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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946)

written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture

1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition

Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Memories of Ronnie James Dio's fantastic voice!

He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing.

youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?...

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic
Rainbow - Kill The King Live in Munich 1977
YouTube video by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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"Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such.

A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005).

Now a re-read of the English original.
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
🪐📚 1926- 2026...

One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories…

Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
🪐📚 2026 re-read:

John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980)

Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪):

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Captain Feelgood
Here we go then! All 150 books i read in the last year, brief remarks and a slightly haphazard ranking for each one. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup
youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc
I Ranked ALL 150 Science Fiction Books I Read in 2025
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015)

Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction?

Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with

The Weight of the World
The Tropic of Eternity

Let's find out!🤗
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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You can't change reality by lying to it.

Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale.

One of the most important novels of 2024
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original)

"Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"

Oops.

Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔

Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!!

However...
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
from 1960 ...

...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Who hasn't experienced this:

You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless!

Spontaneously, I think of:
September 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015

Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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No way... (you get what you asked for)
July 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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"The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner)

... no human characters
...deep time
...awesome worldbuilding

will be released on July,15th

See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...
Worldbuilding is Great: CASPER GEON/Tom Toner Interview 'Immeasurable Heaven' #sciencefictionbooks
YouTube video by Outlaw Bookseller
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Post a robot not from Star Wars or Transformers.
May 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space
by M. John Harrison

I've struggled through the 850+ pages

ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up.

not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton
May 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001)

Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries:

"Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity")
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May 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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"Galactic Pot-healer" by Philip K. Dick (1969)

Every now and then, there's a PKD. His "Galactic Pot-healer" showcases Dick's dark humor, which is rarely found in his work.
The novel passed even Stanislaw Lem's critical scrutiny.
April 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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"Black Easter" / "The Day after Jugdement" by James Blish (1971/1972)

All hell breaks loose - in Blish's two-part satire, a lapsed priest summons demons to Earth, who are only too happy to take advantage of power-hungry politicians and the nuclear annihilation potential of Earth's powers...
April 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Daryl Gregory's Gregory's interesting take on the living in a simulation theme

"When we were Real" focuses on a road trip of a group of ordinary people who try to deal with the discovery made a few years ago -in very different ways

check out his interview

locusmag.com/2025/04/dary...
Daryl Gregory: When We Were Real
DARYL JON GREGORY was born June 26, 1965 in Illinois, grew up in Darien IL, and attended college at Illinois State University, graduating with a double major in English and Theater. He taught high …
locusmag.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"The Substance" by Coralie Fargeat (2024) 🩸📚

I wouldn't be surprised if one of Coralie's inspirations for
"The Substance" is David Cronenberg's 1986 body horror classic!

#horrormovies
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A black hole, a quirky utopia, spaceships, an attempt to walk on the iron core of a planet, a malevolence, fandoms as science, a spectacularly unlikeable 300 yr old scientist, blood on the walls, illiteracy, amusing cultural references, disappointed AIs. Plenty going on. Buy it. Several times. 🪐📚
Today, the mass-market paperback edition of my novel LAKE OF DARKNESS is released. Buy a copy! In fact, buy seven, in case you lose six! Imagine how chagrined you'd be if you bought six copies and lost them all! That extra seventh copy could be a life-saver. www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/adam-...
Lake of Darkness
Good is a construct. Evil is a virus. The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of ...
www.gollancz.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Color out of Space" by by Richard Stanley (2019)

While not a faithful adaptation of the Lovecraft story, the creatures in this cosmic horror film capture the indescribable horror quite well, and the mutations of the Gardner family are truly disturbing.

#horrormovies
March 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM