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The Next 800K Years in Sci Fi Predictions

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Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post

When will humans land on Venus? When will we have robot cats? And when will the aliens finally come? Science fiction offers some potential answers to these burning questions. The timeline below, created by designer Giorgia Lupi and her design team at Accurat for the blog Brain Pickings, lays out 62 future events predicted by various works of science fiction, from “Hunger Games” to Isaac Asimov. Here’s a selection: 2012: The Titanic is resurrected from the ocean floor. (“The Ghost from the Grand Banks,” Arthur C. Clarke) 2019: The U.S. loses its position as world leader to Japan. Extraterrestrial life … Read more

News: NASA Discovers Global Underground Ocean on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

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Planning a sea-faring vacation to escape from the rest of the world? Don’t discount Saturn’s moon Enceladus, as NASA has just released new research that indicates a global ocean lies underneath its icy surface. Using research from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that is scheduled to make a flyby of Enceladus on October 28, NASA was able to detect a slight wobble on the moon that researchers say can only be accounted for by a underground ocean. “This was a hard problem that required years of observations, and calculations involving a diverse collection of disciplines, but we are confident we finally got … Read more

WORLDBUILDING WEEK: Day One – Languages

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Worldbuilting Week

Welcome to the first annual Worldbuilding Week at QSF. We’ll talk about all aspects of building a world for your story, including languages; alien/magical races; history and timelines; culture and politics; sex, marriage and reproduction; and tools and techniques. It should be a lot of fun. Today we’re talking about languages, and Erica Pike will be our moderator. Have you ever created a language for a story? How do you go about building the fundamentals? Are there tools online to help? Does your language offer clues to your culture? And how do you make it work for your readers? Join … Read more

Exclusive: Teaser of the Upcoming WROTE Podcast LGBT Halloween Episode

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Hey all… we’ve got something really cool today – a teaser for the 3MMuskateers Podcast (now changing to WROTE to be more inclusive) for Halloween. The folks at WROTE have pulled together seven short stories for Halloween, and are giving them the full spooky treatment: The 3 M/Musketeers podcast has realized it’s time to be more LGBTQ inclusive. Their new brand, WROTE Podcast – “Written on the Edge” – celebrates queer storytelling in all genres and across all mediums! To celebrate this move forward, your hosts have teamed up with several podcast alumni authors to put together a Halloween Storytime … Read more

News: Stunning New Photos from Pluto

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Pluto

A new set of images has been received from the New Horizons spacecraft, showing close-up images of Pluto taken on July 15 (and only just recently processed) while it was passing by the dwarf planet at high speed — but not so fast it couldn’t see terrain so varied it’s astonishing astronomers. “If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there,” said the mission’s principal investigator, Alan Stern, in a NASA release. With wide plains, mountains and valleys, deltas implying moving liquids, and … Read more

Could You Transfer Your Consciousness to Another Body?

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Immortality

With the topic of mind uploading appearing in recent films such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avatar, CHAPPiE and the upcoming Selfless starring Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds, the ASAPScience guys decided to dig in and find out if our brains and memories might one day be able to be download, stored, and uploaded into something new. See the full story at Towleroad

Discussion: Is There a Silver Lining to Piracy?

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lego pirate

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Victoria Stagg Elliott – Book pirates suck but are there times to ignore piracy? I once talked to an author of gay young adult fiction who ignores pirate downloads because she knew that not all gay teens had access to a credit card. Granted, there are other ways for folks with no money to get free books – including contacting the author directly. So my question today: Does piracy, as much as we all hate it, provide a conduit for people, especially gay kids, to find our works that they might otherwise not have? Come … Read more

Time for the First Ad on the Moon?

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Pocari

Most people outside of Asia are unfamiliar with Pocari Sweat, a Japanese sports drink that tastes like Gatorade and resembles, well, sweat. That might change when Pocari Sweat becomes the first product advertised on the surface of the moon. In the latter half of 2016, an American firm devoted to space exploration, Space X, plans to land a rover on the moon. Among the rover’s cargo: a can of Pocari Sweat, which will be left on a lunar plain near a giant crater named Buerg. The goal, as stated by Pocari Sweat, is for a modern-day child to someday become … Read more

Saturday Night Fever Meets Gay Sci-Fi Thriller In Disco Mashup Masterpiece

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Hell's Club

In a galaxy far, far way, there’s a place where disco never died. Also, there are aliens, cyborgs, drug kingpins and hookers — basically New York City in the ’70s. Watch below as the likes of Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Boogie Nights, Night at the Roxbury, Austin Powers, Terminator and so many more are thrown into a blender and poured out as a single-consistency, vaguely gay smoothie. Full Story at Queerty

A Straight Fan Wants More Gay Comic Book Heroes

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Catwoman

I am a straight guy and a comic book fan. Exactly the kind of person the studios are worried about upsetting by having LGBTI superheroes. So why am I actually surprised and disappointed there are so few gay heroes in comic books? Firstly, it’s important to recognize that, while there are too few, that doesn’t mean there are none. Some names immediately pop into my head, mostly found in comics by the Big Two publishers; Marvel and DC. There is, for example, Catwoman who – in her latest interpretation – is at least bisexual; but I guess nobody was really … Read more