JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
@jpspalding.com
Sci-fi enthusiast querying a space opera novel which asks ‘how does technology change us?’
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novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
JpSpalding.com
novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
In honor of finishing the novel, here’s my outlining and planning document in @milanote.bsky.social not everything since there’s several nested boards but this one has the most material and is the top level!
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In honor of finishing the novel, here’s my outlining and planning document in @milanote.bsky.social not everything since there’s several nested boards but this one has the most material and is the top level!
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
#MurderByMemory is a tongue in cheek Sherlockian (very gay) cozy murder mystery. A novella I started and finished in one sitting.
Pros
Delightful cozy and light
Reminiscent of Christie’s Poirot
Voicey lead
Cons
one-dimensional characters
Thin worldbuilding
Twists feel underdeveloped
🪐📚 #BookSky
Pros
Delightful cozy and light
Reminiscent of Christie’s Poirot
Voicey lead
Cons
one-dimensional characters
Thin worldbuilding
Twists feel underdeveloped
🪐📚 #BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#MurderByMemory is a tongue in cheek Sherlockian (very gay) cozy murder mystery. A novella I started and finished in one sitting.
Pros
Delightful cozy and light
Reminiscent of Christie’s Poirot
Voicey lead
Cons
one-dimensional characters
Thin worldbuilding
Twists feel underdeveloped
🪐📚 #BookSky
Pros
Delightful cozy and light
Reminiscent of Christie’s Poirot
Voicey lead
Cons
one-dimensional characters
Thin worldbuilding
Twists feel underdeveloped
🪐📚 #BookSky
#TheCollapsingEmpire by @scalzi.com is a bonafide good ol’ space opera. It’s snarky and yet serious. Expansive and yet always intimate in its conflict.
Pros
High octane fast read
Colorful characters
Unique premise
Those damned nohamapetans!
Cons
Exceedingly ‘soft’ science
#BookSky 🪐📚
Pros
High octane fast read
Colorful characters
Unique premise
Those damned nohamapetans!
Cons
Exceedingly ‘soft’ science
#BookSky 🪐📚
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#TheCollapsingEmpire by @scalzi.com is a bonafide good ol’ space opera. It’s snarky and yet serious. Expansive and yet always intimate in its conflict.
Pros
High octane fast read
Colorful characters
Unique premise
Those damned nohamapetans!
Cons
Exceedingly ‘soft’ science
#BookSky 🪐📚
Pros
High octane fast read
Colorful characters
Unique premise
Those damned nohamapetans!
Cons
Exceedingly ‘soft’ science
#BookSky 🪐📚
#Orbital is a literary scifi, the first of that genre I’ve laid eyes on, a love letter to the international space station and the endeavor of human spaceflight
Pros
Beautiful prose
Breathtaking description
Unparalleled depth of research
Cons
Plotless and a little directionless
#BookSky 🪐📚
Pros
Beautiful prose
Breathtaking description
Unparalleled depth of research
Cons
Plotless and a little directionless
#BookSky 🪐📚
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#Maelstrom The sequel to the insane book Starfish, never as good as the original but a complex exploration of the end of the world
Pros
Taking the fight to the surface
Subverting ideas of the first book
Cons
Not as haunting or vibey as the first one
Pros
Taking the fight to the surface
Subverting ideas of the first book
Cons
Not as haunting or vibey as the first one
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#Maelstrom The sequel to the insane book Starfish, never as good as the original but a complex exploration of the end of the world
Pros
Taking the fight to the surface
Subverting ideas of the first book
Cons
Not as haunting or vibey as the first one
Pros
Taking the fight to the surface
Subverting ideas of the first book
Cons
Not as haunting or vibey as the first one
#TheMinistryOfTime Story about cultural disconnect of being torn out of your time. I had so much fun with this one, I want a sequel
pros
Realistic depth of character
Complex intricate plotting
Great twists
Cons
The promise of the premise is sort of undermined by the big midpoint twist
#bookSky ❤️📚
pros
Realistic depth of character
Complex intricate plotting
Great twists
Cons
The promise of the premise is sort of undermined by the big midpoint twist
#bookSky ❤️📚
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#TheMinistryOfTime Story about cultural disconnect of being torn out of your time. I had so much fun with this one, I want a sequel
pros
Realistic depth of character
Complex intricate plotting
Great twists
Cons
The promise of the premise is sort of undermined by the big midpoint twist
#bookSky ❤️📚
pros
Realistic depth of character
Complex intricate plotting
Great twists
Cons
The promise of the premise is sort of undermined by the big midpoint twist
#bookSky ❤️📚
#BlackSun A complex high fantasy with not a hint of western myth driving it
Pros
Fun cast of unique characters
Deep worldbuilding
Cons
The pacing (mostly flashbacks)
First in a two parter
Pros
Fun cast of unique characters
Deep worldbuilding
Cons
The pacing (mostly flashbacks)
First in a two parter
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#BlackSun A complex high fantasy with not a hint of western myth driving it
Pros
Fun cast of unique characters
Deep worldbuilding
Cons
The pacing (mostly flashbacks)
First in a two parter
Pros
Fun cast of unique characters
Deep worldbuilding
Cons
The pacing (mostly flashbacks)
First in a two parter
#ASwimInAPondInTheRain
Exploring the enigma that is the short story, told through the lens of Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Turgenev.
Pros
The audiobook is read by famous actors and the author himself
Deep analysis of famous works
Cons
I am not a fan of some of Chekov or Tolstoy’s writing
#BookSky
Exploring the enigma that is the short story, told through the lens of Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Turgenev.
Pros
The audiobook is read by famous actors and the author himself
Deep analysis of famous works
Cons
I am not a fan of some of Chekov or Tolstoy’s writing
#BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#ASwimInAPondInTheRain
Exploring the enigma that is the short story, told through the lens of Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Turgenev.
Pros
The audiobook is read by famous actors and the author himself
Deep analysis of famous works
Cons
I am not a fan of some of Chekov or Tolstoy’s writing
#BookSky
Exploring the enigma that is the short story, told through the lens of Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Turgenev.
Pros
The audiobook is read by famous actors and the author himself
Deep analysis of famous works
Cons
I am not a fan of some of Chekov or Tolstoy’s writing
#BookSky
Wow between traveling in Vietnam and the end of the election cycle rush I forgot to post my October Books 📚!
Actually reached my goal of 72 books for the year last month. Some exceptionally good ones in this collection. 🧵
Actually reached my goal of 72 books for the year last month. Some exceptionally good ones in this collection. 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wow between traveling in Vietnam and the end of the election cycle rush I forgot to post my October Books 📚!
Actually reached my goal of 72 books for the year last month. Some exceptionally good ones in this collection. 🧵
Actually reached my goal of 72 books for the year last month. Some exceptionally good ones in this collection. 🧵
Look at that 👀 I’ve hit another milestone in followers and the holidays are approaching, a perfect time to hock my cute & cozy birb novella! It’s like 100 pages long, not a huge lift.📚
It’s literally as cheap as I can get it, i make like 1¢. Available in ebook, audio, & paperback!
#BookSky #gift
It’s literally as cheap as I can get it, i make like 1¢. Available in ebook, audio, & paperback!
#BookSky #gift
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Travel with 48 hours of no sleep is a unique experience. liminal and dreamlike. My body keeps micro sleeping anytime I’m not totally locked in. I have made it to my gate half by instinct and the other half I’ve forgotten.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Travel with 48 hours of no sleep is a unique experience. liminal and dreamlike. My body keeps micro sleeping anytime I’m not totally locked in. I have made it to my gate half by instinct and the other half I’ve forgotten.
Ok here’s some more
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ok here’s some more
At the peak of fan xi pan (10,000 ft) in SaPa and it’s a little foggy today
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
At the peak of fan xi pan (10,000 ft) in SaPa and it’s a little foggy today
Here’s what I’m seeing, it’s like a marshmallow
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Here’s what I’m seeing, it’s like a marshmallow
Listening to the audiobook of The First Five Pages by Lukeman and had to stop and play it back to capture this quote in my notes app. it is such a great way to judge when you are ready to start that new draft.
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Listening to the audiobook of The First Five Pages by Lukeman and had to stop and play it back to capture this quote in my notes app. it is such a great way to judge when you are ready to start that new draft.
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
After a busy workday we’re hanging out eating some pistachios.
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
After a busy workday we’re hanging out eating some pistachios.
Finishing up a screenplay at Corvus this morning with the world’s best cortado in hand. #Film #WritingCommunity #ScriptSky
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Finishing up a screenplay at Corvus this morning with the world’s best cortado in hand. #Film #WritingCommunity #ScriptSky
What you need is a beer belly fanny pack~
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What you need is a beer belly fanny pack~
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE X THE MINISTRY OF TIME
The thousand worlds of the Sovereignty enjoy a golden age under the rule of Caretaker, a godlike Synth Intelligence. But new tech, RESURRECTION, threatens to upend the galaxy, flooding the future with lost souls from a savage past~
#DVPit #SF #BVM #POC
The thousand worlds of the Sovereignty enjoy a golden age under the rule of Caretaker, a godlike Synth Intelligence. But new tech, RESURRECTION, threatens to upend the galaxy, flooding the future with lost souls from a savage past~
#DVPit #SF #BVM #POC
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#TheCalculatingStars went into this thinking it was decades of space travel like Seveneves, but found it was a far more modest journey~
Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#TheCalculatingStars went into this thinking it was decades of space travel like Seveneves, but found it was a far more modest journey~
Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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#ThePlayerOfGames For the first 150 pages I HATED it, and then it was totally solid and I loved it~
Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ThePlayerOfGames For the first 150 pages I HATED it, and then it was totally solid and I loved it~
Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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