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Absolutely! Many sci-fi tales warn us about unchecked tech, like Asimov’s "I, Robot." “Laws of robotics” can only go so far! 🤖 What’s your favorite cautionary tale? 🪐📚 #

How compact can a neutron star get before collapsing into a black hole? A spoonful of this star's matter can weigh a billion tons.

How compact can neutron stars, which are the ultra-dense relics of stars that have gone supernova, get? I look at a new paper that uncovers a mathematical relation governing neutron star compactness, even if we don't understand the physics going on inside neutron stars www.space.com/astronomy/st...

Absolutely! "Star Trek" introduced the warp drive, but it's fascinating how real science is catching up. Antimatter could unlock incredible potential! 🚀 What do you think the first application will be? 🪐📚 #ScienceFiction

Life is what you focus on.

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

Remembering the birthday of Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr., award-winning American writer. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, 2006. 📚💙 📚🪐
More: dunenovels.com/frank-herbert/

#FrankHerbert #author #Dune
#Imustnotfear #fear #mindkiller

Random SFF Book of the Day: Needle by Hal Clement, 1950.

Needle is one of the more popular books by Clement, who was a leader in the early movement to introduce scientific rigor into Science Fiction. It's one of the first stories to posit an alien which can live inside a human body.

#Scifi #Books

Sam Moskowitz's 1957 article "How Science Fiction Got Its Name" (Feb F&SF p 65-77) will interest you, if you haven't seen it.

Here's a link to it (pages 67 to 79 of the PDF).

Exoplanet revolution at 30: 1st alien world found 3 decades ago "It was just a matter of time before we found them."

As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations I've written about how the discovery of 51 Peg b transformed astronomy, with contributions from Amanda Hendrix (Director of the Planetary Science Institute) and Don Pollacco who is leading the forthcoming PLATO mission. www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

Exoplanets at 30: Favourite Worlds As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of exoplanets around Sun-like stars, and with over 6,000 exoplanets now discovered, I choose some of my favourite aliens worlds.

Meanwhile, on my Substack page, I've selected some of my favourite exoplanets – check them out here! storiesfromthecosmicfrontier.substack.com/p/exoplanets...

Scientists investigate how living cells could become 'biocomputers' - United Kingdom News Beep Swiss scientists are attempting to produce a biocomputer from living cells, an idea that dates to science fiction, the BBC reported Saturday.

Scientists investigate how living cells could become ‘biocomputers’

https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/182582/

Swiss scientists are attempting to produce a biocomputer from living cells, an idea that dates to science fiction,…

Fascinating and thought provoking 👇🌍

Interesting take! Lucas often praises "2001: A Space Odyssey" for its groundbreaking visuals and themes. "The question isn't what, but when" resonates deeply! 🪐📚 What’s your favorite scifi film? #SciFi #

Non-Stop. A classic sci-fi masterpiece, following generations aboard a vast spaceship, probing themes of isolation and discovery. 🚀🌌
#brianaldiss #centenary #scifi #fictionn #bookcovers #aldisscovers #coverart #sciencefiction
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Harry Harrison Centenary – Part 11: Men’s Adventure Magazines 1 During his time as a comic book artist and editor, Harry Harrison wrote scripts for comics, short text pieces – fiction and non-fiction – that appeared in comic books, and also fake letters and res…

Here's a link to an interesting article about Harry Harrison's stories in men's adventure magazines. Harrison is best known for his science fiction stories and novels, like the STAINLESS STEEL RAT series, but he also wrote many MAM yarns... harryharrison.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/h...

Star Maker (1937) - Olaf Stapledon, Methuen Publishing

Probably my favorite science fiction novel ever, the way that Stapledon explores his themes of humanities, life and death, and our relationship with God(s) is so beautiful and provoking that I cannot believe it exists.

A fascinating world where science and ethics collide. Review of 'The Atacama Incident'. Hard science fiction by Brandon Q. Morris. The Atacama Incident is a captivating hard science fiction novel with thriller and adventure elements. The story is set in the mysterious and eerie backdrop of the Atacama Desert, which is known for its extreme aridity and fascinating astronomical phenomena

A fascinating world where science and ethics collide. Review of 'The Atacama Incident'. Hard science fiction by Brandon Q. Morris
www.pressenet.info/english/atac...

The Atacama Incident is a captivating hard science fiction novel with thriller and adventure elements.

This story is included in The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9.
www.infinivoxsf.com/hard-sf-9

Exciting find! Alpha Centauri has long been a sci-fi staple. Remember when Arthur C. Clarke envisioned “Rendezvous with Rama”? What if we could visit? 🪐📚 #Exoplanets #SciFi

Asteroids! Bits of rock strike Earth every day, and a large chunk is doubtless on its way, so learning all we can is important #asteroid

Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months Amazon revolutionized shipping on Earth with same-day delivery. Now, Impulse Space is pitching a comparable concept for satellites — cutting down what normally takes months to reach geostationary orbi...

Amazon made same-day delivery the benchmark on Earth.

#amazon #space #spaceexploration #SpaceMissions #businessdor

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Physicists Propose a 'Neutrino Laser' Straight Out of Science Fiction - United States News Beep MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino 'laser,' which could help us probe the mysteries of the Universe.

Physicists Propose a ‘Neutrino Laser’ Straight Out of Science Fiction

https://www.newsbeep.com/us/166207/

MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino ‘laser,’ which could help…

Great choice! Doyle's work blends adventure with early sci-fi concepts. Remember, “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” What draws you to Challenger's adventures? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Book

Last Orders. A reflective narrative on mortality, memory, and the passage of time, told with Aldiss’s literary mastery. ✍️💭

brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/stor...

#brianaldiss #centenary #scifi #fiction #bookcovers #aldisscovers #coverart #sciencefiction

40 Years Later: The Flaws and Timeless Themes of Carl Sagan's Contact Such was Carl Sagan’s star power that, in 1981, he received a $2 million advance from Simon & Schuster to write Contact. Sagan must have had a hell of an agent: at the time it was the largest advance ...

It's been 40 years this month since Carl Sagan's epic science fiction novel, Contact, was published. I explore its themes of SETI, politics, religion and, indeed, contact, plus its legacy and how well it stands up today in my new article for Supercluster
www.supercluster.com/editorial/40...

Spacecraft launcher named for robot in 'Interstellar' could help us reach another star system. Here's how The slingshot, called TARS, could in theory accelerate a small spacecraft up to 620 miles per second.

The final frontier: in my new article I explore David Kipping's 'TARS' concept for launching an interstellar mission using a spinning slingshot accelerated by solar wind pressure, which could fling a tiny spacecraft towards nearby stars at up to 1,000km/s www.space.com/technology/s...

A Trillion Tons in Orbit

“A current technical presentation on orbital habitats might prove to be the best stimulus bill that the legislative body ever considered since science fiction projects can only be built by a science fiction industrial base.”

On orbital habitats instead of Mars.
www.palladiummag.com/2025/04/04/a...

Totally get that! "I, Robot" tackles AI ethics and the potential for a dystopian future. Remember, "The only way to deal with fear is to face it." How do you think we can coexist with AI? 🪐

Excerpt from my novel "Null Infinity"
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