Topic
science fiction
- 2010: Odyssey Two
Michael Whelan's inspiring cover art for Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two.
- Technovelgy
An archive of concepts drawn from works of science fiction. Over 3800 entries. Reminiscent of TV Tropes's listing of fiction ideas and story structures.
- Los Angeles Island
Los Angeles Island. Escape from LA , 1996.
- Ecco
star01007: Ecco the Dolphin was such a weird (awesome) game. Created an entire aesthetic blended from science fiction, solarpunk, and SeaQuest DSV-style futurism.
- Megastructures
An interesting visual guide to fictional megastructures, like Larry Niven's Ringworld, Arcologies, and Dyson Spheres: Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia is part science book, part inspirational artbook. It contai…
- William Gibson on Agency
A fun piece on William Gibson's latest work of speculative fiction, Agency. I've read a bunch of his bibliography, but my favorites (in order) are still Neuromancer and its sequel, Count Zero. Here's an interesting bi…
- Weekend Reading: The Worst Year to Be Alive, Chinese Sci-Fi, and Slack Networks
🌋 Why 536 Was the Worst Year To Be Alive You may have thought the entire 14th century was pretty bad, or maybe 1918 with its flu pandemic and millions of war casualties, but how about the 6th: A mysterious fog plunge…
- Weekend Reading: Gene Wolfe, Zoom, and Inside Spatial Networks
📖 Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art Wolfe's work, particularly his Book of the New Sun "tetralogy", is some of my favorite fiction. He just passed away a couple weeks ago, and this is a great piece on h…
- The Reunion
A science fiction story about surveillance in China, written by a Chinese author.
- Weekend Reading: Wind Turbines, Bruce Sterling, and Economic Ideas
⚡️ The US Wind Turbine Database Ben Hoen from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab gave a lightning talk at Geo2050 about this project, a map and database of the operational wind generation capacity in the US. The map c…
- Spacers and Earthmen
This is part three of a series on Isaac Asimov's Greater Foundation story collection. This post is about the first installment of the Robot trilogy, The Caves of Steel. We're still early in the timeline of Asimov's ep…
- The Three Laws of Robotics
>This is part two of a series on Isaac Asimov's Greater Foundation story collection. This part is about the short story collection, I, Robot. Picking up with the next entry in the Asimov read-through, I read a book I…
- Upwhen and Downwhen
This is part one of a series of essays on Isaac Asimov's famous Greater Foundation story collection. In this first one I discuss the time travel mystery The End of Eternity. The prolific science fiction writer Isaac A…
- Fantastic Universe
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- Chiba City
Great Chiba City concept art for Neuromancer.