Different Skies

A collection of science fiction and fantasy related ephemera, in support of the Different Skies reading group. Books are provided to members free of charge by Hull Libraries. Meetings are held on the second Monday of the month, 5:00pm, at The Old English Gentleman, Mason Street, Hull.

[hanajibu]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

[70sscifiart]

Syd Mead’s retrofuturistic works

[noichitat]

possession - tinkering by ealasy

[different-skies]

Post-Singularity minds will either be manifest as cybernetic organisms, or more likely, as uploaded beings. Given the robust nature of computational substrate, intelligence is set to expand and diversify in ways that we cannot yet grasp, suffice to say that postbiological beings will scarcely resemble our current incarnation.

All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals

[70sscifiart]

[translucentmind]

Tower of The Elephant // Stephen Fabian

[70sscifiart]

“Over a cyclone” by Andrei Sokolov

[70sscifiart]

Robert McCall

[headlesssamurai]

“She was catapulted through the static wall, into cluttered vastness, the notional void of cyberspace, the bright grid of the matrix ranged around her like an infinite cage.” ― William Gibson

[arkories-deactivated20211120]

[antimony-deactivated20190319]

I ruled a smoking, wrecked kingdom with a hard and deadly hand. It was dark and gory. No one liked living there, not even its king. It had a soundtrack. All screams.

John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[nemfrog]

Plate VI. “Donati’s Comet or The Comet of 1858.” Les comètes. 1875.

[zuzax]

The power is in the symbol…What are we but symbols? Our flesh is merely an imperfect shadow cast by our spirit, what your imams call the soul. Our bodies are powerful because of the soul they symbolize, and with that power we can alter them, and we can alter other symbols.

The Necormancer, The Enterprise of Death

[sciencefictiongallery]

Tom Adams - The Time Of Infinity, 1963.