Yep. No question. At some point, I’d wonder why I hadn’t seen a post in a while. I’d grumble at the algorithm and then check your account for the last time you posted.

"The chimp needs pirating lessons aboard the Joan Jett" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd write. But here we are.

#sci-fi #amwriting

Hell yeah! 👊

I just named a spaceship the Joan Jett 🏴‍☠️

How's your day going?

#sci-fi #amwriting

#Artemis II 🚀

Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this amazing Earth Set video during their lunar fly

“Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos”

I can think of a few. The novel I return to most is A Memory Called Empire. A fantastic book, though the narrative relies on subtext to answer "plot hole" questions, e.g., why is the dead political envoy not shipped home when a new one is sent to replace him? Not explicitly addressed straightaway.

A young blonde woman paces forward, overwritten by the title Some Desperate Glory.

I’m late to this one, but what a bold and engrossing novel by @emilytesh.net. An unreliable and unlikable protagonist discovers how selfhood, perception, and the very fabric of reality are entangled, propelling the narrative in heart-clutching ways. Superb storytelling.

#Sci-fi #BookSky

Best pitch I’ve read today 👍

This is spot-on. I rewrote the novel I'm querying from 3rd omniscient to multi-1st. The prose pops now.

Useful test for multi-POV: pick 10 random pages from the ms. and read the first sentence your eye falls upon. If you can tell who is narrating right away, you've likely done your job.

Thanks for all this. I’d never heard of Bollore.

Hachette…is Orbit, right? I’d like to hear what their authors have to say about books parsed by AI. If that’s indeed the case? Did Hachette go ahead and fire all their copy editors?

True! I tend to wonder about how subtext may or may not fill in plot holes. I'm thinking about a novel I just read that relies heavily on subtext to answer the "that makes no sense" moments. The narrative never explicitly addresses events that seem, on the surface, like holes.

At what point does a plot point become a plot hole, do you think? I’ve thought about this question for an unhealthy amount of time 😬

Faith of Beasts.

Officially out tomorrow, though a bunch of stores have let it slip out early.

Just a reminder…

Your guess is as good as mine! The cover depicts a spaceship close-in (?) and an explosion behind it. Top right is a spherical, mechanical object that’s chunky. James S.A. Corey overlays in blocky white letters at the bottom, Leviathan Falls in black up top.

Another topical zinger from #TheExpanse…

“It was always like this. People trying to get their work done even while atrocities were blooming around them. Avoid eye contact and hope that the fire doesn’t spread to you and yours.”

—Naomi, Chapter Seventeen

#sci-fi #writingcommunity #booksky 📚 🪐

So say we all.

Wow, sure! I have a beta ms. ready to go. Keep in mind, Vita Nova is a sci-fi novel that explores the evolution of AGI and synthetic life. If that sounds up your alley (worth mentioning that there's a crime thread) drop me a line any time.

Lol, I hear you. In the new WIP, police and military model AMRs deserve a swift kick.

So say we all.

Hmm. Sci-fi often uses a novum? Take the Expanse for example. Plenty of present-day political shenanigans, but set in the shadow of the alien protomolecule. That’s my best guesstimate.

Nod is wonderful. I read the character as the real poet of the series. Maybe there’s something Keatsian about “I fix stuff”?

Right, then.

Feeling just fine. From one misanthrope to another, that's all. As far as I'm concerned, this might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship 🤔

That's the point of the rhetorical question. You know, for a self-styled misanthrope, you unfortunately also assume (contradictorily) that other people care about your observations. They don't. Have a nice day, Biff 😀

What about fry sauce? Mayo + ketchup? A quicker route to The Hague?

That line’s a garrote. Strange, I’m writing a misanthropic protagonist on the other side of that now. She has to claw her way toward hope and trust. In first POV, every word out of her mouth buries me.

Brand new sci-fi novel. Flowers for Algernon + Cowboy Bebop. Gotta say, I was a touch concerned about the prologue. Your series was aces. I’m green checks except for the reset. But I went to the shelf and every sci-fi book—newer titles—reset after the prologue. Maybe a genre convention?

[Blinks at screen.] Um, what the fuck.

[Blinks at screen.] Um, what the fuck.

#Artemis II - Photo 2 from yesterdays flyby

ECLIPSE.
April 6, 2026.

Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA

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