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Ryan M. Patrick

@ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social

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Aerospace engineer, sci-fi and technothriller author, USAF/USSF vet, married dad of 4 https://www.ryanmpatrickauthor.com

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 6

The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Jun 18

Both The Martian Incident and Lag Delay are on sale for a week - go check them out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CG3ZMW91

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNNVDNKS

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is a tempest prognosticator.

It predicts storms by using leeches.

This is absolute mad scientist levels of innovation and I'm here for it. Lol

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Jun 1

It's officially British summer.
It's time people of all political flavours unite against the country's biggest threat.

A sign saying seagulls will steal the food.
The seagull looks menacing.

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Nick Snape 💙🐉⚔️🪐📚 @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social · May 25

Thank you @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social for this wonderful #bookreview of my new scifi release Butcher’s Folly. Ryan kindly read it in ARC and it looks like I’m still on track with this series. #booksky #scifibooks 💙🪐📚

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 22

Did some cleanup on the website this morning - really tried to streamline some stuff. Go check it out!

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Eddie Knight @eddieknight.dev · May 7

I don't like many things.

I read this and I liked it.

Enjoy.

Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 6

The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · May 7

Absolutely worth reading!

Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 6

The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · May 7

Happy release day.

Fantastic book - if you love the idea of hyperrealistic thriller in space, go get this book.

I reviewed this sometime back:
www.sffinsiders.com/blog/review-...

#BookSky #SciFi

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 6

The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Apr 23

This wonderful solarpunk anthology launched at Eastercon!

It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.

If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!

Book cover for vivid worlds anthology, edited by Donna Scott.

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Nick Snape 💙🐉⚔️🪐📚 @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social · Apr 12

Please find my FanFiAddict review of The Europan Deception by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social a scifi spy thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Superb. fanfiaddict.com/review-the-e... . #scifibooks #scifi #booksky

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Mar 23

Pre-order my upcoming sci-fi thriller now! Releases 6 May. It's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity, a tense conspiracy thriller set in a hard sci-fi universe.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Something like that

Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Mar 20

Mine are in here too and I'm not happy about it...especially since @rickandwrite.bsky.social tells me there's no way to get them out 😱😱😱

Maya Darjani | SFF author @mayadarjani.bsky.social · Mar 20

Oh hai my books are in here as well

I'm getting the sense LibGen is a heroic site for academics, some of whom upload their own work on there. But I certainly didn't a) ask LibGen to pirate my books and b) allow meta to use them for AI training

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 20

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Mar 19

I'm shortlisted for the BSFA award for audio fiction!

Very excited to be on a list of such wonderful stories and authors.

Congrats to everyone nominated in all of the categories!

For those going to Eastercon, I can't wait to celebrate.

file770.com/bsfa-awards-...

BSFA Awards 2024 Shortlist

The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2024. The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. They are v…

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · Mar 8

My review for The Europan Deception by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social is now up on @sffinsiders.com

A hyperrealistic scifi saga - high velocity action, conspiracies spread across planets, deeply entrenched shady organizations pulling strings from the shadows.

#SciFi #BookReview #BookSky

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · Mar 5

My new article about the mysterious CALSAT satellite:
www.thespacereview.com/article/4946/1

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Feb 25

I enjoyed Consider Phelbas and it's one of my favorite Culture novels.

Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Feb 22

FOMO is why I stopped playing sometime after Shadowkeep. Not playing a game that doesn't respect my time.

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Feb 22

ARC Request Form for The Europan Deception is live! Releases May 6.

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Feb 9

New blog post! Also my alpha/beta reading slate is clear if anyone is looking for one, I don't have anything to trade at the moment but I'll have a couple of projects ready sometime in the spring.

ryanmpatrickauthor.com/2025/02/09/c...

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Beard of Darkness Book Reviews @beardofdarkness.bsky.social · Feb 3

Join us Sat. Feb.8th @ 8:30pm EST/5:30pm PST for a LIVE INTERVIEW w/ USA TODAY & NYT Best-Selling author, @jamesrollins.bsky.social! We will discuss the upcoming release, “A Dragon of Black Glass” Feb. 18th, concluding his epic fantasy series,“Moonfall” saga! @torbooks.bsky.social

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Feb 1

What a year, huh

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm celebrating tonight as I'm nominated for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards longlist!

Thank you to whoever voted for me, and if you like my works please consider them for the next round of voting :)

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Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · Jan 31

No one deserves it more! Congrats

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