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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

Chinese scientists have created a oyster-inspired medical adhesive called Bone-02 that can bond shattered bones in just 3 minutes. Inspired by how oysters cling to rocks underwater, the glue forms a strong, biodegradable bond that replaces screws and plates. buff.ly/znJ2jxD
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Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds.

This is my next read on audiobook, not on my planned TBR this month. I continue my sporadic re-read of the Revelation Space books. Going in, I remember very little about it. 🪐📚 #hardsf #spaceopera #scifibooks #sciencefiction

Way ahead of you...

#cats and #vampires

Strange 'puffy' alien world breaks every rule for how planets should behave A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

If this planet is basically a giant stress ball then @premeemohamed.com really has some questions to answer

www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

Finished Creation Node. Revelations on the very edge of the solar system, a giant quasar, an...unexpected guest, existential threats, multiverse theory, factional politics, fusion drives, crew dynamics, omnipotent powers, difficult choices. Lots packed in! V good. #hardsf #nowreading #scifibooks

Creation Node by Stephen Baxter.

Up next on audiobook, recentish one from the Don of 🇬🇧 hard SF.
Meant to be a good one, let's see. Or rather listen. 🪐📚
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #hardsf #nowreading

Finished Creation Node. Revelations on the very edge of the solar system, a giant quasar, an...unexpected guest, existential threats, multiverse theory, factional politics, fusion drives, crew dynamics, omnipotent powers, difficult choices. Lots packed in! V good. #hardsf #nowreading #scifibooks

YouTube video by SciFiScavenger AWESOME Sci-fi books that explain why we don't detect ALIENS! Answers to the Fermi Paradox.

One from last year that I thought was good but underperformed. Here with a new thumbnail and title to see if it can tickle the algorithm. Why don't we see evidence of intelligent life in the galaxy? Check it out 👀!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #fermiparadox
youtu.be/JZbNe9yv2K4

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Life goals.

Life beyond us. An anthology of SFF stories and science essays

Something slightly related that might interest you and one I bought on high recommendation. Presented by the European Astrobiology Institute

I get similar pitches for books I haven't ever written!

Yes I've heard that's good, think Sue Burke recommended it to me last year.

Naturally, I believe my "solution" to the paradox the correct one, and will loudly shout "no! no!" and wave my arms if anyone suggests another.

Ha, as is your privilege and indeed job as an authorly type. I am yet to read The Thing Itself, I'll bear the Fermi element in mind when I do. 👍🚀👽

The paperback of Help The Witch and my mum's plague doctor linoprint

After a year out of print, due to the demise of my ex-publisher, my 2018 story collection Help The Witch is now re-available. I've a few signed copies here, available with a free plague doctor linoprint postcard by my mum.

Please email me at hello@tom-cox.com if you'd like one (& are in the UK).

Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Alison, an artist and sometimes writer from London, UK, and I draw comics, book covers and editorial. Can't show you the sequentials I'm drawing right now but I'm open for covers (especially books), comic writing and to discuss the next thing.

YouTube video by SciFiScavenger AWESOME Sci-fi books that explain why we don't detect ALIENS! Answers to the Fermi Paradox.

One from last year that I thought was good but underperformed. Here with a new thumbnail and title to see if it can tickle the algorithm. Why don't we see evidence of intelligent life in the galaxy? Check it out 👀!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #fermiparadox
youtu.be/JZbNe9yv2K4

YouTube video by SciFiScavenger Collecting Science Fiction Books - Latest additions to my sci-fi library

And for those that prefer a more leisurely stroll through the same stack, here's the full-fat version!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul
youtu.be/_6RtXgYqijM

I'm about a third in. Very much enjoying the way Barker fills in the outlines of the world with minute, full colour details, almost with each passing sentence, the whole image coming gradually to life in front of my very eyes. 🪐📚💙 #fantasy #nowreading #notscifi

Really enjoyed Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky (out today!) a novella giving us a greater look at how the Tyrant Philosophers world works on those who live in it - review to come!

Mightymur - Twitch She/her. Author, podcaster, editor. Runner, gamer, dog person. Hugo winner. Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick loser. Podcaster Hall of Fame.

We are both at computers and alive to talk, so join @tkingfisher.com and me at Ditch Diggers live on Twitch.tv/mightymur

100%, same here. And all my best mates too.

Triffic. Couple of longer videos coming soon. Ish.

Yeah seems much more peeps prefer the full fat version.

Hello Morris, fancy meeting you here!

Oh no! I think it was worth persisting with but each to their own, didn't work for you. Onwards.

Cover of a 1942 issue of the SF magazine ‘Astounding’. Cover illustration from A.E. Van Vogt’s story ‘The Weappn Shop’. This shows a 5-tiered building over which a multitude of different coloured lights are shining. A queue of human figures on an elevated walkway are awaiting entrance to the building.

The latest ‘SF Hall of Fame’ pick was A.E. van Vogt’s ‘The Weapon Shop’. Setting aside some curious social philosophy, I can see why he was such an influence on Philip K. Dick - rapid dreamlike shifts of setting & a generous share of ‘cognitive dissonance’.
First printed in Astounding SF in 1942 👇

I'm about a third in. Very much enjoying the way Barker fills in the outlines of the world with minute, full colour details, almost with each passing sentence, the whole image coming gradually to life in front of my very eyes. 🪐📚💙 #fantasy #nowreading #notscifi