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A growing queue of vessels lined up at the edge of the Nettopt-6 Asteroid Belt, forming a cylindrical column +4Ø about the projected path of comet I/2491 J12, hoping they could follow the comet through the corridor it would temporarily open.

Those things we hide from the light? they're soon exposed.

Damn! now we're losing composure due to the maximum exposure!

Once a globetrotter now confined to the local settings moves closed!

No sensual shoreline it's more like coastline erosion.

#DailyPrompt, #BraveWrite, #FoxProse, #SciFiFri

They were caught out there on the shoreline out by the river waiting.

Not by a sensual shoreline, an atmosphere full of hating.

Indurate hydraulics caused by ill advised frolics and shenanigans..

..from psychotics? now the floodgates are open!

#DailyPrompt, #FoxProse, #firewords280, #SciFiFri

#SciFiFri - *close*

Excerpt 2 from the #YAscifi THE NASCENT BLOOM: Book 1 Caught. This Killer Nashville Claymore Award finalist & top pick is a fast-paced, romantic sci-fi adventure, packed with action, suspense, space pirates, and plenty of kissing.

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#SciFiFri - *open*

In THE NASCENT BLOOM: Book 1 Caught, a #youngadult #scifi #suspense, teens from opposite worlds (she’s rich, he’s poor), are caught by space pirates & forced into servitude on a planet far from home. They have 1 goal: to escape - *not* fall in love.

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Scientist: So, see here? The sun actually #revolves around your planet, not the Orange Goblin.
MAGA Amerikkkant, brow furrowed: Um, no. That ain't right.
Scientist: Yes! Yes, it is. It's an #open and shut case. Empirically proven.
MAGA: Uh, no. Can't be.
Scientist sighs.

#vss365 #scififri #maga

“Ladies and gentlemen, as we head toward the Pleiades, the most spectacular open star cluster in Earth’s night sky, let us close the chapter on the recent unpleasantness. After all, we’ll be shipmates together for the foreseeable future, yes?” #SciFiFri

It was like a carousel revolving around a spit. The ET in the center forced them to walk in a circle. Each time one of the crew members opened or closed their eyes, a short burst of laser light struck their skin. The acrid smell was nauseating. #Scififri #vss365 #horrorprompt

#SciFiFri Nowadays there's a 3D Printing & Milling shop every few blocks, usually a room off of someone's house or a shed in the yard. What's rarer is finding a Plan Store, if you don't have a part to copy.

People are so used to fixing broken things... a giant store of new things? That'd seem odd.

"Ship, open firing tube."

"Open."

"Start the clock."

"Running."

"Aim, 317 by 27, just outside the holy city."

"Locked."

"Match rotation."

"Rotation matched."

"Fire."

"Firing."

As the Ship launched Poydras at the surface of Revastar B, she wondered if she would see him again.

#scififri

#SciFiFri Star Voyager stood in sparkly polyester & platform shoes. With a smoke hanging from its #closed mouth, the alien pointed one limb high & the other low, like Tony in Sat. Night Fever. "Forget perfunctory greetings," it said to the welcoming dignitaries. "Dance off. Challenge #open to all."

An astronaut in a space suit approaches a circular door to another dimension, his twin is coming out the other way

Going between dimensions, it pays to remember that crossings are less like #open doors and more like #revolving ones. Patience is a virtue when it comes to timing. The #reward will not only be your #survival, but avoiding a collision with yourself coming the other way

#scififri #vss365 #2wordprompt

#SciFiFri #scifi Dawn thunder rolled across the heavens. Big Guy stomped about, yelling at camp leaders "Get in those barracks; shake up every recruit until you find the responsible idiot," he snapped. "Make 'em all pick up that mess!"

"Who left heaven's gate open last night?"

#SciFiFri 'open' from CURSE OF THE ALIEN RING... available wide... #booksky #romancelandia www.amazon.com/Curse-Alien-...

–Of course. I've decided to be the better man, ignore your insults and not open the airlock until you're done suiting up but maybe I'll just keep it closed when you come back knocking.
–You... you're kidding, right?
–Dare to bet?

[4/5]
#SciFiFri

–Well, I've promised the entire contents of my betting jar to anyone who manages to figure out what it is that you actually do around here... Relax, I'm joking, think nothing of it.

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#SciFiFri

–Sheesh, cap, when did you lose your sense of humour?
–The very moment I was assigned to airlock duty or whatever you call this. Why didn't you ask Aldrich or Cadwell?
–Because they're busy. You know, with work.
–And I'm not?

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#SciFiFri

–Don't open the door, I'm not properly dressed!
–Very funny, Reyes. No matter what you think about my brain capacity, I'm fully aware of that the airlocks are not to be opened unless personnel is fully and properly suited up.

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#SciFiFri

Wut in tar-nation? #SciFiFri agin? Well now, Ah best oughta rope up muh weekly #scifiart drop 'fore I apply all this vaso-leen to muh saddle-sore nethers!

Credits:

Angela Wang
Yuliya Zabelina
Jan Urschel
John Gallagher

#SciFi

#SciFiFri [1/6] As Ruthanne moved off toward the head, looking back with a half-smile, half-frown, Ian waved his hand at her and #closed the door again. Reality was a slippery thing; already he had lost his grip on the perception that the god in the pod was a psychotic delusion.

#SciFiFri [2/6] The lift reached Deck B, but Linna jammed her finger onto the button that held the door #closed. “Ian is doing a good job, but to me he seems pretty anxious and uptight. It’s subtle – people who’ve just met him might not detect anything at all.”

#SciFiFri [3/6] Robbie #opened the big port hidden in the bulwark behind him and played a short vid of a martial eagle soaring over the savanna and swooping down to land on a branch and mantle fiercely. “Later we’re going to hear fantastic tales of mythological birds…

#SciFiFri [4/6] “but I don’t know any of those, so I’m going to tell a tale that really happened – it’s become for me almost mythical in its implications.” And he proceeded to speak of the martial eagle Survivor and how he was brought to the Islands for breeding purposes …

#SciFiFri [5/6] only to escape and be shot in both wings for attacking newborn lambs in Kent. And he told how a small boy had viewed that crippled but unbowed eagle in the Lunden Zoo and been spiritually drawn to him …

#SciFiFri [6/6] …and how, when his own wings had been clipped, an older version of that boy had re-experienced that kinship.

#SciFiFri Open

The galaxy of the Thirteen Systems is ruled by the warrior elite--commoners can achieve wealth and influence, but are not seen as equals.

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#SFR #spaceopera #scifibooks

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