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Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

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Well, I have found my new hairstyle.

December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

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Punch & Candy at Midnight: A Christmastime Tale

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December 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

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Starting tomorrow, my Christmas ebook will be FREE for 5 days!

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Punch & Candy at Midnight: A Christmastime Tale

Punch & Candy at Midnight: A Christmastime Tale - Kindle edition by Dell'Aringa, Tom. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Punch & Candy at Midnight: A Christmastime Tale.

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December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Ziggy Nixon

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"Suicide mission. Sweet. I was worried we’d do something boring."

Just read the ARC of @tomdellaringa.bsky.social's 5th book in the "John & Alvis Sessions" series = "Broken Chord" and it is a DOOZY! Releases 22.Dec.2025 so reserve your copy today!

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November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Today is take a winter wonderland walk while looking like a weirdo day!

#winter #snow #nature

November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

What's everyone reading on this cold and snowy day? I'm reading Becky Chamber's The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

#booksky #winter #brrrrr

November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Amaretto coffee with a splash of egg nog? YES. Yes I think I will!

November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

This yearly book fair is amazing to grab some reads for the holiday season - check it out!

#booksky #scifi #fantasy #bookrecommendations

C.L. Cannon, USA Today Bestselling Author @clcannonauthor.bsky.social · 11d

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November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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Rosemary Mosco

@rosemarymosco.com

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.

November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Angela🍂

@acornleaff.bsky.social

Snowflake❄️🩵
#art #illustration

November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

I'm working on a new #cozy #scifi novella series.

A spacefaring medic, a chatty set of implants, and a ship that feels more like a greenhouse than a ride through the stars.

His ship is a cozy donut, and his home as well as his vocation.

#art #spaceship #illustration #booksky

November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Yeah, John Berkey art ALWAYS inspires me!

Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 29d

This art by John Berkey is fantastic. That's a sci-fi TTRPG campaign setting right there.

November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Looks fun... I don't trust that woman in red ...

Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 26d

Exclusive: RetroSpace is a sci-fi horror game inspired by System Shock 2, Deus Ex, and Prey that immersive sim sickos should keep an eye on. Game Informer has an exclusive gameplay trailer and new details about why: gameinformer.com/exclusive-in...

November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

This looks wild. I love the color palette.

JCP⭐Designs 👺 @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social · 26d

Linda³ is a pretty obscure monster collecting RPG from the PC-Engine with an enhanced release on the PS1 and Saturn that's sort of a bonkers sci-fi Noah's Arc story but also features some of the coolest art by Japanese artist Cannabis, who was an animator on Akira

November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

What should we pair with this beautiful suit? Hmmm...

SANDWICH?

November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

There's a lot of lies told these days, but nothing compares to the BIG ONE:

Non-Iron dress shirts.

LIES!

November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

The End.

Broken Chord, Book 5 of the John and Alvis sessions (rough draft) is complete! I had planned for a Spring release, instead is looks like an early Christmas!

Time to get those revisions done and plan the release.

#writingcommunity #booksky #scifi #bookrecommendations

November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

I love Matt's robots.

Matt Dixon @mattdixonart.bsky.social · 23d

Sunday vibes.

November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Today's #WIPSnips

Our hero vs. mouthy teen in a electronic dance contest...

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #scifi #booksky

John snorted at the anime girl flashing the peace sign on the kid’s tee. “I ain’t your bruh. Your body-pillow-humping ass will run out of steam long before I do.”
“Up yours, Befuddled Bitch. Care to wager?”
“I don’t know if you should be betting your basic income for being an unemployed loser. How will you pay your mom rent?”
The kid made a rude gesture. “It’s your mom I pay—and it ain’t for rent. Scared? I’ll put a GEE on the line, pops.”
John frowned. Did this kid really have a grand or was it just posturing?
Lord knows I don’t—not to piss away gambling.
“I’m not going to take a grand off you and then have to explain it later to the cops. One hundred. It ain’t the money, kid. It’s the score. Take it or walk off.”
Green-hair waggled his holobanded wrist up and down in the universal you’re on gesture. He stepped onto the platform of his game. “I’m gonna embarrass you, bruh.”
John removed his jacket and tossed it next to the platform, then stared the kid in the eye as he adjusted his hat and stepped onto his platform.
I needed a workout anyway.
“What’s embarrassing is that hair, sweetheart.”
A crowd was slowly gathering as people overheard the wager and passed the word along. John muttered in irritation as hands lifted in practiced gestures, summoning holo-cap windows that shifted from faint blue to red as recording began. The red rectangles encircled the two players like an electrified grid, imprisoning them for the battle about to unfold. There were at least twenty—and more were winking into existence.
This might have been a mistake, John thought.

November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Looking for a new series to read?

When a disgraced captain saves the girl he was hired to kidnap, he uncovers a plot by the man who ruined him—and must lead a desperate stand with a pacifist robot, a teen, and a few scared colonists.

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#scifi #bookrecommendations #booksky #books

November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

Today's #WIPSnips

Chase playing on the human condition...

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“I can have the law here in two minutes,” said Jacob angrily. “I don’t know where you are, but I can also deploy our security drones, which will find your ass and blow it to shit!”
“The locals have better things to do,” said Chase. “Besides, you won’t get your money that way. In fact, I’ve got an offer that will keep you visiting those ladies you love for quite a while.”
“Bullshit. I think I’d rather just blow your ass up.”
“Well, this is going great,” said Lina.
“Who are you with?” asked Jacob. “What’s going on?”
“Bottom line,” said Chase. “I want the run of the place, and probably a little help. You’ll keep the law and the home office out of it and report whatever we take as stolen when we leave. In return, I’ll transfer twenty thousand units—making us square.”
Chase raised an eyebrow at Lina questioningly.
She gave a tight nod.
Jacob silently thought it over. “This better not be a trick.”
“You don’t want twenty grand?”
“Who’s with you?”
“Twenty thousand units are with me,” said Chase.
More silence. Then: “You pay on arrival.”
“Good man. Two rovers are going to rumble into your warehouse—what side is the autolock on?”
“West.”
Chase nodded. “You let us in. I transfer the units. You give me what I need.”
“Give me my drones back.”
“I’ll give you a loop I recorded. Can’t have anyone knowing we’re here. Twenty G, Jacob. Think of all that silk and perfume.”
“Two days, that’s it. West side.”
The connection closed.
Chase grinned. “Greed is so predictable.”

November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM

Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author

@tomdellaringa.bsky.social

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Framed for murder. Stuck in a simmering battle between man and engineered hybrids. Can a world-weary detective stop his universe from disintegrating?

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