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High Emperor of Mars, Govenor-general of Vega and Lord Protector of all the Centauris // he/him // ❤️🖤

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SpaceSjut@spacesjut· 15d

A Thing I've Read 14/2026 There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm This was originally an SCP fan-fiction, for proper commercial publication the serial number got filed off, but it's very much an SCP fiction.

The Cover of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm
It shows a a dark forest expanding in the distance over hills, fog hanging around, under a sunset-sky in reds and yellows. Author and title are written in blocky letters on the upper and lower part.
Prominently in the middle of the picture and the forest stands a gigantic black monolith, slightly askew.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· 20d

A Thing I've (re-)Read 13/2026 Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories, by qntm A short story collection. A science-fiction short-story collection, to be exact.

The cover of Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories, by qntm:
It shows a Very Large antenna complex, emerging in form of a high pole out of a bowl shaped valley, clearly artificially build, in front of a dust-and-ash-cloud that is rolling at an angle over the background and will soon hit the structure.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jun 30

A Thing I've Read 12/2026: The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches, by Rich Larson This is a collection of 30 pieces of micro-fiction, between one and three pages long, all of them scifi-adjunct, none of them bad.

The cover of The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches, by Rich Larson.
It shows a broad-stroked, Blade-Runner-y, cyberpunk-y street scene, with author and title over it in big, shining white letters, and the first part of the title glitching out.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jun 10

I can think of exactly one reaction to that. Seriously, if a statement one disagrees with is enough to leave the essay? Let them leave.

upper left: stick figure who has just interrupted a discussion saying something unhinged.
upper right: more stick figures having aforementioned discussion. on of them gives a thumbs up saying okay.
lower: single stickfigure is dumbfounded that their attempt to incite an argument did not work. the group is back at it, smiling.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· May 20

A Thing I've Read 11/2026: Idoru (Bridge II), by William Gibson This is the story about a rockstar wanting to marry a virtual Idol.

The cover of Idoru, by William Gibson.
On a black background it shows on the right a photonegative of a long-haired person with big, dark glasses.
On the left, author, title, and a quote are shown in very blocky letters, with the words "title", "author", and "quote" pointing to their respective elements.
The quote says "cyberpunk doesn't come any more stylish than that" and is from a "Sunday Telegraph", and I have Some Questions about this.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· May 16

Die schrittweise Entmündigung lässt nicht nach.

Eine Glocke mit dem Schriftzug "B.V.G." im Eisenbahnmuseum Darmstadt-Kranichstein, darunter ein Schild "bitte nicht läuten!".

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Apr 19

Wir werden schrittweise entmündigt.

Ein Photo einer Flugzeugturbine, mehr schlecht als recht sichtbar ist die Aufschrift auf einer Finne: "no step".

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Apr 7

A Thing I've Read 09/26 The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde I have *no* idea how to properly talk about this one. It sure is a Jasper Fforde-book. Okay. It is set in an alternative (and somewhat phantastical) Britain, and it follows the Literary Detective Thursday Next ...

The cover of The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.
It shows a stylized hilly landscape with a lake in the background, several trees on the side, and yellow flowers. Through the middle of it bursts a sports car, painted in red, green and blue psychodelic stripes, around it white tears like the backside of a torn canvas.
The author's name is written in white block letters on the top, beneath that is the title in black-and-red-rimmed yellow letters, the words wedge-shaped in two blocks forming most of a rectangle.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Mar 15

Eine Sache die ich gehört habe 08/2026 Die Känguru-Rebellion, von Marc-Uwe Kling. Viel schönes dabei.

Das Cover der Känguru-Rebellion, von Marc-Uwe Kling.
Es zeigt auf weißen Hintergrund ein in grellem Pink gespraytes Känguru, das seine im Boxhandschuh steckende rechte Pfote in die Höhe reckt.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Mar 4

A Thing I've Read 07/26: Virtual Light (Bridge I), by William Gibson This is not a Sprawl-tale. I am both happy and sad about that. This is, as per the cover-quote, a tech-thriller, and it is very much set in a cyberpunk-ian dystopia, ...

A Cover for Virtual Light, by William Gibson.
Is shows in what looks to me like a photo-negative a small bike tire with a brake disc nearly as big as itself in the upper part.
In the lower part the author, the title and a quote from Wired magazine about the book are printed in blocky letters, each of them pointed at by the words "author", "title", and "quote" followed by a ">>".

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Feb 16

Today was a good day. #spoilers for two more arcane Outer Wilds achievements and a very early Hollow Knight one.

A screenshot of Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye, taken when getting the 1/900 achievement.

A screenshot of Outer Wilds, taken when getting the Hotshot achievement.

A screenshot of Hollow Knight, taken when getting the Falsehood achievement.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Feb 15

A Thing I've (re-)Read 04/2026 Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson Okay, bear with me, this is a WILD one. Snow Crash begins with the story of how our hero and protagonist Hiroaki Protagonist loses his job as a deliverator for the Nova Sicilia franchulate...

$A cover for Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. It shows on a beige background red abstract shapes, not quite but somewhat fractal-ish, and some very small icons and textpieces as if on microfinche.$

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Feb 15

A Thing I've Watched 04/2026 KPop Demon Hunters A well animated movie with almost disturbingly catchy songs, and despite some moments of "wait what" a pretty decent story about, well, a group of demon hunters who in this day and age work their magic as k-pop band...

A poster for KPop Demon Hunters.
It shows the three protagonists in their demon hunting gear with weapons drawn in front of a promotional poster of their band, Huntrix, showing closeups of the three in their stage-outfits.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 31

ups

a surface go 2, showing an ongoing linux mint installation

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 30

scary scary scary scary

Ein Photo von einem Computerbildschirm. Darauf ein Icon "Install Linux Mint", der Cursor schwebt daneben.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 25

A Thing I've Watched 03/2026 Pacific Rim del Toro's take on a Kaiju-vs-Jaeger-movie (read: "del Toro's take on Evangelion") was an absolute insane joy to watch. It has giant monsters, giant mechas piloted by pairs of pilots, giant monsters fistfighting with giant mechas, ...

A Poster for Pacific Rim.
It shows one of the Jaegers, the Gipsy Danger, prominently in the foreground, stepping through coastal waters. In the waters behind it are two other units, and a fourth one being lifted in by helicopters. The vague outline of a city is visible in the background, a in the front an already small fishing boat is dwarfed by the towering Jaeger.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 25

A Thing I've (re-)Watched 02/2026 Repo! The Genetic Opera This absolutly wild ride of a self-styled goth rock opera was even more wild than I had remembered. A world where you better stay on top the payments for your replacement organs, otherwise the repo man will come to take it back, ...

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 25

A Thing I've Watched 01/2026 Tron: Ares It's been a long while since I've watched something this irrelevant. There's a skeleton of an interesting story somewhere in there, and it sure looks vaguely like Tron-movie 🤷‍♂️

A poster for Tron: Ares.
It shows the titular character looking out over a bay in front of a city, over which a Recognizer and a bunch of flying thingies are looming. He holds a triangular Identity Disc, and next to him a Light Cycle is parked. Every single Tron-Element displays red markings, and a red haze colours the picture.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 22

A Thing I've (re-)Read 04/2026 Burning Chrome, by William Gibson The short story collection that, well, collects Gibson's stories that built the foundation for the Sprawl-trilogy. It contains ten stories, of which I remembered the grand total of three - re-read books, you're in for surprises.

A cover for Burning Chrome, by William Gibson.
The publisher stays on-theme with yet another disorienting collage of facades and roofs.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 21

A Thing I've played 01/2026 Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (DLC) This one is... difficult. I love the story, and how it broadens and contextualizes the story of the main game. I adore the location, which as a singular place works well to integrate it in the setting, but leads to...

A promotional picture for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye.
It shows the hatchling in their suit wading through a dark and forested wetland, holding a lantern in front of them.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 21

A Thing I've (re-)Read 03/2026 Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson The third book of the Sprawl-Trilogy... I don't want to say "wraps up", because that's not what's happening, but it finishes telling the events set in motion with the Straylight-run.

The cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
As the other two Sprawl-series-covers, it shows a disorienting collage of rooftops and facades.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 12

A Thing I've (re-)Read 02/2026 Count Zero, by William Gibson Where the first book of the Sprawl-trilogy was very narrowly focused on Case, the band of runners he got pressed into, and the Straylight-run, the second book takes a vastly different approach:

The cover of Count Zero, by William Gibson.
As the one for Neuromancer, it shows a very disorienting collage of rooftops and facades without any apparent respect for perspective.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 8

A Thing I've Read 01/2026 Neuromancer, by William Gibson Technically a re-read, but also the first time I've read this fundamental, genre-building piece of cyberpunk in the english version.

The cover, or probably rather A Cover of Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
It shows, I think, a very disorienting... It is very disorienting, by design, and it shows either a top-down photo of rooftops or a collage of rooftops and facades, and I think it's the latter.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Jan 2

Account 3 Jahre nicht mehr genutzt. Account jetzt endlich mal komplett zugemacht. Symbolbild.

Das große X, das im CCH den Saal X kennzeichnet, daneben ein Schild "formerly known as twitter".

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Dec 31

A Thing I've Read 19/2025 The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed This one was recommended as a non-techbro-y cyberpunk novel, and that's a pretty good description.

The cover of The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed.
It shows a close-up of a human eye overlayed with camera objective.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Dec 9

A Thing I've Read 18/2025 Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu After reading Dracula a while ago I made the plan to also read the other works of historic vampire fiction, and Carmilla is in many points quite clearly an inspiration (and known to be one) for Stokers far more well known work.

The cover of Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
It's a black-and-white print illustration, showing two young women, one sitting and one standing, amids a forest. In the background, a funeral procession can be seen.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Dec 2

Pilot! If I decide to go again, I'll probably aim for Engineer or Marine.

A Larp-character, wearing an orange jacket over a black tee, dogtags, mirror shades and a cap with two nametags "Romero" and "Control".

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Dec 1

A Thing I've (re-)Read 16/2025 Nona The Ninth (Locked Tomb III), by Tamsyn Muir The story of A— in the body of H— following the events of second book, the story of the last few days in the life of Nona and her "family" of Camilla, Palamedes and Pyrrha trying to figure out...

The cover of Nona The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
It shows in front of a space-y background with a blue nebula and a planet or moon the titular character, a slim woman with long black hair and golden eyes. She wears a dark t-shirt with a print and an oversized jacket falling from her shoulders.
Nona is framed on the left by the six-legged dog Noodle and on her right by a skeleton.

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Nov 29

from an ad for a kickstarter, where creators clearly have lost all contact to what cyberpunk even means 🙄

"Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Akira, our award-winning cyberpunk series follows an elite Neo Tokio police unit hunting a mass mind hacker."

SpaceSjut@spacesjut· Nov 22

Wir werden schrittweise entmündigt!!!11eins-elf