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2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman & James Stavridis, 2021
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.
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#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Sept. Promotion day. Self or someone else. Or both.
Damn!
It’s a day too early, the next chapter of my online serialisation of my short story collection, Tales From the Demi-monde, goes live tomorrow and I don’t have a direct link to it until then.
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My Word of the Day today is QUARRY-FACED. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!
Quarry-faced, from Middle English quarere, Medieval Latin quarreria, literally a “place where stones are squared,” from Old French quarrière , in turn derived from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, to square + -faced, from face, Middle English face, from Old French face, in turn derived from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs, form, appearance + -ed, used to form past tenses of regular verbs.
Meaning, having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point (stonemasonry, of stones).
The picture shows a weathered stone gothic folly tower built from rough, uncoursed grey fieldstones.
This definition pretty much does what it says on the tin.
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"Avast, Ye Mateys! Hoist Yer Colours for Talk Like a Pirate Day!"
Arrrrr! All you landlubbers, prepare to be boarded.
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, so be quick about it or you’ll be walking the plank.
Here are a few handy phrases you scurvy dogs can use to help you fit in as though you be one of the crew, to prevent you from being keelhauled.
How to Talk Like a Pirate
Arrrrr!!: Various meanings from "yes" to "I agree," to "I'm happy" or "I'm enjoying this beer."
Ahoy!: Hello.
Avast!: Stop and give attention.
Aye!: "Yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said."
Aye, aye!: "I'll get right on it, sir, as soon as my break is over."
Beauty: The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded by "me," as in "C'mere, me beauty."
Bilge rat: The bilge is the ship's lowest level. It's loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. This is where bilge rats live.
Grog: An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water. Or beer. Or whatever yer tippin,' if calling it that makes you happy.
Landlubber: The seaman's version of "land lover," mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. A "lubber" is someone who does not go to sea. In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is always an insult.
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#AmReading
Or, in the case The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, #AmNotReading.
Whilst it sounded like an intriguing team up between the writer and the actor it prove to be an extremely difficult read and ultimately I couldn’t force myself to finish it.
A tedious narrative filled with characters devoid of anything in the way of a personality.
It was impossible to identify with any of the characters. Hence I abandoned it, something I rarely do, even after forcing myself to try to read it small chunks as a way of minimising the tedium.
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The last Thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, died on this day in 1936 alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. Before European settlement, several thousand remained in the wild on Tasmania.
Starting during the 19th century, they were perceived as a threat to the livestock of farmers and bounty hunting was introduced.
The Thylacine is widespread in popular culture and is a cultural icon in Australia.
Thylacines are universally regarded as being extinct by the scientific community, but when the species became extinct is unclear. Modelling based on reliable records indicates extinction during the 1930s or 1940s, although unconfirmed sightings of the species have led a minority of researchers to suggest it survived for several decades longer than that.
More money has been dedicated to rediscovering the Thylacine than any other mammal.
Sightings of possible tracks were reported throughout the 1950s and 1960s and in 1982 a sighting of a Thylacine was reported by a Tasmanian park ranger prompting an extensive two year-long search, which was kept confidential at the time, but found no evidence of any surviving Thylacines.
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Excerpt from "Frozen Moon", a lesbian romance novella by Vivian Schey (me…), ©2018 V-Ltier Verlag
It’s Christmas Day. The sun is about to shine in my room. Which means it’s nearly noon, yet I have no desire to get up. I don’t want to open my eyes; this moment is too good. That warm, soft feeling at my back. Hair tickling my nose, stirred by gentle breaths. The steady pulse in the hand embracing my stomach—waking up could hardly be lovelier.
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#WordWeavers 8 Aug: Which character would survive a zombie apocalypse, and why?
It’s not something I’ve really thought about as I’m not particularly fond of the modern take on Zombies.
If zombies were to feature in my work they’d have to be the good old-fashioned Zombies from Haitian folklore.
There seems to be a trend where they’re pitted against all sorts of different protagonists, usually with a title along the lines of XXX versus zombies or zombies versus XXX, so practitioners of magic versus zombies wouldn’t be too far-fetched.
I reckon the zombies would lose hands down.
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More about me.
I've always wanted to be a #writer of #scienceFiction and #fantasy but working as a #computerProgrammer, #softwareDeveloper, #agileTrainer, and #coursewareDeveloper is how I made my money.
I've written one #romcom #novel so far, not yet published, and a few articles on #extremeProgramming which were published. I might be a better editor than a writer.
my literary heroes include Terry Pratchett #discworld and Theodore Sturgeon
The spoken word video of the 4th and last excerpt of my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera is now up onYouTube.
Man’s Opera will be published by Galleon Books on August 15, 2026
©Poor Man’s Opera by Steven Mayoff 2026
Steven Mayoff (he/him) is a Canadian novelist, poet, lyricist and librettist living on Prince Edward Island, aka Abegweit, home of the Mi’kmaq for thousands of years before any of us settlers showed up. I am proud and humbled to call this island my home and grateful to share it with the First Nations community.
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My new #novel, The House of Pearls, a #timeslip set in #Oxford, is out now! Here I am with a copy in our back garden (outfit more or less matching my #book cover!) In Kindle and #paperback on Amazon here: https://geni.us/B0GZZY1SWRauthor and you can also order it from any good UK #bookshop. And there are my #publication day #flowers!
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Gonna write down ALL the words! 😂
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Now is your chance to find my ENTIRE #eBOOK COLLECTION for a #promotional #price at @Smashwords as part of their #AnnualSummer/WinterSale ! You can find all my on-sale books at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/clemenssuter
Great, highly rated adventure books at great prices.
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“A New Faith” is an uplifting climate-fiction novel set in the near future in the fictional city of Sequoia populated by climate refugees from all over the world.
Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
The main themes that intersect over the course of the story include mass migration because of climate change, tribal behavior, and existential dilemmas faced by individuals.
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