SpaceSjut
LightNews LightNews
banner
spacesjut.de
SpaceSjut
@spacesjut.de
250 followers 330 following 1.3K posts
High Emperor of Mars, Govenor-general of Vega and Lord Protector of all the Centauris // he/him // ❤️🖤
Posts Replies Media Videos
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Watched 03/2026
Pacific Rim

del Toro's take on a Kaiju-vs-Jaeger-movie (read: "del Toro's take on Evangelion") was an absolute insane joy to watch.

It has giant monsters, giant mechas piloted by pairs of pilots, giant monsters fistfighting with giant mechas, ...
A Poster for Pacific Rim. It shows one of the Jaegers, the Gipsy Danger, prominently in the foreground, stepping through coastal waters. In the waters behind it are two other units, and a fourth one being lifted in by helicopters. The vague outline of a city is visible in the background, a in the front an already small fishing boat is dwarfed by the towering Jaeger.
January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Watched 02/2026
Repo! The Genetic Opera

This absolutly wild ride of a self-styled goth rock opera was even more wild than I had remembered.
A world where you better stay on top the payments for your replacement organs, otherwise the repo man will come to take it back, ...
A Poster for Repo! The Genetic Opera. It shows the Repo Man, a figure clad in thick rubber gear with a bucket-like hood, the eyes through the view-port illuminated in blue, and a GeneCo-logo on the arm.
January 25, 2026 at 4:52 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Watched 01/2026
Tron: Ares
It's been a long while since I've watched something this irrelevant.
There's a skeleton of an interesting story somewhere in there, and it sure looks vaguely like Tron-movie 🤷‍♂️
A poster for Tron: Ares. It shows the titular character looking out over a bay in front of a city, over which a Recognizer and a bunch of flying thingies are looming. He holds a triangular Identity Disc, and next to him a Light Cycle is parked. Every single Tron-Element displays red markings, and a red haze colours the picture.
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 04/2026
Burning Chrome, by William Gibson
The short story collection that, well, collects Gibson's stories that built the foundation for the Sprawl-trilogy. It contains ten stories, of which I remembered the grand total of three - re-read books, you're in for surprises.
A cover for Burning Chrome, by William Gibson. The publisher stays on-theme with yet another disorienting collage of facades and roofs.
January 22, 2026 at 11:20 AM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've played 01/2026
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (DLC)
This one is... difficult. I love the story, and how it broadens and contextualizes the story of the main game. I adore the location, which as a singular place works well to integrate it in the setting, but leads to...
A promotional picture for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. It shows the hatchling in their suit wading through a dark and forested wetland, holding a lantern in front of them.
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 03/2026
Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson
The third book of the Sprawl-Trilogy... I don't want to say "wraps up", because that's not what's happening, but it finishes telling the events set in motion with the Straylight-run.
The cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson. As the other two Sprawl-series-covers, it shows a disorienting collage of rooftops and facades.
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 02/2026
Count Zero, by William Gibson

Where the first book of the Sprawl-trilogy was very narrowly focused on Case, the band of runners he got pressed into, and the Straylight-run, the second book takes a vastly different approach:
The cover of Count Zero, by William Gibson. As the one for Neuromancer, it shows a very disorienting collage of rooftops and facades without any apparent respect for perspective.
January 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 01/2026
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Technically a re-read, but also the first time I've read this fundamental, genre-building piece of cyberpunk in the english version.
The cover, or probably rather A Cover of Neuromancer, by William Gibson. It shows, I think, a very disorienting... It is very disorienting, by design, and it shows either a top-down photo of rooftops or a collage of rooftops and facades, and I think it's the latter.
January 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
spacesjut.de
Account 3 Jahre nicht mehr genutzt.
Account jetzt endlich mal komplett zugemacht.
Symbolbild.
Das große X, das im CCH den Saal X kennzeichnet, daneben ein Schild "formerly known as twitter".
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 19/2025
The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed
This one was recommended as a non-techbro-y cyberpunk novel, and that's a pretty good description.
The cover of The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed. It shows a close-up of a human eye overlayed with camera objective.
December 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 18/2025
Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
After reading Dracula a while ago I made the plan to also read the other works of historic vampire fiction, and Carmilla is in many points quite clearly an inspiration (and known to be one) for Stokers far more well known work.
The cover of Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a black-and-white print illustration, showing two young women, one sitting and one standing, amids a forest. In the background, a funeral procession can be seen.
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
spacesjut.de
Pilot!
If I decide to go again, I'll probably aim for Engineer or Marine.
A Larp-character, wearing an orange jacket over a black tee, dogtags, mirror shades and a cap with two nametags "Romero" and "Control".
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 16/2025
Nona The Ninth (Locked Tomb III), by Tamsyn Muir
The story of A— in the body of H— following the events of second book, the story of the last few days in the life of Nona and her "family" of Camilla, Palamedes and Pyrrha trying to figure out...
The cover of Nona The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir It shows in front of a space-y background with a blue nebula and a planet or moon the titular character, a slim woman with long black hair and golden eyes. She wears a dark t-shirt with a print and an oversized jacket falling from her shoulders. Nona is framed on the left by the six-legged dog Noodle and on her right by a skeleton.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
spacesjut.de
from an ad for a kickstarter, where creators clearly have lost all contact to what cyberpunk even means 🙄
"Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Akira, our award-winning cyberpunk series follows an elite Neo Tokio police unit hunting a mass mind hacker."
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
spacesjut.de
Wir werden schrittweise entmündigt!!!11eins-elf
Verbotsschilder an einem Baggersee, von oben nach unten: Surfen verboten Betreten der Eisfläche verboten Schwimmen verboten
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Played

Outer Wilds

This is.. so good.
You play as the inhabitant of a (very small) solar system, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And that's all I can say without spoilers.
A Poster for Outer Wilds. It shows in an oil-painting-style the protagonist roasting marshmellows in front of a campfire in a forest, with the spacecraft parked next to him. In the sky some of the planets of the game's solar system can be seen.
October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 15/2025
Shift (Silo II), by Hugh Howey

The second book of the Silo trilogy is just as much of a page-turner as the first one.
It starts in more-or-less current times and expands along several locations and timeslines on the background of the setting, ...
The cover of Shift, second book of Silo-trilogy, by Hugh Howey. In blue and white colours, it shows a walkway between two slanted walls made from large elements. On the end of the corridor there is a double-door, above which a bright white light illuminates the scene. Two thirds of the way the silhouette of a person can be seen, moving towards the door. On the lower edge of the cover the author's name is written in solid white letters, and above that the book title, starting solid white on the bottom and being overlayed towards the top with a CRT colour matrix.
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 14/24
Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang
After Eclipse I felt a need to re-read the titular Stories Of Your Life, which was the inspiration for Contact, which was an inspiration for Eclipse. And then I already had the thing open, so why not.
The cover of Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang. It shows the title in the middle and the author in the bottom in big yellow block-letters, the lines filled up by thick yellow blocks, in front of a white root-structure on black ground.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 13/25
Wool (Silo I), by Hugh Howey
The world is a giant underground silo. The outside is toxic. The order of society must be preserved at all costs, lest humanities last outpost crumbles to dust. Of course nothing goes ever wrong.
The cover of Wool, by Hugh Howey. In the fore-to-midground a barren, rocky landscape is seen, with hills rising to both sides of the cover. In the middle, and in some distance, stands a human figure with its back to the reader. A bright light shines into the valley. The further up one looks the more the view is overlaid with CRT matrix, its red-green-blue slits clearly visible on the upper side. In the lower part, laid over the rocky terrain, is the name of the book written, with a similar effect: bright on the bottom, a CRT-matrix clearly visible on the top of the letters. The author's name is written in bright letters below.
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 12/25
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

I've decided to read this one after the good people of Poltergeist announced a larp based on it and a lot of people were very excited, and now I do see why.
The cover of Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. In front of a dark blue night sky with golden stars stands a column, on which a (a statue of a?) faun stands upright with one hoof, the other raised in the air. The faun has pale skin and blond hair on its head and its lower body and legs, and it's playing a double-ended flute. Along the bottom of the cover are the stylized swirls of a roaring ocean. The name of the author is printed on the top, the name of the book on the bottom.
September 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-)Read 11/25
Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The second time around this book continues to be an absolute fever dream, but knowing what's coming (and maybe a few hours of wiki-binging beforehand) really did help to make a lot more sense of everything.
The cover of Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir. In the background the gray of a dead planet in front of stars, with blue veins across it and a blue star barely flaring across its lower edge. In front of that the protagonist, Lady Harrowhark, The Revered Daughter, a young women with short black hair and a skull painted on her face, clad in black garments, bones forming a ribcage over her chest, and a white coat slung over her shoulders. Across her back she carries a large, two-handed sword. Around her are rather less than more complete skeletons, skulls and bones pieces, floating around her and her outstretched hand.
September 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Listened To
The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley

I think someone recommended this w40k audio horror story to me, at some point? Anyway, I've finally managed to listen, and it's a solid story with excellent production design, ...
The cover of The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley. It shows a view of a city in the Gothic architecture elemental to the w40k-setting in pouring rain, with a figure standing on presumable the top of a roof in the foreground. A giant eldritch entity is reaching for it from the background.
August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've (re-) Read 10/25
Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks

On a whim I've re-read this story of a bunch of mortals visiting faeryland and bringing all sorts of doom to it.
Still a good and easy read, but obviously a rather dark one.
The cover of Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks. It shows an idyllic scene in front of a setting sun, the orange glow illuminating trees and hillsides. The hills emanate a blue sparkly glow upwards.
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 09/25
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
A collection of four dystopian novellas that's been on my list for ages, and they've not aged a day since release. Especially the titular radicalized, about an armed uprising against the US healthcare system...
The cover of Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow. On a red background in white letters the author on top and the title on the bottom, and between them in a two-by-two grid four white circles with black icons in them representing the stories: a slice of bread with the "forbidden"-sign on it, a superhero silouette, a pill with the hand of a drowning person reaching up from the bottom, and a skull with the white parts represented by human silouettes.
August 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
spacesjut.de
A Thing I've Read 08/25
Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher
Eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Lebensgeschichten aus der Traditionsschifferszene, wie das damals(tm) so war und wie das heute alles schwieriger ist.
Das Cover von Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher. Es zeigt ein augenscheinlich altes Photo eines Traditionsseglers, mit viel Film-Grain, auf See mit gesetzten Segeln.
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM