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Hey, everyone, my novel, Starless and Bible-Black, can be purchase directly at the provided link.

Also check out the fantasy medical thriller, That Great Leviathan.

My other works, Whom Gods Would Destroy, Part I - The Architects of Hell is now available directly at this link or in print and ebook through Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Part II, Archangel (B&N, Amazon) and Part III, Armageddon (B&N, Amazon) are also available. The paperback is also available through EU retailer Exlibris (German). The eBook (only) is also available through Kobo, Wook, and FNAC.

Listen to a reading of the first chapter of the Architects of Hell here.

My fourth novel, Bathwater, is also available directly and on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Also for the acknowledgments: 'Sorry for any/all inaccuracies about Lutheran theology or services or anything. I could have asked a minister I'm acquainted with to read the draft but, given the pastor in the story is a fairly contemptible war criminal and basically exclusively bad things happen in the church, doing so would have basically forced her into the uncomfortable position of being implicitly asked for permission to write this.' (to paraphrase).

Which is kind of a fascinating sentiment to me. Litany against sensitivity readers.

#the buffalo hunter hunter #stephen graham jones #horror

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Random Crossover Thought

So, yesterday I read Magic The Gathering: The Visual Guide by Jay Anelli, published in 2020? 2022? Not sure.

Anyways. last night I was talking with some folks on Discord who are more knowledgeable than me about MtG, and we were discussing how a bunch of Planes exist to play around with certain subgenres and aesthetics of fantasy. And also that several of them brush against SF genres.

And so was wondering if they're ever gonna do a Plane for the Sword-And-Planet genre. And it occurred to me, today that, well. You could probably do something with John Carter being a Planeswalker?

I mean, think about it, the man is immortal, and he keeps magically ending up on another world, so.

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They actually did a Sword-and-Planet style plane early in the franchise's lifespan, though the influence was easy to miss: Rath.

Rath was a parasitic plane "orbitting" around the main plane, Dominaria, and home of the story's heroes. It was a barren, red wasteland made of nanomachine Flowstone ruled over by a dictatorial mad scientist, Volrath, and what little habitable lands were ruled by hardscrable and often mutated peoples abducted from other planes, with minions of Volrath's stronghold locked in constant warfare with rebel camps. It was very sci-fi adjacent, beginning and ending with skyship battles around portals and featuring shapeshifters, brainwashing, parasites, and all kinds of dimensional weirdness. It was also a creation of the Phyrexians, another deeply sci-fi culture; it's like how in sword-in-planet stories, it always turns out that there's a way more advanced and more typically SF race pulling the strings.

The plane functionally ceased to be when it did, frankly, one of the coolest invasion plans I've ever seen in speculative fiction, overlaying directly onto Dominaria and bringing its troops and horrors with it.

#Magic: The Gathering #magic the gathering #mtg

Well, we know from Pixar's own mythology that the concepts of Toy Story to Wall-E were hashed out on a napkin during a lunch meeting, so we must assume that the Golden Age was dependent on a single magical napkin

Yeah, the new trend of updating the espionage genre to have our cool spy heroes fight a faceless and tragically unfuckable ai system is lame as hell, please stop, start fighting the Russians again

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#good night sweet #bobby prince #may flights of 8-bit angels sing thee to thy rest (in monoaural PCM format)

We need more grounded science-fiction movies dedicated to rational, humanistic problem-solving and also one character is a luchador (not commented on, no irony)

I know we're all getting weird and conspiratorial but also remember that we were going to be dropping dead by the hundreds of millions from the nanobots in the Covid vaccine by now, so survivorship bias

I think the best proof that Helen Keller was a "real person" and not a construct of a team of handlers is the The Frost King cryptomnesia/plagiarism scandal, which is definitely the kind of fuck up an 11-year-old would do but not adults.

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What's up with this Helen Keller truther movement?

My favorite bit of evidence is that her writing style changed over her life, which, yeah, that thing that happens to all writers.

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The method that Anne Sullivan invented to allegedly teach Helen has evolved into a system that bad actors use to abuse the disabled.

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Right, facilitated communication is bunk, and you can tell because the outputs change with the facilitator. Keller, however, had a consistent personality, philosophy, and output throughout her life, and she didn't suffer from the severe cognitive impairment of FC cases like the recent Woody Brown authorship controversy, being only deaf and blind. The allegwd shift in style associated with the loss of Sullivan was already occurring and found in other writers in roughly the same lifespan (1880-1968).

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Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

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You're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.

So, "Bound By Blood," a VtM/D&D 5.5e crossover with a Kindred class.

Eh,

Go for the full Tremere experience and just have the Kindred class and full spellcasting

#vtm #vampire the masquerade #d&d #dungeons & dragons

Considering one of those absolutely esoteric DNIs.

DNI: Anti-Wolfbonders, Rhinegolders, pro-Drexler, neo-Ananite Karites, Spider Clan Players, the Government of Tuscaloosa, AL, Hitler/Eva-shippers, Yushkep Kamuy, people who kin the Owl (Daredevil villain), miners