Hive mind alien - life on gas giants
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Vishva-Rupa

Drifting over the skies of the gas giant Grro Thum are the Vishva-Rupa. These organisms exist as vast, floating colonies, stretching across the skies of their homeworld like living cities adrift in the atmosphere. Though they appear as singular entities, they are, in truth, great eusocial collectives, each individual a mere fragment of the greater […]

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A highly detailed, high-resolution black-and-white photograph of a weevil, rendered in a realistic style, with a subtle, dreamy quality achieved through the incorporation of soft, distorted, rainbow-tinted pixels
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Weevil [Story]

Dr. Xhith’raal had spent his life studying agriculture. As a leading biologist of the Ivory Spire Institute of Genetic Sciences, his research focused on the genetic optimization of crops to feed his species’ ever-growing civilization. They had harnessed the atom, conquered disease, and stood on the cusp of spaceflight; a golden age of scientific enlightenment […]

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Tirant, the White Gale
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Tirant, the White Gale

“The humans called him savior. The Dravuri called him butcher. In the end, the sea called him home.” — Elder Vosh-Katag, Holten’Kanaq Shaman of the Drowned Isles   To speak of the Middle Sea is to speak of war, for its waters have never known peace. And yet, among the countless corpses it has claimed, […]

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Freelancer editing her drafts on laptop
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A Beginner’s Guide to Freelancing

Lately, many young people have been asking how to get started with freelancing, so I thought I’d put together a basic guide. While my experience is primarily in tech and programming, the general principles apply to a variety of fields. This guide is especially useful for students or anyone looking to start freelancing but unsure […]

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saturn devouring his son | scifi artist
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Baba Plaganda

There are many worlds that probes have discovered rotating around neutron stars, of which few have been discovered to host life. Most often, these are very simple extremophilic or bacterial life. When BooHoo was discovered to harbor life through interceptions of bioproduced gases in the upper atmosphere, an expedition was immediately organized to discover the […]

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Alien life on tidally locked planet
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BooHoo [Planet]

As a life-hosting world around a neutron star, BooHoo is very close to its star and experiences a great deal of radiation and heat, as well as a tidal lock that makes it a radioactive desert in the hemisphere that points towards the star and an icy desert the hemisphere that points towards the icy […]

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Future fauna - speculative evolution
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Kalaallit Camel

A descendant of the Bactrian camel, these large hardy herbivores can be seen wandering the harsh biomes of the Southern Wastes. As the temperatures started to decrease in the Ark as part of its cycles, this species evolved adaptions for this new environment. Some of these include shorter hair during warmer seasons while in winter […]

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Alien tribes around a fire place in their village
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The Sleeping Giant

Waiting has never been my strong suit. My chronic impatience is as much a part of me as the stars are part of the universe. And now, here I am, pacing the clinical confines of a med-bay hidden away in the outer colony of Trappist-9, waiting to see a bio-engineer at 23:29 station time. It’s […]

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