This week's net.wars, "Blur", goes to #gikii 2025 and finds its surrealism struggling to keep up with the weirdness of real life: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/19/blur/ #NetWars #AI #ScienceFiction #privacy
Together with #Foundation (another hot take) I think that #AlienEarth is the best sci-fi series of the last years and the best new sci-fi series of 2025. Don't believe the haters.
I have even a hotter take. Alien Earth is on the same level as the first two Alien films.
The Wanderer
The spaceship SOL approaching one of the incarnations of the disc world Wanderer, anchor point of the superintelligence ES. Perry Rhodan Fan Art.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #PerryRhodan #PerryRhodanFanArt #Sol #SpaceShipSol #Wanderer
The Wanderer
The spaceship SOL approaching one of the incarnations of the disc world Wanderer, anchor point of the superintelligence ES. Perry Rhodan Fan Art.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #PerryRhodan #PerryRhodanFanArt #Sol #SpaceShipSol #Wanderer
Artist Rowena Morrill (1944-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21339
L, 1979; R, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art
Artist Rowena Morrill (1944-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21339
L, 1979; R, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art
The title story in the Sturgeon collection--“The Stars Are the Styx” (1950)--is good!
Artist Rowena Morrill (1944-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21339
L, 1979; R, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art
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I don't want riches or fame. I don't want a Hugo.
I just want Venjent to do my novel's hypothetical game-adaptation soundtrack.
I don't want riches or fame. I don't want a Hugo.
I just want Venjent to do my novel's hypothetical game-adaptation soundtrack.
Review: A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde’s A Philosophy of Thieves mixes a heist story, a found family story, and a nuanced and considered look at a post climate change future story into a readable combination.
@Princejvstin has our review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/review-philosophy-of-thieves-by-fran.html
Review: A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde’s A Philosophy of Thieves mixes a heist story, a found family story, and a nuanced and considered look at a post climate change future story into a readable combination.
@Princejvstin has our review
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/review-philosophy-of-thieves-by-fran.html
Si vous êtes dans le coin, je serai le 20 et 21 septembre au festival #Hypermondes à Mérignac pour discuter des transports du futur.
Et dédicacer #bikepunk
Comme je vais être entouré de stars devant qui il y aura des files monumentales, je compte sur vous pour ne pas avoir l’air trop ridicule. Merci !
https://mobilizon.fr/events/b2677c80-1693-4473-be22-f3a0f3ca67a6
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #Scifi
#ScienceFiction
"Was heute noch wie ein Märchen klingt, kann morgen schon Realität sein. Hier ist ein Märchen von übermorgen."
"What sounds like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow. Here is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow."
Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) was a short-lived scifi tv show from germany, that aired in 1966 and was released very shortly after the Star Trek premiere in september of that year. The main space ship was the "Orion". This is a first test render of a modern interpretation I did a few years ago in Maxon&Redshift and now converted to #Blender. WIP.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #art #Raumpatrouille #SpacePatrol #Orion #RaumpatrouilleFanArt #OrionFanArt
"Was heute noch wie ein Märchen klingt, kann morgen schon Realität sein. Hier ist ein Märchen von übermorgen."
"What sounds like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow. Here is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow."
Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) was a short-lived scifi tv show from germany, that aired in 1966 and was released very shortly after the Star Trek premiere in september of that year. The main space ship was the "Orion". This is a first test render of a modern interpretation I did a few years ago in Maxon&Redshift and now converted to #Blender. WIP.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #art #Raumpatrouille #SpacePatrol #Orion #RaumpatrouilleFanArt #OrionFanArt
SOL
The SOL is one of the most famous spaceships from the german #PerryRhodan scifi series. The ship is a giant, 8000 meters long, it consists of three parts (the two spheres and the middle part) that can disconnect and operate on their own. Here the ship is depicted in a setting that might be a yard world of the Cosmocrats or the Chaotarchs, immensly advanced beings of the Perryverse. Please note that this is an artistic approach, not one that sticks very close to the descriptions of the ship.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #Blender #Blender3D #PerryRhodanFanArt #Fanart
SOL
The SOL is one of the most famous spaceships from the german #PerryRhodan scifi series. The ship is a giant, 8000 meters long, it consists of three parts (the two spheres and the middle part) that can disconnect and operate on their own. Here the ship is depicted in a setting that might be a yard world of the Cosmocrats or the Chaotarchs, immensly advanced beings of the Perryverse. Please note that this is an artistic approach, not one that sticks very close to the descriptions of the ship.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #Blender #Blender3D #PerryRhodanFanArt #Fanart
Lonely people are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and romance, but it's an emotional trap. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4050700/ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends.html by @sjvn
Indeed, #AI "relationships" can kill you.
Ascend
Perry Rhodan style spheroid spaceship leaving earth. I created one of those a few years ago in C4D/Redshift, but since Maxon became evil and I am switching to Blender I decided to try a conversion. Of course all Redshift materials are lost when exporting to gltf (or other formats), so a complete reshadering was neccessary. This is a WIP and a first test render.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #PerryRhodan #PerryRhodanFanArt #Spaceship #SpheroidSpaceship