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Whispers - by Jeszika Le Vye

Website: Jeszika.com

‘Each neuron, whispering to the next, Each axon carrying a spark of self, I am a whispered conversation in the labyrinth of my mind.’

I really loved Month of Love’s theme this week: Secrets. It brought to mind all the little pieces of ourselves that we hide from ourselves or build upon; millions of little truths that make us who we are. Some lost in dark corridors of our psyche and some that spark brightly and become more real. We hide secrets from ourselves every moment, and we share secrets with ourselves as well.

What makes us who we are is an elaborate web of sparks, of smoke, of whispered little truths. 

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Elliot Lang

‘Bargain’

oil on panel, vector • 10″ x 12″

Month of Love 2017 - Week 2: ‘Innocent’

“What is it? I’m damned if I know. My humanity, I suppose. But Whatever it is, it means nothing to me, so I’m going to see how much it’s worth to them. I’ve put it up for sale, on the open market, and now I’ve found a taker. We’re here to see how much I can get for it.” -from the Magician’s Land, by Lev Grossman

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By concept artist Kenneth Doronin.

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We’ll Take One Microwave-Powered Starship, Please

In this week's episode of the "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" podcast, author Allen Steele offers his ideas for how we can move forward on interstellar travel. His new novel Arkwright is about a famous science fiction writer who establishes a generation-spanning project to build the world’s first starship. The story was inspired by the Starship Century conference, which discussed plans to achieve interstellar travel by the end of the century.

Arkwright author Allen Steele is on WIRED’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

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James Jean - Fables 

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By concept designer Min Nguen.

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The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne Is Epic Fantasy for the Modern Age

I’ll admit something right up front: I’m not the biggest fan of epic fantasy. Your book has spaceships and alien worlds? I’m there. But I’m a bit more reluctant to dig into an 800-page epic fantasy tome. Or I thought I was: Brian Staveley may have turned me around. His just-completed The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne trilogy in an expansive series that offers up a truly fantastic story, set in a rich and deeply rewarding world. Staveley kicked things off a couple of years ago with The Emperor’s Blades, and followed it up with The Providence of Fire in 2015. Next week, he brings it to a close with the trilogy’s final installment, The Last Mortal Bond.

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Shanghai 2114 by artist Nikolay Razuev.

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Tentacle Ring with Amethyst by OctopusMe on Etsy

*More Things & Stuff

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@rovinacaiart gives us another beautiful illustration from the world of Every Heart a Doorway by @seananmcguire​. Why write about doors to other worlds, and the children who tumble through them? Seanan explains why portals and where they lead us fascinate her here.

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Paul Émile Chabas (French, 1869-1937)

Matinée de Septembre - 1911

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Joao Ruas

“KS #02″

© 2016

www.joaoruas.com

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By concept artist Pierre-Alexandre Schuller.

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Star Wars inspired artwork by Thu Berchs.

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Read an excerpt from L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Madness in Solidar, coming out in paperback on March 1st.

Four centuries after its founding, Solidar’s Collegium of Imagers is in decline, the exploits of its founder, the legendary Quaeryt, largely forgotten. The Collegium is so lacking in leadership that the dying Maitre must summon Alastar, an obscure but talented senior imager from Westisle far to the south who has little knowledge of politics in the capital, as his successor. When Alastar arrives in L'Excelsis and becomes the new Maitre, he finds disarray and lack of discipline within the Collegium, and the ruler of Solidar so hated by the High Holders that they openly refer to him as being mad. To make matters worse, neither Rex Ryen, ridiculed as Rex Dafou, nor the High Holders have any respect for the Collegium, and Alastar finds himself in the middle of a power struggle, with Ryen demanding that the Collegium remove the strongest High Holders and the military leadership in turn plotting to topple Ryen and destroy the Collegium. At the same time, Ryen is demanding the High Holders pay a massive increase in taxes while he initiates a grandiose building project. And all that, Alastar discovers, is only a fraction of the problems he and the Collegium face.