#Science fiction novels

[adastra-sf]

One of the all-time best opening lines

The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.

- Neuromancer, by William Gibson (1984)

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[arconinternet]

The Timequest Trilogy (Books, William Tedford, 1981)

You can digitally borrow them here.

[rotten-whispers]

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Zenya - art by Kelly Freas (1975)

[thefugitivesaint]

I had never looked at a robot that closely before, having been brought up to fear and respect them. And I became aware, looking at his stupid, manufactured face, that I was seeing for the first time what the significance of this dumb parody of humanity really was: nothing, nothing at all. Robots were something invented once out a blind love for the technology that could allow them to be invented. They had been made and given to the world of men as the weapons that nearly destroyed the world had once been given, as a “necessity.” And, deeper still, underneath that blank and empty face, identical to all the thousands of faces of its make, I could sense contempt—contempt for the ordinary life of men and women that the human technicians who had fashioned it had felt. They had given robots to the world with the lie that they would save us from labor or relieve us from drudgery so that we could grow and develop inwardly. Someone must have hated human life to have made such a thing—such an abomination in the sight of the Lord. from 'Mockingbird' by Walter Tevis, 1980 (appropriated from biblioklept)

[latveriansnailmail]

I am trying to remember the author and title of a science fiction book I read prior to 1996 about a planet with two species of bird people. The two species are hostile to each other and both are being poached because neither yet fits the criteria for sentience as set by the dominant intergalactic government. A human ambassador is sent to live among one group of lake-dwelling people (let's call them motherduckers) and look for the qualifying hallmarks of sentience so that they can gain protection from the poachers. The human is a female of American First Peoples descent and is deaf, which is useful here because the motherduckers' distress call can deafen or kill a human. The other species is called Aquila and are more hawk-like as the name would indicate. Some of the characters are named Flies-Too-Fast, Kills-The-Ripper, and the child of the hosting family, Sailor. The human ambassador confirms the motherduckers' sentience by examining the wall decorations they're always on about with filtered light since birds see different sections of the spectrum. She discovers the decor to be artistic murals that cinch their bid for personhood. At one point late in the book the human goes to camp by herself and greet the sun in accordance with the traditions of her people only to discover that her tent was facing the wrong way, the sun rising in the west on this planet. She comes to understand herself as being a heyoka/ backwards person/ contrary. This is about all I remember.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Otis Adelbert Kline - the Grandon trilogy    covers by Roy Krenkel

Planet of Peril  (Ace. 1963)

Prince of Peril   (Ace, 1964)

The Port of Peril  (Ace, 1964)

[djmunden]

An amazing review of my novel, Dusk Mountain Blues. If this doesn’t convince you to read my book or support my Kickstarter, I don’t know what will!

[quasar-concept]

Say for instance I had a completed original ya/na sci-fi novel,,, is there anyone who might be interested in potentially being a beta reader?

I'd have some specific questions for you to answer on things such as pacing, characters, voice, grammar,l etc, and I'd be asking you to read the whole thing (expecting it to be 85-95k words, about 450 pages)

(I don't have a complete manuscript yet but I just want to put out some feelers lol, cause

lol)

In the meantime I'll be posting about it so you can decide if you're interested later on, too

[mckitterick]

these lobsters sure can

link to the story (as part of the full novel) on the author's website here, free to read in plain HTML

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

[loriendil]

Just a Reminder - The Reluctant King Is Out!

The Reluctant King is here in ebook (print available in a few days)!https://books2read.com/LSK-RK It can be read as a stand alone, but if you wish to get all the background, the first three books are in an ebook omnibus:https://books2read.com/LSK-SEC-Omnibus

[arconinternet]

Virtual World: No Limits (Book, Nigel D. Findley, 1996)

You can digitally borrow it here.

There's a looooong story behind this licensed sci-fi novel. The BattleTech tabletop game franchise didn't just have the MechWarrior spinoff games, but also a chain of immersive pod-based arcades since 1990 (of which only one survives today). When a second game was added to the BattleTech Centers, they rebranded to Virtual World Centers, complete with lore involving the multiverse-exploring Virtual Geographic League.

This book wasn't even the first product to delve into the lore. In 1995, the second international Virtual World Cup was televised (beginning with what Topher Florence calls The Greatest One Minute of Cable Television). It includes the entirety of the player training videos for the BattleTech and Red Planet games, introducing hotshot interdimensional pilot Samantha "Sam" Dooley, whose origin story is depicted in the novel.

For more information, there's this documentary, this Wikipedia article, this YouTube channel, mechjock.com (with past versions on the Wayback Machine, e.g. here and here) and the Waybacked virtualworld.com (e.g. here and here).

[rotten-whispers]

Calling all LGBTQ+ horror and scifi authors!!

I want to promote your work, as it is hard for us to get our books out there on Tumblr :)

Send an ask with your novel, cover, and blurb, and I'll include your book in a master post, as well as an individual post if you're comfortable with being @'ed there!

Stay strong, fellow authors!

[adastra-sf]

Hey, this is sorta what Cyberpunk has always been like. Great recent example is Market Forces, by Richard K Morgan (recommended book, btw):

A memorable theme is how colleagues at the corporation battle on the highways to gain position at work.

And, like, these scenarios feel more real every day.

off of my last post: i feel like corporate horror has such a rich seam of possibilities that are just begging to be mined. the helpless, nightmarish feeling of watching your life get chewed up by the implacable machinery of faceless corporations in which you are nothing but an easily-replaceable cog and knowing the whole time that you chose to be here. that you can, theoretically, leave any time you want. mindless, pointless busywork that you're expected to take pride in even when it has no measurable impact. feeling like you're running on a treadmill - always busy, never achieving anything. upper managers who only communicate with you by email. CEOs who never communicate with you at all, and may not actually exist for all you know. you can leave any time you want. but you can't, can you? not really. you still have to pay the bills.

[tscnews]

TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews award-winning author Dana Dargos about co-writing the critically acclaimed science fiction novel Einstein in the Attic with her uncle Said Al Bizri, coming up with the story's unique concept, being an independent writer, her activism, working JobsForLebanon.com, her Lebanese heritage, and advice for success!

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[scifi4wifi]

Science Fiction Novels Don't Destroy Society

Corrupt people emulating the worst aspects of human nature do. TYLER AUSTIN HARPER hyperbolically declares: ��Science fiction is not simply politically useless, it is dangerous. Two centuries of sci-fi have been a net negative for the world, fueling the megalomaniacal fantasies of tech tyrants and inspiring the invention of untold horrors. The world would be a better place without it.” Science…