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Happy Black Friday y'all! Whether you're done with your Black Friday strategic strikes, or just plotting your online shopping spree today, here's a few holiday gift suggestions for the sci-fi/fantasy reader in your life... (See ⬇️ for the Amazon connections!) ONE OCTOBER NIGHT - One story every night, born from a drawing. Fantasy, science fiction, mystery, this collection has it all. Come for the night and see what you find, because it's never boring here in October. RECALL NOTICE - (ebook only) Eddie's had a rough thirteen months. He's been cursed by a gypsy, assigned his own sister as his court appointed witch, and is up to his neck in mandated community service. When he picks up a new client, his luck finally changes — for the worse. Can this PI turned black cat navigate a world of friendly zombies, orcish goons, and bad luck by the crate to somehow save the day? MINSTRELS IN THE GALAXY - A dozen science fiction authors spin their own yarns, inspired by the music of Jethro Tull. Belly up to the bar somewhere out among the stars. Grab yourself a drink, and settle in for some colorful tales from our minstrels in the galaxy. Stories of things that could have been, things that might have been...and of things that should have been, but never were. TALES FROM THE WOOD - A dozen fantasy authors spin their own tales, inspired by the music of Jethro Tull. Come join us around the fire for stories of all manner of witches, wizards, dragons, and fae beings both light and dark as these bards bring you their Tales from the Wood. 2024 HIGH CALIBER AWARDS - A young traveling judge on the road with an Imperial Magus struggles to keep his own magical talent hidden while investigating a series of crimes that look to be the work of a powerful necromancer. (I'm working on continuing this story into a full novel for Cannon Publishing! 😁) WYRD WEST - Out in the Wasaya territory of the Old West, myth collides with reality, and anything can be true. A missing town draws a Federal Marshal and an itinerant preacher together to confront an ancient evil that wants to consume them all - and more. Get my story and another nine from stellar authors in this volume! ZNB PRESENTS: YEAR TWO - What would happen if the "Chosen One" was a sixty year-old widowed fisherwoman? Find out in "Harrold of the Gods", only one of the two dozen stories in this anthology! And more! That's a sample of what you can find on my Amazon Author's page. Take a look and find something for the geek that you love, and give them a gift they can enjoy while they're curled up next to a fire this holiday season! Oh, and if you're looking for some additional information, I list some of my favorite indie publishers and samples of what they offer in a Substack post - pop over and check it out. substack.com/home/post/p-152…
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When was the last time you left a review for a book you liked, hmmm? You were going to get around to it when you had the time, right? Hey - you're doomscrolling. You have the time RIGHT NOW. Go leave that review! THEN reward yourself with some memes. open.substack.com/pub/samrob…
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QUIT TRAINING ME TO FARM HATE CLICKS GUYS Also, the Mets suck and @FreddyLA7... ... damnit, I can't do it, Freddy is cool. But the Mets do suck.
It really is one of the worst movies, period. Also, cats suck, dogs are stupid, and the Muppets are cringe.
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One of the most endearing things about Elon: he is obviously self-aware of who he is & does a good job of balancing capability & humility. I am nowhere NEAR him as an engineer, but I recognize the "I have to be honest with myself if I am going to solve this problem" mentality.
Time to get that volcano lair I’ve always wanted. I think it’s in the “Beyond” section of BB&B.
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From @JonathanKoan on A BOY AGAINST THE BOXERS: “The themes are great, the story is great, the characters are great, the action is great, the adventure elements are absolutely fantastic.” Thank you, Jonathan. We couldn’t agree more! youtube.com/watch?v=3h7DbaRv…
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Did you scrub your mouth bones today? Nobody likes filthy mouth bones.
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Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich. Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's. Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift. You may think this is all theoretical. You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact. We're already asteroid mining. And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age. All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes. All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach. Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine? Artificial scarcity. Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth. Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't. Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers. Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger. That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low. Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag. They think Mars is a sideshow, you see. They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit. Strip them down there, and build. If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products. In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well. You have no idea what's coming. Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope. I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant. It's a big fucking elephant.
The secret plan is out! Two great articles today about our plan to capture a small asteroid and bring it into Earth orbit. The concept is part of our New Moon mission, which explores relocating a small near-Earth asteroid into a controlled orbit as the first step toward building industrial infrastructure in space. Our team has been developing the key technologies for this approach for years, including capture mechanisms to constrain and move small asteroids and orbital debris. Accessing materials already in space could eventually enable a new generation of industries beyond Earth. If you're interested in the future of space resources, these articles are worth a read. hashtag#space hashtag#asteroidmining hashtag#spacetechnology hashtag#spacex hashtag#venture
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"Wokism had HR departments, SpaceX had rockets. The rockets won... [SpaceX is] AWS, but for civilization."
SpaceX a clôturé son premier jour de cotation à 2 100 milliards de dollars, 19%. Tout le monde regarde le chiffre. Personne ne regarde ce qu'il price réellement. Laissez-moi vous dire ce que le marché vient d'acheter, et pourquoi je pense que cette boîte vaudra 30 à 50 trillions d'ici 5 ans. D'abord, le symbole. Cette IPO est un référendum. D'un côté, 20 ans de discours sur la décroissance, la sobriété, la redistribution, la fin de l'histoire gérée par des comités. De l'autre, un homme qui a dit "je vais rendre l'humanité multiplanétaire", que tout le monde a traité de clown, et qui vient de créer la plus grosse entreprise cotée de l'histoire en partant d'un entrepôt à El Segundo. Le marché a voté. Le wokisme avait des départements RH, SpaceX avait des fusées. Les fusées ont gagné. Ensuite, la mécanique économique, parce que c'est là que tout le monde se trompe. Les analystes valorisent SpaceX comme une entreprise de lancement plus Starlink. C'est comme valoriser Internet en 1995 sur le marché du fax. Starship ne réduit pas le coût du kilo en orbite de 20%, il le divise par 100. Et chaque fois dans l'histoire qu'un coût d'infrastructure est divisé par 100, ce n'est pas le marché existant qui grossit, ce sont des industries entières qui naissent. Le coût du calcul divisé par 100 a donné Internet, le smartphone, l'IA. Le coût de l'orbite divisé par 100 va donner une économie spatiale complète. Faisons la liste de ce qui devient rentable quand le kilo en orbite coûte le prix d'un billet d'avion. Les data centers orbitaux, avec énergie solaire continue et refroidissement gratuit, au moment exact où l'IA fait exploser la demande énergétique terrestre. La fabrication en microgravité de semi-conducteurs, de fibres optiques, d'organes imprimés impossibles à produire sous gravité. Le tourisme orbital de masse, puis les hôtels lunaires, qui passeront du fantasme au business plan exactement comme la croisière de luxe au 20ème siècle. Le transport point à point terrestre, Paris-Tokyo en 40 minutes. L'industrie minière des astéroïdes, dont un seul corps de classe M contient plus de métaux que tout ce que l'humanité a extrait depuis le néolithique. Et Mars en ligne de mire, pas comme destination touristique, mais comme le plus grand projet d'infrastructure jamais entrepris, avec tout ce que ça implique de demande en énergie, matériaux, robotique, IA. SpaceX ne participera pas à ces marchés. SpaceX possède le péage d'entrée de tous ces marchés. C'est AWS, mais pour la civilisation. Apple vaut 3 500 milliards en vendant des rectangles de verre sur une seule planète. Le premier monopole d'accès à une frontière infinie à 30 ou 50 trillions dans 5 ans, ce n'est pas de l'exubérance, c'est une simple règle de trois sur l'expansion du marché adressable. Et maintenant, la partie que je préfère. Ce futur n'a pas besoin de bureaucrates. Il n'y a pas de comité consultatif en orbite. Pas de commission Théodule sur Mars. Chaque dollar de cette nouvelle économie sera créé par des ingénieurs, des techniciens, des soudeurs, des pilotes, des entrepreneurs. Les diplômés en gestion de la norme vont devoir apprendre un métier utile, et franchement, c'est une excellente nouvelle pour eux aussi : construire est infiniment plus fun que contrôler. Parce que c'est ça, le vrai signal d'aujourd'hui. Pendant 50 ans on nous a vendu un futur rétréci : moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, gérer le déclin proprement. Et là, d'un coup, le plus gros actif financier du monde est un pari sur l'abondance, l'expansion et l'aventure. Le pessimisme vient de passer en position vendeuse sur lui-même. Le futur sera méga fun. Il y aura des hôtels avec vue sur la Terre, des honeymoons en orbite, des gamins qui diront "papa, c'était comment avant les fusées réutilisables" comme on dit "c'était comment avant Internet". Et quelque part dans les années 2030, un humain marchera sur Mars en livestream devant 5 milliards de personnes, et ce jour-là plus personne ne se souviendra du nom d'un seul de ses détracteurs. Achetez de l'optimisme. C'est encore sous-valorisé.
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"Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." — John 12:4-6
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"Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money." — Luke 22:3-5
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Just a couple of random Bible verses. Really.
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It really is one of the worst movies, period. Also, cats suck, dogs are stupid, and the Muppets are cringe.
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Well, dang! I'm a Novel Marketing patreon supporter, and I got a thank you & a call-out from @ThomasUmstattd for A SENSE OF MURDER on this week's show. 😎 youtube.com/watch?v=gQVDowIs…
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This book has everything: Murder. Mystery. Demons. Angels. Secrets. Faith. Sacrifice. More murder. Prayer. Magic. Blind seers. Crime! Diplomacy! ROMANS! ZOMBIES! PIRATES! Come for the murder, stay for the mayhem. Get your copy of 𝘈 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 from Amazon today: amazon.com/dp/B0H1TL57P7
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𝘼 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 is eligible for a Dragon Award nomination this year! The process is open to the public. If you've read & enjoyed my novel, I'd appreciate a nomination for "Best Fantasy Novel." You can sign up to nominate & vote here: applyto.dragoncon.org/fan_aw…
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Today, Grantville . . . Yesterday, the World! GURPS Ring of Fire by Steve Jackson Games is not only live on Kickstarter, it's fully funded, and is a Featured Project on BackerKit! Take the journey of a lifetime in this all-new GURPS book, based on the 1632 series of novels by Eric Flint. In the year 2000, the whole town of Grantville, West Virginia, found itself encircled by a mysterious ring of fire, transported to 1630s Germany . . . and determined to change the world. Eric Flint's collaborative Ring of Fire series – with its tales of castaways in time making the most of a one-way trip to the 1630s – has encompassed hundreds of books, anthologies, and magazines, making it the largest alternative-history setting yet created. Now it ventures into a new frontier: the gaming table. GURPS Ring of Fire is both an exciting setting to explore and an invaluable resource for fans of the book series. With contributions by Ring of Fire authors, it presents: The alternate history, including a timeline from 1632-1637. Descriptions for dozens of interesting individuals and nine famous organizations. Character-creation rules for unlimited possibilities to explore this new frontier. Maps of important locales, including Grantville and beyond. Key equipment, weapons, and vehicles, plus a system for copying or reinventing up-time gear. And much more! With GURPS Ring of Fire, tomorrow may be a memory, but today is what you make it! To learn more, go to: bit.ly/gurpsringoffirebk Have you read the series? The first ebook is in our free library at: baen.com/1632.html #BaenBooks #1632Universe #gurps #ttrpg #stevejacksongames
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Our latest boys adventure is alive and kicking! Check it out! amzn.to/3SjAfOY #affiliatelink
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Pittsburgh is one of America’s best cities. I’m in.
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"Ah! I can see you are stunned by my elephants."
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