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SF/space opera book series. Book 1, Flight of the Pangolin, now available in paperback & ebook! Also, check out the vintage SF book series "Mike's Book Report" on our Booktube. Reviewers: please DM for a free copy. https://linktr.ee/thepangolinrepublic

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · Oct 17

Hey folks, we're The Pangolin Republic, a scifi adventure book series. Book 1, Flight of the Pangolin, is available now wherever you buy books online. Books 2 and 3 are in the works! Also check out our YouTube channel, where Mike talks about old scifi books in his series Mike's Book Report.

Trope map of the book Flight of the Pangolin, with arrows pointing from tropes to the book (clockwise from top left):
Megacorporatocracy
Badass Older Woman With a Katana
So Many Space Opera Tropes
A Giant Spider For No Real Reason
The Occasional Dinosaur
Spacecraft Theft
My Editor Thinks It Should Be Stocked as Lit Fic
Regime Collapse
Space Pirates
Space Battles (of course)
Political Intrigue

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Heading into the weekend…

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 2d

I had to be physically removed from the theater, at 3 years old I could NOT handle E.T. dying and apparently I couldn't stop screaming. So they tell me, I don't actually remember.

The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 5d

He just wants his kids back

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 8d

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

Line only goes up!

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 7d

I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A collage of some of my products: art prints with record players, books and brutalist architecture, a teal T-shirt with cassette tapes, 70s patterned cushion, orange patterned phone case, cassette mug, and a spiral design slipmat.

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

It was either Leibowitz, Stand On Zanzibar or Hyperion, so I picked the only one that wasn't a doorstop 😆

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

Good morning Womble! Finished all 949 pages of The Summer Queen in record time (for me, at least), but before I move on to finish the seeies with Tangled Up In Blue, I wanted to take a quick break. So now it's on to A Canticle for Leibowitz.

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

This is my technique as well. I have a very general outline of where I want the story to go, but leave a lot of room for the characters to make their own decisions and drive the plot the way they want to. We usually end up at about the same place by the end.

The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

Is this a bad time to pitch my Tron sequel script about the exploits of the real-world counterpart to Peter Jurasik's ill-fated program character?

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 10d

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 7d

bookish checkpoint ✅️

• last book: The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge

• current read(s): A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

• newest adds to the tbr: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gateway by Frederick Pohl

• eagerly waiting for: Hyperion by Dan Simmons (finally), CJ Cherryh

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 New Itch-io Bundle 🚨

This time focussing on hidden indie gems, 60 underrated books that fly under the radar in a wide array of genres for just $38, running 9–13 October.

Come and check out some of the best books you've never heard of.
itch.io/b/3305/under...

📢📚🪐| #BookSky | 📦📚

Graphic that reads "Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle, Oct 9th-13th, Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Text is brown on an off-white background with five yellow stars bordering it above and below. Around the text box are the following book covers: Predators by H.S. Kallinger, Zinmages by M.C. Burnell, The Spider's Friend by M.C. Burnell, Disappearance and Other Short Stories by PD Loupee, Memories of Sorcery and Sand by Joanna Maciejewska, Kranlian Rendezvous by Simon Wolfe, The Shadow of Arcadia by Alan K. Dell, Devil Deal by Janina Franck, The God Sun by Alan K. Dell, Water's Edge by Ellie Lieberman, The Third People by Lee Burton, The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce, The Lion by Lee Burton, Adventures In GameWorld : Game Start by Robert Rumery, All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place by Joachim Heijndermans, Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans, Blue by Niranjan, Wizard's Debt by Niranjan, Ambushed by Natasha O'Connor, At First Belonging by Rob

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 9d

Same, hard same. Sales have really dropped off a cliff. So I gotchu with the pin.

Boosts for the Underrated Bundle would be much appreciated 🫶🏻

itch.io/b/3305/under...

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 10d

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 12d

I'm not one of those anti-Kennedy types, but if they didn't have time to come up with something original, there was a framework *right there*

Kathleen Kennedy: "Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack." "There's no source material. We don't have comic books. We don't have 800-page novels."
Expanded Universe fans: image of 24 novels that have been relegated to Legends canon

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 12d

This right here. I love my art friends and art community, but I'm also trying to run a business as a freelancer/selling products and I need the reach! Every time we scatter to different platforms it's a little harder to exist as a working artist whose primary visibility is only online.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 13d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13d

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13d

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

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alzandah @alzandah.bsky.social · 16d

Last call before I close

Head portrait: $25
Mecha: $85
Full art: $65
Black and white sketch: $40
PayPal supported

#commissions #art #metalgearsolid

ko-fi.com/alzandah/com...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14d

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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 17d

For #NationalPoetryDay, a timeless classic:

The Tiger, by Nael, age 6
From, 'They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket'
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 18d

Also acceptable: written apology to Simon Stalenhag for The Electric State

The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com · 18d

a man in a military uniform stands in a dark room with blue lights behind him

Alt: "a man in a military uniform stands in a dark room with blue lights behind him" that is Sean Connery disengaging from his periscope in shock from the film The Hunt for Red October you useless AI auto alt text, the hell is wrong with you

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 18d

My schedule is open for comics!! Hire me!

I especially love telling stories in horror, fantasy, or anything with critters. Previously worked with Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, and Oni Press

Available for interiors and covers ✨

Digitally inked and colored comic page showing a woman nervously leaving her apartment and heading to the subway at night

Ink and watercolor comic page featuring a barn filled with many supernatural creatures and two female humans telling them to behave before walking off

Digitally inked and colored comic page composed of 5 horizontal stacked panels. A man examining a rock face, hands playing tic tac toe, a family kitchen scene, a man at a computer terminal, and a hand reaching for a lizard scurrying across the same rock face from panel 1

“The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Sixth #2” Cover: vultures flying over an armored man with a long shadow made of flames

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