#cosmicstories — Public Fediverse posts

Time for a new #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog post! Today I'm going to the dark side with the first of two entries on the dark sector, looking at the #sciencefiction of Dark Matter.

Featuring work by Baxter, Reed, Bayley and others.

Comments always welcome.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/dark-sector-1/

#CosmicStories is all about the connection between #sciencefiction and #science, #astronomy in particular. In today's new blog, we take a look at what attendees of this year's @royalastrosoc #NAM2026 conference thought of using SF for science communication.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/astronomerologyiii/

It's a new blog day! This time in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at the #ScienceandSF of eclipses, transits and alignments - Syzygies. Featuring works by Heinlein, Fearn, Blish, Aldrin, Barnes, Lemkin, Asimov and others. Comments welcome!

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/syzygy

New #ScienceandSF blog! Today in #CosmicStories, we have a guest post. Astrophysicist Anwesha Sahu discusses her introduction to #sciencefiction and explores the television series #AlienEarth.

Comments welcome!

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/scientific-journeys-2/

It's a new blog post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at the #scienceandSF of game tournaments and gamester cultures. Featuring Banks, Star Trek, Cowper, Doctor Who and others. Comments welcome.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/the-gamesters/

It's time for a new #CosmicStories blog! Today we're looking at a tale of two black holes - a case studies in the #ScienceandSF of the movies Interstellar (2014) and The Black Hole (1979). Comments always welcome!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/a-tale-of/

New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories, we take a look at the #ScienceandSF of Internal Medicine - microsurgery carried out inside the human body. Featuring works by Skidmore, Anderson, Malzberg, Asimov and lots of Fantastic Voyages, amongst others.

Comments welcome!

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/internal-medicine/

Time for a new #CosmicStories blog post! Today we're looking at the #ScienceandSF of human habitation under Earth's oceans. Featuring examples from Clarke, Asimov, Eklund, McLaughlin, films and television such as VTTBOTS and SeaQuest DSV.

Comments always welcome!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/life-underwater/

In today's new #CosmicStories blog, I take a look at the context and lasting legacy of J W Dunne's "An Experiment with Time" in #ScienceandSF. Featuring work by Blish, Heinlein, Priestley, Bayley, Evans, Boswell and others, and 1970 television series Timeslip.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/an-experiment-with/

New blog! In today's #CosmicStories, we look at the #ScienceandSF of Snowball Effects - exponential growth phenomena with unfortunate consequences. Featuring work by Heinlein, MacLean,Harrison, Keeler, Red Dwarf and a surprising amount of #StarTrek!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/snowball-effects/

It's a new #scienceandSF blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I'm looking at the history of Planet X - outer solar system planets in #astronomy and #sciencefiction. Featuriong stories from Campbell, Cooper, Hasse, Baxter, Space Patrol and others.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/planet-x/

Comments welcome.

New blog! After celebrating our 5th birthday last week, today in #CosmicStories we're looking at sonic weaponry and devices in #scienceandSF and their impact in "The Walls of Jericho". Featuring Rudyard Kipling, Transformers, WH40K, Star Trek and many others, as well as a certain Doctor's famous screwdriver.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/the-walls-of/

Today in the #CosmicStories blog, we take a look at the #ScienceandSF of #Exoplanets through the lens of a case study: #StarTrek and its spin offs. Featuring #astronomy, #ScienceFiction, desert worlds, water planets, giants, and lots of Star Trek. Comments welcome!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/strange_new_worlds/

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, we take a look at Clarke's Third Law: technologies indistinguishable from magic in #ScienceandSF. Featuring Arthur C Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, Babylon 5, Tolkien and others.

Comments always welcome!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/clarkes_third_law/

New blog post! With Christmas looming, today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of Holiday Worlds. Including work by Smith, Hast, Russ, Asimov, Doctor Who, Star Trek and others.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/out_of_this/

Comments welcome!

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm going to take a deep dive. I'm considering Doctor Who serial "Robot" as a case study of representations of robot intelligence, science and scientists in the 1970s.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/doctor_whos_robot/

#DoctorWho #ScienceandSF #AI

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at the #ScienceandSF of think tanks and scientific hothouses i.e. intensive science research centres. Featuring Eureka, Doctor Who, Star Trek and work by Asimov, Higgins, Smith and others

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/think_tanks_and

Comments always welcome

New #CosmicStories blog post! Today, we're looking at #SpyFi - the glorious overlap between espionage, #ScienceandSF and what it tells us about how science is perceived. Featuring The Man from UNCLE. The Avengers, James Bond and others.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/the_spies_who

Comments always welcome!

It's a new #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog day! I'm returning to home ground of #astronomy with a look at Habitable Exomoons. Featuring Star Trek, Star Wars, Avatar and works by Asimov and Chambers amongst others.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/habitable_exomoons

Comments welcome!

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.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/overpopulation

Comments always welcome!

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.

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/living_ships

Comments always welcome.

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.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/judgement_day

Comments always welcome.

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.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/judgement_day

Comments always welcome.

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.

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/the_fiery_phantom/

#ScienceFiction #Astronomy

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!

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/the_deadliest_gas

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.

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

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.

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/language_and_linguistics/

Finally read @Tiylaya's #CosmicStories about museums.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/museum_pieces

The section about the crossover of space history and science fiction in today's museums reminded me of the New Mexico Museum of Space History which has a whole floor on that topic.

New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the protections and perils of personal shields in science and SF, including examples from Asimov, Anderson, Stargate Atlantis, Smith and others. Comments always welcome!

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/protection_or_prison

#scienceandSF

New blog post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm returning to #Astronomy and looking at red dwarf stars and their planets in science and science fiction. Including works by Blish, Chambers, Asimov, Latham, Steele and others.

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/scarlet_skies

Comments welcome!