CB

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Writer, English PhD, Sci-fi enthusiast 🚀 🏴‍☠️

Stack of books on orality in Ancient Greece atop Charles Stein’s translation of the Odyssey.
Screenshot of my 666 posts.
Painting of a ghostly woman holding a katana, titled “Ghost with Sword” by Uemura Shoen.
Cover for The Last Contract of Isako. A crimson-coated woman brandishing a longknife strides across a wintered landscape.
Screen shot of the line “The war erased one hundred eighty million souls” and Word suggests a grammar error: soles instead.
Three stacked novels by Stark Holborn: Ten Low, Hel’s Eight, and Ninth Life.
Cover for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary. One chimp hugs another for comfort.
Poster for the film Harakiri, featuring a samurai in silhouette behind a splash of blood.
Covers for Infinity Gate and Echo of Worlds, both featuring multiple, multi-colored Earths.
Miller explains heisted cheese to the Roci crew on The Expanse.
Two books by Gareth L. Powell. Future’s Edge features a yellow alien sky and ancient ruins. Jitterbug features a rocket against a red background, an astronaut training behind.
A shadowy lone gunslinger traverses a red wasteland.
Cover of Judgement by Rik O’Hare featuring the interior of an O’Neill Cylinder.
Orbital paths for asteroid Bononia and planets in white against a black background.
Cover of Schrödinger’s What is Life? Featuring a colorful sketch of cells.
Daniel: A lot of it was pulling ideas about superorganisms…That’s ants. That’s termites. But it’s termites that are capable of complaining on Yelp.
NASA graphic of the solar system consisting of concentric colored circles that represent celestial objects and their orbital revolutions from a top-down angle.
Cover of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the text overlaying black and white sky between clouds. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.
Cover of the novel Shroud, depicting a yellow pod crashing on a dark alien moon.
Dictionary entry for beard (verb). To oppose or defy.
Stack of books on physics, society, and consciousness.
Stack of books on consciousness, embodiment, and artificial intelligence.
Books on and by Plato.
Portrait of the character Gita surrounded by colorful rings and the title Loki’s Ring in bright yellow.
Cover for Gareth L. Powell’s novel Stars and Bones, featuring a spaceship flying across and orange background.
Cover of Gareth L. Powell’s book of short stories, Who Will You Save? A silhouetted astronaut against a red backdrop reaches out to their inverted mirror image behind blue spheres.
A Ronin carries a red lightsaber.
Poster for the Kurosawa movie Kagemusha, the name written across a giant samurai shadow over a group of samurai warriors in armor. At the top, the text says “George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola present a film by Akira Kurosawa.”
Kikuchiyo in Seven Samuari, crazed look on his face, wearing the armor of dead samurai.
A yellow pod streaks into jagged darkness. The title, Shroud, hovers ominously above. The author’s name—Adrian Tchaikovsky—appears in bold at the top.
Ahsoka in white and Baylan in black, facing off before a duel. Ahsoka’s swords are outstretched.
I’m holding up an aged, silvery mechanical pencil.
French poster for Masaki Kobayashi's film Harakiri. It features a silhouetted samurai, his lower body covered in a trailing splash of blood. Up top, "Harakiri" is written in stick letters.
Star Trek’s Dr Phlox eating popcorn.
Ahsoka preparing to duel, sword pointed behind her.
Ahsoka Tano wearing a grey poncho, giving a wise and wary look.
Musashi with the sun over his shoulder, facing off against Kojiro in a legendary duel.
Battlestar Galactica. Two NCP officers on patrol, faces covered and ready for raids.
Tech’s helmet in the Disney+ intro.
Book cover features Gareth L. Powell’s name and the book title, Future’s Edge, overlaying a single human figure staring across ruins awash in golden light.
Your guess is as good as mine! The cover depicts a spaceship close-in (?) and an explosion behind it. Top right is a spherical, mechanical object that’s chunky. James S.A. Corey overlays in blocky white letters at the bottom, Leviathan Falls in black up top.
The ragtag crew aboard the Kuro Kiba sit at the situation room table to plan for picking up illegal cargo. Kit, the captain, sounds a little troubled, but friendly with her crew, giving them orders with confidence.
Jod demands someone shoot him.