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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 9d

‪Still miss Firefly and Cowboy Bebop? Try The Chained Space Series!

In The Screaming Void, a space junk salvage crew risks their sanity searching for a lost ship.

In The Stolen Planet, an ancient weapon points to the biggest theft in history.

#booksky 📚🪐

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The Chained Space Series

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 35m

Every time I see “semiprozine,” I think that should be the name of an allergy medicine.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 51m

Greg headed to the aquarium’s mermaid exhibit, grinning.

“You’re full of #verve today,” Luna said, swishing her tail.

“Yes, I’ve been taking fish oil.”

She giggled. “Me too, but I make the fish take me to dinner first.”

He rolled his eyes. “All that water can’t clean a dirty mind.”

#vss365

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Sigmund Fraud @andybasement101.bsky.social · 1h

!!!!!***SUPPORT INDIE AUTHORS***!!!!!

#FF @dnschmidt.com and score a copy of his extremely funny and extremely out there #TheyAteTheWaitress? I laughed all the way through.

And look! Two other works are available! At any disreputable book store near you!

Chop! Chop! Hop to it!

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Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 3h

🚨NEW BOX-SET!
The complete Odyssey Earth series – over 1,000 pages of feelgood, found-family space adventure
'Funny, wholesome & uplifting, a laugh-out-loud romp in outer space' @bookspotlight.bsky.social

Pre-order at only £4.99/$5.99 - mybook.to/OdysseyEarth
Out 4 November
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Box set image of the Odyssey Earth series by Rex Burke, with caption - I'm in love with the Odyssey Earth series

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 2h

My girlfriend and I collect baseball caps from museum gift shops. We have a Louvre hat relationship.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 7d

Grab a new Event Horizon-inspired cosmic horror for #SpookySeason 🎃

A rescue mission to a stranded starship turns into a nightmare for Helene Cross and her crew when their minds are ensnared by an entity from beyond the stars.

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Tablet mockup of The God Sun on the right in front of a space background of an ominous red dwarf star. On the right are selected review extracts. The text reads: “Brutal, bloody, and disturbing”, “Brilliant read. Well written. 100% recommended”, and “It had that creeping discomfort I’ve come to expect from space sci-fi stories that lean towards the dark side”. Underneath the book, the text reads: “Available widely. Books2read.com/thegodsun.”

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13h

This is such a Captain Eric type of story, even if he isn't actually in it.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

Ah, so it does work! 😋

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

Have they tried pushing pork? Maybe that's delicious, too.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 17h

Her: These pretzels have extra protein, so just a handful will keep you full for hours!

Me: And what does eating the whole bag do? Because I’m probably going to do that.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

Every star in the sky will eventually burn out, but if you put a ball of hot gas on TV, they think they’ll last forever.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

In the Midwest, it’s how people pronounce the town of Louisville, Kentucky. People from other places say Loo-ee-vill or Loo-iss-vill. Most people I’ve met from northern Kentucky and southern Indiana run the syllables together so it sounds something like Lull-vull.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 19h

The scientist rushed in, folders and papers in his hands. “Sir, the alien ship found buried on Mars… We translated the writing on the hull!”

The senator pounded his desk. “Finally! Does it explain how to open it?”

“Not exactly…”

“What does it say?”

“Honk if you like getting probed.”

#vss #sff

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Anastasia MacKenzie @theanastasia.bsky.social · 1d

Me: hey I’ve noticed you across the cemetery and I really like your vibe.
Crow: *various crow noises*

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 22h

Hey, goth ladies improve everything. 🦇🦇

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 23h

There was a crooked man, and he had a crooked site.

He earned a crooked sixpence downloading crooked bytes.

He bought a crooked webcam, and had a crooked keyboard,

And watched the crooked livestreams his goth girlfriend would record.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 23h

Should have gotten the Snack Safety Goggles! 😄

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

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The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel @martiandiaries.bsky.social · Jul 5

"Wow! Followed on seamlessly from the original and had me hooked! So intrigued now, I'm going to get the audiobook to hear the music... my new favourite 'follow-on.'"

More info on 3-part sequel to The War Of The Worlds, hear/read samples & buy links martiandiaries.com
#BookSky #Audiobooks

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Thanks for sharing! Much appreciated! 😀

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Amy poked her computer screen. “Is this place really called Hedonism IV?”

Captain Eric nodded. “Yeah, a whole planet of #libertines. Tourists love it.”

She cringed. “Ugh, what kind of weirdos vacation on Perv World?”

He tapped his own computer screen and canceled the hotel reservations.

#vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Starting a crowd funding campaign called “Quick, I Need Fourteen Thousand Dollars! I’ll Explain Later!”

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Maybe just Guns, starring Emilio Estevez as Billy The Guy.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

This museum tour guide said a sculpture was hand carved. But I looked it up and and the artist totally used chisels and hammers and stuff.