My latest read: "Colossus with a Poison Tongue" by Coy Hall - See my Goodreads review for details but if you're a fan of far-future post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories oozing with vivid depictions of horror and the occult, this one's for you!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7804641794

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Michael Shotter's review of Colossus with a Poison Tongue

5/5: In his typical fashion, Coy Hall kicks off this blend of post-apocalyptic science fiction, horror, and occultism with aplomb, inserting the reader into the midst of a theocratic city-state's impending collapse in a way that makes the place and its inhabitants feel "real" and authentic in just a few pages. As the story unfolds, layers are steadily peeled away to reveal the larger world, shaped by the quirks and motivations of its key figures, as well as tantalizing glimpses of what lies beyond the scope of the story and the lives led by those in it who aren't movers and shakers. This furthe...

๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ“œโณ The distant chronicle of timeโ€™s slow decay is etched in stars, rocks, and fading whispers. Planets tilt, seasons shift, stars collapse. Tides drag the moon outward, Earth inches toward entropy, and civilizations vanish beneath the sediment of epochs. Even now, the cosmos plots the erosion of all things, its vast and unfeeling script written in the relentless arithmetic of oblivion. #farfuture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia

Snack for TRPG session at 14:3! Hope these are good. They look iffy. LOL.
Gearing up for today's playthru of BIOHEIST, my brand new #farfuture #biopunk #TRPG. GMing for the first time in DECADES and I am both nervous and excited. While the game itself comes with an adventure and COMPLETE rules, I'm running an original adventure of my own which might make it into subsequent versions of the game. #pocketquest2024 Link: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/475120/Bioheist-The-Hellflesh-Heist
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The #pitch was: Sometime in the #farfuture, five #Starsystems were #colonized by #JapaneseNationalists; people who #Romanticized #Shogunate #Japan and were swept up in a movement to reclaim their perceived golden age.

Flash forward an unspecified amount of time, and the five systems are unified into a #hightech shogunate. Each system is ruled by a #Daimyo, who answered to the #Shogun of the #Fuji system.

At least they used to, until just before the game starts, when Fuji's Star went #Novae.

If you could recommend ONE book in the #FarFuture subgenre, which book would that be? Why? #sciencefiction #books
I'll be serializing my novella, Daimyo's Decoy, starting the new year. A #samuraipunk adventure. Kurosawa meets Miller (Mad Max), #mutants, #monsters and other strange entities. A young woman is called upon to use her "phantomechanism" to manipulate the dead daimyo's flesh to save castle and clan! #fiction #japan #samurai #scifi #farfuture
The Next Supercontinent Formation Could Wipe Out Most Mammal Life

For more than 300 million years, mammals of all shapes and sizes have flourished here on Earth.

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If you could recommend ONE book in the #FarFuture subgenre, which book would that be? Why? #sciencefiction #books

The vibe: a million years in the future, the Great Pyramids restored to their original shiny-white glory, Betelgeuse's supernova in the sky, viewed on a rewilded Earth by only one pilgrim, alone in the dunes...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/08/12/supernova-over-the-pyramids-in-the-far-future/

#farfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #supernova

Supernova over the Pyramids in the Far Future, Adamas Nemesis

I've been thinking up one of my capricious little vibes: the Great Pyramids at Giza, far into the future, long since restored to their original glory in...

Adamas Nemesis

Sometimes the dawn of a new age is seen not in the core, but in the periphery. Driven by assassins to the edge of the known universe, a lone genius must not only be an inventor but also intrepid explorer.

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Ebook: https://www.amazon.co/dp/B092SZ6N7V/
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092P62SDV/