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Nicholas Pendleton

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He/him. Author and artist (literary, fantasy, sci-fi, mythology, adventure, humor). My novel MORE ARGONAUTS and short story collection DEAD OBJECTS WITH NO FUNCTION are available now. https://linktr.ee/nicholaspendleton

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · Jul 24

The brand-new Second Edition paperback of MORE ARGONAUTS is finally available, one place only! www.lulu.com/shop/nichola...

Updated maps, minor corrections, and an all-new cover by the author!

#booksky #novel #fantasy #mythology #adventure #humor #ancientgreece #indypublishing

Photo of the new cover to the novel MORE ARGONAUTS.

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 2h

Hammer of the gods:

2 of 2 - "What?" he said. "I can’t hear you."

"Balls of brass, brother," Dwayne said, feeding him into the stripped cockpit of the Malibu.

Keith shouted, "Remember: Stay on the figure eight. Don't crash. Don't get stuck. God bless."

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 23h

Learning that many of the dialog scenes in The Road were verbatim conversations between McCarthy and his own son makes the book even more soulcrushing.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 1d

THE ROAD - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Devastating.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 1d

Drop something SKELETAL

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 2d

The votes gave her the seat, not some mystical ritual performed by a political hack. Stop playing along with these sodden old traditions. Get serious now.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 3d

Blood Meridian - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

All The Pretty Horses - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Next:

Hardcover ex-library copy of Cormac McCarthy's novel THE ROAD.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't get a pic, but I can add a Cooper's Hawk to my neighborhood's list of raptors, along with the mated pair of barred owls and the occasional visits from the bald eagles.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 4d

The thing I love about McCarthy is what I love about Hemingway: the text effortlessly slips between lyrical and then terse and punchy. I aspire to even a smidgen of that craft.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 4d

If Cliff Booth can eat Mac'n'Cheese while watching the tube, then goddamnit, so can I. 🇺🇸

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 4d

"In one quiet moment, he was horrified to realize he had no real personality; instead he was a haphazard compilation of survival mechanisms. He carried with him always a soiled and torn bag of varied masks, an assembly of personas easily slapped on for any occasion or circumstance."

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 6d

Cormac Mccarthy's scenic descriptions are so stylistically abstract that sometimes I can't actually picture them in my head. But the writing itself makes the brain tingle, and I feel rewired in some small way. I think only literature can do that.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 6d

While I agree that the Jackson films are objectively good, to me, they just aren't accurate representations of the Tolkien books. My first exposure to The Hobbit was 6-7yrs old. I read LOTR at 13-14. I just see something completely different in my mind's eye (even now on a re-read).

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 6d

An LLM I can support.

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LLM

YouTube video by Merriam-Webster

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 6d

A world power falls into dictatorship. Meanwhile, a mysterious interstellar object hurls through the inner solar system. In Iowa, a school superintendent is arrested by ICE fleeing with cash and weapons, revealing he's not who he claims to be...

Probably a great novel.
Definitely a shitty reality.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Cormac Mccarthy makes me just want to burn everything I've ever written and then walk into a lake.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 7d

I just heard that old Christopher Cross hit on the radio. Man, that dude loves his sailing.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 7d

A missed synergy opportunity with the bungled rapture rollout, imo.

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The Carpenter's Son - Official Trailer | Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs | In Theaters Nov 14

YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 9d

Another thing killing the holiday mood is all this white nationalist theological authoritarianism.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 9d

I started Halloween decorating, but this heatwave is killing the mood.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 9d

After NASA's latest scan, for some reason, they've decided to change 3I/ATLAS's name to Event Horizon. 🤷‍♂️

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 10d

I call your 3I/ATLAS and raise you an A11pl3Z.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 11d

My old friend and colleague Ritch Duncan has started a site/newsletter called DEATHBED (I'm a "contributing editor") publishing HORROR STORIES BY COMEDY WRITERS. It launched today with a story called "Bad Seed" by (squints at paper) "me."

Check it out! deathbed.ghost.io

Deathbed

Horror Stories by Comedy Writers

deathbed.ghost.io

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Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 11d

A nice piece of folk horror!

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 11d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER was another wild PTA epic, but you have to squint so hard to see any of Pynchon's novel in it that it's basically an original work all its own.

Nicholas Pendleton @nfpendleton.bsky.social · 13d

In anticipation of my Sunday screening of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a rewatch of INHERENT VICE. Damn, this one gets better every time I watch it. Five out of five.