The sheer amount of art that has been produced for Lucasfilm projects is overwhelming in its quantity and quality. One of the artists, whose contributions to Lucasfilm’s archives are particularly exciting, is French master illustrator Jean “Moebius” Giraud.

Re-reading “Omnilingual,” an H. Beam Piper short story published in Analog in 1957 and collected in Federation, I decided it was the classic SF short story, the one everyone ought to read if they’re only going to read one, because it’s both typical and excellent.

Eliot has trouble dealing with the fact he isn't human. Luckily, his friends know how to deal with freaks.

Jareth prized the promise of space but tolerated the subliminal squeal of spaceship electronics, the way their messages and signals and--what was it Sarah called them--bitstreams rustled along the edge of his magic.

A periodic table of 117 writers in 3 minutes.

Just know, from here on in, when someone says their show isn't science fiction when it obviously is, what they mean is their show isn't good. Lies do not become us, gentlemen.

Freeport colony: a notorious den of pirates, smugglers and thieves. Wufei persuades one of its denizens, his one-time ally Duo, to help him catch a killer hiding there. Agent Chang thinks he knows what to expect, from this case, from Freeport and from Duo Maxwell. He couldn't be more wrong.

... Still, it never feels quite safe to be alone in your mind in hyperspace, and that's because it isn't. It was a real relief to feel his weight in the back of my brain, and to hear his voice like the whisper of a guillotine in my head: Human female.

Spots began as a way to keep my mind active while at the gym, a thought exercise initially presented as a series of themed vignettes. It didn't stay that way long, though. It only took a month for a story to start coalescing out of these disconnected episodes. These days, at 160+ pages and 70+ episodes and counting, Spots has graduated to a full-fledged military SF novel, complete with outline and planned plot arcs and ending.

Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin (Brain in a jar/spaceship AU, not Anne McCaffrey's universe)
Summary: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a consciousness in possession of a spaceship, must be in want of a companion.

By Divine providence, we captured the mermaid with neither loss of life nor injury to any seaman, nor any harm done to the specimen. So easily we might have passed her by without even noticing her; but the sharp young eyes of Small Jack espied her as she lay all in sleep at the surface of the sea.

If the consequence of one altered battle is loving descriptions of more altered battles, I'm out. Cusps based on individual people are more obviously labile, though; the consequences of one battle can be immediately undone by another, but the life or death of one person due to one event may indeed be a unique opportunity.

Dr. Liu,

Got your final report yesterday on Project LV-426. I'm amazed. Great work all around. It's been forwarded to the Chair, our friends at the Pentagon, the Defense Appropriations Committee, and DARPA. The acid-resistant armor is something that should really catch their eye.

We're expecting some big grant money from this.

Burke

Burke,

Did you read even the executive summary of my report? There are some interesting biomaterials that we could work with, but I stressed, multiple times, that this creature is far too dangerous to even consider using in military research projects. It's aggressive, stupid, vicious, aggressive, impossible to train, and did I mention aggressive?

Alternatively, you can just go to Alexei Panshin's website and read the hilarously, meticulously detailed and documented account of his feud with Robert Heinlein over whether Heinlein could write sex or not, which puts all of f_w to shame forever, and then write me 1960s SF Fandom RPF instead. I wouldn't mind. (Though the website is longer than the books...)

Nyota liked her roommate just fine until she met her.

In which Merlin isn't quite sure how he feels about his captain, but is quite sure space would be a lot less interesting without him. A Space A/U!

brainship fusion fics <3

Jack and Stephen in space. No, really.

"Right." Rodney's voice lacked bite, but his pinched expression spoke volumes. Then again, it might be the caffeine withdrawal. "So instead of North American forest we get African savannah. Nice. Where exactly are we headed again?"

ar-Prezk twitched his whiskers. "Knock it off," he said. "I've had a long day. I need something for my daughter's birthday, and I want something different this time; when I gave her those flossy-maned ponies last year, she complained for days because everyone had those already."

Twenty Fun Things To Do With A Time Machine

Summary: Nothing says "Exciting story!" like "An academic presentation on Thanagarian anthropology." But that's all I got. Sorry.

The Girl Cooties Theory of Genre Literature, as applied to sf and fantasy.

Ronon POV, really cool alien planet.

International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War

"GHOST is Ringo's own admitted Lord King Badfic, his id run wild."

Science Fiction macros

Because they have the technology, Rodney’s rebuilding him.

SF webcomic set in the future

Janet Kagan's website