It's time for another LTUE (Life, The Universe, and Everything) report! And this time, not in place of Monday's Being a Better Writer post!

Why, you may ask? Okay, and you may be asking "What's LTUE?" as well. So, in reverse order then.

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Hello readers! Welcome back! I trust you had a good weekend?

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Following my cursing Friendship One, I somehow managed to crack [sic] out this first draft of potential idiocy:

To say CMDR Flood was at a loss was... well probably an overstatement, given the losses she would be at later on in life. Actually, when you thought about it, she was indeed at a loss, just not as big as the losses looming in her future.

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Unless you spend all of your time reading fanfiction and never look at the science and technology news, you will have probably picked up that Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic right now. There is no better time to be a top computer science graduate with a PhD in machine learning techniques. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants will sign you up with a huge starting salary, in the expectation that real breakthroughs are imminent, and will lead to algorithms able to directly communicate

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When I found this groups with science fiction stories, I noticed that not all the stories there had a Sci-Fi tag. Even in folders like “Hard Scifi” and “Tech in Equestria”. So I may have missed something good when I looked for stories by the tag.

An image, that can illustrate a science fiction story:

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Pretty much before the inevitable conclusion of BRBrony9's tragic science fiction story Friendship One, I was already getting the mad idea to start a more upbeat version, this one involving the arrival of the Lakon Diamondback Explorer Stay Back! I Have Lurgi!. Something to do with that commander having the misfortune to witness that star's collapse at far too

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Hello everyone! Yeah, I've finally finished the next chapter! With a lot of it, I struggled with the sense of scale I was trying to convey. In a sense, I was thinking of the market scenes you would see in the show Firefly, which to me felt real, alive. I've been in markets like that, back in 2010, when I went down to Guatemala. The markets are loud, filled with bartering, and they're always a treat to be in. You never know what you'll find (In my case, I found an actual Cavalry Saber.

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Sci Fi Generation
Forget Iron Man: skintight suits are the future of robotic exoskeletons

by Steve Davis

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TL;DR - I like gothic post-punk, I think cyberpunk ponies in a gonzo future would be cool, and yay for Chapter 9 of my fic!

Do you kids know about Siouxsie and the Banshees? Sisters of Mercy? Joy Division? The Church? ...No?

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Hello and welcome back readers! I hope your weekends treated you well?

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For anyone interested, I felt I should point out the Sci-fi Classics Humble Bundle currently running (for what looks like two weeks).

As usual for the humble bundles, you get some of the books no matter how much ytou pay, same if you pay more then average, and in this case, some if you pay 15$ or more. Here's a list of what's in there:

Base:
Damnation Alley - Roger Zelazny

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I’ve ranted in the past about how FiM breeds wish fulfillment, and how crossovers fundamentally violate the Law of Conservation of Detail. I mentioned in the latter that Human in Equestria has similar problems. Oddly, despite having similar problems, HiE also has other problems that are all its own (despite crossovers often involving humans anyway).

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Surely the author won’t mind me using the logo of his comic to promote it, right? Right?

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Potatoes and Space Travel. Two things that very few people would associate with each other. At least that is until a few years ago when published an interesting book about a marooned astronaut that wound up becoming a best seller and later, a highly popular film.

I speak, of course, about The Martian starring Matt Damon with the story written by Andy Weir.

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“I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible.”

—Lord Kelvin, not long before the flight at Kitty Hawk.

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Hello again writers! It’s Monday (or Friday, if you’re a Patreon Supporter), so it’s time for another installment of Being a Better Writer!

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Hello readers! Yes, I know I must apologize for the lateness of this post in coming online. But I had a really good reason, one that I think many of you will sympathize with: I was up extremely late last night reading a book. Which I then finished this afternoon as soon as I could.

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No, not that Doom.

Okay, first of all, this editorial was meant to come before Chapter 7, right after the second interlude. But the absurdly bad timed combination of my nephews coming to visit, a bone-crushing cold and your typical Chilean earthquake delayed its publication, so here it is.

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