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Ed Robins
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Sci-fi fan who loves contemplating the future and admiring the past. I've been writing since I was 11 and am now the proud author of the 10 Cent Universe, a macrocosm of genre-bending book series.

I also make chili.

https://10CentUniverse.com
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Ed Robins @authoredrobins.bsky.social · Apr 23
Hello! I'm the author of the "10 Cent Universe", a sci-fi macrocosm of genre-bending stories. "The Starship Australis Mysteries" follows a disgraced detective on a generation ship, while "Gunslingers of Gaea" is a western series on a new planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Lots more books/series on the way!
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I'm planning a January release of "Easy As It Gets", the 4th book in my #hardboiled #detective series on a #starship, and that means it's #Blurb Time! Thoughts?
All I wanted was to never feel anything again. Manipulated, betrayed, and causing nothing but misery for my best friend, I'd lost all hope for a happy ending. For fourteen months, I deadened my emotions, and self-will, with the drug Copa, and that made it possible to go on living--if you wanna call it that. Then an old acquaintance and her son go missing and, as it turns out, I'm just the guy to find them. Lucky me. Involuntarily ripped outta my high, I hit the corridors of the Starship Australis only to find more has been taken from me than I ever expected. The lives of a boy and his mother hang in the balance as I teeter on the edge, trapped in a tangle of cons, lies and betrayals that not everyone wants unraveled. As I come closer to the truth, it's only a question of which will put me in more danger: my mouth or my addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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'Netflix revamped Highsmith’s material with Ripley, which saw Andrew Scott taking over the iconic role...Ripley made creative choices that helped reframe the narrative into a twisty noir..such an engrossing, entertaining experience that it’s hard not to consume it over the course of just 1 sitting.'
Netflix’s Greatest Noir Thriller Series Doubles as the Perfect Weekend Binge
Andrew Scott shines in Netflix's Ripley, a moody, atmospheric noir that reimagines Patricia Highsmith's iconic character for a new generation.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Whoa! Found an "ejaculated" dialogue tag in the wild. ("Desert Gold" by Zane Grey)
Page of book Desert Gold by Zane Grey with the line "What!" ejaculated Cameron.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Insert a movie into another movie:

Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead

#filmsky 📽
bradsprigg.bsky.social Brad Sprigg @bradsprigg.bsky.social · 9d
Insert a movie into another movie:

Die Hardboiled

#filmsky 📽
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Insert a movie into another movie:

One Battle After Another Round

#filmsky 📽
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Looks like Asimov's laws might need an update:

4. Robots will not let
Poetry expose people
To deadly knowledge.
AI chatbots can be tricked with poetry to ignore their safety guardrails
Researchers from Italy discovered that phrasing prompts in poetry can be a reliable jailbreaking method for LLMs.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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"Easy As It Gets" is off to beta readers!

Addiction plays a part in this hardboiled noir on a generation ship. While my own experience was tame, breaking free was no joke. I don't pretend to fully understand the depths one can be taken to, so songs like this have been on repeat this last year.📚🪐💙
Deja Vu
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December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

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The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This was a pleasant surprise today!

If you're wondering, as a #reader, how an #author feels about less than 5 stars, they're fantastic. Fives are great, but no book is perfect, nor a perfect fit for everyone. A 3 or 4 shows the reader engaged with my work and that's really what it's all about!🪐📚💙
Review of "Chivarly Will Get You Dead" by Ed Robins. "Do not mistake my 3/5 for anything other than a deeply glowing experience! "This book is one of the more odd ones. I made a reddit post asking for some ongoing detective series and the author himself, Mr. Robins appeared from the temporal void to recommend his own book to me. Not only was I the perfect target for a book like this, he was the perfect writer for a book like this. Chivalry Will Get You Dead is proudly fun. "An imperfectly perfect book, before even finishing this short little paper stack I already bought every other book by Mr. Robins. I genuinely can not explain how delighted I was well reading it! I would plan to read maybe five pages and wake up from a book haze at least fifty pages later. Impressive for a book with not even 150 pages. "This is an incredibly well paced and plotted novel for something of its slimness. I find a lot of modern books that run this small tend to have some kind of pacing problem but this one felt well structured to be short. Well the characters where architypes in many respects that wasn't a problem. They are well written and fun takes on classic noir tropes. The world is fleshed out enough, but never so over built I start checking out. It is so impressively simple. Not a detail too much or too little. The perfect afternoon read, the perfect paperback, the perfect 3/5. "THIS IS A SERIOUS MUST READ!!! If you want something worth far more than a dime in its level of pure blissful entertainment please pick this up! This is the kind of book I honestly crave more of far before its final pages. Its so earnest and wonderful and fun! FUCKING HELL ON A MERRY GO ROUND ITS JUST FUN!"
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Anyone else have a roll dough kneading song? In my house, it's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which at just under 6 minutes is the perfect amount of time.

I outsourced it to my daughter this year, and that dough is exquisite!

Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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It’s time
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.

The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).

How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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A classic noir novel, but set on an unstable science fictional megastructure.

The Big CryoSleep
lavietidhar.bsky.social Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 17d
A classic noir novel, but set on an unstable science fictional megastructure.

THE POSTMAN ONLY RINGWORLDS TWICE
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Just when I thought I had removed all the typos and tense violations from this manuscript...
an aerial view of a space station surrounded by planets and stars
Alt: an aerial view of a space station surrounded by planets and stars (no, it's two armadas of spaceships attacking each other)
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November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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It's been quite a journey with "Easy As It Gets", the 4th book in my #hardboiled #detective series on a #generationship. But as I'm writing the resolution, little bits are falling into place in ways I didn't quite anticipate and it is such a beautiful thing. #iamwriting
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Book/science fact Fridays! Reading can help you live longer. Studies have shown this as one of the few sedentary activities with benefits. (I suspect writing reduces life span lol)

-Tony

💙📚 🐑 📖 🩸📚 🪐📚
#booksky
#tonytravis
#blog

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A Chapter a Day – Association of Book Reading with Longevity
Although books can expose people to new people and places, whether books also have health benefits beyond other types of reading materials is not known. This study examined whether those who read books have a survival advantage over those who do not ...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"That policy benefits those of us who have been around for awhile, are knowledgeable, and strong willed, while taking advantage of newer writers and those who don’t know any better."

Writers, you should read this too. It's a long read, but you will find it edifying.
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Great short story by @tadethompson.bsky.social that says a lot in a say in a few thousand words.
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 28d
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Flaming Embusen" by Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The quote reads: "Two gateships crashed into each other, locked together like mating insects. The BurningNitel out of Oya gate, and Embusen, from Shango gate. Jero could immediately tell that they had drifted into each other, rather than collided while engines were firing. The ships were intact, apart from the point of contact and the flying debris of solar panels and shielding. They were also joined together by the scaffolding structures that the locals had built around them to facilitate investigation."
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"It's been a funny year for me because Blue Moon is probably the most different I've ever pushed myself... And then The Lowdown — I just relate to Lee, he's Quixote, chasing windmills, running into propellers... he's a moron, and I just completely relate to him."
'Blue Moon' pushed Ethan Hawke to his limit: 'That's a thrilling spot to be in'
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart. Hawke is also starring in the film Black Phone 2.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Heavy into revisions on "Easy As It Gets", book 4 of my #hardboiled #scifi #noir series. Really, the title applies, not only to Tom's struggles, but my writing the damned thing as well.

I'm getting there; I'm getting there... 🪐📚💙
I’d never seen so many weapons: knives and swords of every description, brass knuckles, blackjacks big and small, even a damn crossbow. He reached in and handed back a twenty centimeter stiletto in a sheath. “Warn’t thinking you’d go unarmed?” he asked. “Give me some knuckles, too.” He obliged and I slipped them over the fingers of my left hand. The knife went into my back waistband under my shirt. Louie picked up a Bowie. “Too hard to conceal that,” I said. “Bend over.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I've always been a bit of an astronomy dork (nerd implies far too much knowledge) and dreamed of one day seeing the Aurora Borealis. I know it's even more spectacular in the north, but seeing it at all from Kansas is a dream come true!
Aurora Borealis
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut letter.
A picture of a letter with the text: E 48 NYC 10017 212-688-2682 November 5, 2006 Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Conglusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) In his sunset years. I don't make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's Inside you, te make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give It to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula. Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don't tell anybody what you're doing. Don't show it or recite It to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been glorlously rewarded for your poem. You have experlenced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut (Charmingly rough profile drawing of Vonnegut in lower right corner)
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Woke up with an alcohol-free hangover. Splitting headache, stiff back, eyes like mothballs. Took 2 ibuprofen with meds. Eating leftover spaghetti and gulping coffee for breakfast.

Why does getting old feel like the opening of a noir hardboiled-detective novel?
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Gorgeous day for a trail run!
Trees in autumn with a blue sky
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Any recommendations from the BookSky community? Who's reading what for #Noirvember? 🪐📚💙
authoredrobins.bsky.social Ed Robins @authoredrobins.bsky.social · Nov 7
Paperbacks of my #hardboiled #detective series with the new covers arrived! I couldn't be happier with them. The artist (Driope Project) did a fantastic job on the art.

What are you reading to celebrate #Noirvember? Below are my favorite #scifi cross-genre reads. Add your #noir favorites!
Hard copies of the books in the "Murder on the Starship Australis" series: Chivalry Will Get You Dead, Murders in the Gray, and A Violent Man.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM