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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer

@michaelpatrickhicks.com

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Author of IN THE END, NOTHING; FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE; MASS HYSTERIA. Book reviewer, movie hoarder. He/Him. Reviewer at FanFiAddict.com. Fuck AI. Fuck Trump. Website: http://www.michaelpatrickhicks.com Books: books2read.com/michaelpatrickhicks

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · Nov 11

Welcome aboard, new followers, and thanks for linking up with me over here! In addition to occasionally being a loudmouth, I also write horror books, some sci-fi, and lots of reviews. If you want a starter pack of my work, check out mybook.to/gPlHIs. Don't be a stranger!

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 4m

If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 3m

Jesus… even the douchebags at ChiZine had the courtesy to wait a few days, if I remember right…

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 6m

Wait, seriously?! 😳

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Only way to know for sure is when, a few weeks after closing, their personal FB account is suddenly filled with vacation pics from the Bahamas.

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 3h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Hideo Kojima @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 28m

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 50m

By the way, any signed copies available to order?

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Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social · 1h

All of it supremely wicked...

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 3h

Just finished and absolutely LOVED The October Film Haunt by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social. Cosmic horror cult slasher by way of found footage. Lots going on here, and all of it is supremely wicked.

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 52m

Oh man, I’m honored you read that! Full review incoming soon, if I can somehow distill the many thoughts I have. Absolutely fucking loved it!

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

That @carsonwinter.bsky.social blurb though!

a man wearing sunglasses is sitting in a chair with a nbc logo in the background

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses is sitting in a chair with a nbc logo in the background

media.tenor.com

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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 1h

#buymybooks THE BIG ONE is one-day old. One day of explosions, tentacles, and exploding tentacles. You really should check it out if you’re one of those weirdos (cool people) who likes big dumb heart on the sleeve action AND bleak, brain-blistering cosmic horror in equal measure.

The Big One | Anuci Press

"Daddy's coming home." That's the promise Hank, a widowed ambulance driver finishing up his shift in San Francisco, makes to his two kids who are trapped in the ruins of their destroyed apartment buil...

www.anuci-press.com

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Sara Tantlinger @saratantlinger.bsky.social · 1h

I am such a huge Sarah Read fan (her collection Out of Water is phenomenal), and I'm so grateful to have a blurb from her for Cyanide Constellations.

A little less than two weeks to go! You can also now order signed paperbacks!

darkmattermagazine.shop/products/cya...

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

Sounds like we just need to take the rest of the week off to cope with this tragedy and work on fixing this oversight.

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

Fingers crossed for more 25th Century Trek books!

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

HOLY CRAP! We may not be getting the STAR TREK: LEGACY TV series, but it sure does look like @daytonward.bsky.social is officially taking us beyond the series finale of PICARD with TO DEFY FATE, out in April. This sounds epic!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Star-T...

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David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social · 1h

=OUT NOW!=

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
-RING OF FIRE-

available in hardcover, eBook, and unabridged digital audiobook formats wherever new books are sold

davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

SNW RING OF FIRE Cover Alt-Text for Bluesky

Book cover for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – RING OF FIRE by New York Times Bestselling Author David Mack.

Illustration has a purple-ish space starfield background; very prominent in the center is a black hole surrounded by a reddish-orange-yellow halo of gravitationally distorted light (the titular “ring of fire”). Ghosted and floating in front of this cosmic horror in a pyramid formation are Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), lower left; first officer Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), middle left; Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), top center; science officer Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), middle right; and security officer Lieutenant La'An Noonien-Singh, lower right, brandishing a phaser like the awesome badass she is. It’s a truly badass cover, thought it would have been nice if they’d made my name bigger, but whatever.

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

Is that really a lie, though?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats should go on TV to say they need to impeach Trump because of the cocaine-fueled pedophilia parties that he holds in the East Room of the White House with his friends in MS-13.

I mean, if he gets to lie shamelessly, why not them?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1h

Similar situation on my end, only with pie. At least my shift is up in another 15 minutes. No pie to be had when I get home, though... 😭

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 8h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 2h

Reminds me of the time during his previous term when he was watching SICARIO 2 and thought it was a CIA briefing.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 2h

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable"

Where's that market now.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 5h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 3h

how anyone can see this as anything but a perfect example as to why billionaires & corporations should be taxed is bonkers to me. when you suffer, the rich strive. while you bleed, they benefit. that’s how the entire system is devised.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 2h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 2h

I probably sold like five or six books because of it. Made some friends, too! And only a few of them have ghosted and/or blocked me in the years since, so that's probably a win, I guess, maybe, I dunno.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 2h

So, in other words, everything is going exactly as planned.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.