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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration

@mst3k.fan

Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org

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Samantha (Sam) Mills@samtasticbooks.com · 21h ago

ZOMG I'm a World Fantasy finalist! Huge, huge thanks to the judges/nominators, and to Uncanny for pubbing "10 Visions" in the first place. I had just decided to mosey up to Oakland for the con and booked my hotel last week, so if you're going, I'll see you around! :D locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Starman-X@starman-x.bsky.social · 23h ago

I tested out some new kit last night: Askar 50P scope and Optolong L-Ultimate narrow-band filter. Conditions are not great here. Bortle 8 light pollution with patchy smoke from current western US fires. Target was the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) with 6-hour total exposure.

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star) in the night sky. It is named because its shape resembles North America. On the right is the Pelican Nebula, also named because of its shape..
Neugin@lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2d ago

I like how The Odyssey uses old school practical effects in its storytelling. So when we see the witch Circe turning the men into pigs, they're really shown being given cop badges or signing up for ICE, then getting divorced and buying a cybertruck, no a.i. used

Don Davis@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · last yr.

When the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft gave us our first good view of the Orientale basin it was revelatory. Not only was this giant multi ringed impact basin first revealed in its general form, other such basins were recognized across the Lunar near side. Oil paints on canvas panel.

This is an oil painting done on a 3 foot wide canvas panel. The view is dominated by the Orientale Basin, a vast sprawling depression with three concentric mountain rings surrounding a dark lava plain covering the lowest central region. The upper portions of this view are visible from Earth, with the higher lighter cratered highlands contrasting with the dark Maria plains filling the lowlands. This oil painting was done about 1970, referring to numerous original prints of this giant impact basin. It took over a month, starting from a perspective drawing that I scaled up to the panel size. The large dark region near the middle is Mare Orientale, the 'Sea of the East', named by German astronomer Julius Franz in 1906 back when Lunar East and West were 'flipped', used in reference to the Terrestrial viewer rather than the Lunar globe. In the mid 20th century Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore made observations and described this Maria 'lake'. which is at the very edge, or limb', of the Moon as seen from Earth. At the most favorable orientation, or libration, of the Moon the far 'shore' of this large lave lake can barely be seen. In 1962 Arizona's Lunar and Planetary laboratory, under the great planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, produced a Lunar atlas showing overhead views of the regions of the moon visible from Earth. This was accomplished by taking the best full disk lunar photos and projecting them with a narrow angle lens onto a white hemisphere at the end of a long hall. On the photos showing the Western limb the new view looking 'down' on the feature suddenly revealed the concentric mountain rings for the first time. William Hartmann, planetary scientist and artist, was first to realize the significance of this feature and soon found similar and more degraded or lava buried examples across the Lunar near side. Orientale was recognized, particularly with the aid of the Lunar Orbiter photos, as the youngest and best preserved of the giant Lunar impact basins.
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration@mst3k.fan · 3d ago

Bonus points for the Kings X shoutout! My favorite band of all time. Incredible three album run, but rh next one after that is their masterpiece!

Brian Schoner@bschoner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Porcupine Tree: In Absentia, Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall - pick three (or all four!) Jethro Tull: Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses, Bursting Out King's X: Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, Faith Hope Love, King's X

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 4d ago

If you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · last mo.

We have an illustrated "About" page here! agirlandherfed.com/main?i=1&p=a... And this cover page is the introduction to our Hugo packet. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic #Comics #Webcomic

Heather Breckel@angienessyo.bsky.social · 4d ago

Looking for 1 more project to slide into my schedule for the next few months! I have some stuff coming you'll all soon hear about! But until those projects officially start, I need some work in the meantime. I can do a bunch of different coloring styles so just hit me up at angieness at gmail.

Heather Breckel@angienessyo.bsky.social · last yr.

It's that time again! I just had a few books wrap up so I'm on the lookout for colorist work for the next few months! I've worked for every major publisher and can work in a variety of styles, so if you have a book that needs a colorist, hit me up in DMs! :D

Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration@mst3k.fan · 4d ago

I'm now 1,000% convinced that Stephen Miller and others are feeding Trump reports and even video riddled with A.I. images and text. That's the only way this post makes any sense at all.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

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