This is pretty similar to the plot of Stephen Baxter's novel Titan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(...

Modern heroes and a ravaged Earth: reboot of 1950s space comic Dan Dare has liftoff Beloved characters reinvented in graphic novel coming later this year – just as interest rockets in all things space

In today’s Guardian, a nice feature on @b7comics.bsky.social Dan Dare graphic novel by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and some art bloke ;)

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

dark purple fish with big ol’ eyes and thicc lips and a tuft of…fish hair, head fins?? that look like a tuft of hair. he’s chillin on a reef. he has little toofs.

look at this fraggle-ass fish

Dan Dare: First Contact pencils detail.
Please consider backing our Kickstarter crowdfunder for this passion project being made with love for the character but retooled for today!
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I too am a ridiculous space nerd who also likes the opera, but I don't think I have ever been this well dressed.

Watercolour painting of a smiling green goblin wearing an 18th-century coat and ruffled shirt. The coat is dark blue with a night sky pattern and a gold star trim.

Space Goblin goes to the opera!

Nell of Lamp Post Projects (lamppostprojects.com) painted this for me as thanks for playtesting their Fantasy Opera games. One doesn't wear a space helmet to the opera, so he's wearing an opera coat with a star pattern.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ Our 4th most-read article of 2022. CALENDAR 2027 3/31/24 4/13/25 4/5/26

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

I put off trying it because people were saying it was super hard and puzzly, but I found the difficulty of the puzzles to be pretty well balanced

Y'all weren't joking about Blue Prince, that game is great

Thank you!!!

OK this is super cute

A large white mug with a cartoon picture of a blue dinosaur saying "you're doing a good job and your hair looks nice". It's filled with pens, and there are barely visible cracks on the handle where I glued it back together. Behind it are a small Lego spaceship and a standing microphone.

I broke my favourite mug :( so I glued it back together to use as a pen holder.

Thought I'd share it in case you also need to hear that you're doing a good job and your hair looks nice.

When the main story is presented as an urgent problem I must solve at once, but there's no actual time limit and the game expects me to noodle around doing side quests first.

Why not have the main story say "this is important and you'll only get one shot, so make sure you're fully prepared"?

Earth.

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

This NASA site gives a real-time view of where Artemis II is.

Very cool.

www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Dan Dare (Graphic Novel) An all-new reimagining of the classic British sci-fi adventure strip Dan Dare written by Alex de Campi with art by Marc Laming.

We have 653 backers for DAN DARE and I would love to hit 700. @b7media.bsky.social is announcing stretch goals soon, we’ll have new pages next week—and maybe even a rough of @jhwilliams3.bsky.social’s hardback cover! The book is WORTH IT, trust me: www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Is it coherent? Mostly.
Is it bug-free? Ha ha, no.
Is it good? Not yet, but the things that are wrong with it are things I can fix.

Foolish Earth Creatures: March 2026 Big milestone this month: the game now has one path where I can play all the way from start to finish without encountering any placehold...

Hit a project milestone today! There's now a single path where I can play through the game without encountering any placeholder text. Now I just need to write the rest of it.

write.as/johnayliff/f...

I enjoyed the Project Hail Mary movie a lot so it's a pity the author is a doofus.

If you read a lot of classic sci-fi and miss its political themes, and then you write something inspired by that sci-fi, you'll make something with similar themes without meaning to.

I'm just gonna say right now that Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate (and my other games) are political as fuck, in ways that I intended and no doubt also in ways that I wasn't conscious of but are still there.

photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2023-10-22 | Comics Kingdom Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from October 22, 2023, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

I'm currently excited about two comics that reimagine classic sci-fi characters for the modern day:

1) Dan Schkade's Flash Gordon reboot (starts here: comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...)

2) This kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Some process stuff from world building folder for @b7comics.bsky.social's Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel, crowd funding on Kickstarter now! Please consider backing this passion project
kickstarter.com/projects/798979572/dan-dare-graphic-novel

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Can I recommend:

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising

Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (also, everything)

Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard

Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (also, everything)

Ursula le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea (also, everything)

Writer, @alexdecampi.bsky.social, talks about her love for Dan Dare and why the character is still relevant today: “The classic Dan Dare books absolutely rock. And we're remaking Dan Dare so new generations can realise how awesome it is too.” www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...