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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi)

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@JSto from Twitter: not ready to go another round with Jack Dorsey & co, frankly new features: about.me/JSto Astral Fall 🌌 & Impress of the Seventh Surge ☣️ Author Artemis Eternal founder Director, Writer, Producer, Actor Media Studies & SFF & Film & War

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Nov 9

for the devastated, angry… written for this moment & for those in need of rapid-response balm—or crucible www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (major corps. removed from book’s production chain as much as poss.) Readers welcome to rage in reviews on GR, Amazon, Storygraph & Apple: many already have📕

Impress of the Seventh Surge

In an outbreak everyone must make choices. What will yo…

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Jan 1

A strange game. The only winning move is not to [login].

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · 5d

Saturday. You can get there www.nokings.org#map
and @/cc me on your pix! 🖖 #nokings

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · 15d

Yes—good ones! I am setting up on one and will eventually (I don’t post often) put the details for alts with launch and vouch after testing.

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · 15d

If your name is Matt Parker and you emailed me — fyi I replied but your email is bouncing in reply

(lol this is such a throwback blogosphere way of handling a tech snafu like this. are you out there, Matt Parker?)

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · 21d

war scholar & my main = multi-disciplinary/sociological lens that is friendly entry to your bg: my focus is western warrior constructs in popular media. Hegseth doesn’t know shit & I’d suggest Centeno’s War & Society for you & your feed here bookshop.org/lists/haltin... & www.coursera.org/learn/war

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

Normative ethics is indeed discussed in any lit class, the starter to philosophy

Education should teach one “how“ to think in a way that can be widely applied. OSHA training is rules/memorization. It’s “what” to think about a specific known

+ Flexible thinking protects from ideological extremes.

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

My dad is a master electrician who cannot fully read my books. I am a professional author.

We both ❤️ scifi but only one of us can successfully time travel. Classic lit is time travel. Gatsby is easy, assigned bc connects to history+current events (less dry). Plenty of teachers use mod lesson plans

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

it was a strange time in the industry. Things have gotten, you know, fascist nowadays, so relatively it doesn’t seem like that time is salient, but it was low-key kind of weird then. felt like this track www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKD...
I will tell everyone and my mom about your book good luck x

Something Dark Is Coming

YouTube video by Bear McCreary - Topic

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

am reading a book about this
(almost wrote “believe it or not I’m reading a book about this” but it is totally believable that I an author/reader would be reading a book about anything so)

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

was also at the Caprica launch party/premiere/panel at ArcLight (the redemption arc to my BSG misadventure story) — were you there (wouldn’t be surprised if you were)? If so do you recall that it was sponsored by a soon-failed tech product — ZUNE, and if so, do you still have your free bricked ZUNE?

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 23

But have you heard the story of winning NBC Universal’s Battlestar Galactica Everywhere Sweepstakes, the most mediocre sweepstakes winning ever? (I won it. And I used to have a popular LA blagh. A potent combo.) jessicastover.com/entry.php?id...

Jessica Stover Dot Com

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 19

Scifi author: I work to keep congloms out of my publishing chain as much as possible, hire the same top editors that publishers do externally to work on my novels. The only pt I haven’t solved is distro platforms. It has cost me, but anyone who knows my biz story knows why I’m INDIE
about.me/JSto 🖖

JessicaMae Stover on about.me

I am a Motion Picture Writer Director Actor in the United States of America & Canada. Read my book.

about.me

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is part of my research job/beat. Freelance me to curate a list for readers.

I‘ve some suggestions that will not be expected, and some that prob will. There is what we know to the best of our ability so far, and the top questions still being studied.

Also? There is a playbook we’re not using.

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 17

if the US won’t let NASA build the starshade so I can see planets/watch the search for life, then can a league of other countries do it — the league of the starshade

the starshade federation, the united countries of starshade… starshade club

you don’t have to go to space to be an explorer trust me

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 12

WE ARE COOKED. Cannot overstate. Wish I hadn’t spent my early career fighting this — speaking @ FCC, risking pioneering alt indie fundie, avoiding these entities after witnessing first destructive major merger etc etc — it was a waste of time www.wsj.com/business/med...
ty to those who were/are w me

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 17

this is cool

My move is still fresh but I actually do miss US stamps — Went out of my way for: Moon Landing (fave), Trek (although wished it were TNG), Le Guin, Coffee! (bought so many of those) and Women’s Suffrage designs

Canada needs to up its game
although… they do have a MuchMusic stamp now!

Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Sep 13

Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ...

... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman

apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet

item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

sheet of stamps in a 5 by 4 grid. Each shows a female postal deliverer walking her route and delivering mail, through the grid of a small town's streets. Each panel includes her interacting with different residents of the town, including children on the way to school, people shopping, and more. Different parts of the town show each of the four seasons

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 17

This millionaire and his nepo daughter made my epi-pens go up from $20 to $400 — so I got caught in that scandal as a young artist and couldn’t not buy them

I’m a pro scifi author from Virginia. If people need a political book, buy mine instead! about.me/jsto www.amazon.com/stores/autho...

JessicaMae Stover on about.me

I am a Motion Picture Writer Director Actor in the United States of America & Canada. Read my book.

about.me

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 12

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.

www.wsj.com

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Sep 3

soundstudiesblog.com/2018/09/17/p...

Poptimism and Popular Feminism

Almost 20 years ago, 2 Many DJs and Freelance Hellraiser each released too-clever mashups that laid R&B pop diva vocals over indie rock instrumentals, revealing that the paired songs had exactl…

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 23

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 19

Can’t believe after all these years on this beat bts someone didn’t send this to me the hot minute it dropped — let’s read this & then I can probably stop trying to explain this to colleagues & my lovely #scifi readers myself. So glad about that & ty to the author for tackling this needed project 🌌

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · Apr 27

you can purchase Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right directly from my publisher here

Speculative Whiteness

Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 18

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 18

& give me a shout if you ever want to know what was going on with this on the film/scifi side with funding during the regressive backlash to the Obama era pre-2016/pre-gamergate. I haven’t read the book yet but I figure there’s no way it’s in there since it was insider-y & the players often failed.

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m late to the party & just put this on my read-soon list: I sincerely hope you nail it inside so that I can stop explaining these issues myself and instead send everyone—everyone!—to your book! Also thank you for this introduction to your analysis 🌌 sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/06/e...

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) @jst0.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.wired.com/story/a-top-... Makenzie was the science advisor for my #scifi novel/series starter Astral Fall. She read a semi-late draft & sat with me to go through it all to give notes on novel situations. She knows so much about policy + civilian space. A public servant & a soldier for science 🌌

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.