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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐

@nicquattromani.bsky.social

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Author of a lizard book. Also seen publishing space articles, sci-fi reviews, and original short fiction on https://letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · Aug 6

An interplanetary voyage for fans of The Martian, Interstellar, and Apollo 13---except this isn't our solar system, and these astronauts aren't human. Pathfinders blasts off to the Kindle Store on November 23!

Read more here:
letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/the-novel-co...

#scifi #books #space

Illustrated book cover. A lizard in a space suit looks ahead, in front of a planet and moon, with the text PATHFINDERS below.

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 8h

How about the first advance review copy? 😁

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 1d

"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you are already dead!"

#aiart #AIArtCommunity #gladiator #Midjourney

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𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑 @mudnblood.bsky.social · 2d

Élunia with the cape

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 2d

A neat realistic design described as a starship orbiting Proxima Centauri b.
#space #art by "ネオなまず"
www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone curious---the prompt was "pondering the orb."

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think that's how the Moon works, Midjourney...

#aiart #aiartcommunity #midjourney

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 2d

A whopping two of my three beta readers cried at the end of my book. Very good feeling as the author 😤

Anyone else take a little pride in bringing on the waterworks from your readers?

#writing #authors

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 3d

When I roll into work at 5:00 PM, I give everyone a bright and cheery "Good morning!"

Throws them off pretty well, I find 😁

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by the World War I books I've been reading---a quick render of the kind of blasted, hellish landscape trench warfare produced. It's staggering to me what so many suffered in such a pointless conflict.

#aiart #midjourney #aiartcommunity

A blasted landscape with shattered trees. AI-generated image.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 5d

Went for a hike this evening! Enjoyed some dramatic cloudscapes.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 5d

What explains my lack of Bluesky updates and blog posts?

I'm mildly depressed. Feeling burned out. I'll get better, though, I always do.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 5d

An arachnid of unusual size has been spotted in my apartment...

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 12d

Just got back into cooking, after an interval of making bare-minimum meals to save time and money. I feel this is one of my better decisions in recent memory...

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 12d

We must hope, and dream, and keep on hoping and dreaming even when the world looks like it's going to hell...

Appreciate you, OP.

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 12d

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 12d

"Ancient and benighted land."

#aiart #synthart #aiartcommunity #midjourney

AI-generated oil painting of a desolate rocky landscape.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 12d

She's a quirky lil' bean, I love her to bits.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 12d

"Alone on the rainy planet."

#aiart #aiartcommunity #midjourney

AI-generated painting of a solitary figure on a rocky, rainy landscap.

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The Traveler | Galaxy Pixels @ekvitki.bsky.social · 20d

#pixelart

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 21d

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, man! Thankfully I'm on the mend 😁

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 21d

And now for something completely different! This one was inspired by a striking little house I saw in the coastal estuary near Tillamook.

#aiart #synthart #aiartcommunity #midjourney

AI-generated painting of a tall wooden house in a coastal wetland.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 21d

This one made me chuckle. But I'm sick, so chuckling makes me cough. Curse you! 😝

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 21d

The denizens beneath that planet's shell remained sheltered for billions of years, unseen and unlit---but once that first probe had drilled through the ice, their lives would change forever.

#midjourney #aiart #aiartcommunity #scifi

Abstract AI-generated painting of a light illuminating sea creatures.

Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 21d

Some pictures from my beach trip last Friday, before the damn virus hit me. Girlfriend and I went on a day trip to Tillamook!