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Darnell Clayton

Falling In Love With Fallout (Amazon Prime)

📹 https://youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg

If I were to sum up Fallout on Amazon Prime it would be this quote by the character Maximus:

_Everyone wants to save the world, they just…they disagree on how._

I just finished binge-watching the entire season (which Amazon thankfully uploaded all at once) I can say this whole show was a horrific feast for the eyes.

Fallout is a show that mixes humor with gore, while some of the science fiction themes are more fantasy than science, it faithfully remains within the genre as it explores an apocalyptic alternative future history of humanity that is not kind to those without power.

I enjoyed following the adventures of all three protagonists from the show as they were each unique:

- Maximus: is a very conflicted character with something to prove to the world
- Lucy: is an optimistic, albeit …

Falling In Love With Fallout (Amazon Prime)

📹 https://youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg

If I were to sum up Fallout on Amazon Prime it would be this quote by the character Maximus:

_Everyone wants to save the world, they just…they disagree on how._

I just finished binge-watching the entire season (which Amazon thankfully uploaded all at once) I can say this whole show was a horrific feast for the eyes.

Fallout is a show that mixes humor with gore, while some of the science fiction themes are more fantasy than science, it faithfully remains within the genre as it explores an apocalyptic alternative future history of humanity that is not kind to those without power.

I enjoyed following the adventures of all three protagonists from the show as they were each unique:

- Maximus: is a very conflicted character with something to prove to the world
- Lucy: is an optimistic, albeit naive woman whose ideals clash with the harsh realities of the wasteland
- Cooper Howard, also known as The Ghoul: is a hazardous, pragmatic hideous man whose sense of humor is only exceeded by his cruelty

If you are looking for a science fiction show that mixes humor, horror a depressing future, then Fallout might be the show for you!

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Joel :void: :casio:

Here is my #review of Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw, a very interesting book, I just didn't know how it would end at all!

Some bizarre outdated moments but still a nice read.

This is Day 30 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/the-palace-of-eternity/

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Joel :void: :casio:

Finished another #book.

The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw

That was a really really wild and weird ride...

Review coming soon!

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SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 13, no. 4 (June 1952)

This is wild! I particularly like the optical illusion which punishes me for looking at her cleavage by making it into a skull.

Somehow that axe has been handed down through time, I'm guessing?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v13n04_1952-06

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In the background, a Viking holding an axe; in the centre a woman seen waist up whose dress and hands, held in front of her carrying a similar axe, form the illusion of a skull. In front of both these, an anguished looking man carrying the same axe.
Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine cover from 1952.

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 13, no. 4 (1952/06).

Joel :void: :casio:

Ok so past the midway point of The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw.

This story started out nice, immersed me a ton, has done plot twist after plot twist and now it *completely* changed everything again and I am in awe at the stuff going on right now like, what's next?? I have no ideaaa

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Michael Whelan

THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX (1984)
Acrylic on Canvas - 15" x 24"

A whimsical portrait of my daughter Alexa that remains one of my all-time most popular images—and a personal favorite!

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ultimate-sandbox/

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With plastic shovel in hand, a 4 year old girl in spacesuit packs a bucket with regolith as she builds sandcastles on the moon. The half-shadowed, cloud-covered orb of the Earth looms in the background starscape. The accents on her spacesuit are pink, and her pack sports a purple monogrammed letter A. Miss Piggy patches decorate her boot and shoulder.

Joel :void: :casio:

Well, this is my #review of #Dune, and it is complete, because it ended here.

Random thoughts, my journey of reading and more filler because it's my #blog after all. Mild #spoilers ahead, behind a clear warning and you can skip them!

This is day 27 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/dune/

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“So that’s where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn’t coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass.”

Where to look for #alien tourists – from Iain (M) Banks’s 2009 novel TRANSITION

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Now, most jet travel on Earth is for tourism. Not business; tourism. Would our smart, curious aliens really be that different from us? I don't think so. Most of them would be tourists. Like us, they'd go on cruise ships. And would they want to actually come to a place like Earth, set foot – or tentacle, or whatever – here? Rather than visit via some sort of virtual reality set-up? Well, some would settle for second-best, yes. Maybe the majority of people would. But the high rollers, the super-wealthy, the elite, they'd want the real thing. They'd want the bragging rights, they'd want to be able to say they'd really been to whatever exotic destinations would be on a Galactic Grand Tour. And who knows what splendours they'd want to fit in; their equivalent of the Grand Canyon, or Venice, Italy, or the Great Wall of China or Yosemite or the Pyramids?
But what want to propose to you is that, as well as all those other wonders, they would definitely want to see that one precious thing that we have and probably nobody else does. They'd want to see our eclipse. They'd want to look through the Earth's atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can't survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they'd still want to get as close as they possibly could…

Cory Doctorow

Paul Di Filippo on THE BEZZLE in @Locusmag

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Robert Heinlein was always known—and always came across in his writings—as The Man Who Knew How the World Worked. Doctorow delivers the same sense of putting yourself in the hands of a fellow who has peered behind Oz’s curtain. When he fills you in lucidly about some arcane bit of economics or computer tech or social media scam, you feel, first, that you understand it completely and, second, that you can trust Doctorow’s analysis and insights. That makes for a great reading experience.

Project Gutenberg

#OTD in 1926.

Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.

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First issue of Amazing Stories, art by Frank R. Paul. This copy was autographed by Hugo Gernsback in 1965.

Amazing Stories, April 1926. Volume 1, Number 1 Published by Experimenter Publishing Company Inc. Hugo Gernsback, President; Sidney Gernsback, Treasure. Inscription on the cover To My Good Friend, Rick Norwood, With Best Wishes. H Gernsback 7/8/65

Cory Doctorow

Today's post office run was a fuckin BANGER

#VladTaltos #books #sciencefiction #fantasy #scribblies #mannerpunk #stevenbrust

My feet up in my backyard hammock. I'm holding a copy of Steven Brust's yet-to-be-published novel LYORN. In the background: my tiki bar, the neighbor's palm trees.

Philippe Dunant √

Excellent bouquin.
J'en dis pas plus, je veux pas divulgâcher.

#livre #scienceFiction #adrianTchaikovsky

photo de la couverture du livre "Dans la toile du temps" d'Adrian Tchaïkovski (folio).
un vaisseau jaune et noir en vol avec en arrière plan une planète verdoyante.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Just finished rereading Roger Zelazny's Amber books (still have the last short story to go). Read it many years ago, but recently bought the ebooks (sometimes at midnight--need next book!) Still love them--all ten. It is clear from the ending of Prince of Chaos, and from the short stories, that he had more books planned, but he died a couple decades ago, at the age of 58, and so we do not have them.

I morn the books we didn't get, but would not have wanted to hear someone else's voice in my head, telling those stories. Gone too soon.

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