Chapter #8 just posted.
Chapter 8 in Shadows of Eros#anvilspace #SharetheLove #Novel #SciFI #ScienceFiction #cyberpunk #spaceopera #AugmentedValor #ShadowsofEros #militarysciencefiction #hardsciencefiction
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https://www.worldanvil.com/w/augmented-valor-wordsmithsteve/a/mfns-nyasaland-sar-51-vehicle
Updated the Mars Federation Naval Ship Nyasaland's article and hotlinked to Eve's story in Cryostasis Widow Five Centuries Gone.
Chapter 7 of Shadows of Eros drops December 28, 2025.
Merry Christmas.
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Working on getting my world built on World Anvil. I've imagined this world for more than 30 years, long before I even knew what cyberpunk was.
I'm moving to World Anvil from Fictionary as the world building options here are significantly better, and it's a little cheaper each month.
My super augmented former Colonial Fleet Marine, Adi, and her story are still a work in progress.
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Something new from me! After the Elves vs. Aliens showdown, I was reading the Discord chat, and Team Alien—specifically Demon Grey—was talking about using aliens for creativity. While I don’t yet have a full sci-fi or alien world, I wanted to explore a specific lens for the story; sometimes that sparks an idea.
I’ve put together a short outline, and here’s my first installment of Starlit Observations! It will be a duet-style tale, following Ven Solari, a Zephri observer, as he begins watching a human woman, Subject 7.3.9.2343—someone he calls Wildflower. What starts as a mission of observation soon becomes something far more personal.
Creative experiments make me happy, and who knows—maybe this will help me fully develop that other sci-fi setting I’ve been dreaming about. I hope you enjoy seeing where this story goes!
#SciFiStory #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction #FantasyMeetsSciFi #Aliens
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I wanted to test the new community update button, so here's one of my favourite articles! This one is all about the various uniforms worn by the Penumbra military and crew. Which would you most like to wear, and how would you wear it?
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Broken Dulcet Ch 51 is Live! and Challenge article up
Time for some fast-paced reading! Check out Ch 51 here.
Breaking through the second gate is easier said than done.
#darkfantasy #sciencefantasy #scifi
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My father was supposed to have a quick procedure done earlier this week. Instead the surgery went wrong. While it didn't go as wrong as the doctors originally thought, he's still not in great shape. Worry made being creative a struggle. I finished the chapter (yay!), but it changed a lot from what I had in mind because I realized I couldn't write it that way.
Yeah, it's interesting how things outside artistic and writing processes can drastically influence them. Because of that, I don't have much more to add than my Rituals of Renewal article. I had planned a bit more, but that will need to wait for a later update.
Check out the Dance of Flame. It's part of the history of Likeda, one of the habitations where my upcoming book, Abyss of Dreams, takes place.
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And that's all I have for this week. I plan to recharge and settle into a better mindframe this weekend.
Kwyn
Breaking through the second gate is easier said than done.
#darkfantasy #sciencefantasy #scifi
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My father was supposed to have a quick procedure done earlier this week. Instead the surgery went wrong. While it didn't go as wrong as the doctors originally thought, he's still not in great shape. Worry made being creative a struggle. I finished the chapter (yay!), but it changed a lot from what I had in mind because I realized I couldn't write it that way.
Yeah, it's interesting how things outside artistic and writing processes can drastically influence them. Because of that, I don't have much more to add than my Rituals of Renewal article. I had planned a bit more, but that will need to wait for a later update.
Check out the Dance of Flame. It's part of the history of Likeda, one of the habitations where my upcoming book, Abyss of Dreams, takes place.
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And that's all I have for this week. I plan to recharge and settle into a better mindframe this weekend.
Kwyn
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Broken Dulcet Ch 50 is Live!
Check out Ch 50 here.
Rescuing Faelan and company, and then escaping the palace, was never going to be easy.
#DarkFantasy #ScienceFantasy #SciFi
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Rushing to catch up on all the art stuff I need to get done this month. Here's a peek at what I've been working on for the Abyss of Dreams release. It's a composite of several snowy mountain photos and three different skies, and while I like the dreamlike quality, I'm not quite happy with it. The left peak is Kiune, the right Majari, and deep within the earth below them rests a dragon's lair. I'm creating quotes and working on the map (which is not going as easy as I wish it would).
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I'm looking for heightmap/terrain generator software. I'm not as concerned about price as I am about quality (though I can't afford something like Houdini. I keep thinking 2D art apps are spendy but 3D has them beat). I've read about several, including Gaea, Blender, Terragen, World Machine, World Creator, etc etc. Anyone have a program they use and like?
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Other than that, I've been wondering how I'm going to handle both Greenglimmer and Broken Dulcet coming to an end at the same time I'm releasing Abyss of Dreams. It looks like that's what's going to happen. I had planned to take a month break between the end of the books and the beginning of the next, but I might have to extend that. We'll see how this all turns out, because pantser me doesn't know.
Have a great week, all!
Kwyn
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New sci-fi world
New sci-fi world
Set in a universe similar to Alien, but with Aliens who can shapeshift into human forms. Humans have captured Aliens and used them to create babies with a mix of humans and aliens genes, forcing those babies into experiments for 30 years. As the story starts, Alien troops invade the research space station to bring back the Alien prisoners and "babies" to their home world, a society centred around a global point ranking and challenges... Content: an introduction + 5 articles written + art for the header and all the characters #scifi
Set in a universe similar to Alien, but with Aliens who can shapeshift into human forms. Humans have captured Aliens and used them to create babies with a mix of humans and aliens genes, forcing those babies into experiments for 30 years. As the story starts, Alien troops invade the research space station to bring back the Alien prisoners and "babies" to their home world, a society centred around a global point ranking and challenges... Content: an introduction + 5 articles written + art for the header and all the characters #scifi
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Happy #Caturday ! Here are some more auspicious changes to #keke. enjoy! #cat #wildzoo #scifi #fantasy #characterdesign
As the story unfolds in WildZoo, so does my interpre, tation of the characters. The more I write, the more that becomes revealed, especially about the design. For me it has to match the story
this one is not lore but still cannon lol
by Vela
this one is not lore but still cannon lol
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Broken Dulcet Chapter 18 is Live!
Check out Chapter 18: Diz-stressing Diz-closures here
Lapis, Patch and Dagby learn their Stars-blessed enemy has had more influence on the underground in Jiy than previously suspected.
#darkfantasy #sciencefantasy #scifi
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I have done about 10K words on the Abyss of Dreams re-write this week (and deleted about the same). If you want to know where my time has gone, it's been into that. Will I make my Oct deadline? I hope, I hope.
I've also been enjoying Dragon's Dogma 2, and been disappointed in Endless Ocean. I loved the first two games, and how intimate, beautiful, and wondrous they were. This one is not that :(. There's something special about getting an up-close pic of a fish to file, that a long-shot scan that grabs a whole bunch of IDs misses. And the AI voice is awful. *sad tears*
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And I'm off, to continue work on the 4th Wellspring Book and working on Knavish Canto's hitting 100K views art.
Take care, all
Kwyn
Kwyn
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Happy #sundog following up with this piece #art #dynamicduo #wildzoo #sanctuarykingdom #wildzoocomic #fantasy #scifi #world
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#wip #sneakpeek #worldbuilding #art #wildzoo #fantasy #caturday #scifi #sky
Happy Caturday!
Vela
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Ten Days of Worldember in Solaris!
So far Sky and I have written 20 articles, and about 10k words combined! We've explored a bunch of the spacecraft, and the Inner World. We've been having a blast, and I hope you are too!
#worldember2023 #worldember #scifi #spaceopera PS: Did you notice the secret article?
What did we write so far?
The banner you see above is from Nomads of Mercury. I also wrote about the humanoid species of Mercury, Mori and Kara. We've been all over the Solar System, taking a stop by Venus' Palace of Delights and their Godqueen Titania. Kind of like how the Humans get everywhere too. I wanted to focus on what interplanetary human migration might be like, and that also got us writing about some arceology. I wrote about the Heller Cave Paintings, while Sky wrote about the Othello Shaft-hole Axe Head. Sky's been zeroing in on spacecraft this Worldember, starting out with the watchful Aerie O-1, but also a couple classic spacecraft in the Cyklopes SSF-9 and Heretic GA-7. We get a satellite weapons system in Parelion Orbital Defender. Chatting spacecraft with Sky inspired me to write a couple of articles about conditions ships might suffer, inspiring the Cosmic Bloom and Paradisius. We've written a few supplementary articles as well; Voluntary Indication of Position, Rhea, Jupiter Stella, and Magnomight Systems.What's next?
Sky and I have been discussing and working out a lot of the political intrigue we want to set up on the different planets. It'll be great to explore some of the motivations of the Jovians, so we can better understand the threats Jupiter is beginning to pose to interplanetary peace. If that sounds interesting, join us and keep an eye on the next articles coming out!#worldember2023 #worldember #scifi #spaceopera PS: Did you notice the secret article?
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Science Fantasy Reading List
Ok, Dimi threw this out there, so I'll add one. This isn't a recent one but I loved it. Some might not agree, but I felt this was very much #sciencefantasy when I read it:
Flotsam: Book One of the Peridot Shift by by R J Theodore
#scienceFantasyThinkers #sciFi
Flotsam Cover Art by Julie Dillon
Flotsam: Book One of the Peridot Shift by by R J Theodore
#scienceFantasyThinkers #sciFi
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Science Fantasy Reading List
What's the latest #scienceFantasy book or movie you have read and loved? I will start!
Dune, by Frank Herbert
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Looking for some awesome worlds? Five favourites with less than 50 followers!
I know a lot of us are looking for inspiring worlds to follow this #Worldember so I thought I'd share some of the worlds that have inspired me lately! I hope you enjoy them just as much as I have.
#Fantasy
#UrbanFantasy
#ScienceFantasy
#SciFi
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#UrbanFantasy
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Venus on World Anvil
Wikipedias featured article today was all about fictional depictions of the planet Venus, and it is rife with excellent worldbuilding inspo. I thought it would be fun to look at Venus on World Anvil too!
In Solaris, Venus is a verdant but hostile paradise covered thick toxic fog. The inhabitants are the alien Fei, plant-people who can curate their own growth to create striking appearances.
Tell us about your Venus in the comments!
Venus in fiction | #ArticleShare #SciFi
Venus in fiction | #ArticleShare #SciFi
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ATTENTION University of Saebia Freshmen!
The attached article is REQUIRED READING for ALL incoming freshmen. Brought to you by the Archives and Special Collections Online Database in the College of Sugran Studies at the University of Saebia.
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Crescent of Finality
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Crescent of Finality
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New Year's Resolutions 2026
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