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Matthew Stienberg

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Author, science fiction, fantasy, history nerd. 🇨🇦🚀⚔️⚓️📚 Website: https://matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · Jan 22

Military science fiction? ✅
Space battles? ✅
Power armoured marines? ✅
Things blowing up? ✅
High and noble ideals? ✅
Good people making the best of bad situations? ✅
Stand alone fiction? ✅

If you like any of the above, please check out THE VIRTUE OF BATTLE in the link!
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The Virtue of Battle

The Republic of Patagonia is in trouble. Plagued by pirates without and discord within, the nation teeters on the brink of dissolution. With two equally intractable political parties in power, it will...

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 42m

He allegedly frequented an anal what now?

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1h

Quote this with the first four #Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Blair Witch Project
Dawn of the Dead
Paranormal Activity
Zombieland

Lidia @lidiasromance.bsky.social · 1h

Quote this with the first four #Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Strangers: Prey at Night
The Descent
28 Days Later
The Exorcist

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 13h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Crazies
Ready or Not
Train to Busan
The Parenting

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 18h

Anyways, here's my take on what happened in Canada during the Global Zombie War!

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World War Z Canada

The following is a short piece of fan fiction I wrote back in 2020, and is fanfiction imagining the fate of the True North Strong and Free in the phenomenal work of zombie fiction, Max Brook’…

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1h

I woke up today and couldn't figure out what was happening. Congratulations however!

I'm unsure what kicked off this exodus, but I'm happy more people are coming here.

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously, Disney and Hollywood basically wrote modern copyright law. How can you be so egotistical and stupid to not build guardrails against running straight into that minefield?

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It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1h

Combined with the ever expanding Disney lawsuit against Midjourney and now a lawsuit against Sora and OpenAI, I would not be surprised if the techbros blatant disregard for copyright is what completely kills these companies.

Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 2h

I just want the entire universe to fall on these guys.

Futurism @futurism.com · 3h

"You quite literally set the bridge on fire."

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 2h

I'm always thankful this was not advice I got in high school. Write what you know and show don't tell was what I saw. Then reading interviews with other writers really showed me that 'imagining normal situations in crazy circumstances' is often the best way to get a story going.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 3h

Oh thank you for taking this bullet for us all. I was so scared I might need to read this 😂

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 4h

While Rumin's guards are a small source of physical security, along the Frontier you would find bounty hunters, Barony soldiery, and simple posse to chase criminals.

Because healing magic is not a mainstay of this setting, medical care is provided by doctors of various quality on the Frontier. 2/2

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 4h

#OctoberWorldbuilders with @kiraofthewind.com
16: Fire/police/hospital services

Aletown has the old fashioned fire brigade to fight fires (I just wrote this scene!) which represent the greatest danger.

Rudimentary policing is provided by Rumin's guards who patrol the walls, roads near Aletown 1/2

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 13h

Check out this animated short, it features a 🥁feathered dinosaur🥁

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 15h

Um, hi wave of new followers! Come for the snarky political commentary and stay for the history, fantasy and science fiction content!

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 18h

Anyways, here's my take on what happened in Canada during the Global Zombie War!

matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/w...

World War Z Canada

The following is a short piece of fan fiction I wrote back in 2020, and is fanfiction imagining the fate of the True North Strong and Free in the phenomenal work of zombie fiction, Max Brook’…

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 23h

It hit me that World War Z will be 20 years old next year and I remember when it came out like it was yesterday.

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

Shock collars rather than bomb collars, but the same effect.

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

travel along roads on the Frontier to reach these river ports, the most efficient way to get goods to the East.

Aletown is dependent on these routes for trade. They maintain a small group of wagon drivers to bring goods to market. 2/2

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

It's wild that they prep for the apocalypse yet can't think to treat the people they need to entrust their lives with decency.

Probably every staff members bug out plan is to show up to work and then imprison their boss. And the boss will be shocked.

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

#OctoberWorldbuilders
Week 3: Infrastructure and Cities

Aletown, the setting in my WIP, is located near the Kaloos River, a tributary of the Moira which is the greatest river in the world. All trade overland flows towards it and the wealthy nations of the East.

Wagon trains and caravans 1/2

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1d

#OctoberWorldbuilders
Week 3: Infrastructure and Cities
16: Trade routes

The Aloutian Empire started with trade routes. They were originally allied nations building roads so facilitate trade and travel. Then said roads were used for marching armies.

The Takyu Wheel Road is a circular road that

OctoberWorldbuilders prompt list
WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: Trade routes
16: Fire/police/hospital services
17: Where does their food come from?
18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills?
19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved?
21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?)

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

The American mind cannot comprehend the roundabout.

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

There was a great article years ago where someone interviewed billionaires concerned about their personal security forces post-apocalypse and when the interviewer suggested they just treat them well, like family, the billionaires just scoffed. I'm sure this is what each of their guards was thinking.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a long time and unabashed lover of the zombie genre!

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Why I Love Zombies

When I was about 12, I developed a crippling fear of the undead. My nightmares were often stalked by shambling corpses beating down my bedroom door and trying to eat me. There was an entire week af…

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 1d

While I'll always love Romero's zombie films, I find that they're almost a touch to misanthropic. I would always prefer if the zombie story had more teamwork and triumph like WWZ!

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Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 2d

I'm once again falling into a fan fiction writing cycle rather than finishing the final chapter of an ongoing project 🙃

Matthew Stienberg @matthewstien.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, at this point China pulling off a successful Lunar landing in the next decade might be the best thing that happens because - short of the PLAN sinking a carrier group - this could be the only thing that slaps some sense into the political establishment.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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