Društvo SFera
@sferazg.bsky.social
Društvo za znanstvenu fantastiku SFERA / SFera Science Fiction Society
Going strong since 1976 & loving SF all the way.
Organizers of SFeraKon
Going strong since 1976 & loving SF all the way.
Organizers of SFeraKon
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#ŽivotSamoUtorkom & Grinchovanje!
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
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Once again, an amazing fantasy bundle by @aptshadow.bsky.social here. What a deal.
Humble Book Bundle: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Epic Fantasy by Macmillan
Fantasy fans won’t want to miss this Adrian Tchaikovsky bundle, featuring the Shadows of the Apt series and more! Every purchase supports Cancer Research UK!
www.humblebundle.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Once again, an amazing fantasy bundle by @aptshadow.bsky.social here. What a deal.
Let's read some new authors!
For fiction fans, contributors to the latest anthology of Palestinian spec fic talk about the question: “can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?” arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with ficti…
arablit.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Let's read some new authors!
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Kaće novi #Parsek?
Evo ga!
U 150. broju možete čitati stripove mladih snaga
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/12/pars...
Evo ga!
U 150. broju možete čitati stripove mladih snaga
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/12/pars...
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Kaće novi #Parsek?
Evo ga!
U 150. broju možete čitati stripove mladih snaga
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/12/pars...
Evo ga!
U 150. broju možete čitati stripove mladih snaga
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/12/pars...
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Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
#ŽivotSamoUtorkom & Grinchovanje!
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#ŽivotSamoUtorkom & Grinchovanje!
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
#ProgramSFere u prosincu
✒️ 🛠️. 2.12. Literarna radionica
🎭 🛠️ 9.12. Scenska radionica
🦥 🖖 16.12. Slobodni utorak
🎄🎁 23.12. Grinchovo
🀄 🍰 30.12. Igre na ploči i razmjena kolača
sfera.hr/2025/program...
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reading at airport gate and deffo recommend this essay
Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste, gender, and global imagination with universal storytelling.
By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
reading at airport gate and deffo recommend this essay
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That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
Sjećate li se fanzina _*SFemir*_?
E pa urednik Jurica Palijan je počeo slagati njegovu arhivu i dizati ga online!
Za sada su tu prva tri broja, a u planu je i podizanje svih 27 brojeva!
paralelnisfemir.eu
E pa urednik Jurica Palijan je počeo slagati njegovu arhivu i dizati ga online!
Za sada su tu prva tri broja, a u planu je i podizanje svih 27 brojeva!
paralelnisfemir.eu
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sjećate li se fanzina _*SFemir*_?
E pa urednik Jurica Palijan je počeo slagati njegovu arhivu i dizati ga online!
Za sada su tu prva tri broja, a u planu je i podizanje svih 27 brojeva!
paralelnisfemir.eu
E pa urednik Jurica Palijan je počeo slagati njegovu arhivu i dizati ga online!
Za sada su tu prva tri broja, a u planu je i podizanje svih 27 brojeva!
paralelnisfemir.eu
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An ogre knocked - carefully - on the witch's door.
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking portion."
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking portion."
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
An ogre knocked - carefully - on the witch's door.
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking portion."
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking portion."
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My name is pope leo XIV, you killed our father, prepare to die.
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My name is pope leo XIV, you killed our father, prepare to die.
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"Forgive me, Father, for I have si—"
WHACK
WHACK
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Forgive me, Father, for I have si—"
WHACK
WHACK
Фантастична Європа. Хорватія.
YouTube video by Starfort UA
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
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There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
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Every spec fic take on the British: oh they all want to run about looking like medieval knights
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
real Lunar spacesuit designed by the British interplanetary society.
I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)
I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Every spec fic take on the British: oh they all want to run about looking like medieval knights
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So, this is where the Selkie stories come from!
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So, this is where the Selkie stories come from!
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It's gonna be a Baudelairian Jihad after all.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's gonna be a Baudelairian Jihad after all.
Considering earlier works of proto-science fiction (see, at least, Lucian of Samostata), we could argue the "invented" part, but it is always great to find out about authors and works ahead of their time!
One wonders how many similar books are lost to time or hidden on some bookshelf...
One wonders how many similar books are lost to time or hidden on some bookshelf...
Out today! Super excited to share a new essay with you: “The Duchess Who Invented Science Fiction,” a silly and sincere ode to my beloved Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century duchess who teaches us to 1. think speculatively and 2. wear ridiculous outfits.
compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-du...
compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-du...
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Considering earlier works of proto-science fiction (see, at least, Lucian of Samostata), we could argue the "invented" part, but it is always great to find out about authors and works ahead of their time!
One wonders how many similar books are lost to time or hidden on some bookshelf...
One wonders how many similar books are lost to time or hidden on some bookshelf...
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Also congrats to @yumewrites.bsky.social, @bingewriting.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social, among several others, for their placement in the first round! It's good to be among friends and such fine writers.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Also congrats to @yumewrites.bsky.social, @bingewriting.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social, among several others, for their placement in the first round! It's good to be among friends and such fine writers.
And we'll have a piece of chocolate with every episode!
Starship Alexandria news! For December, instead of a regular episode, @emmanewman.bsky.social and I will be releasing an Advent Calendar with a short episode every day from 1st to 25th December, talking about our favourite TV series.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
And we'll have a piece of chocolate with every episode!
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We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
#Parsek, Paradokalno sekularno glasilo SFere izlazi već 50 godina i svakog trenutka (dobro, tjedna) očekujemo jubilarni 150 broj.
U međuvremenu, arhivirali smo stare brojeve i u zadnjem valu prebacili prvih 28 brojeva u pdf.
Što se zbivalo u SFeri tih ranih dana?
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/11/para...
U međuvremenu, arhivirali smo stare brojeve i u zadnjem valu prebacili prvih 28 brojeva u pdf.
Što se zbivalo u SFeri tih ranih dana?
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/11/para...
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#Parsek, Paradokalno sekularno glasilo SFere izlazi već 50 godina i svakog trenutka (dobro, tjedna) očekujemo jubilarni 150 broj.
U međuvremenu, arhivirali smo stare brojeve i u zadnjem valu prebacili prvih 28 brojeva u pdf.
Što se zbivalo u SFeri tih ranih dana?
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/11/para...
U međuvremenu, arhivirali smo stare brojeve i u zadnjem valu prebacili prvih 28 brojeva u pdf.
Što se zbivalo u SFeri tih ranih dana?
parsek.sfera.hr/2025/11/para...