Using this device I successfully tapped into the Zero-Point-Energy of the Gaping Void. Perpetua Mobilia nunc habemus!

The Age Of Abundance is upon us!!!! It is for the philosophers to argue how to deal with the abundance of free energy!!!

#ScientificRomance

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Slightly sidetracked from reading some Victorian science fiction by trying to open a folder of Forgotten Futures files on my iPad. This seems to be trickier than reasonably necessary.

As noted (and linked) on https://www.forgottenfutures.co.uk/cd-rom/cdrom.htm the final Forgotten Futures […]

Screenshot of an ebook library, showing the covers of mainly Victorian and Edwardian scientific romances, arranged in a grid.

Might aim for a spot of reading today, if my brain will allow it.

#ScientificRomance #Books #Fiction

The 1920s Channel: "Futuristic Vehicles in the 1920s"

https://youtu.be/cT1u7MbaLqg

#1920s #ScientificRomance #Vehicles #SF

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Meme-Free Zone and Other Lies by Marcus L. Rowland: "Forgotten Future - A Scheme for a Great National Monument"

https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2413776.html

#London #ScientificRomance #Architecture

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Marcus L. Rowland has put the contents of the Forgotten Futures "CD-ROM" file on Internet Archive:

https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2405753.html

Free to download, it remains a remarkable collection of stories, articles, illustrations and game material related to the scientific romances of […]

Coming soon.

#WarOfTheWorlds #HGWells #MartianInvasion #ScienceFiction #AlienInvasion #VictorianSciFi #ClassicSciFi #ScientificRomance #WellsClassic #EarlySciFi

Cover of "The Shape of Things to Come - The H.G. Wells Sourcebook" from Surbrook Press for the Hero System. White page with central illustration of a scene from "The War of the World's," depicting the torpedo ram Thunder Child attacking a three-legged Martian war machine.

Michael Surbrook's H.G. Wells sourcebook for the Hero System, "The Shape of Things to Come," is out now in PDF:

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/534645/the-sh...

#RPG #Games #HeroSystem #HGWells #ScientificRomance

Hero Games Forum: Teaser pages from upcoming H.G. Wells sourcebook, "The Shape of Things to Come"

www.herogames.com/forums/topic/107564-the-...

#HGWells #RPG #Games #ScientificRomance

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Checking a half-remembered detail from Fred White's 1903 disaster tale "The Invisible Force," after @RogerBW kindly identified the source from my garbled recollection; of course, I've been sucked in immediately and am now re-reading the whole thing. I am reminded of the risk-oblivious approach […]

Coming soon.

#TimeMachine #HGWells #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #MorlocksAndEloi #EarlySciFi #VictorianSciFi #ScientificRomance #FutureSociety #WellsClassic

Scientific Romances in the Atomic Age How the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Film Rediscovered the Victorian Era

Futurism: "Scientific Romances in the Atomic Age: How the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Film Rediscovered the Victorian Era"

vocal.media/futurism/scientific-roma...

#ScientificRomance #ScienceFiction #Film #Movies #SciFi #Verne #Disney

Reading an article listing anthologies of 19th century scientific romances and playing my regular game of "Do I already have a copy of that? I'm sure I have that. I should just go and check."

#Books #ScientificRomance #ScienceFiction

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"The Time Traveller is actually rather a hopeless anthropologist. He arrives in this future terrain, and misunderstands everything"

An interesting short interview with Professor Roger Luckhurst from 2016 about the classic early scientific romances of H.G. Wells […]

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A couple of classic lines from scientific romances popped up in the Thog's Golden Oldies section of the latest Ansible newsletter:

· Biothermics Dept, or Why Polar Bears Do Not Exist: ‘It was evidently cold-blooded or nearly so, for no warm-blooded animal could have withstood that more than […]

Trash fiction for the haughty sophisticate. Brad D. Sibbersen. Novels. Shorts. Ebook and paperback.

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MONSTERS, ZOMBIES, AND MAD SCIENCE by Brad D. Sibbersen. Now available on Kobo. (This pulp-infused, triple-threat omnibus collects the premiere installments of Inept Concepts' three most popular ongoing series for your reading convenience! First: Welcome to Mad Science U, the tale of a boy, a girl, another girl, a whole sorority full of girls, and a mysterious, top-secret university that more than justifies the dark in dark academia. Next, Pulp: Monsters, the premiere volume in a series dedicated to replicating the pulp shorts and serials of yore, this installment concentrating solely on tales of monsters, in the glorious vein of 1970s' horror comics! Finally, Night of the Lunar Dead, in which the irrepressible – or is that irresponsible? – Mr. K attempts to quell a zombie outbreak on the moon, with, er, middling success. It's an avalanche of pulp punk, post-steampunk, science-wonder goodness; the fantastic, pulse-pounding weird fiction it seemed like nobody was writing anymore. Welcome home.)

The cult fiction you've been yearning for • By Brad D. Sibbersen • Welcome home • 🔪🕸️🚨

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MONSTERS, ZOMBIES, AND MAD SCIENCE • This pulp-infused, triple-threat omnibus collects the premiere installments of Inept Concepts' three most popular ongoing series for your reading convenience! First: Welcome to Mad Science U, the tale of a boy, a girl, another girl, a whole sorority full of girls, and a mysterious, top-secret university that more than justifies the dark in dark academia. Next, Pulp: Monsters, the premiere volume in a series dedicated to replicating the pulp shorts and serials of yore, this installment concentrating solely on tales of monsters, in the glorious vein of 1970s' horror comics! Finally, Night of the Lunar Dead, in which the irrepressible – or is that irresponsible? – Mr. K attempts to quell a zombie outbreak on the moon, with, er, middling success. It's an avalanche of pulp punk, post-steampunk, science-wonder goodness; the fantastic, pulse-pounding weird fiction it seemed like nobody was writing anymore. Welcome home. (Now available via Apple Books)

Finally, the weird fiction you've been searching for • By Brad D. Sibbersen • Welcome home • 😱

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This pulp-infused, triple-threat omnibus collects the premiere installments of Inept Concepts' three most popular ongoing series for your reading convenience! First: Welcome to Mad Science U, the tale of a boy, a girl, another girl, a whole sorority full of girls, and a mysterious, top-secret university that more than justifies the dark in dark academia. Next, Pulp: Monsters, the premiere volume in a series dedicated to replicating the pulp shorts and serials of yore, this installment concentrating solely on tales of monsters, in the glorious vein of 1970s' horror comics! Finally, Night of the Lunar Dead, in which the irrepressible – or is that irresponsible? – Mr. K attempts to quell a zombie outbreak on the moon, with, er, middling success. It's an avalanche of pulp punk, post-steampunk, science-wonder goodness; the fantastic, pulse-pounding weird fiction it seemed like nobody was writing anymore. Welcome home.

The pulp fiction you've been waiting for • By Brad D. Sibbersen • Welcome home • 💀 🌋 🚀

#weirdfiction #pulpfiction #fantasticfiction #fringescience #steampunk #gaslamp #retropulp #pulpfantasy #weirdfantasy #scientificromance #planetaryromance #darkacademia #gothic #retroscifi #horrorfiction

This pulp-infused, triple-threat omnibus collects the premiere installments of Inept Concepts' three most popular ongoing series for your reading convenience! First: Welcome to Mad Science U, the tale of a boy, a girl, another girl, a whole sorority full of girls, and a mysterious, top-secret university that more than justifies the dark in dark academia. Next, Pulp: Monsters, the premiere volume in a series dedicated to replicating the pulp shorts and serials of yore, this installment concentrating solely on tales of monsters, in the glorious vein of 1970s' horror comics! Finally, Night of the Lunar Dead, in which the irrepressible – or is that irresponsible? – Mr. K attempts to quell a zombie outbreak on the moon, with, er, middling success. It's an avalanche of pulp punk, post-steampunk, science-wonder goodness; the fantastic, pulse-pounding weird fiction it seemed like nobody was writing anymore. Welcome home.

The pulp fiction you've been waiting for • By Brad D. Sibbersen • Welcome home • 💀 🌋 🚀

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“An Electric Man” In 1900, Louis Philip Perew of Tonawanda, New York, built a “gigantic man” of wood, rubber, and metal that “walks, talks, runs, jumps, [and] rolls its eyes.” Standing 7 foot 5 in size 13 1/2 shoes and clothed in white duck, the nameless man “walked smoothly, and almost noiselessly” at an exhibition for the _Strand_, circling the hall twice without stopping. Perew was cagey as to its inner workings, saying only that its aluminum skin concealed a steel framework. When a large block of wood was placed in its path, “it stopped, rolled its eyes in the direction of the obstacle, as if calculating how it could surmount it. It then deliberately raised the right foot, placed it upon the object, and stepped down on the other side. The motion seemed uncannily realistic. You almost feel like shrinking from before those rolling eyes. The visionless orbs are operated by means of clock-work situated within the head.” When the robot announced, “I am going to walk from New York to San Francisco,” Perew acknowledged that the team planned to send it across the continent drawing a light wagon bearing two men. He claimed it could cover 20 miles in an hour. I don’t know any more about it. This isn’t the first mechanical man we’ve encountered — a steam-powered robot had been proposed as early as 1868. But neither seems to have gone anywhere.

Futility Closet: "An Electric Man"

www.futilitycloset.com/2025/03/23/an-electric-m...

#History #ScientificRomance #SteamPunk

#opera #goodscience #terriblehistory #scientificromance

Futility Closet: "Early Adopter"

www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/25/early-adopter...

#Time #ScientificRomance #ScienceFiction #HGWells