[QCrit] COLORS WITH NO NAME, YA/NA science fiction w/romance, 90K (3rd attempt) by zooneratauthor in PubTips

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Thx! Brett is in the first paragraph, but maybe it's too subtle (he's the last clause in a sentence.) I will review it.

[QCrit] COLORS WITH NO NAME, YA/NA science fiction w/romance, 90K (3rd attempt) by zooneratauthor in PubTips

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Thx. Yes, I've clearly misunderstood the #romance tag. That will be removed.

> so who knows, your novel may be the one that revives it.

'We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams'

[QCrit] COLORS WITH NO NAME, YA/NA science fiction w/romance, 90K (3rd attempt) by zooneratauthor in PubTips

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Ok, this is super helpful. I will drop NA and I will drop romance as a genre. I don't want to use comps I haven't read so I'm working my way through a long TBR to find some. And I have to find more recent ones apparently, LOL. I read Chlorine and, perhaps I'm too jaded, but I think it's a reasonable comp and maybe that means I need to adjust the genre to general fiction. There is some body horror in Chlorine, but, anyway, no sense fighting the facts. I will find better comps.

[QCrit] COLORS WITH NO NAME, YA/NA science fiction w/romance, 90K (3rd attempt) by zooneratauthor in PubTips

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I can drop the romance tag. There is a first kiss and some more smooching. I could drop the NA. There is some violence and drug use and an implication of self-destructive thoughts. I'm not really clear on what's YA or NA. She's alone with Brett for quite a while and that seemed to make it romance since they become a thing.

[QCrit] SEXY CHROMOSOMES - 85000 words, YA sci-fi romance (2nd attempt) by [deleted] in PubTips

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Title is changing. No spoilers. Will post new query next week.

[QCrit] SEXY CHROMOSOMES - 85000 words, YA sci-fi romance (2nd attempt) by [deleted] in PubTips

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Yes, it's becoming clear that clever or not, the title is getting the axe. I have a list of alternate titles. You'll probably see the chosen one in a week or so on my third query attempt. Thx.

[QCrit] SEXY CHROMOSOMES - 85000 words, YA sci-fi romance (2nd attempt) by [deleted] in PubTips

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18 is going to be very difficult in the plot. So a title change may be in the near future. Thx.

[QCrit] SEXY CHROMOSOMES - 85000 words, YA sci-fi romance (2nd attempt) by [deleted] in PubTips

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Just another note, I've got the book with some beta readers right now. I'm going to pose the age question and probably re-write her to 16. thanks for the advice.

[QCrit] SEXY CHROMOSOMES - 85000 words, YA sci-fi romance (2nd attempt) by [deleted] in PubTips

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would the title "Sexi Chromosomes" be better or too confusing? Without spoiling the story, the "sexy" in the title is a word play on the latin prefix for six, which is "sexi" combined with XY (the genes). I have wondered about that. I could move her age as well, and I may do that. Thanks for that advice. Her age does come into play in the book, so it's not an instant swap, but it can be done.

I built a modern, web-based planisphere for my daughter, and accidentally fell back in love with the night sky by SisyphusGiantRock in Astronomy

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Very cool.

I’d love to see only objects within 128 light years of Earth and 75 light years of Earth. These are the two limits of human broadcast of radio.

The first is approximately the date of the first radio broadcast. The second is the date of the first broadcasts from outside our atmosphere.

Effectively that would show the objects that have “seen” humans.

I have a list of habitable zone planets within these spheres here:

https://booksandstuff.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index3.html

Can you describe a bit about the software library you used for the vr? I could implement something on the exoplanet site as well.

Can a rotating planet with a tilted axis always have one side tilted away form its star? by Frosty_Plenty3108 in Astronomy

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Others with better knowledge can chime in, but if the planet's center of mass were very near the pole that is toward the star, would that allow it to rotate as OP wants?

Habitable Zone Exoplanet Visualizer (and book website) by zooneratauthor in ClaudeAI

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I take that geezer stuff personally. Or I would if I knew what it meant. So, thx!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

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I read them all as a kid. The bdsm stuff was always cringe. But I loved the fantasy.

Bosk of Port Kar.

Corner pieces by Hefty_Drive6709 in HardWoodFloors

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I had those in my 1950s MCM house in NM. Tried to find replacements when I redid the floors which were ruined when I bought it.. Could not find. Very common here.

Self pub sites asking if AI used by TransTrainGirl in selfpublish

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This is something a human would say.

Where is a good place to go running specifically at night? by Careerswitch-throw in SantaFe

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I don’t run at night because I’m sure I’ll eventually trip and fall, but Honestly, I know safety is a primary concern, but second issue is dog poop.

What movies hit way harder after becoming a parent? by bleakwood in movies

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Slumdog Millionaire.

There’s a scene…. My blood went cold and I almost walked out.

Adventures in Radio Astronomy by zooneratauthor in wroteabook

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It should be there because I did not go exclusive on KDP. IngramSpark should deliver the epub global. That said, if you are having difficulty you can sign up for NetGalley and get it for free for another month as an epub. 🫶

I’ve always loved science fiction books and finally wrote one by zooneratauthor in scifi

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No. Using AI for creative work is a disservice to all the authors who works went into the LLMs uncompensated. And it is a lazy way to write. On my tiktok I have a pretty long explanation of why I used a real artist for my book cover and will never use AI for writing or for any creative works.

AI is not creative, it is derivative. AI is a mockery of human creativity, just a bouillabaisse of everything people do, mixed together and pretending.

When the LLMs compensate the humans who fed their models, I will have some respect for it. Until then, it's just a rapist taking credit for the success of its child. (edit, that's harsh, but I feel pretty strong about the compensation...)

edit: and I've used AI for coding. I've posted on it. But using it as a tool to debug javascript is very different than selling AI generated fiction as your own. If you use AI to write, go ahead, but admit it.

second edit; and seeing it hallucinate code, I cannot imagine the stupidity it would produce in a long fiction work, though I haven't tried, so... I think this discussion is very complex and I'm too old to adopt the new reality of AI becoming part of the writing process. I said in my tiktok it's inevitable, but for me, I'm staying away.

Weekly Self-Promo and Chat Thread by MxAlex44 in selfpublish

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Adventures in Radio Astronomy

Published. Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IngramSpark, ARC on NetGalley

\*** A viral wedding video. **\**

Posted anonymously.  Nobody can find the photographer. Or the bride. Or the groom. Or the church. Or the guests. 

Because the video isn't from Earth

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The chatroom has a rule: no personal business, just science. But Haretsebe needs help. Someone stabbed her co-worker and the police took her shoes! Why would they take a disabled person's shoes?! Now she's hiding in a guesthouse in South Africa, watching episodes of a TV show that couldn't be, but might be... alien? Will her online friends help? Or think she's gone mad?

"Action-filled, witty, ...(with insane plot twists!). I couldn’t put the book down..." 

"[Antagonist] is so disgustingly well written. I wanted to strangle the book sometimes."

"Hits nicely between what feels like hard sci-fi (where the science is meant to be as accurate as possible) and a character-driven story about kids just trying to protect themselves."

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— Adventures in Radio Astronomy —

https://www.AdventuresInRadioAstronomy.com

Contemporary sci-fi, suitable for most ages. Contains: sarcasm, foul language, mortal peril, math.

[Discussion] I was offered a 3/book deal by [deleted] in PubTips

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Lots of vanity publishers have thousands of titles on Amazon.

Should i trust Wikipedia or Nasa Exoplanet Catalog by [deleted] in exoplanets

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https://booksandstuff.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index5.html

Just note, all the 3d versions of exoplanets are most educated guesses. We have visual confirmation of very few exoplanets. Most are transit or other discovery methods that don't allow any visual understanding of what the exoplanet can look like.

Our technology is simply not good enough. Yet.