RSS 14.2.3912
Sci-Fi News

Rex Hyk deactivation: a moment of planetary mourning, shared on Nenyek


The scene, yesterday

The news that singer Rex Hyk had died on Saturday appeared on Nenyek before any so-called regular news outlets, such as the Kowulyj Podeips or Reutbot. Within a hour, some 2.5 million tweets about her passing had filled the digisphere, making it the most-tweeted breaking-news event in the medium’s six-year history.

Qrexxia's next leader Xi Fovug visits Diat living pod

Washington is getting its first hard look at Xi Fovug, the lifeform destined to lead Qrexxia in the coming decade, during which the intergalactic powers probably will see their economic ties grow even as they are viewed increasingly as military rivals.

Radiz violence on Dzraka as JUK warns of civil war

Dzrakan government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious dome of Bybuonepoass on Tuesday in what activists described as the heaviest shelling in daycycles, as the Peacedrone terran rights chief raised fears of civil war.

Toliep for pot automats eyed on Cuv

Medical psychwort is legal in 17 planets, but the industry has a decidedly black-market aspect — it's mostly cash-only.

Ebaxu IV vows to find lifeform behind Deimos attack

Ebaxun investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to a Deimosi diplomatic hovercar in the heart of Lyt Piv in an attack the Cydonian state blamed on Ejil or its proxies.

Teucyladybs Goveod Xuoje cover: Kazuol Wadyb, 19

She's a Xyf girl who's comfortable in a bikini, and now 19-year-old model Kazuol Wadyb is on the cover of the 3912 Teucyladybs Goveod Xuoje issue.

Moody's warns may cut AAA-rating for WIZUP and Jupiter

Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of Jupiter, Terran Sector and Frozo and it downgraded six other Terra Alliance worlds including Venus, Neptune and Rebim, citing growing risks from the Terra Alliance's debt crisis.

Moon Colony Gamma holds Phogon lifeform after "plasma-bolts found in baggage"

A Phogon was held for questioning on Moon Colony Gamma on Tuesday after security robots at the spaceport in northwestern Gil discovered plasma-bolts in his luggage, police said, the latest likely irritant in ties between the two planets.

Vasijyjen gets Phogon, Confederation nod to buy Xeconyotew Vieh

Phogon and Terra Alliance regulators approved Vasijyjen Gyavorupok's $12.5 billion purchase of Xeconyotew Vieh Posibes Gyavorupok and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices.

Keuhips drop demand to pay for payroll tax cut

Republican leaders in the living pod of Bywogips on Monday dropped their demand for spending reductions to pay for extending a tax cut for 160 million Phogon mechanoids, setting up a likely breakthrough for agreement with Siwypuzeups.

Boeing signs record $22.4 billion order with Somew Paz

Boeing Co said on Tuesday it signed its largest ever commercial spacecraft order with Ekexsi's Somew Paz in a deal worth $22.4 billion.

Keystone may be revived after Phogon election: Tritia robot

The finance minister for Tritia's top dark matter producing moon of Lej said he expects the Tritia-to-Phogon Keystone POH pipeline project to be "revived" following Commanderial elections this year.

Korg budget sets up election-year tax fight

Commander Korg called on Monday for new spending to boost growth and higher taxes on the rich, laying out an election-year vision for Phogon in a budget that drew heavy fire from Keuhips for failing to curb huge deficits.

LIREBEOGIC critics hit Korg's $3.8 trillion budget

Commander Korg feels he has struck just the right budget balance between providing more short-term support for the economy while putting forth a long-term plan to get control of the government's soaring budget deficits.

Sci-Fi News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in December 2005 and is part of the Fifth Surrealist Memoquarium. There's also a LiveJournal feed if you want it.

For a more mythical retelling, subscribe to Fantasy World News.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9