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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
READERCON! Absolutely thrilled to be heading there in two weeks' time! Who's going to be there?
July 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
READERCON! Absolutely thrilled to be heading there in two weeks' time! Who's going to be there?
As George Carlin might have said.
July 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As George Carlin might have said.
It's really that simple.
June 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's really that simple.
Since Bluesky STUPIDLY limits post length so severely...
May 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Since Bluesky STUPIDLY limits post length so severely...
Shell Falls, Bighorn Mtns, Wyoming. The exposed granite in the falls is 2.9 billion years old; other exposed rock in the bighorns is full 3.5 billion years old, some the oldest on the planet. This has been your daily dose of tree-hugger nonsense.
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Shell Falls, Bighorn Mtns, Wyoming. The exposed granite in the falls is 2.9 billion years old; other exposed rock in the bighorns is full 3.5 billion years old, some the oldest on the planet. This has been your daily dose of tree-hugger nonsense.
I'm not a lawyer either. I can, however, read.
May 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I'm not a lawyer either. I can, however, read.
Wow, I never thought of it this way. I guess the glass really is half full. Of Ukrainian blood.
April 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wow, I never thought of it this way. I guess the glass really is half full. Of Ukrainian blood.
4-day-old porcupine creeping out into the sun from under our friends' porch.
April 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
4-day-old porcupine creeping out into the sun from under our friends' porch.
