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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of a new genre of science fiction, dystopian literature… Oliphant’s short story ‘The Land of Darkness’ is an important and overlooked example”

—Dr Oliver Tearle on Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’

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interestingliterature.com/2017

Interesting Literature · Dante Among the Machines: Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle considers a curious dystopian story by Queen Victoria’s favourite novelist The terms ‘dystopian’ and ‘ecology’ both g…
#Scottish#literature#19thCentury
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Henri Lœvenbruck

Cycld de Dune, check.
Maintenant, je me remets dans Fondation.

Pour en avoir tant lu, je me demande si la SF a déjà produit quelque chose de plus abouti que ces deux cycles, d'une puissance colossale, qui résiste au temps, voire se bonnifie, confrontée à notre triste évolution.

#SF
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Sans Dec

Ce roman partiellement épistolaire est difficile à classer. Il y a un côté eau de rose indéniable. Poétique et sensuel, ce roman nous entraîne au travers du multivers et du temps, que deux entités manipulent à l’envi en envoyant des agentes pour tuer, orienter, influer. Les êtres humains y sont des objets fragiles et des jouets d’un destin décidé par des abstractions. J’y ai goûté chaque mot. #mastolivre #vendredilecture #SF #fantasy

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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: Les Oiseaux du temps (French language, 2021, Mü)
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

My feminist SF web-novel Mars Needed Women is complete! 23,300 words in 31 chapters, one chapter posted each day throughout March, the last posted 23 minutes ago as I write this. Check out the cover art.

To read, either use the hashtag #RSMarsNeededWomen or this link to the first chapter: eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894 The full novel is in the thread. Just scroll to read.

“A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”

I'll leave it up for you to read for at least a week. After that, I'm revising it for later secondary publication.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#Writever #Mars #SpaceOpera #writer #author #sf #sciencefiction #scifi #feminism #gender fiction #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
The March Writever Prompt Card I used for ideas for each chapter of the novel. In March, as the fight for gender equality continues, let’s write it. 1 day 1 word 1 story science fiction🚀 fantastic👻 or fantasy 🗡 Ideally in one thread and with the #writever hashtag 2503.01 — Women 2503.02 — Rights 2503.03 — Housewife 2503.04 — Glue 2503.05 — Mirror 2503.06 — Equality 2503.07 — Consent 2503.08 — Struggle 2503.09 — Ceiling 2503.10 — Exploit 2503.11 — Walk 2503.12 — Emancipation 2503.13 — International 2503.14 — Veil 2503.15 — Freely 2503.16 — Cook 2503.17 — Strike 2503.18 — Abortion 2503.19 — Mental load 2503.20 — Shelter 2503.21 — Empower 2503.22 — Manifest 2503.23 — Intersectional 2503.24 — Work 2503.25 — Echo 2503.26 — Night 2503.27 — Voice 2503.28 — Feather 2503.29 — Matriarchy 2503.30 — Wave 2503.31 — Sorority
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

@youseeatortoise

Why first person? What's the draw?

CW: I rambled.

I think 1st person the natural way people tell stories about what happened to them. Personal stories with all the warts are the best, I think. If you look at all my responses to all the prompts, you'll see I'm telling my story, and to get meta about it, I'm telling you my story now. This is actually my writing style.

To me, 1st person POV feels very personal and I feel it is relatable by all readers. Most people don't go around telling stories that happened to other people (3rd person in a nutshell), nor when they do so, do they feel comfortable asserting what those people felt about those events, especially if those events are impolitic or sexual. Maybe taking on the role of the narrator, they may say how they feel about the people who act they way they do in their story—but that's another level of complexity and can off as hypocritical. Furthermore, I feel betrayed when a 3rd person narrator doesn't tell the absolute truth. I expect truth from 3rd person, whether it's from the POV character's perspective, or a limited or an omniscient one.

It's very hard to master all the requirements of good 3rd person narration. It proved so for me. That said, my #RSMarsNeededWomen is the first 3rd person story I've written in many years. I chose that because 1st person isn't exactly a compact or concise POV, and fitting a novel into 31 long toots is hard.

In first person, as in life, the POV tells their story their way, making observations and commenting on what they feel about that. Imagine some embarrassing or revealing situation. How are you going to tell that story starting with the word I? Right, you will spin it. 1st person is all about perspective. Ours. We all censor. 1st person by definition is unreliable narrator, but as listeners we've learned how to read between the lines, to detect the white lies and black, and interpret the spin. Conversely, people may also be confessional. Maybe the POV wants to be seen in all their evil glory, or is simply rude and impolitic, but isn't so foolish as to let it leak out in word or deed. The dichotomy between private thoughts and public action can be breathtaking. Who doesn't like some unfiltered wise cracking and unvarnished cynicism, especially when paired with external integrity?

I hope that answered your question.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #mystery #thriller #romance #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

にしても、#海野十三 の『火星兵団』は長い！めちゃ読んでいるのに、まだ6%しか読んでない。（アップルのブックアプリで読んでる。）
子供向けに書かれていて、妙に優しい日本語で、非常にクセのある文章だ。繰り返しが多い。多分、子供たちに意味がしっかり伝わるためだと思うけど（私も学生に意味を伝えるために大事なことを繰り返して言う）、これはこれで効果的で面白い表現。#戦時中 に書かれていて、#国家主義 もたっぷり入ってるけど、なかなか面白い。キャラクターの一人一人が立体的で感情移入しやすい。昨日読み終えた押川春浪の『月世界競争探検』とエライ違い。（リンクはアップルだけど、この本は青空文庫でも読めます。）#SF #サイエンスフィクション #科学空想小説
books.apple.com/jp/book/%E7%81

海野十三の「火星兵団」をApple Booksで
Apple Books‎火星兵団‎小説／文学 · 1943年
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Editions Aux forges de Vulcain

Vient de paraître, en librairie, le deuxième volume de l'édition de poche de la Trilogie BARYONIQUE de Pierre Raufast ! C'est chez Pocket Imaginaire ! Et le volume 3 est disponible aux éditions Aux forges de Vulcain!

Et Pierre Raufast sera samedi, de 14h à 18h30, à la librairie l'Imaginarium d'Arras, et mardi, à 17h, au Forum international de la cybersécurité à Lille ! Et il sera aux Intergalactiques de Lyon dans un mois !

#ia#espace#roman
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

@adriabailton #Writephant …time for self-promo! Feel free to post whatever fits in the character count.

Two items:

  1. This Sunday, March 30th, I will be the victiim featured creator on the hashtag #ScribesAndMakers Talk to Me Day. Follow that hashtag and (hashtag)TTMD starting Saturday night through Sunday to ask questions or hear me blather. I'm in PDT, and will answer when I can. I'm saying "when I can", because of item 2. I will be writing, revising, and publishing chapter 30 of 31 (fingers crossed) at the SAME TIME. Can you spell masochist?

  2. #RSMarsNeededWomen is both a work in progress, and a published a feminist SF web-novel that I am posting on MASTODON. Click the hashtag to see the latest. Today I published chapter 24. I've written chapter 25 for 17, 600 words, and there will be 31 total chapters. I'm doing the full Charles Dickens Monty. Many chapters can be read standalone. If you want to start at the beginning, it's here: eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894

Here's the cover I created. Tap the #altText for more.

#BoostIsSharing

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last putrified meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
#writer#sf#author
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Mx. Luna Corbden

Recent SFWA newsletter – Very mad at Meta AI for stealing our stuff. Currently just suggesting actions for individual authors to take, but seems like they might be working on something bigger.

"As an organization, SFWA will continue to fight for our principles. Writers must be paid, credited, and protected, following expected norms."

Class action suit? Sign me up.

#SFWA#SF#SciFi
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