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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 3d

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at narratives of Earth's overpopulation in #ScienceandSF. Featuring Hershey, Harrison, Silverberg, Soylent Green, Logan's Run and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome!

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you for the comment! It's certainly an interesting topic.

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 14d

In case anyone missed it at the weekend...

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 18d

New #ScienceandSF blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at Living Starships - featuring Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and works by Justina Robson, Kameron Hurley and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 14d

In case anyone missed it at the weekend...

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 18d

New #ScienceandSF blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at Living Starships - featuring Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and works by Justina Robson, Kameron Hurley and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 18d

New #ScienceandSF blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at Living Starships - featuring Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and works by Justina Robson, Kameron Hurley and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Sep 7

@planetgreaves.bsky.social This time it should work - touch wood! Thanks :)

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Sep 7

New blog post! Today in #CosmicStories I look at humanity on trial in #scienceandSF. Featuring Williamson, Haldeman, Clifton, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stranger on Venus and #StarTrek: The Next Generation amongst others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Sep 7

Eeek! That would be because I can't spell "stories" on a Sunday morning. Thanks for letting me know!
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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Aug 24

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of the intramercurial planet Vulcan. Featuring stories from Rocklynne, Brackett, Cummings, Vincent and others. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

#ScienceFiction #Astronomy

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Aug 18

In case anyone missed it last week....

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Aug 10

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of oxygen... the deadliest gas. Featuring examples from Clarke, Thomas, Chain, Follett, Rocklynne and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Aug 10

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of oxygen... the deadliest gas. Featuring examples from Clarke, Thomas, Chain, Follett, Rocklynne and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 30

In case anyone missed it at the weekend...

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 27

New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I look at small time shifts in #ScienceandSF - are they really a recipe for invisibility? Including examples from Aldiss, Bayley, Rusch and others. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_step_out/

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 27

New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I look at small time shifts in #ScienceandSF - are they really a recipe for invisibility? Including examples from Aldiss, Bayley, Rusch and others. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_step_out/

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 13

New post! In today's Cosmic Stories blog, I take a look at the science and SF of lunar observatories, featuring Clarke, Richardson, Ley, Bova, Latner and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 9

In case anyone missed it last week...

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 29

New blog post day! Today I'm taking a look at reproductive technologies in science and science fiction. Featuring works by Haldane, Russell, Herbert, Sargent, Bujold and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_decanted_every/

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Minor Planet Center has designated 3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), or informally "Comet ATLAS", a new interstellar comet that is currently about 4.5 AU from the Sun and screaming through the solar system at 58 km/s (130000 mph)

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jul 2

Lots of excitement about a new candidate interstellar object: earthsky.org/space/new-in...

I looked at interstellar objects in science and science fiction in Cosmic Stories a couple of years ago - might be time for an update!
www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

#astronomy #Science #ScienceFiction

Artists impression of interstellar object Oumuamua. image: NASA

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 29

New blog post day! Today I'm taking a look at reproductive technologies in science and science fiction. Featuring works by Haldane, Russell, Herbert, Sargent, Bujold and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_decanted_every/

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

In any case, having come across this just a week or so after posting the blog, I thought I'd share it in case anyone else finds it interesting!
To read more:
tomrpike.com
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Tom R. Pike

Writer of folk tales for the Anthropocene

tomrpike.com

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

The short story is dedicated to linguist Rosina Soyan who worked with bilingual Tuvan/Russian speaking children.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social · Jun 9

Check out this week's blog post to find out how research on speakers of the Tuvan language of southern Siberia helped inspire Tom Pike's "Isolate" from our May/June issue
theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/06/09/l...

Linguistics and Empire in “Isolate”

by Tom R. Pike Tom Pike discusses the linguistic research into multilingualism by Dr. Rossina Soyan that inspired “Isolate,” his latest story, now available in our [May/June issue, on s…

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

The main themes here are of cultural and language manipulation as a form of political control, but also touch on how languages evolve, shape and are shaped by the cultures of their speakers. 5/n

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

It's up to the protagonist to grow close enough to the natives to learn their speech, and decide whether the language of northern Emepera is indeed one of the Golden Tongue language families, or instead an isolate destined for destruction. 4/n

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

Part of its strategy is that only languages which descend from one of the founding Arean languages are permitted to survive on conquered worlds, while others are forcibly replaced by single-language schooling as part of the empire's programme of cultural and political reprogramming. 3/n

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

In this story, Ares (clearly a far-future Mars) is the centre of a vast interstellar empire, and is looking to recover lost human colonies, drawing them into both its political control and its state-controlled religion of Emperor worship. 2/n

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 21

Anyone who enjoyed my recent post on Language and Linguistics may be interested by a story I've just come across in the May/June 2025 edition of @analogsf.bsky.social
Isolate by language hobbyist @tomrpike.bsky.social follows a linguist assigned to evaluate the language of the planet Emepera. 1/n

Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · Jun 15

New post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I take a look at the #ScienceandSF of Language and Linguistics, featuring works by Elgin, Vance, Delany, Sheckley and Masson amongst others, as well as Star Trek, Arrival and more.

Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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