#science fiction

[filmgifs]

Back to the Future Part II (1989) dir. Robert Zemeckis

#filmedit #scifiedit #Back to the Future II #Back to the Future 2 #adventure #comedy #sci fi #science fiction #1980s #gif #Anna #underbetelgeuse #usermichi #userteri #userlenny #usertennant #userdiana

[cyberpunk-lesbians]

new pfp since I found booty shorts edition lol. rip ronald regan is waiting in hell for heaven to trickle down meme

#cyberpunk lesbians #personal #podcasts #meme #regan #socialism #science fiction #anarchism #FUCK THAT GUY HE RUINED MY CHILDHOOD

[kotori-mochi]

Day 2 Cayde sketch!

I did miss yesterday but I will still call it day 2 Cayde-6 sketch.

Now back to me trying to finish an art commission XD

#art #artist #digital art #destiny #science fiction #destiny the game #fanart #destiny 2 #cayde #cayde 6 #robot art

[vintagerpg]

There is, I think, no arguing that contemporary genre art has a character distinct from previous decades. I also think that while there are big shifts in aesthetics somewhat aligning with each decade of the 20th century, here in the 21st things have definitely slowed down — I feel like the look of genre art has fossilized somewhat in the last 20 years. I don’t have a good explanation for why. Sometimes I wonder if I’m blinded by nostalgia, and that there really aren’t any obvious objective differences at all.

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s (2023) is a compelling argument, I think, that there ARE definite differences. The book, by Adam Rowe (and spinning out of his social media accounts dedicated to, well, ’70s science fiction art) looks at both artists and thematic categories of art from the period, mostly from paperback covers, and offers commentary and historical context in the text. The result is startling: a body of work by a variety of artists working in their own styles that nevertheless seems visually unified. With the exception of a couple outliers, this stuff all feels of the ’70s. The fact that there are some inclusions from both the ’60s and ’80s makes this even clearer.

I think the most interesting thing about this is how bizarre some of the ’70s art seems to be. A lot of these artists appear to be entirely off the leash, delivering work they WANTED to produce rather than what they were directed to produce (you can see a shift toward clearly pairing the cover art with the content of the book in the later part of the decade). There was also more money in the work, then, so speed wasn’t quite so big a part of the equation as it is now.

And, greater questions of genre art aside, Worlds Beyond Time is still a mesmerizing collection, worthy of your time even if you just want to feed pictures to your eyeballs.

#roleplaying game #tabletop rpg #dungeons & dragons #rpg #d&d #ttrpg #Science Fiction #Fantasy #Art

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

River (Junta Yamaguchi, 2023)

#River #Junta Yamaguchi #Yamaguchi #Ribâ nagarenaide yo #Riba nagarenaide yo #2023 #quote #time #comedy #rice #food #japan #Riko Fujitani #Gota Ishida #Manami Honjou #science fiction

[humanoidhistory]

Virgil Finlay illustration for Amazing Stories, April 1962. 

#virgil finlay #sci-fi #science fiction #illustration #drawing #pulp art

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price introduces The Fly (1958)

#vincent price #the fly #trailer #scifi #sci fi #scifi horror #classic horror #horror classics #50s horror #movie trailer #science fiction #this movie is a trip #but it's so good #and Vincent is as perfect as always #plus hes insanely gorgeous #hes beautiful #hes so perfect 😭 #sexy #sexy actors #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

ALIEN (1979)

#art #illustration #science fiction #horror #concept art #ron cobb #alien 1979 #70s #happy alien day 2024 #lv 426

[artofbattletech]

Dance of the Daishi by Chris Lewis (upscaled) #battletech #mechwarrior

#battletech #mechwarrior #Battletech #video game #mecha #mech #mechs #robot #tabletop #scifi art #science fiction art #science fiction

[himself-part-inside]

#raine whispers #lick my hole #taylor hill #science fiction #jennifer lopez #postlarım #kinktober #vintage #emocore #alexandra daddario #5sos #genshin headcanons

[simon-roy]

The idea of logging on a colonized alien planet brings my mind back to the planet Lalonde from Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn books - a world that had very hard wood as its only meaningful export, and was also stuck developing its economy from agriculturalism (due to investment shortages, though).

All this is to say - Hey! What are some foundational inspirations for your sci fi verse? You gotta have some like recommendations of classic or older sci-fi for us, right? What are some of your suggestions of books and authors to read?

OK SO - My sci-fi tastes have sort of ended up in some very specific niches. Growing up, I was a Larry Niven +Jerry Pournelle man, in part because my dad amassed a huge collection of their books - then gave 90% of them away before i was old enough to read them. So one of my teenage missions was rebuilding that library, trash and all!

Stuff like Footfall, Ringworld, Gil "The Arm" Hamilton, Protector (yes i attempted to name a comic series similarly, and paid for it) "The Mote in God's Eye"... you name it, I read fuckloads of these books. And while they tend to land on a sort of human chauvinist "mankind will win based on his inherent adaptive human-ness, and the aliens will fail because of their rigid alien-ness", this shit was very foundational to me.

Their more collaborative series, The Man-Kzin Wars and War World, also loom large in my teenage mind. The Man-Kzin wars are super fun - humans meet a race of tiger-men, and go from being NWO peaceniks to roughneck cat-skinners in a generation! PEACE AND LOVE WONT DEFEAT TIGER MEN!

Similarly, war world (like lots of that 70s/80s military sci fi) was a sort of catch-all for western military nerds to play with their favorite factions - it was a planet where all the un-ruleable ethnic groups and nationalities had been deported by the authoritarian earth government, and left to rot... until a race of genetically engineered fascist super men land on the world, and start trying to rule the place. Pretty fun shit.

As I got older, I turned hard into William Gibson, and read the absolute shit out of both the Neuromancer trilogy and the Bridge trilogy, as well as his short stories. Bruce Sterling was part of that wave for me, too, and I religiously sought his old paperbacks out too. In terms of novels, "Distraction" is my favorite coherent Sterling Novel - though the short stories in the "Schismatrix" novel/collection of his remain my absolute favorite space opera pieces.

At this age, too, I found my top-top fave Sterling Stories - "Taklaman" and "Bicycle Repairman", both gritty pseudo-cyberpunk stories of the highest degree, in this collection:

This thousand-plus page collection of short stories and novellas was basically my bible for a few years - i put sticky notes on each story i loved and meant to return to, until the book was so festooned with sticky note bookmarks i abandoned the practice altogether. If you have the chance, just buy this book and chew on it for a few years.

As i got into my 20s, Charles Stross became my lode star - his books like Accelerando and Glasshouse were total game changers for me. They come with their own peculiarities, but I loved his transhuman/posthuman musings (or at least i was obsessed with his stuff for a good few years - the venn diagram of his obvious interests and my own overlapped enough that his books were great fodder for a growing sci-fi loving brain).

But since then, my main literary squeeze has been the great man, JACK VANCE. Working on Prophet, my friend @cmkosemen made a remark about how much the early issues of the series reminded him of a book series called "Planet of Adventure" or "the Tschai Cycle", by Jack Vance. The book has a beautifully simple setup - a man from an entirely undescribed spacefaring human civilization crash-lands onto a weird planet. But on that planet, he finds four separate civilizations, each who possess a population of enslaved humans, culturally and physically molded to the needs of their masters. And each book of this series covers our generic hero's interactions with each bizarre expoitative culture. I was extremely intrigued.

Soon thereafter, I found my current absolute favorite book - "THE DRAGON MASTERS". A book about an isolated medieval world... which gets visited, once every few generations, by a black pyramid starship, flown by a reptilian race known as the Greph. The greph capture humans to (surprise surprise) breed them into hyper specific slaves... who in turn become Greph-like in their thinking and demeanours. But the last time the BLACK PYRAMID landed, a bunch of angry medieval dudes stormed the thing, blew it up, and captured a bunch of greph... who became the breeding stock for a whole new human world of slave labour. By the time we meet this planet, the two rival lords of the human-populated regions have been breeding greph slave warriors, or "dragons", for generations, for combat against one another. But soon, the black pyramid will return...

I love this book I even spent a good few months during covid talking with the Vance Estate and several publishers about developing it into a graphic novel, but nobody could quite agree on how it could get made with old Simon getting a paycheque... so sadly it fell apart. There are concept drawings floating around my patreon and other corners of the internet. But one day I'll use 'em...

My other favorite books of his, to name a couple of the MANY books of his I love:

THE BLUE WORLD: A caste system of humans, descended from a crashed prison ship, live on floating settlements on an ocean planet, paying protection to a giant long-lived intelligent crustacean. But one man is tired of giving up all his crops to this tyrannical megafauna...

THE MIRACLE WORKERS: Rival lords on a planet descended to medieval tech (surprise surprise) fight using armies... and rival SORCERORS who employ the powers of suggestion to voodoo each others' warriors... but when facing non-human intelligences, these sorceror's skills fall short.

But there are heaps more, and I love most (thought not all) of the ones i've read. They're generally short, concise, and full of all sorts of bizarre bullshit.

THere are more books i've read and enjoyed in my life, of course, but these are the core ones that I think of when I think of my career as a sci-fi reader... let me know what your top recs are!

#sciencefiction #science fiction #book recommendations #jack vance #larry niven #jerry pournelle #simon roy #griz grobus #charles stross #dragon masters #william gibson #bruce sterling

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #557

Cover by Frye -- 1940

#1940 #1940s #1940's #edgar allan poe #cover art #book cover #paperback #vintage paperback #science fiction #sci-fi #sci fi #horror #ephemera

[catofadifferentcolor]

“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.” 

― Isaac Asimov

#quotes #isaac asimov #science fiction #self discovery

[kotori-mochi]

So I'm insane, I decided as to celebrate Cayde-6 coming back to destiny. I would do a quick drawing of him a day.

Of course this is just for fun and because I love him. So I might miss some days because I do have commissions to work on but I will try to post as many as I can up until the the 4th.

Thats when the expansion with him comes out.

Wish me luck XD

#art #artist #digital art #destiny #science fiction #fanart #cayde 6 #cayde #sketch #robot art

[the25centpaperback]

Phthor by Piers Anthony, cover by Richard Powers (1975)

#1970s #richard powers #piers anthony #Berkley Medallion #paperback #science fiction #vintage #book

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

River (Junta Yamaguchi, 2023)

#films watched in 2024 #River #Junta Yamaguchi #Yamaguchi #Ribâ nagarenaide yo #Riba nagarenaide yo #2023 #quote #time #comedy #rice #food #japan #Riko Fujitani #Gota Ishida #science fiction #time travel #back #title credits #hair #braid #siete