Alan Vincent Michaels

@alanvmichaels.bsky.social

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#SFF Speculative fiction author & poet | SFWA & SFPA member | archaeohistorian | genealogist | photographer #Prompt host: #ScifaikuSaturday #SFStoryPrompt #Fantaiku (@Fantaiku.bsky.social) 🌐 https://alanmichaels.com | https://instagram.com/AlanVMichaels

A Gemini | NanoBanana AI image of a large field populated by sweet potatoes wearing sun hats.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
Image credit: NASA • Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. Image AS11-40-5878 (20 July 1969) shows a close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon. This haiku sequence overlays the image: Our First Steps our stellar journey… we began with a small step only now resumed embrace the future… we must overcome fear and mindless division brilliant destiny… we must be brave to save our precious progeny Haiku by & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels
Picture this! An old man, wearing a flowery, tropical collared shirt and dark, tan shorts, is reclining in his lanai lounger, drinking a cocktail, and listening to tunes on an old-fashioned, transistor radio. He is looking out at a dark, crater-strewn moonscape and an immense galaxy in the black sky beyond. Three luminous aliens hover in the distance blocking the galaxy. The old man is waving his fist and shouting, “Hey, you U.D. kids* Get off my private moonscape!Youth never listens” Haiku by & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels *ultra-dimensional kids
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
Public domain images of Johannes Kepler and a supernova explosion, emulating the “The Big Bang Theory” of how the Universe came into existence. The following text from @AlanVMichaels.bsky.social covers the lower-left quadrant of the image: “On April 27, 4977 BCE, the Universe was created! This amazing ‘fact’ was calculated by the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler who is considered by many to be a founder of modern science, proving that science cannot determine everything.”
A meme from Alan Vincent Michaels’ “Life Is Only A Meme™” series that displays a black and white image of a young Caucasian boy and girl at an internment service standing with a group of adults. The young girl is holding a stuffed monkey toy, and her lips are drawn tightly as if stifling tears and the anger she feels from words she hears from the officiant: "We are gathered here today, because all your 'thoughts and prayers' didn't work."
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
The black & white cover, as it was originally published in 1990. The stylized “TD” logo is included with the book title, “The Dream Lives On! The Unofficial Collector’s Guide to the Music of Tangerine Dream”, composed and edited by Alan Vincent Michaels.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
Three gray-green aliens on a dark background. This text overlays the top and bottom of the image: YOU KEEP VOTING FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS, DESTROYING YOUR PLANET WITH PIPELINES, USE SOME STRANGE DEBT BASED ECONOMY AND TEETER ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION YOUR PLANET IS BASICALLY A GHETTO AND YOU WONDER WHY WE DON'T VISIT YOU! THEFREETHOUGHTPROJECT.COM
NASA Artemis Il astronaut Christina Koch is staring out a viewport of the Orion spacecraft. Her face and floating hair are silhouetted against the Earth in background. Christina is the first woman to see the Earth in its entirety. Overlaying the image is Alan Vincent Michaels’ scifaiku: Christina’s Countdown The longing between Gazing at her first full Moon All of us on Earth
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
An AI movie poster for “Alien: The Short Version,” depicting Jonesy, the ginger tabby cat in the 1979 film, “Alien,” striding down a corridor of the USCSS Nostromo mining spacecraft carrying a dead xenomorph alien in its mouth.
A frame taken from the “Village of the Damned” movie showing six young children with glowing eyes and white/platinum blonde hair.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
An image of Futurama’s Bender character dressed up as pimp wearing a white fur coat and three gold rings on his left hand. The hand is pointing to the viewer and the voice bubble is “Well try harder, Meatbag.” A female robot prostitute is standing behind Bender.
Soylent (soylent.com) marketing promo from 2022. A black-colored-wrapper around a soy-based food product. The company logo is “soylent” is inside a white outline rectangle. “GREEN” is printed below in bright green. The tag line below “GREEN” is white text that reads, “As good as humanly possible”.
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
An image of Herr Otto Flick (played by Richard Gibson), a fictional, unemotional Gestapo officer and private Helga Geerhart (played by Kim Hartman) taken from an episode of the BBC sitcom, “Allo 'Allo!”
On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
A single clearer image from the animated "Futurama" cartoon. Philip J. Fry is dancing solo in front of a 20th century boombox playing hip hop. Bender watches and Leela is reading a book titled, "Dances of the Ancient Bronx."