Robert V.S. Redick
@robertvsredick.bsky.social
Fantasy novelist and teacher of writing, forever in love with the craft. Worked for environmental & social justice organizations all over the world. Finishing SIEGE, concluding volume in The Fire Sacraments epic fantasy trilogy.
Seriously, what kind of a sick fuck goes to war w/ the courts to NOT FEED PEOPLE?
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seriously, what kind of a sick fuck goes to war w/ the courts to NOT FEED PEOPLE?
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Whitewashing Watch:
Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.
Jack Dolan
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.
Jack Dolan
www.latimes.com/california/s...
A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'
www.latimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Whitewashing Watch:
Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.
Jack Dolan
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.
Jack Dolan
www.latimes.com/california/s...
If someone claiming to be ICE approaches & won't show ID when asked, am I legally obliged by to cooperate with ANYTHING they do? If I don't obey their orderrs, is that actually a crime?
Not asking about the extra-legal BS they're getting away with. Asking about federal law and what it states.
Not asking about the extra-legal BS they're getting away with. Asking about federal law and what it states.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If someone claiming to be ICE approaches & won't show ID when asked, am I legally obliged by to cooperate with ANYTHING they do? If I don't obey their orderrs, is that actually a crime?
Not asking about the extra-legal BS they're getting away with. Asking about federal law and what it states.
Not asking about the extra-legal BS they're getting away with. Asking about federal law and what it states.
A collage from the front page of today's NY Times. "'Cause out on the edge of darkness..."
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A collage from the front page of today's NY Times. "'Cause out on the edge of darkness..."
If the last 190 days were a written satire, it would be dismissed as over the top.
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If the last 190 days were a written satire, it would be dismissed as over the top.
You can be a Christian or a Trump fan, but not both. If you think otherwise, explain it to me. Just be sure you've explained it to Jesus first.
Sincerely, a secular fan of transcendent love.
Sincerely, a secular fan of transcendent love.
September 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You can be a Christian or a Trump fan, but not both. If you think otherwise, explain it to me. Just be sure you've explained it to Jesus first.
Sincerely, a secular fan of transcendent love.
Sincerely, a secular fan of transcendent love.
Hullo World! I'm reading from SIEGE in support of the Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women--this Saturday at 8:30 Eastern Time. LIVE - ON - YE - OLDE - YOU - TUBE.
Nine full minutes long. But these are Talupéké minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards!
Link in comments.
Nine full minutes long. But these are Talupéké minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards!
Link in comments.
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hullo World! I'm reading from SIEGE in support of the Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women--this Saturday at 8:30 Eastern Time. LIVE - ON - YE - OLDE - YOU - TUBE.
Nine full minutes long. But these are Talupéké minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards!
Link in comments.
Nine full minutes long. But these are Talupéké minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards!
Link in comments.
My r/fantasy AMA is Live! Please ask something awkward or amusing! Or even profound, if you must. ; )
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August 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My r/fantasy AMA is Live! Please ask something awkward or amusing! Or even profound, if you must. ; )
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Want to ask me where Book III is? Whether Pazel and Thasha will ever make out again? Why a certain character died (or didn't)? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. Stop by my Reddit Fantasy AMA on Tuesday (8/19) and let fly.
August 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Want to ask me where Book III is? Whether Pazel and Thasha will ever make out again? Why a certain character died (or didn't)? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. Stop by my Reddit Fantasy AMA on Tuesday (8/19) and let fly.
Doing a r/fantasy AMA in support of The Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women, Tuesday (Aug 19) from 10:00 AM EST.
Come & heckle! Fielding questions about SIEGE, The Fire Sacraments, The Chathrand Voyage, what feminism means to me, love during wartime, etc. infinito.
And please share.
Come & heckle! Fielding questions about SIEGE, The Fire Sacraments, The Chathrand Voyage, what feminism means to me, love during wartime, etc. infinito.
And please share.
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Doing a r/fantasy AMA in support of The Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women, Tuesday (Aug 19) from 10:00 AM EST.
Come & heckle! Fielding questions about SIEGE, The Fire Sacraments, The Chathrand Voyage, what feminism means to me, love during wartime, etc. infinito.
And please share.
Come & heckle! Fielding questions about SIEGE, The Fire Sacraments, The Chathrand Voyage, what feminism means to me, love during wartime, etc. infinito.
And please share.
Something to be happy about: a 3500+ year-old dolphin fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, complete with stylized sea urchins and some very worried looking fish.
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Something to be happy about: a 3500+ year-old dolphin fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, complete with stylized sea urchins and some very worried looking fish.
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The confirmation of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system.
A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing.
Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.
A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing.
Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.
Emil Bove confirmation is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtu.be
July 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The confirmation of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system.
A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing.
Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.
A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing.
Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.
Just stumbled over these lines from SIEGE, written early last year. To think I worried once that readers wouldn't be able to relate to such passages.
July 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just stumbled over these lines from SIEGE, written early last year. To think I worried once that readers wouldn't be able to relate to such passages.
The Trump cult has unleashed a racial profiling attack & kidnapping force. Watch the video, and recall that what gets filmed is only the tiniest fraction of the abuse going on. This is racist insanity run amok. Trump voters, this is on you.
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Trump cult has unleashed a racial profiling attack & kidnapping force. Watch the video, and recall that what gets filmed is only the tiniest fraction of the abuse going on. This is racist insanity run amok. Trump voters, this is on you.
Just watched Episode 1 of The Prisoner (1967), and I'm 100% sure it was made by a time-traveling David Lynch.
July 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just watched Episode 1 of The Prisoner (1967), and I'm 100% sure it was made by a time-traveling David Lynch.
Just a cool map of lions then & now. I love story research.
July 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just a cool map of lions then & now. I love story research.
At Readercon, I'll be reading from (what else?) Siege, the last book in The Fire Sacraments trilogy. Which I'm STILL WRITING AND IT'S KILLING ME.
But the chapter's a fun one, an oasis of peace in the middle of a book about war.
But the chapter's a fun one, an oasis of peace in the middle of a book about war.
July 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
At Readercon, I'll be reading from (what else?) Siege, the last book in The Fire Sacraments trilogy. Which I'm STILL WRITING AND IT'S KILLING ME.
But the chapter's a fun one, an oasis of peace in the middle of a book about war.
But the chapter's a fun one, an oasis of peace in the middle of a book about war.
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Such a marvelous book. I hope its fame continues to grow.
Bookshop.org (still blocked where I am for some reason) is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can my books there, including THE DEVOURERS, my queer dark fantasy/mythic realist debut about shapeshifters in the 17th c Mughal Empire & modern India, slightly discounted. It won a Lambda Award.
The Devourers: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Such a marvelous book. I hope its fame continues to grow.
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hey it's FANTASY FRIDAY ✨🦄
our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com!
read it here ✨
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com!
read it here ✨
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part One - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
With the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, I thought about taking some time to discuss the concept of “Fantasy” itself. Then […]
psychopomp.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
hey it's FANTASY FRIDAY ✨🦄
our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com!
read it here ✨
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com!
read it here ✨
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
A very sensible thread about the Asimov AI cover fiasco, and Interzone's problematic response.
Thread about AI art in SF/F magazines and the assumption that authors have a ton of power to stop this.
Many people in the genre saw this post from the editor of Interzone rightly taking Asimov's to task for using what appears to be a cover with AI art. 1/
Many people in the genre saw this post from the editor of Interzone rightly taking Asimov's to task for using what appears to be a cover with AI art. 1/
![A magazine may not injure a human creator or, through inaction (=lack of due diligence?!), allow a human creator to [lose income].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7t4xd4yurxs7vrw4oe26fnz/bafkreibzc72hxxkz557g2xchjzb5ddib4vdmdvave4idhxs5dwackme2ee@jpeg)
July 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A very sensible thread about the Asimov AI cover fiasco, and Interzone's problematic response.
If you love this country, try to make it smarter and kinder. That’s all that can save it. Stupidity will see it blunder from disaster to final disaster. Cruelty will strand it snarling alone. Make it smarter and kinder, and then be proud of your love.
July 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you love this country, try to make it smarter and kinder. That’s all that can save it. Stupidity will see it blunder from disaster to final disaster. Cruelty will strand it snarling alone. Make it smarter and kinder, and then be proud of your love.
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Chimpanzee drumming and call combinations show important features of spoken language:
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
Chimps' rhythmic drumming and complex calls hint at origins of human language
Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.
www.npr.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Chimpanzee drumming and call combinations show important features of spoken language:
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...