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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My 9 anime ^_^ This was a tough pick, and it doesn't have anything from the '60s and '70s (or the '00s, for that matter), but I think this is pretty representative of what I love.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hello out there! Want to make me the happiest writer? Leave a review! :) Goodreads, Amazon, Storygraph... reviews are the lifeblood of the author. They're also fun to read. Even the bad ones...

Spread of all four The Kitra Saga covers. They look pretty cool.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thanks so much, Scott! The latest #TheKitraSaga book just came out—you might add it to the list! :)

Cover for Majera, #TheKitraSaga No. 4, featuring hunky Peter and suave Fareedh with Majera zooming by in the background...

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My books are often compared to those of Becky Chambers (and we sat next to each other at last year's Worldcon signing tables!) journeypress.com/the-kitra-sa... (Depending on the bookstore, they may have them; if they don't, they can order them)

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hey gang! I am going to be talking about the last century of #ScienceFiction at Verbatim Bookstore in North Park this Friday at 7pm! Y'all come!

Celebrate Amazing Stories & Science Fiction's 100th Birthday! (with a cover of Amazing Stories and a slew of names)

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My talk on the bleak future for commercial spaceflight went well at #UCSD. No one called me a commie pinko this time...

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Coming next month. The fourth book in #TheKitraSaga, and then end to this arc. You'll like it. #Space #notSpaceOpera #Queer #QueerAF #GoodScience

Cover for Majera featuring Fareedh and Peter, the Majera zooming by in the background over an unknown planet

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Obligatory plug for my books. :) journeypress.com/the-kitra-sa...

The covers for the first three books in The Kitra Saga (Kitra, Sirena, and Hyvilma), featuring the characters Kitra, Sirena, and Marta

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

@corabuhlert.bsky.social 's #Worldcon report really is one of the best things ever published by the Journey. Read on about for the local, West German color...and to find out who won the 1970 #Hugo #ScienceFiction awards! galacticjourney.org/september-14...

Postcard "I lost my heart in Heidelberg" with views of the city

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Teaching at Carlsbad by the Sea today about #Europa!

A dashing, balding, Jewish-looking man in glasses, with a beard and curly pony tail, wearing a purple shirt and a vintage brown tie, makes a dramatic gesture from the podium, a slide of the Moon behind him.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"The Man Who Folded Himself", by David Gerrold

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Both the computer and the cartridge still work, by the way... Here's my current setup:

Room with Atari 800, Atari 520ST, and IBM 80286 computer, all on. Nerd paradise.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Vision of Tomorrow continues to be a worth, if variable #ScienceFiction mag—and it's still the only one out of the UK right now! @krisvm.bsky.social has all the details: galacticjourney.org/july-14th-19...

Cover of Vision of Tomorrow #11 illustrating Last Vigil by Michael Moorcock with an advanced city with thin towering structures on a mountainous cliff edges above a stormy sea.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Ahhh :) So, in Star Trek, there is a United Federation of Planets, and one of its founding members is the planet Andor. Andorians (blue skinned, antennaed folk) are a fundamental part of the show(s). It's a very identifiable name, just as "Endor" is a name well known to all Star Wars fans.

Andorian ambassador Shras from the TOS episode "Journey to Babely". He has blue skin, white hair, antennae, and is wearing a brown tabard over a mail shirt.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I need to learn how to smile. Good photo, though!

A phenomenally beautiful short woman and a somewhat impressive if dour looking "irresistibly middle aged" Jew.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Just one: Katherine Johnson (though Sarah Vaughan was her boss early in her career). I'm glad Hidden Figures exists, but I kind of wish it has been a straight documentary as their real lives are even more interesting!

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

3-5000 people showed up for the #NoKings rally in *Carlsbad* — it was enormous.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Dual wielding for tomorrow's rally. Don't fuck with the Bear. #California #ICE #NoKings

A ridiculous-looking, but "irresistibly middle-aged", bespectacled Jew in a blue dress shirt, green tie, and khaki slacks proudly holds an American flag on a pole in one hand and the California flag on a pole in the other. He is in a yard with a fetching yellow cottage behind him.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

aMeRiCa IS AN iNvAdEd cOuNtRy!!!1111one #ICEprotests (</s> for the really stupid)

A band of foreigners, probably, invading the streets of Savannah, waving flags of another country. Maybe Mexico. Could be Italy.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Looks like linking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discove... from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Sta... was the right idea.

Graph of page hits on Discoverer 2 showing a rise from 5 hits a day to 20.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My wife says this fellow is hot, and she can't imagine why...

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Join the bandwagon! Tune in to KGJ (for the best music from 1966-1970): tinyurl.com/kgjtunes

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

600 folks assembled for Carlsbad's May Day protest.

A handsome man in his late 30s with a sign that reads FIRE HEGSETH next to a young world-saving woman with a sign reading AMERICA=WE THE PEOPLE next to the most beautiful woman in the world (also in her 30s) with a sign reading "You can't have my rights. I'm not done with them yet," and she is next to a guy who looks like the typical Trumper, but he's actually one of us. Behind them are 600 people protesting near the beach in Carlsbad.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

So who's up for a late night with me tonight? 🙂 discord.gg/kwK2xJ6m?eve...

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Another great episode of Science Fiction Theater tonight at 7pm PDT! You don't want to miss it—will Mattingly get to fly on Apollo 13? Find out! discord.gg/ajtnSC5K?eve... And don't forget: Apollo 13 launches tomorrow! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tuned in to KGJ this morning. Come join me! :) It's April 1970... tinyurl.com/kgjradio

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For me, this will always be a Kestrel (the "K")

Screen shot of the old DOS game "ROGUE" with the character, represented by an ampersand, entering a room containing a Kestrel, represented by a K.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today's class at Carlsbad by the Sea on #Apollo and #Soyuz.

"Tragedy and Triumph. Apollo and Soyuz Part 1"

Photo of a dude with long hair, glasses, and a beard in a white blazer, white slacks, black shoes, and a blue button up with lapels that look like they could loft a DC-10. He is holding a blue umbrella like a pointer.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

UCSD last week, teaching about the women pioneers of space science like @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social , without whom, many of our Giant Leaps would not have been possible.

Photo of some guy with frizzy long hair and glasses in a very 1970-corduroy blazer/tie/yellow shirt/gray trousers at a podium. He looks very incongruous with the modern laptop and LCD screen. But pretty stylish nevertheless.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yesterday at CSUSM, teaching about cool moons

Photo of a guy with long curly brown hair, a beard, and glasses, holding a blue umbrella, dressed in a white suit, blue shirt, and big striped tie, in front of a display of the solar system circa 1960, behind a bunch of astronomy textbooks

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The latest Fantastic #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy is surprisingly good this month! galacticjourney.org/march-10-197...

Cover of Fantastic depicting a demonic young woman with spread black wings and a white dress flying against a red background

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It's the doldrums for Analog #ScienceFiction...and mixed justice for the Chicago 7. Tune in and see what we're talking about: galacticjourney.org/february-28-...

The cover of the Analog issue. It shows a man with a gun looking over a desert cliff at a massive radio telescope facility.

Six men with long, wild hair stand smiling at the camera, arms wrapped around each othe: (l. to r.) Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, and Tom Hayden

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Tuned in to KGJ #radio — come join me! tinyurl.com/kgjradio

Photo of a 1965 Ramsgate RCA Victory radio, rectangular and vintage

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Exciting to be on Part 5 (the last one!) of Majera! #TheKitraSaga

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Forget SiriusXM, Spotify, or Pandora... KGJ's got the real hits: tinyurl.com/kgjradio

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The new Dandelion Cottage is complete! Take a peek inside...

Photo of the inside of an office, with two big windows and wood tile on the walls. There is a man in a gray sweater vest, blue shirt, and yellow tie sitting amongst the following computers (left to right):

Atari 800, HP laptop, Atari 520ST, Pentium III tower, IBM AT 286 clone.

The 800 has an Indus disk drive and a Commodore 1702 monitor. The Pentium is for reading 5 1/4" floppies. The AT has an external modem and a VGA display.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hey folks! Did you know that last year, @galacticjourney.bsky.social missed being on the #Hugo ballot for Best Fanzine by just *one* nomination?

Email from Seattle Worldcon saying that Nominations have now opened for the 2025 Hugo Awards.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

FINALLY finished Part 4 of Majera, book 4 of #TheKitraSaga. Edits next week, then on to the home stretch! Can you guess who's getting the cover?

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

291 A.D. With the death of Emperor Wu, the short-lived peace of the Jin dynasty comes to an end as eight princes vie for dominance in China.

Map of the Jin Empire, comprising what would be the southeastern half of modern China. The bases of the eight feuding princes are scattered throughout the northern half of the Empire.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Tuned in to KGJ! tinyurl.com/kgjradio Just played: Mary Hopkin Those Were The Days - 680830 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) 690731 Shocking Blue - California Here I Come 690930 Sagittarius -[6]- Would You Like To Go 680703

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

280 A.D. Emperor Wu of Cao Wei, first of the Jin Dynasty, conquers Eastern Wu, ending the "Three Kingdoms" era of China. However, unification will not last very long...

Map of China, the Jin dynasty in yellow — it includes Northern Vietnam as well as modern China except for Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the north and Tibet, Xinjiang, and Qinghai in the west.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

276 A.D. It is four years since Zenobia, Regent of Palmyra, led a force 70,000 strong against the Romans at Edessa. Had it been successful, it would have ensured a free Eastern Roman Empire for some time. (I got a rush of followers, but I wasn't about to skip Zenobia!)

Silver ancient coin with a bust of a short-coiffed woman (Zenobia) depicted.

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Gideon Marcus (he/him) @gideonmarcus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

265 A.D. Ma Jun of Cao Wei, earliest known inventor of the south-pointing chariot (a kind of inertial compass), dies.

Photo of a reconstruction of a wooden south-pointing chariot, with two wheels, various gears, and a figure on top pointing forward.

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