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What To Expect When You're A Lokean
Coming from a Christian home, I was always taught that all gods except THE God were these evil and horrible beings that would drag you away from salvation and do horrible things to you.
Dani HamptonPublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Bough that Breaks
The window was open just slightly enough to allow a faint breeze to flutter through Sam’s sheer taupe curtains. Her neighbor’s daphne odora shrubs seemed to great her with their sweet, inviting fragrance and for a second, with eyes closed, it felt like how things once were. How free and easy existing used to be.
Kimberly J McGillPublished 3 years ago in FuturismLeading With The Arrow
Leading With The Arrow Straight To The Heart John W. Gilmore “He sighed because there was nothing else to do,” Tom said. She only gave him a glance and then turned back to the viewscreen. Radha lifted the corners of her mouth.
Om Prakash John GilmorePublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Heirloom
Every family has an heirloom- not the traditional type that is passed down from eldest to eldest or mother to daughter- but to the most worthy of the next generation. It was supposed to make for a more career-oriented, successful society. And it did.... but unfortunately, successful careers don’t make for conscientious living or content people. The heated competition burned everything in its path. Those deemed unworthy were left scorched by the wayside, most depressed and in despair- and steralized. The successful were not left unscathed, though- the ever elusive goal of ‘successful enough’ frozen into their minds.
Naomi SlavishPublished 3 years ago in FuturismTHE LOCKET AND THE BOOK
THE LOCKET AND THE BOOK He curled his fingers around the silver locket: it was heart-shaped. It was the only vestige of a time well past, that he currently had. That locket contained untold memories, untold years of life before the great crooning.
Corey LipowPublished 3 years ago in FuturismChild of Destiny
Once a year, a Celestial comes to our village. Once a year, a boy or girl under the age of eighteen is selected. A yearly sacrifice in exchange for our freedom, whatever that means these days. Last year, they chose my cousin. The year before, they chose my best friend.
Christina WelbournePublished 3 years ago in FuturismFor Safety
Smoke curling through the pale orange sky over the distant hill indicated to Helena that morning was on the horizon. The fires provided warmth for the remnants of that small village whose people hunted for rats or squirrels, cooking them over crude stone pits and metal grates. In the distance, Helena had become a scavenger as well, digging through the heaps of destruction that occurred when one world state clashed with the other years ago. The war yielded no winners, only broken people, pawns struggling to survive.
Barb DukemanPublished 3 years ago in FuturismDisney Releases Statement About Open World 'Star Wars' Game, Saying It Is Worth The Wait
Back in January, Lucasfilm Games announced plans for “a story-driven open world game” created by Ubisoft and their Swedish development studio Massive Entertainment and based on the popular Snowdrop game engine, which is also used for the Tom Clancy’s The Division series. Little else was known about this game at that time, other than that Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot called it “groundbreaking”.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismAll is calm
This record is for you. The software will transcribe my short voice clips. If you’re reading it, you’re a scofflaw like me. Scofflaws have to stick together. We’ve all been taught how things work and how lucky we are. In the Before Time there were conflicts of all kinds: between people, between groups, and between countries. Then came the Peacemakers. They took over everything, made a new order, a social compact, though it’s never been clear to me who agreed to it. No more war, and they’re working their way down to the individual level by testing. At age ten I was flagged as having too high an Emotional Quotient. Emotions are discouraged, so at age sixteen I was prevented from reproducing and discouraged from fraternizing, a kind of eugenics to weed out people like me who feel too much. When I go out, I have to wear a chain with an F so that normal folks know to avoid me. No point in corrupting their unemotional lives, I guess. They check on me once a month at a kind of program. We get homework in making apologies and extra courses in logic. Actually, turns out I’m no good at apologies, but I’m fairly good at logic, and that’s useful. I have to look co-operative or they’ll flag me as a scofflaw and I don’t want that. I’ve been an idiot, but I’m not stupid.
Paul MerkleyPublished 3 years ago in FuturismScientific Data Storage.
Five-dimensional' glass discs can store data for up to 13.8 billion years Scientists from the University of Southampton in the UK have created a new data format that encodes information in tiny nanostructures in glass. A standard-sized disc can store around 360 terabytes of data, with an estimated lifespan of up to 13.8 billion years even at temperatures of 190°C. That's as old as the Universe, and more than three times the age of the Earth.
Top 7 Ralph McQuarrie Concepts That Changed ‘Star Wars’
While George Lucas was widely known as the creator of Star Wars, he did not do it alone. Even though Lucas was as confident as he could be in his story and characters, he knew he would need help to bring them to life. Enter Ralph McQuarrie. If you are not familiar with the name Ralph McQuarrie, you are definitely familiar with his work. He had done artwork for E.T, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, just to name a few. However, he may be best known for the concept art which brought Star Wars characters like Darth Vader, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to life. This is supposed to be a list, but as far as I can tell, there are no official names for each artwork he did for the films. To get around this, I am going to just label it as whatever the concept art is showing, and even though this will start at number seven and countdown to number one, there is no particular order for this. All of these pieces are fantastic.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismEléni & M Move to Athens - Part 9
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 8 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed—she really did as Goddess Athena is my witness—to appear as a fictional character in this new series, where she is Five of Five like Star Trek’s Seven of Nine. There is a kind of flame in Crete — let us call it “soul” — something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valour, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are a human being, and at the same time tremble. Nikos Kazantzakis
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 years ago in Futurism