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Peter Watts pastwi się nad "Projektem Hail Mary". A dokładniej nad odczytywaniem go jako hard SF.

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11659

#ProjectHailMary #Fantastyka #ScienceFiction #HardSF

Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Trilogy Book 1) "The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Alastair Reynolds Rating: 4.2/5 (9,895 Reviews) #ScienceFiction #HardSF #SpaceOpera #Books #RevelationSpace #BookSky

Revelation Space (The Inhibito...

Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...

...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF

Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...

...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF

Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...

...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF

Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...

...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF

Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...

...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF

It's official...my new hard SF novel Moonbase Armstrong is now available for sale in Kindle and paperback! Venture into the future of NASA's Artemis program as a terrible accident throws the first permanently manned moonbase into disarray...

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1

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Pushing Ice "It very much looks as if Janus was never a moon in the first place" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Alastair Reynolds Rating: 4.4/5 (3,993 Reviews) #SciFi #HardSF #Space #Aliens #Exploration #Rockhopper #Spica #Books #BookSky

Pushing Ice

I'm two episodes in to Plur1bus and we're watching the next one on Monday night so we'll be caught up - it's really good so far - but if you're into it too

there's an old webcomic you may want to read

it's a completed novel, 100% done

and it's called A Miracle of Science:

https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html

I thought it deserved a Hugo. But it was just too obscure when it came out.

I think you're really gonna like meeting Mars.

#aMiracleOfScience #plur1bus #collectives #ScienceFiction #webcomic #HardSF #ish

I'm two episodes in to Plur1bus and we're watching the next one on Monday night so we'll be caught up - it's really good so far - but if you're into it too

there's an old webcomic you may want to read

it's a completed novel, 100% done

and it's called A Miracle of Science:

https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html

I thought it deserved a Hugo. But it was just too obscure when it came out.

I think you're really gonna like meeting Mars.

#aMiracleOfScience #plur1bus #collectives #ScienceFiction #webcomic #HardSF #ish

I'm two episodes in to Plur1bus and we're watching the next one on Monday night so we'll be caught up - it's really good so far - but if you're into it too

there's an old webcomic you may want to read

it's a completed novel, 100% done

and it's called A Miracle of Science:

https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html

I thought it deserved a Hugo. But it was just too obscure when it came out.

I think you're really gonna like meeting Mars.

#aMiracleOfScience #plur1bus #collectives #ScienceFiction #webcomic #HardSF #ish

I'm two episodes in to Plur1bus and we're watching the next one on Monday night so we'll be caught up - it's really good so far - but if you're into it too

there's an old webcomic you may want to read

it's a completed novel, 100% done

and it's called A Miracle of Science:

https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html

I thought it deserved a Hugo. But it was just too obscure when it came out.

I think you're really gonna like meeting Mars.

#aMiracleOfScience #plur1bus #collectives #ScienceFiction #webcomic #HardSF #ish

I'm two episodes in to Plur1bus and we're watching the next one on Monday night so we'll be caught up - it's really good so far - but if you're into it too

there's an old webcomic you may want to read

it's a completed novel, 100% done

and it's called A Miracle of Science:

https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html

I thought it deserved a Hugo. But it was just too obscure when it came out.

I think you're really gonna like meeting Mars.

#aMiracleOfScience #plur1bus #collectives #ScienceFiction #webcomic #HardSF #ish

I'm reading Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, and on the one hand it is kind of boring because he is from that generation of SF writers who isn't very good at writing characters but still feels he has to, but on the other hand it is bringing home to me that I don't understand relativity (in particular time dilation effects) as well as I thought I did.

#TauZero #ScienceFiction #Relativity #HardSF #HardScienceFiction #HardSciFi

J'attends mon nouveau contrat d'édition, qui devrait arriver par la poste bientôt.
"Chérie ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais avec la clé de la boîte autour du cou ?"
Mais riiiiiien mon mari, rien du tout.
Surtout, tu me laisses aller prendre le courrier si tu tiens à la vie...
😆😆😆

(Retour à mes amours : #SFFF - #hardSF)
#mastolivre #auteure #contrat

#ReaderCon attendees, I will be in the Dealers Room, at one of the Authors Alley tables, from 3 - 7 pm on Friday. If you'd like me to sign a copy of The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds, that would be the best place to find me.

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And now available in paperback as well as on Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958333190/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

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Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl is hard science fiction at its best. As good as the science aspect of the story is, where Man Plus truly shines is in the human drama. And Pohl also adds a mischievous twist that appears near the end. It’s a mystery not for the characters but for the reader. Without question, Mars Plus is one of Pohl’s greatest efforts in his long career.

Mars. It’s inhospitable, cold, and very far away. The human fascination is unquenchable. And the idea of colonizing Mars is one that never seems to go away. But what would it take to become a true Martian?

The world is in turmoil. Countries are collapsing. Nuclear war is imminent. The unrest in the United States has put the country under martial law. Yet despite these obstacles, the U.S. President has deemed that America must send a mission to colonize Mars.

Roger Torraway is a hero astronaut and his life is almost perfect. His job is to create a monster. A monster capable of surviving on Mars. Will Hartnett is that monster. A cyborg capable of amazing feats, Hartnett is ready to survive the Martian environment. That is until catastrophe happens.

The Man Plus project is effectively dead but the President insists that it continue at all costs. That means they need a new monster. Roger Torraway is that monster and he will discover the true cost of becoming a Martian.

Man Plus is a chimera of a story. Many differing parts come together to make up an unexpected whole. Where Pohl to focus his efforts mostly on the technical side of the story it would be good. However, Pohl devotes equal, if not greater effort to make the characters real and believable.

Pohl focuses on the human cost of making a man into a monster. However, Pohl doesn’t just focus on the monster, Roger Torraway. Pohl shows what it does to the people around Roger and how his change affects them. Unsurprisingly, the costs may be higher than anyone expects.

Yet, despite the high cost, everyone is willing to continue with the project. This is, perhaps, the one drawback in Pohl’s thinking. This idea that everyone is willing to do whatever it takes for the mission to succeed is a little naïve. However, this probably stems from the 1960s effort to put a man on the moon and this extreme optimism carries over into Man Plus.

Pohl’s world-building is excellent. He takes the social and political situations of the mid-70s and extrapolates them into a not-unfamiliar future. Pohl may get some technical details wrong but the story does not feel technologically or socially quaint.

Toward the end of the story, a narrator begins to insert itself. This mysterious narrator doesn’t take over the story but adds a new line of reasoning to the story. Pohl uses the narrator as a mystery for the reader to solve. Leaving clues throughout the text Pohl expects you to figure out what is going on before he reveals it. I expect most readers today would pick up on it quite quickly but perhaps not so readily in the 1970s.

There is a lot of pain in Man Plus, both physical and emotional. This thread of pain is the most motivating reason to read Man Plus. The idea of colonizing Mars is secondary to the struggles needed to get there.

Roger Torraway’s journey from man to man plus is a terrible one. In the end, his sacrifices change not only him but everyone around him. Not one person escapes the process unscathed. The scars may be subtle and invisible but they are there. But most change is hard and damaging in some way.

Pohl does something that a lot of hard SF fails to do. He balances the technical needs of the story with the human reactions beautifully. There are very few stories of similar style that wield as much emotional weight as Man Plus. If you’ve not read Man Plus, read it. If you have read Man Plus, read it again. It’s worth your time.

https://incompletefutures.com/2024/11/04/man-plus-remains-a-classic-of-hard-sf/

#BookReview #FrederikPohl #HardSF #ManPlus #SF

Fans of #PeterWatts and #HardSF in general might have had visions of their own #Blindsight movie in their heads (for do not all sentient beings 'imagine', yes?) but some skilled 3D Animators went one better and brought 4:43 minutes of it to life on this fabulous website
(Spoilers for the book, which you can read for free from Peter's website)
https://blindsight.space/

Neutron Star is a 1968 short story collection which contains some of Larry Niven’s earliest Known Space Stories.

A good introduction to the Known Space tales. There’s a strong hard SF element, there are touches of humour and there’s danger and adventure.

Old-fashioned high-concept hard SF but with plenty of characteristic Larry Niven touches. Great stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/09/larry-nivens-neutron-star.html

#hardSF #sciencefiction #scifi #LarryNiven #KnownSpace #vintagescifi #retroscifi

A Gift from Earth, an early (1968) Larry Niven Known Space novel. He's thought of as hard SF but in this case he's also interested in the social and political implications of technology. This is also a dystopian novel of sorts.

Interesting as an SF novel in which faster-than-light travel is impossible. The setting is bizarre- a plateau 40 miles above the surface of an otherwise uninhabitable planet.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/05/larry-nivens-gift-from-earth.html

#LarryNiven #KnownSpace #scifi #sciencefiction #sf #hardsf

@ajroach42 By Peter Watts:

Starfish: https://rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm

Maelstrom: https://rifters.com/real/MAELSTROM.htm

Behemoth: https://rifters.com/real/Behemoth.htm

And, of course, Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

BY-NC-SA v2.5

#freescifi #hardSF