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Curtis Leon Fee: Mobius Engine

An #introduction for 2025 by way of as many hashtags as appropriate: #artist through education, #author who is #writing. #music degree, #bowie fan, #ps5 enthusiast, #fanedits and video editing, #cardgame and #boardgame designer. Recently diagnosed #actuallyautistic and enjoying leaning into that newly discovered persona.

All #art, #books, #video, #fanedit, #music, #story and #comics can be found at mobiusengine.co.uk

Some of these are free at the website, but there are deeper stories, source material, downloadable files at my #patreon: patreon.com/mobiusengine

Created a #fourthwallshop to sell some cool branding ideas about the revamped website, including #mobiusengine and #autism merch: mobiusengine-shop.fourthwall.c

I wrote a #novel about the effect of #DavidBowie on a time traveler. Then a #scifi #spaceopera novel about a band of women mercenaries fighting psychic vampires. Then I wrote a novel about either #autism or an android getting certified as human. It turned out to be about #autism, so I am re-writing this and will be posting the progress at my #patreon.

Currently writing a #TTRPG for no good reason. Watching a lot of #action, #martialart, and #anime as resource – which probably classifies as a special interest. Also building a mass of reference material for a #fantasy novel.

Learning #piano, but no longer #composing.

Playing a lot of #PS5, finally getting to grips with #CallOfDuty #BO6. Replaying #TheLastOfUs, #Uncharted, and #DeathStranding periodically.

www.mobiusengine.co.ukMobius Engine | a machine for the creation of original thought
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Four Novellas, Eight Stories, And A Few Workshops…Such A Deal!

Today’s the final day to join my Four Science Fiction Novellas Kickstarter. We hit our ask and all of our stretch goals. What does that mean for you? It means that if you back the Kickstarter at the $20 level or above, you’ll get the four…
kriswrites.com/2025/07/17/four

#NewReleases #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #AwardNominees #Kickstarter
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch · Four Novellas, Eight Stories, And A Few Workshops…Such A Deal!Today’s the final day to join my Four Science Fiction Novellas Kickstarter. We hit our ask and all of our stretch goals. What does that mean for you? It means that if you back the Kickstarter…
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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Leigh Brackett was a really good writer. Her characters feel alive, she can turn a beautiful phrase, and her plotting and story structure are so solid. Don’t be fooled by the goofy, click-bait titles she gives her stories. She always delivers way more than the title would suggest. (Okay, “Out of the Sea” was a huge dud, but apart from that, everything I’ve read by her I do not at all regret reading.) #SF #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera

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Science Fiction Thrills

I have a lot of news, and some of it is buried inside this Kickstarter that just went live. You see…due to the intransigence of the new owners at the sf digest magazines (as well as the mystery magazines), I can no longer send them my short fiction. I actually had to pull some stories […]…
kriswrites.com/2025/07/08/scie

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch · Science Fiction ThrillsI have a lot of news, and some of it is buried inside this Kickstarter that just went live. You see…due to the intransigence of the new owners at the sf digest magazines (as well as the myste…
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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Hasn’t anyone else ever noted these similarities, or am I imagining connections that don’t exist? Why on earth would Lucas hire Brackett, best known in Hollywood as a co-scripter of The Long Sleep, to write his space opera if he hadn’t already read her space operas? Still, it was an odd choice, because while Lucas uses tropes and motifs from her work, her themes are decidedly noir, which is something Lucas could never be. Honestly, I would love to read Brackett’s draft of the sequel to Star Wars. I bet it would be a lot more like Rogue One than the final form of The Empire Strikes Back. And I bet that’s why he didn’t like it. But what else could he have expected? #StarWars #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SciFi #SF (3/3)

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Gasp, original fiction by @readingchameleon?! In double-drabble form no less! ​:ngnnen_gasp:​

Well, you better believe it 'cause it's here! Inspired in part by @Unixbigot@aus.social's microfiction toots actually.

The minutes pass and I'm left with a single task

A found family builds a starship and walks the stars, until disaster strikes.

A single pilot with a single task.

The minutes pass, and all that’s left is me.

The minutes pass

and all



that’s left….



is



me.

Standalone double drabble inspired by The minutes pass and all that’s left is me by Moonlit_Blossom (ao3) / yoroshiu (tumblr). [200 words]
I can only imagine the world behind this little fic, and it's so cool ​:akko_excited:​ 🚀 🌠

#HopePunk is underrated.

Pssst, seen any hopeful!space opera fics around here? I'd love to know 🌟

#Fic #NotSureIfItsMicroFiction #But #MicroFiction #Space #SciFi #SpaceOpera #Fiction #NotActuallyFanfiction #ButKinda? #InspiredByFanfiction #OriginalFiction
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The Forever War

For some reason I had never read Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, and recently decided to remedy that. Like most classic sci-fi novels, it’s a quick read, much shorter than most contemporary novels. It’s often been called a Vietnam veteran’s response to Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Haldeman himself disputes that, although he admits it’s heavily inspired by Vietnam, and overall much more antiwar than Heinlein’s story.

This novel originally came out in the early 1970s and is very much a product of its time.

William Mandela is a physics student in the 1990s drafted into the United Nations army in a war against an alien species: the “Taurans”. Unlike in previous wars, a high IQ is part of the criteria. The military wants elite fighters. Women are included, so in this imagined near future military, it’s a mixed force, with roughly half female.

As a morale boosting measure, the recruits in training are encouraged, even required, to have regular and promiscuous sex with their colleagues. Pot smoking is common and seen as just another recreational drug. And the automatic “Sir, yes sir!” chorus of obedience in previous generations is replaced with a “F— you, sir!” response, repeated with the same lack of enthusiasm.

After some training in Missouri, the recruits are shipped to a planet in the outer solar system called “Charon” (not to be confused with the moon of Pluto discovered years after this story was written). Here they learn to use an armored exoskeleton suit so prevalent in military sci-fi. The training is grueling and dangerous. Several recruits are killed. Eventually they graduate and are sent to their first posting.

Interstellar travel in this universe happens via “collapsars”, a type of naturally occurring wormhole. However the collapsars are often a substantial distance from local solar systems or each other, requiring months of travel time, typically reaching relativistic speeds. The result is that while the troops spend months in transit, years are passing at the bases and on Earth. The battles all seem to happen in solar systems near collapsar transit points.

The Taurans, when first encountered, don’t seem like very good fighters, but they learn quickly, and the war becomes a long slog.

When Mandella first gets back to base, he discovers that decades have passed. But he, his girlfriend, and many others are given a chance to cash out their backpay and return to civilian life, although they are warned that a lot has changed on Earth. When they take the cash out option, they get back to Earth in 2024, and discover that it is a dystopia, with overpopulation, sky high crime rates, society breaking down, and widespread misery. Mandella and his girlfriend eventually reenlist.

As the war drags on and the decades and centuries pile up, Earth becomes increasingly alien from the view of the older soldiers. Governments on Earth begin to encourage homosexuality as a means to keep the population under control, and eventually make it mandatory. Mandella, as one of the longest surviving soldiers, finds himself considered a sexual deviant by the new recruits.

There are some pretty good action and battle scenes in the book, but one theme throughout seems to be that military often doesn’t know what it’s doing. Also that it’s not the soldier’s friend. And that the future is going to be very strange by our standards, starting with the army a few years in the future, and getting progressively weirder as the story progresses.

Reading older sci-fi is always an interesting experience. In this book, we get to see a 1970s vision of what the 1990s and 2020s would be like, and how dominated that vision is by the preoccupations of 60s and 70s culture. Certainly our 2020s is far from perfect, but it’s a picnic compared to the nightmare presented in the book. Something for us to keep in mind when contemplating the predictions made today.

Obviously this book isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but I found it an interesting ride, worth considering if you’re looking for classic sci-fi to read.

Cover for The Forever War showing an astronaut in a crosshair site.
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Yora

The Star Wars universe is ridiculously big, claiming to cover an entire galaxy. And it has more planets making an appearance than anyone could ever remember. But at leas they handwave distances and travel time.

The Traveller Map has 128 sectors, composed of 2048 subsectors. The fastest ships flying nonstop without refueling would take over 2 years to cross it. Six or seven years seems more realistic.
What stories would ever need such a giant map?

#Traveller#worldbuilding#spaceopera
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