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Distant Instrument, 2063

September 12, 2022 weirdspecterLeave a comment

The intelligence analysts tracking Uploads from their bedrooms.

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Distant Instrument, Earth, People, Places, Technology, Uploading, WarfareTagged future, Hard Sci-fi, transhumanism

Ship profile: Tereshkova-Class Shuttle, 2076

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 weirdspecterLeave a comment

The Tereshkova, orbit in style!

Posted in Earth, Spaceflight, Technology, The Orbital FederationTagged future, Hard Sci-fi

Sync, 2124

December 23, 2021 weirdspecterLeave a comment

Puberty's changes are hard enough on any teen; even harder when you accidentally opensource your soul.

Posted in Sync, Technology, Transhuman, Uncategorized, UploadingTagged future, Hard Sci-fi, Hard scifi, transhumanism

Rustbucket, 2648

September 29, 2021 weirdspecterLeave a comment

The Millennium Falcon's got nothin' on this baby!

Posted in Spaceflight, Technology, Terraforming, The Terran Empire, WarfareTagged firefly, Hard Sci-fi, sci-fi

Reciprocity, 2324

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 weirdspecterLeave a comment

Apex Rejects: a short story about theft, slime and the end of the world.

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Major Polities, Organic Intelligence, Spaceflight, Technology, The Asteroid Belt, The Treaty Organisation

Natural Wonders of the Worlds, 3591

July 26, 2021 weirdspecterLeave a comment

Songlines to the Stars.

Posted in Aliens, Stargate, TechnologyTagged Alien, cliffs look like people, future, Gardener Crabs, Hard Sci-fi, Hard scifi, singing towers, the lovers, wormholes

Ryker’s Hiders, 2775

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 weirdspecter1 Comment

Hide beneath the roots, and you might survive night in the Dark Forest.

Posted in Aliens, Major Polities, Ryker's Hiders, Spaceflight, Technology, The Indi Band, Epsilon Indi, The Terran Empire, WarfareTagged future, Hard scifi, megastructure, sci-fi, Terran Empire, transhumanism

Red Antelope

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 weirdspecterLeave a comment

Was the site once of a city great and gay, (So they say)

Posted in Aliens, Red Antelope, Spaceflight, TechnologyTagged Aliens, first contact, first contact scenarios, ross 128, SETI

Ship profile: Wasp Interceptor, 2567

April 22, 2021April 12, 2022 weirdspecter3 Comments

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee...

Posted in Major Polities, Spaceflight, Technology, The Terran Empire, Warfare

Mind and Machine

April 15, 2021June 17, 2021 weirdspecter2 Comments

Evict the ghost in the machine today!

Posted in Technology

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