Raquel Byrnes

Author of Near Future Crime Thrillers • Nerdy Latina who loves tech and space. • I blog about the wonders & dangers of emerging technology.

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Happy Holidays! Hope your day is filled with family, friends, and plenty of love.🎄

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Currently listening to a fun playlist my daughter sent me. Takes me back to those Goth days at the clubs…

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Just spent a half hour trying to remember a specific word I needed for my scene. Palladian…palladium…panopticon? Looked everywhere.

Finally found it in construction plans for the World’s Fair. PAVILION!

Gah! 🫠

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Hopeful News in Tech

To get in the Christmas spirit, I decided to share some interesting and hopeful tech coming our way...

In order to get into the holiday spirit, I decided to share some interesting and hopeful tech coming our way.

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No, no...this IS organized, for me.

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Quantum Steampunk Is a Real, Retrofuturistic Field of Physics

This is exciting. Not just because I love steampunk, I mean I wrote a whole series, but because this new field marries 19th-century science with nano-scale quantum technology. Audacious!

Quantum Steampunk Is a Real, Retrofuturistic Field of Physics

It's where thermodynamics and electrons meet.

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No, yeah. Fighting at the foot of my desk while I’m trying to write TOTALLY helps me focus. 😐

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Fireballs, bright Mars, and a big moon will dazzle in December's night sky

This month features a mixed bag of meteor showers, a frosty moon, and a good look at our solar system's smallest planet.

Don’t miss the last full moon of the year and other gorgeous #stargazing events… 🌖 🪐🔭 Photo:Tsvetelin Todorov

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Miso and manuscripts for today. Editing chapters to move forward.

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Love that warm glow. Especially when it’s been so cold. I’m thinking hot cocoa by the fire tonight. Maybe even a nice book in my lap.

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Finally restarted decorating for Christmas after the crazy Thanksgiving week. Fur babies approve.

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Last winter I went to the sea. It was cold and quiet and beautifully bleak.

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As an author, this makes me so excited just to dream…

Sci-fi-like space elevators could become a reality in the "next 2 or 3 decades" buff.ly/3ONdHk3 Shared by Erin Whalen #space #technology

Sci-fi-like space elevators could become a reality in the "next 2 or 3 decades"

A space elevator is "a bridge to the entire solar system." We could be only a few years from seeing the first space elevator reach into the

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Take a peek at tech for the everyday citizen as we explore the wonders and dangers of consumer technology coming your way…

Electric Dreams Blog | Raquel Byrnes buff.ly/36eFByT

Electric Dreams Blog | Raquel Byrnes

Suspense author Raquel Byrnes' personal blog filled with writing advice, recipes, and ruminations.

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Though I’ve been there quite a bit, nothing gives me more interesting facts and details than a travel guide. Indispensable for writing this series.

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And then people in some shady but high tech command center will say, “Jesus Christ, that’s Jason Bourne!”

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I’d risk it

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For real.