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Locus Magazine

🚀 The Locus Awards have been celebrating the best in speculative fiction for decades! 🧙‍♀️ Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the genre, make your voice heard by voting before April 15! 🌌

https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/ #LocusAwards #SciFi #Fantasy #SFF #books

RobotWig :mastodon:

"Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines."

All shot practically using cotton wool, figures & miniature sets & some debris I had to throw into the shot.

#photography #terminator2 #scifi #movies #toyphotography #creativephotography #actionfigurephotography #miniaturephotography #visualart #practicaleffects

Skeleton holding onto a wire fence fire and explosions all around

Michael Whelan

BROTHER ASSASSIN (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30" x 20"

I am often kidded about my general dislike for yellow... 1/3

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #fredsaberhagen #berserkersaga

Wearing brown robes with hood drawn up, a robot with an oddly asymmetrical face stares squarely at the viewer as it grips a clock in its clawed grasp. The face is black with gold numbers, but the glass is broken. The hands are stopped at 3:53. A metal grate covers the robot's left eye and half the mouth. That side of the face resembles the steely mask of Doctor Doom, while the other side is an abstraction of lights and circuitry over silver metal. A blue light, cloudy like a planet, is placed where the other eye socket should be. Four bright green dots border form the points of a rectangle around it. Below the cheek—bearing no resemblance to a human feature—a pink sphere with light polka dots floats in blue-black field constrained by an oval bevel. The right side of its mouth is tall instead of wide contrasting the left with the bottom of the metal grate recessed and tinted red. A curving antenna sweeps down off the side of its forehead following the contour of the bell-shaped hood. The curve resembles the microphone attachment on a headset, although stubby and cut short wide at the cheek. The immediate backdrop is brown and desert-like, while the sky above dominates in oppressive yellow tones. Set just behind the figure's shoulder hangs the craggy surface of a moon set against an abstract starfield, darker than the wash of sky but still tinted yellow.

Michael Shotter

The Nod/Wells Timelines speculative-fiction literary universe has expanded!

Learn more: https://vortex-1.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-nodwells-timelines-expand.html

Love sci-fi, horror, and thrillers of all sorts? I've got you!

Visit my official website: http://michaelshotter.com

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks

#specfic #scifi #horror #books #bookstodon #booktodon #reading

Book cover for "The Nemesis Legacy" by Michael Shotter - a planet with its star coming into view behind it.

Locus Magazine

🏆 The Locus Awards have been honoring the best in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror since 1971!

Voting is open NOW and all readers get to vote! Have your say in celebrating the genre’s finest. Voting ends April 15! Vote here: https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/ #LocusAwards #SciFi #Fantasy

Ratchman

The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.

Zhang Kai:

Ambitious member of Yeung Corporations Executive Directorate with designs on taking sole charge of the empire.

Arch-rival to Yiu Quon, who was responsible for his father's humiliating exit from the same position.

Brash, impulsive and hedonistic, but retaining enough sensibility to avoid falling prey to his rival's machinations.

https://www.ratchman.com/characters/character-profile-zhang-kai

@bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifibooks #books

Image by mdw_jason.

Zhang Kai is young, lithe and handsome, with long, flowing hair and a definite swagger about his body language.

Although he is handsome, there is also a hint of his underlying nastiness that can be glimpsed in his eyes.

Where Yiu Quon is the wise dragon, Zhang Kai is the virile tiger.

He is wearing a very expensive blue suit with white shirt and navy blue tie, and standing in a very confident pose accentuating his slim physique.

Jendia Gammon

Happy one month birthday to OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS, our first @starsandsabers anthology of many ahead! Get your copy now!
https://www.starsandsabers.com/of-shadows-stars-and-sabers/
#books #SFF #horror #scifi #fantasy

The epic journey that began with Battle For Eklatros continues in the second installment of the Rebalancing the Cosmos series. by Alex Galassi--Escape from Melridion.
And join Alex for his virtual book launch on March 27th @ 6 pm MT. Send him an email to participate: galactictreehousellc@gmail.com
#scifi #adventure #books
https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Melridion-Rebalancing-Cosmos-Book-ebook/dp/B0DVY3772X/

RobotWig :mastodon:

"You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle."

All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. I added a few digital sparks where ED209's head used to be. The rest is all in camera.

#photography #visualart #miniatures #robocop #scifi #80s #actionfigurephotography #movies #creativephotography #toyphotography

Murphy holding assault cannon in hand ED209 in distance with no head, sparking joints. Billboards with Delta City and 6000 sux in distance

Tim_Eagon

Did you know that in 1983, TSR created a Star Frontiers commercial? I didn't until this morning (I originally saw this on the Grognardia blog)

https://youtu.be/txmeUquu8tI

#TTRPG #StarFrontiers #TSR #SciFi #Retro

Michael Shotter

Like several key tales set along The Nod/Wells Timelines, this week's free story takes place in Pittsburgh, or more specifically, two slightly-different versions of it. Intrigued? Well, get to reading! 🙂

https://amazon.com/dp/B07XDLZHJ9

And yes, that's me standing in for Roy Carter. 👇

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks

#Pittsburgh #specfic #scifi #horror #freestory #bookstodon #booktodon

A photo of Michael Shotter posing as Roy Carter from his story "Academic Displacement," with the novelette's cover superimposed over the image.

Vincent Waciuk

Science fiction, at times, is wonderfully deep and thoughtful at times. But sometimes we just what to relax and be entertained. That's when we need trashy science fiction.

#sf #scifi #books #reading

https://abastrabooks.com/trashy-science-fiction-reading/

Petra van Cronenburg

First, I thought that I couldn't write fiction anymore because #reality gets crazy. Sometimes, I invent #SciFi plots just for fun, without writing. But now reality gets even weirder. I think that's the plan: We don't believe them. So, they install their #dystopic #apocalypse system while we still laugh about that insanity: https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/ (it's also archived).

#TESCREAL #Thiel #Altman #RealityGoesWeird #TechBros #TechFascism

Owen Tyme

The Ebook for Troll Song is now free in most stores*: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

This is a tale of family relationships gone wrong and a troll girl's attempt to escape from her evil sisters, while the middle sister seeks revenge. It's also the tale of a young wizard that meets and befriends her.

* With the exception of Amazon, who won't set the price lower than $0.99.

#author #indieauthor #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #books #actionadventure #fiction #free