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18 of the World's Most Amazing Tree Houses

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:20:22 -0500

18 of the World's Most Amazing Tree Houses

fishingboatproceeds: colchrishadfield: Bournemouth to...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:25:56 -0500

colchrishadfield:

Bournemouth to Weymouth, towns named for where rivers meet the sea. Ancient folds of rock help define the coast.

This is from the tumblr of Col. Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut currently living on the International Space Station.

But I like to think of it as Space’s tumblr, and every single post is like, “Hey, guys. It’s me, Space. Look at you down there. Can you believe all the silly crap you’re fighting and worrying over? I mean, JUST LOOK AT YOU. You guys better cowgirl up and work together to keep this place running, because that is one gorgeous motherf*&ing planet you’ve got.”

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades..."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:28:43 -0500

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”

- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

(Wave goodbye to the myth of 2012.)

Happy holidays, with jetpacks.

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:16:43 -0500

Happy holidays, with jetpacks.

"Hey doll, is this guy boring you? Come and talk to me. I’m from a different planet."

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:44:54 -0500

““Hey doll, is this guy boring you? Come and talk to me. I’m from a different planet.””

- -Zaphod Beeblebrox

(hat tip to io9)

By Nicolas Ferrand, via Depechie’s Outing

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:40:35 -0500

By Nicolas Ferrand, via Depechie’s Outing

the perfect “Starships” video by bironic password:...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:20:00 -0400

the perfect “Starships” video by bironic

password: starships

Relevant to my interests. (Art by reefscaper, via Tor.com)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:41:14 -0400

Relevant to my interests.

(Art by reefscaper, via Tor.com)

"Bester’s protagonist hurls himself naked from a spaceship, fuelled by hatred. Bester’s novel hurled..."

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:14:37 -0400

“Bester’s protagonist hurls himself naked from a spaceship, fuelled by hatred. Bester’s novel hurled itself naked from the science fiction of its day, fuelled by something hipper than hatred, more potent.”

- William Gibson’s introduction to the Library of America edition of The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester

lohrien: Illustrations by Michael Parkes

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:26:17 -0400

lohrien:

Illustrations by Michael Parkes

Currently free at GOG.com: one RPG about dinosaurs, and one...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:23:21 -0400

Currently free at GOG.com: one RPG about dinosaurs, and one about Mars.

(These were definitely classics, but they’re a bit dated and hard to figure out for new players, I expect, so this is more a nostalgia advisory: go pick ‘em up free if you played them when you were a young’un.)

Sci-Fi Travel Posters by Dean Walton To celebrate my love for...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:28:47 -0400

Sci-Fi Travel Posters

by Dean Walton

To celebrate my love for these films and the amazingly rich and textured worlds they create, I’ve designed this pair of Sci-Fi Travel Posters.

Both are limited editions of 100 in each size and type and are available as either a high quality print or ready-to-hang canvas.

Available here

"The Eternal War": Ten Years of a Single Civ 2 Game

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:24:00 -0400

"The Eternal War": Ten Years of a Single Civ 2 Game:

Link to The Escapist summary of a reddit thread.

“I’ve been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was already well into the distant future. I then thought that it might be interesting to see just how far into the future I could get and see what the ramifications would be. Naturally I play other games and have a life, but I often return to this game when I’m not doing anything and carry on. The results are as follows.

The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.

There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands….”

Checked out anything at the Underground New York Public Library...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:04:03 -0400

Checked out anything at the Underground New York Public Library lately?

(p.s. read Ender’s Game, read the original sequels if you really, really want to, don’t read anything else in the “Enderverse”)

unypl:

“Ender’s Game,” by Orson Scott Card

Read Ender’s Game

fuckyeahellenripley: derek237: Wannt YES

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:41:50 -0400

fuckyeahellenripley:

derek237:

Wannt

YES

Lines from “Against Entropy” by John M. Ford...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:43:51 -0400

Lines from “Against Entropy” by John M. Ford spray-painted in a flooded ruin. [via]

“Bookends So Cool You’ll Regret Getting A Kindle” -...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:25:15 -0400

“Bookends So Cool You’ll Regret Getting A Kindle” - http://www.incrediblethings.com via Lauren Beukes

Total classic post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout is available free at...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:38:00 -0400

Total classic post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout is available free at GOG.com (as in Good Old Games) for 48 hours! Super easy and convenient, keep it forever, no DRM, all documentation and extras. Get on it.

book-cover: This is the story of the awakening and rise to...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:39:00 -0400

book-cover:

This is the story of the awakening and rise to power of intelligible forces beneath the surface of the sea.
The almost imperceptible beginnings and the cruelly terrifying consequences of this new threat to the world are seen through the eyes of a radio scriptwriter and his wife.
Told with convincing detail and immediacy, this novel shares with John Wyndham’s other books the distinction of being one of the few modern works of science fiction to bear comparison with the famous novels of H.G. Wells.

Cover design by Harry Willock

"A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the..."

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:33:00 -0400

“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that’s the best thing about all those old films, he said — when you see this old parchment map just … getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just … fwoom.”

- Vellum by Hal Duncan