today I saw a squirrel pause
beside a city road
to check for traffic
quickly I checked the news
but no : our leaders still don't care
about pandemics
that rodent, then
must have been a visitor
from some scifi stream
where foresight
won the secret war between
love and economics
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#wrdz
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It looks like a Chrysalis or Mumified dead thing? It's still ten billion clicks away but is, or was, organic and it's projected path is heading for Earth orbit. It's moving too fast for interstellar rubble. What it is we've yet to learn but should we catch it before it reaches Pluto?
-It won't work, I said, unless you stand on your head.
Not being as flexible as us, the Human flipped over and balanced on head and two upper limbs.
+Nope, he said, the setting moon still looks bigger near the horizon.
-Sure; but can't you now see the Earth rising?
#SciFiFri work
#SciFiFri work
-Number One, do you see the Gorillas working for their supper?
+No, Captain Zorg.
-And what about the weaker species?
+They mostly work so a small elite can have a better supper.
-I see. And do you still think, Number One, that we should first negotiate with these "Humans"?
Small asteroids, more space rocks really, gleaming briefly in the sun, before disappearing in the cold, sombre of space. Damn! It's laborious to manoeuvre the catch when they're not visible. I won't mind the work if they're packed with gold though.
#SciFiFri Work / Labour #vss365 Sombre
Is crafting a representation of his late wife enough for Thomas?
@medium_blog @scifi @cyberpunk @bookstodon @thestorygraph #scififri #writersofmastodon #indieauthors #newtomastodonsocial https://damienlawless.medium.com/chapter-2-99030145f221
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new genetic engineering
will soon deliver young ones
with no external ears
but full internal streaming
they won't have need of #headphones
to nullify their fears
or cancel out the uncool noise
of old Earth screaming
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The headphones roar like erupting volcanoes. My eyes adjust to dull light & lightning flashes above. The sensors feed it all into my visor. The exploratory drone flies over wet lava towards Áine Corona but dies before it can get there. Another $b mission fail. I go get a coffee.
#SciFiFri Wet/Dry #vss365 Headphones
#scififri
... and then the world was blown to glass, a bauble floating under sun and stars. A billion silent nights; until cracks and bubbles grew over old power stations. Life had long departed, but this was Death returning. A worm behind the poison mirror.
We closed the exhibition.
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(Sparked into life from this: https://zirk.us/@voimaoy/110910552135202825)
#wrdz
Once the world was made of grass. We made paper from hemp, and houses from bamboo. Our transportation was interurban monorails that ran on sweet corn fuel.
#SciFiFri #transportation
the swimming moon
is never twice the same
nor the wilder gleam
in our stranger eye
once
we pressed that dust
with boots of hope and metal
but left its loneliness uncured
for some later time
wait now
these hungry grasping claws
will stumble soon
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the hills are alive
with the sound of metal wings
soft hiss of power
angry storms are stored
asleep in ice-ground hollows
such grand potential
southern estuary
bankers burning at both ends
the planet's wonders
where will they go
when the rising waters flow
over river banks
prepare your dams
and your sharpened silver blades
the flood is coming
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Tonight is 'Metal Night' & I'm reviewing this "show" in Venus Cloud City, for Home Planet News, on Earth. I don't get it at all - live, gnarly, stinking misfits, with homemade, museum piece instruments, making this high energy cacophony. This when quality, creative, AI music is free on thought request and piped straight into the brain to enjoy.
#SciFiFri Metal #vss365 Gnarled
"Hey, what's this tribunal is about?"
"Remember that strange signal out by Pluto 9 yrs ago?"
"The weird distress call thing? Where we had to really go for it with the thermic blasters on the hatches to gain access."
"Yh, just melted Gloop inside. So?"
"Idiots just got round to analysing it. Alien DNA."
"Bummer! 1st contact didn't work out then."
#SciFiFri Alien/Contact #vss365 Gloop
2nd contact:
From their tallest peak a tower thrusts in steel and stone, then sticks and bones. Desiccated corpses scatter down the leeward side, tinfoil "spacesuits" fluttering in the wind
Below, all towns are silent, fields overgrown
We are cargo cult, it seems