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18 posts with the tag mini-sci-fi
David Bentley
digital
Having settled after the surprise, we now needed to deal with the reality. Get closer, take what measurements we could, maybe some manual star sightings I suggested but the navigator just laughed at
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David Bentley
digital
Do you ever have one of those days when things, well, don’t turn out as planned? The sort where you wake up twenty minutes late and for the rest of the day you play catch-up? Where the traffic lights
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David Bentley
digital
The Imperium Presidency came with great honour, as well as great responsibility. That is self evident, I hear your unsaid thoughts, but as your tour guide and historian, I suggest there is more than
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David Bentley
digital
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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David Bentley
digital
After my holidays, dragging family around many of the architectural wonders of the modern world, I’m an engineer after all, my next assignment is literally off the planet. I’m an infrastructure recyc
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David Bentley
digital
I knew from a young age that I would probably end up in space. My earliest memories are playing rocket games with my father, and a house full of space books. Plus I was interested. Dinosaurs and supe
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David Bentley
digital
When he was eleven, Simon started writing and drawing in a notebook. Not regularly. Just every now and then when the wind blew strongly enough to get his attention. So many questions, so few answers
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David Bentley
digital
Space is unusual. Full of surprises. Mostly in the imagination of science fiction writers that made anything possible. It can also be scary. Solar storms, dust clouds, exploding stars. Let me tell y
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David Bentley
digital
“We are closer now, and have some altitude; the sun is higher in the sky. The shadows have gone, there is no industry. The shapes are still geometric, but not of a city as such. Abandoned perhaps, mi
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David Bentley
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Io is intensely volcanically active due to tidal forces from Jupiter and its neighboring moons, with Sulfur and Sulfur dioxide abundant on the surface. Lightly coloured from orbit, on the surface it’
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David Bentley
digital
“We’re approaching a binary star system, at her satanic majesty’s request, 2000 light years from home. Time to check the readouts. Whoa there, Gomper! They should look like a rainbow, not a distant c
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David Bentley
digital
“A Dyson Sphere doesn’t quite capture what is happening. It’s ancient and corroded, but not uniformly, tarnished but not rusty, for rust needs an electrolyte and an oxidiser, and none are present. We
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David Bentley
digital
“The bubble universe theory challenges our understanding of the universe and our place within it, suggesting an infinite array of possibilities beyond what we can currently observe.” Technique: #dig
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David Bentley
digital
In a three dimensional world, we nominate time as the fourth. It’s all our little brains can make manage. But what if time itself is multi-dimensional? Here’s the science: The three-time-dimensions t
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David Bentley
digital
“As the rings of Saturn turn endlessly, catching the hues of the surface gas cloud bands and the diffracting sunlight, the double flash of a ship emerging from a worm hole is sighted. What spices do
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David Bentley
digital
In the Southern Hemisphere July is winter. On the east coast it is often cool and dry, westerly adiabatic winds losing their moisture rather than bringing cold rain. Blue sky days. In the southern h
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David Bentley
digital
“Despina, a minor sea god, lies close to Neptune and is in a losing battle to remain intact. That may free up its mineral wealth, but not quickly enough as planetary time scales are too slow for the
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David Bentley
digital
Mercury, closest to the sun, was always expected to be sunburnt, cracked and full of surprises. Early Mariner flybys did not dispel this line of thinking, returned data suggesting a moon like surface
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