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Chapter 28 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Kazic visits Nicole's birth mother, Lyra, because he wants to ask permission to seek Nicole's hand in marriage.

Lyra is overcome with joy and he asks her advice on the right approach to proposing...

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Kristi reviews "The Measurement Problem" by David Whitmarsh:

"Set in a near-ish future in which not only is there mass migration in London due to the rising sea... I devoured the story in two days, and imagery from it still haunts me. I’m so grateful to feel so inspired while writing this review. Thanks to Whitmarsh for his ideas and thoughtful narrative."

https://www.limfic.com/2026/03/19/review-the-measurement-problem-david-whitmarsh/

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Chapter 27 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Aurora meets with Kontoti again, while the two of them sit on the edge of volcanic caldera, with a lake in the bottom.

They watch a human woman being run down by wolves, who barely makes it into the valley, but just as the wolves leap for the kill, she asks for help...

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Alaine pushed off from the engine room hatch, and flew across the cargo hold towards the crew area. He'd not had much experience in zero-g, and missed the hatch at the other end. He did, however, manage to snag one of the tie-downs before he rebounded.

He felt the vibration of the number one turret launching a spread of chaff and pebble canisters. They would burst like shotgun shells in an attempt to distract or intercept incoming missiles. He didn't like the odds.

Reaching the bridge, he cycled through the internal airlock. The bridge crew - captain, navigator, and gunner - looked at him. Everyone appeared much older than earlier that day. Even the navigator, who Alaine knew was only two years older than him seemed aged in the emergency lights. The captain, normally a bundle of energy, looked past retirement.

"Cap? Sparks says the drives are …

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Aaaaand I've finished Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss!

This was actually great. I loved the build up and revelations by the end of it all, highly recommended read, just keep in mind its age when it comes to that romance subplot...

Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss on my Kobo at 100% completion

"Rotational Gravity" by XKCD comic - stories and some serious proposals for future spacecraft use rotation for centrifugal force so occupants experience artificial gravity G-forces similar to natural gravity (1 G) on Earth.🚀 However that does presume leaving Earth's gravity well first.🚢 https://xkcd.com/3220/ 🤦

XKCD comic #3220 "Rotational Gravity" https://xkcd.com/3220/ explanation from ExplainXKCD wiki https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3220:_Rotational_Gravity transcript: [Cueball stands facing Hairbun & White Hat. Hairbun has a "steaming" symbol above her indicating anger, and her hands are in fists, while White Hat is facepalming.] Cueball: I was able to produce artificial gravity by rotating the ship along its longitudinal axis, helping passengers maintain muscle mass on the long-duration voyage! [Caption below the panel] Well, the cruise line fired me. Title text: I don't get it. The peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for. explanation: Low-gravity environments can cause humans and other animals to lose muscle mass, a serious problem for people staying for extended periods on the International Space Station. Cueball at first appears to be describing his experience operating a spaceship, creating artificial gravity by rotating the ship so as to preserve the passengers' muscle mass. However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship.[...] Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship [...] The title text references the earlier comic 2935: Ocean Loop, where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like Action Park's Cannonball Loop, but for cruise ships.[...]

🖖 I strongly encourage most Star Trek and sci-fi fans to give 'Starfleet Academy' a chance with an open mind. The season 1 finale was very good IMO.

❌ Don't @ me if you're just going to disagree/troll. It's not a show for everyone but that's OK.

I do actually have more than a few critiques (ship design among them) but overall it's an interesting fresh take on Star Trek that feels accessible to new viewers (a good thing). "Space Hogwarts" is what my partner started calling it and Holly Hunter as "Headmaster" Captain Nahla Ake is a highlight for me, she's quirky and eccentric in such a fun way.

While I've been very slow to learn to like the Discovery spinoff timeline the series is set in — a distant future from established TOS/TNG canon — it's doing better world building and politics than most Trek …

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy poster art featuring the cast

Know what's better than one book? Two! Or in the case of the Space Rogues series, ten!
One minute they're saving the entire commonwealth, the next they're helping a drunk space wizard. And so much more!

https://johnwilker.com/series/space-rogues/


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Space rogues books 1 and 2 as paperbacks on a desk with a laptop, succulent, pair of hipster glasses and cup of black coffee. The succulent looks fake.