p><p>“Change begins with the meeting of the minds”</p><p>When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him.</p><p>Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit's ability to control minds.</p><p>Tennal just wants to escape, but Surit isn't all that he seems. And their bond may just be the key to their freedom.</p><p>***</p><p>QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/QueerRomanceClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRomanceClub</span></a> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>queerromanceclub</span></a></span> tags.</p><p>No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc, any time throughout the month or indeed whenever you happen to read it. CW for spoilers if going into details but general observations can be open.</p><p>Or let us know what else you’re reading in the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/queerRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerRomance</span></a> genre. One of the other titles on the voting list? An undiscovered gem? An old favourite?</p><p>More about the club here<br><a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11314</span><span class="invisible">4943004145104</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RomanceReads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanceReads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bookclubs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookclubs</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/lgbtqbookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lgbtqbookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LGBTQRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQRomance</span></a> </p><p>*I realised I typoed in the voting to Queen Romance Club. Which would have had quite different selections ;)</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>i find all of this extraordinary:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a> created "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>"</p><p>the seminal work (arguably the first work of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a>)-</p><p>humanity creating artificial life</p><p>in a ghost story writing contest suggested by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a></p><p>the father of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLovelace</span></a> </p><p>who predicted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> (the first person to seriously address the topic)-</p><p>humanity creating an artificial mind</p><p>something to think about this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a>:</p><p>the artistic and technological mothers of our age</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>6/6</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>an interesting connection:</p><p>it was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a> who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a> writing "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>", and he was the father of another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a> notable: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLovelace</span></a></p><p>her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p>she rejected it</p><p>her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a> champion of AI, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlanTuring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlanTuring</span></a>, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique</p><p><a href="https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/</span><span class="invisible">ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial</span></a></p><p>3/x</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a></p><p>What do many consider the 1st <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a>?</p><p>One of the first works of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> (certainly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodyHorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodyHorror</span></a>)?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>"</p><p>Written as a *teenager*</p><p>A teenager who had recently lost a baby</p><p>I think that's key</p><p>Horror not from taking life</p><p>But creating life</p><p>She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain</p><p>The summer was cold and rainy so <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a> (yes him) proposed a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ghostStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghostStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingContest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingContest</span></a></p><p>I think she won</p><p>1/x</p>
John Sundman<p>I've been invited to be on a panel at the Global Synthetic Biology Conference in San Jose, May 5 - 8, on how art and storytelling shape the development, distribution and use of new technology.</p><p>This is a 4-day conference on science &amp; technology with a worldwide reach. It's a big deal.</p><p><a href="https://www.synbiobeta.com/events/synbiobeta-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">synbiobeta.com/events/synbiobe</span><span class="invisible">ta-2025</span></a></p><p>It's a fraught time for biology and for science in general, and I expect that this conference will be buzzing. I'll post my impressions daily. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a></p>
Old Book Illustrations<p>Confronted by a singular looking being.<br>John Augustus Knapp, from "Etidorhpa, or, The End of Earth" by John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati: [1896] <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/singular-looking-being/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oldbookillustrations.com/illus</span><span class="invisible">trations/singular-looking-being/</span></a></p>
W. Keith Tims :podcast:<p>My spec-fic novel An Invisible Sun is now available in eBook &amp; Audiobook format! And thanks to crowdpricing, you can get them free or cheap for a limited time!</p><p>Visit <a href="https://wkeithtims.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wkeithtims.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for details!</p><p><a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/specfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>specfic</span></a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/audiobook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audiobook</span></a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p>
Rod Faulkner<p>Looking for a change from all the dark, dystopian, post-apocalyptic onscreen <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a>?</p><p>Then take10 minutes to watch the uplifting sci-fi short 'SPIRAL.' You won't regret it!</p><p>'SPIRAL'</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqr1fyQTZN8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Sqr1fyQTZN</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>
SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers<p>Weird Tales vol. 15, no. 4 (April 1930)</p><p>This is a bit messy, but I'm guessing that some mysterious wizard type person, off-screen, is holding that thing and using it to conjure up the two figures?</p><p>Original magazine: <a href="https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/WeirdTales</span><span class="invisible">V15N04193004jvhSas</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Magazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MagazineCover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MagazineCover</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpMagazine</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PulpFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a></p>
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