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New! Journal of Unpublishable Stories, Vol.1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ3BL898 #writingcommunity #scifi #writesky by Science Fiction author, JJ Robinson II Now: querying Continuum1: Disunion No politics,unsolicited DMs https://jjr2scifi.wordpress.com/
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6 grounded, realistic sci-fi book series that beat The Expanse at its own game
These sci-fi book series hold up under scrutiny.
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Jeremiah 33:2-3 [VotD] 2 Thus says the Lord, the Maker of the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it; the Lord is His name: 3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.
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From X, TDIH, one of my favorite Roman defeats:
James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
John 1:12-13 12 Yet to all who received Him, He gave the power to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name, 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joel 2:31-32a 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 32 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved…
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☣️ Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people ☣️ apnews.com/article/cong... Wed, Dr. Jean Kaseya said 1,031 deaths have been confirmed. Mon, 2,473 cases had been recorded in the latest outbreak. At least 737 patients were in isolation or hospitalized. #ebola #health #congo #breaking #news
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people
More than 1,000 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, according to Africa’s top health body, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.
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Works in progress--- Continuum 2: Main's War Continuum 3: Homecoming Continuum 4: Reunion by JJ Robinson II #QuestPit #A #SF #W #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky
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Continuum2: Main's War (WIP)
by JJ Robinson II
The outline of a woman, filled with an image of our galaxy taken from the ground, appears against an infrared image of the center of our galaxy, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA).
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[Main, the accidental sentient from book 1, tries to prevent DISUNION, or at least make REUNION possible. She can't, because the "Engineers" she needs to find are a myth, but she'll try anyway.]
Continuum 3: HOMECOMING
by JJ Robinson II (WIP)
A mysterious planet, with a uniform surface that looks like corroded bronze, shrouded by haze, looms over the landscape of its moon.
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[As their civilization threatens to descend into eternal darkness, the survivors of the Avrex'ondl world and Disunion set out to find humanity's original homeworld, to learn what caused the entire species to emigrate over 10,000 years ago.]
Continuum 4: REUNION
by JJ Robinson II
[A new generation embarks on a mission devised by the corrupt, deceased Council of the Conventions--restore contact among the planets of the Confederation, make sure the threat to expose the Council's crimes is gone, or die trying.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdgrjpnn32nv6s6hun4cljt2/bafkreicvvqxmsg5fvfweracnwi4tmo4q2w3szuy6r4qv2o5cy4kwldacme)
FREE STORY at Starfarer's Café! Why would a man marooned for years on a desolate world not want to be rescued? Find out in “The Rescue.” #sciencefiction #sciencefictionbooks #sff #sffchat #scifisky #amwritingscifi #amwritingsciencefiction #speculativefiction starfarerscafe.com/2026/06/13/t...
The Rescue
Rob Bignell returned this past week to Starfarer’s Cafe with the tale of a strange man marooned for years on a desert world. Perhaps being alone for so long has psychologically warped the castaway …
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The Swamps are where things start getting rough! It’s wet, dark, and full of Draugr, yet some people really like it! Where do you stand? 💚
HiPOD: The Layered Mesa The objective of this observation is to examine a layered mesa within a small impact crater. The layers are horizontal and well-defined. These features are fairly common in this region of the Martian northern plains. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077117_2195 #Mars #NASA
July 21, 1926: Washington Roebling, the engineer who built the Brooklyn Bridge, dies at 89 in Trenton, N.J. The Civil War veteran and son of the project's originator never was cured of the painful decompression sickness he suffered while below river level, and oversaw years of work from a sickroom.
Reality is going to catch up with me before I can get my S/F story finished: www.space.com/space-explor...
An artificial 'Saturn's ring' of satellites could soon fill the sky, astronomers warn
"It sounds like a bad science fiction movie."
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Jesus' parable on forgiveness is one of the most terrifying scriptures in the Bible. It's one of the most difficult Spiritual lessons to learn. Matthew 18:21-35
![Matthew 18:21-35
21 Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven [a]may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him [b]ten thousand talents was brought to him. 25 But since he [c]did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made. 26 So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.’ 27 And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the [d]debt. 28 But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred [e]denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe.’ 29 So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you.’ 30 But he was unwilling [f]and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed. 31 So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened. 32 Then summoning him, his lord *said to him, ‘You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’ 34 And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him. 35 My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from [g]your heart.”
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Matthew 18:23 Lit was compared to
Matthew 18:24 A talent was worth more than fifteen years’ wages of a laborer
Matthew 18:2…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdgrjpnn32nv6s6hun4cljt2/bafkreiaknhj2ctq7ui47xpr4bxeolkyqe7fnuu7wkgj6bwepxkyot327bu)
"…SpaceX will not attempt to recover either for reuse." Also looks like they're still trying to keep the fins from burning off during re-entry. spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/16/l...
Post-ignition anomaly causes abort of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 – Spaceflight Now
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--spoilers-- Finished s.5 of "For All Mankind". Ok for light S/F melodrama, I guess. I wish these series and movies would consult someone who knows xenobiology--or any biology--before they write these things. Was disappointed to learn that "life" on Titan was "based on methane instead of carbon".
Reading "Leviathan Wakes". I apparently started reading the series somewhere in the middle, as I also started watching the streaming version in the middle. Great story, of course. Surprised, though, to find a lot of errors in construction, viewpoint, etc. that should have driven an editor crazy.
![Continuum1: Disunion by JJ Robinson II
Fugitives from a massacre are pursued to an unexplored planet, where they must find a way to stop their conflict or face the extinction of the human species.
“But,” the Second Rank spoke again, his voice low and hoarse with emotion, “wouldn’t it be better for the Revolution to be destroyed than to risk the destruction of this world, and the Conventions?”
A "vibe board" for the story Continuum 1: DISUNION, a novel of ~88,000 words by JJ Robinson II.
A matrix of murder, treachery, and betrayal on a blue-green field, a volcanic eruption piercing clouds above, a village and its fields along a canal, a frail aircraft over open ocean, a giant extinct pterodactyl, a nuclear explosion. In the center, a small, aerodynamic spacecraft approaches the edge of a terrifying abyss, with the planet's two suns beyond.
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[-A revolution against tyranny is destroyed, hope is lost
-An interstellar civilization on the brink of collapse
-AI achieves sentience, with terrible consequences
-An ~infinitely corrupt bureaucracy tries to cover up its crimes at any cost
-Humanity faces extinction from events on an unknown world
-Truth is learned, Redemption found, Love rediscovered]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdgrjpnn32nv6s6hun4cljt2/bafkreidajc6d26hvr6z5qwwhpxab7nl4q2pbauz4nbfpqda3bm3myljrne)
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A small aerodynamic spacecraft approaches the edge of an abyss, barely staying airborne. A green sky, clouds, water, and the planet's two suns are visible. In the background, a profile of a woman's head filled with stars [Spitzer IR image of our galactic center].
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[A failed revolution becomes a race against extinction.
The leaders of a successful revolution are treacherously massacred by the defeated interstellar government. Pursuit of fugitives from the massacre leads to a confrontation on an unexplored world that threatens humanity with extinction, in which even the name of the species will be lost to time. The most powerful bureaucracy in human history, facing the exposure of its unthinkable crimes by the conflict, contemplates an even greater crime—a “thought experiment”, called DISUNION.]
-A revolution against tyranny is destroyed, hope is lost
-An interstellar civilization on the brink of collapse
-AI achieves sentience, with terrible consequences
-An ~infinitely corrupt bureaucracy tries to cover up its crimes at any cost
-Humanity faces extinction from events on an unknown world
-Truth is learned, Redemption found, Love rediscovered](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdgrjpnn32nv6s6hun4cljt2/bafkreigzr73zzvvvwuhvanq6ipp46wlpbwciprapd6x3xueregg444o3su)
