A parentless cybrain-haver debates gen-AI schooling vs offworld (de)colonial education with an ex-Baroness and a Meduzian immigrant family. In Neofeud 2! NF1: http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
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A parentless cybrain-haver debates gen-AI schooling vs offworld (de)colonial education with an ex-Baroness and a Meduzian immigrant family. In Neofeud 2! NF1: http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
#indie #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #visualnovel #SteamDeck #Steam #indiegame #noAI #artist
Overclocking your cyberarm can be rough in Neofeud 2! My #cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 1 is 70% off now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
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Overclocking your cyberarm can be rough in Neofeud 2! My #cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 1 is 70% off now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
#indie #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #visualnovel #SteamDeck #Steam #indiegame #noAI #artist
Maintaining an interstellar community is extraordinarily hard. Even within the human worlds, it is difficult.
The hardest part is disease.
Not so much massive plagues - they are easy to quarantine. The tricky thing is the endemic bugs of each world. The things that could run riot in other biospheres.
Smoothing the spread of such bacteria and virii is initially handled by the scout service, who introduce the most common microflora and fauna to new worlds in a well controlled way. They also manage the outward spread of the new world's biome to neighbouring worlds.
But what about after that? How do you maintain a biome that is not going to kill travellers across tens, let alone hundreds or thousands of worlds?
The answer lies in one of the least formal parts of any major interstellar community.
The tramp trade network.
Small independent traders that move from world to world in small ships, moving relatively slowly, and almost always visiting the surface. Picking up the latest mutations in the local microflora and fauna as an incidental, and releasing the latest from the nearest neighbours.
Keeping the local group more-or-less in sync. And the trade routes overlap, and operate in overlapping spheres.
Yes, if you were to catch a fast ship from one end of a large polity and travel to the other end, you might well get very sick. But if you did it slowly, you would get gradually adapted.
The downside is that most travellers over large distances tend to spend much of their time vaguely unwell.
"Space Flu" they call it, and it is something that affects many long-distance tourists. People discuss solutions for it on the news boards almost constantly, and new treatments are always being touted.
What only a few very well informed people know is that this travelling malaise is a sign that things are working as expected. There will never be a complete cure for it, and it would be a disaster if one were found.
#SF #SFF #SciFi #SpaceOpera #microfiction #tootfic #microfic #IAmWriting
Anti-war terminators limping on manikin legs commiserating with disabled cyborgs who can't afford their cyberarm-rent, and more #cyberpunk hijinx in Neofeud (70% off now)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #indiegame #scifi #Steamdeck #retrogame #artist #gamedev #steamdeals #NoAI
Anti-war terminators limping on manikin legs commiserating with disabled cyborgs who can't afford their cyberarm-rent, and more #cyberpunk hijinx in Neofeud (70% off now)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #indiegame #scifi #Steamdeck #retrogame #artist #gamedev #steamdeals #NoAI
Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim”
★★★★★
This is an astounding bit of high-concept sci-fi. Imagine a world where crossing a border literally split your body in two. A young woman emigrates from South Korea - one version of her stays in Seoul, another version goes off to live in New York. This is the way humanity has always existed. People…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/book-review-sublimation-by-isabel-j-kim/
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#BookReview #NetGalley #SciFi
🆕 blog! “Book Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim”
★★★★★
This is an astounding bit of high-concept sci-fi. Imagine a world where crossing a border literally split your body in two. A young woman emigrates from South Korea - one version of her stays in Seoul, another version goes off to live in New York. This is the way humanity has always existed. People…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/book-review-sublimation-by-isabel-j-kim/
⸻
#BookReview #NetGalley #SciFi
Maintaining an interstellar community is extraordinarily hard. Even within the human worlds, it is difficult.
The hardest part is disease.
Not so much massive plagues - they are easy to quarantine. The tricky thing is the endemic bugs of each world. The things that could run riot in other biospheres.
Smoothing the spread of such bacteria and virii is initially handled by the scout service, who introduce the most common microflora and fauna to new worlds in a well controlled way. They also manage the outward spread of the new world's biome to neighbouring worlds.
But what about after that? How do you maintain a biome that is not going to kill travellers across tens, let alone hundreds or thousands of worlds?
The answer lies in one of the least formal parts of any major interstellar community.
The tramp trade network.
Small independent traders that move from world to world in small ships, moving relatively slowly, and almost always visiting the surface. Picking up the latest mutations in the local microflora and fauna as an incidental, and releasing the latest from the nearest neighbours.
Keeping the local group more-or-less in sync. And the trade routes overlap, and operate in overlapping spheres.
Yes, if you were to catch a fast ship from one end of a large polity and travel to the other end, you might well get very sick. But if you did it slowly, you would get gradually adapted.
The downside is that most travellers over large distances tend to spend much of their time vaguely unwell.
"Space Flu" they call it, and it is something that affects many long-distance tourists. People discuss solutions for it on the news boards almost constantly, and new treatments are always being touted.
What only a few very well informed people know is that this travelling malaise is a sign that things are working as expected. There will never be a complete cure for it, and it would be a disaster if one were found.
#SF #SFF #SciFi #SpaceOpera #microfiction #tootfic #microfic #IAmWriting
Need mindcandy, so I'm rewatching Galaxy Quest for the umpteenth time. Love the homage to the ending of Blake's 7 towards the end of the movie. If you know, you know ; )
First episode and Paramount already wants to cancel the whole thing, first time agreeing with their corporate greed, nuke it from orbit and forget it ever premiered.
That one short clip scene in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, when the Rebel fleet is beginning to attack the Death Star, and Porkins, before he becomes "Roast Porkins", looks like he's regretting that Chipotle' chimichanga with extra guac.
Seriously, it's there.
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