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Shaun Barger
@shaunbarger.bsky.social
Author of #MageAgainstTheMachine, published by Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press. (he/him)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mage-Against-the-Machine/Shaun-Barger/9781534403055
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Oh wow, what a gorgeous book, you should probably buy a couple 👇
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“Say there’s a box, painted all your favorite colors.

Say there’s a song, coming out of the box. The closer you stand to the box, the louder the song becomes.

You like the song. You really like the song…”

terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/...
Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…
terribleminds.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Shaun Barger
Oh wow, what a gorgeous book, you should probably buy a couple 👇
January 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
January 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Shaun Barger
Thank you so much, @djdynamicnc.bsky.social! From one ADHD writer to another 🤘😅
My gold standard for "intense, ADHD-paced, mindblowing stuff happens every other page" reading is a book called "Battle of the Linguist Mages" by @scotto.org , which remains imo unmatched, but I just finished "Mage Against the Machine" by @shaunbarger.bsky.social last night and it comes damn close
December 26, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Oh wow, what a gorgeous book, you should probably buy a couple 👇
January 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Reposted by Shaun Barger
I moved into a house with a courtyard, a mysterious black cat, and a master bedroom with a tiny, secret room. In the room was a curtain. Beyond the curtain, a tiny door.
Behind that door… https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/11/16/shawn-barger-five-things-i-learned-writing-mage-against-the-machine/
Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…
terribleminds.com
June 13, 2023 at 6:02 AM
To my great relief, turns out the whole “women account for 80% of fiction sales, men so dumb they no read LOL” was bad data.
So in all the discourse over how men don't read, I've noticed something weird.

All the articles about this issue say that there are multiple studies showing women account for 80% of fiction sales. But none of them link to the studies — just to each other. www.vox.com/culture/3929...
Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?
The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.
www.vox.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Shaun Barger
My gold standard for "intense, ADHD-paced, mindblowing stuff happens every other page" reading is a book called "Battle of the Linguist Mages" by @scotto.org , which remains imo unmatched, but I just finished "Mage Against the Machine" by @shaunbarger.bsky.social last night and it comes damn close
December 26, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Thank you so much, @djdynamicnc.bsky.social! From one ADHD writer to another 🤘😅
My gold standard for "intense, ADHD-paced, mindblowing stuff happens every other page" reading is a book called "Battle of the Linguist Mages" by @scotto.org , which remains imo unmatched, but I just finished "Mage Against the Machine" by @shaunbarger.bsky.social last night and it comes damn close
December 26, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Turns out, Wizard of Wor is, in fact, the greatest old school arcade game of all time. 👾🕹️

(Pictured here: my kid sis after yet another glorious wizard battle victory.)
June 18, 2023 at 4:57 PM
I moved into a house with a courtyard, a mysterious black cat, and a master bedroom with a tiny, secret room. In the room was a curtain. Beyond the curtain, a tiny door.
Behind that door… https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/11/16/shawn-barger-five-things-i-learned-writing-mage-against-the-machine/
Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…
terribleminds.com
June 13, 2023 at 6:02 AM
June 13, 2023 at 5:53 AM