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February 22, 2021

Tweet of the Day, It Is To Laugh edition.

It’s laugh, or cry.


"We've been saying that for 45 years! HA HA HA HA HA!" – Statler & Waldorf https://t.co/hxDC8lBYsH

— Space Lazar Wolf (@NathanWurtzel) February 22, 2021

Mostly laugh, because this is freaking ridiculous.

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Published on February 22, 2021 11:51

February 21, 2021

Day 1, Fulfilling the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.

Today was a day of getting rid of obstacles, mostly. The printer heads needed to be cleaned, in order to print out the shipping labels; and supplies to wrap the books and tape the packages needed to be acquired. But all the postage is bought and all the books are signed. I have about fifty or so packages to prepare, and I am hoping that I can do it all tomorrow. HOPING, not quite expecting. But the books should start going out early this week.

Huzzah!

Moe Lane

PS: The pre-order store for TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is now closed. If you want a print book, I’m afraid you’ll have to order it from Amazon.

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Published on February 21, 2021 15:42

ARMY OF THE DEAD gets a release date.

May 21. ARMY OF THE DEAD is gonna be a Netflix release: if the picture below isn’t obvious, it’s a heist flick set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Which is possibly when you want to have one, right? Assuming all of humanity doesn’t get eaten, eventually gold at least is gonna be valuable again. Gold, jewels, jewelry, even some fine art… there’s stuff worth stealing, even at the end of the world.


Survivors take all. #ArmyOfTheDead on @Netflix May 21.
Teaser this Thursday. pic.twitter.com/sIgDoz6rmz

— Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) February 21, 2021

Via Sonny, who sums it up for me:


“It’s a Zack Snyder zombie heist movie” is the sort of elevator pitch that gets an instant green light. https://t.co/WhOZLCeM7H

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 21, 2021

Admittedly I’m warming up to the idea. I wasn’t as sure before, but the appeal of this flick is growing on me.

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Published on February 21, 2021 09:34

Patreon Microfiction: “Super Mega-Zoom Call Activate!”

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Although I dunno how well this works in real life. Assume “Super Mega-Zoom Call Activate!” exists in a world where the participants wouldn’t immediately start arguing with each other. And, sure, superpowers! Their existence wouldn’t be any less plausible, honestly.

Patreon!

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Published on February 21, 2021 08:26

February 20, 2021

Early night.

I was perpetually on the verge of dozing off during the Saturday game, which might have been from being right next to the vent but was probably because I’m tired as heck. Not enough sleep, etc, etc, etc. So a quick music video choice and then it’s off to bed for me. I can be extra-creative tomorrow.

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Published on February 20, 2021 20:00

Regretfully, the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION pre-order store is now CLOSED.

Which just means that if you didn’t do the Kickstarter and want a signed copy of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION (or any of my other books), you’ll just have to buy a print book from Amazon and track me down at a convention, when we start having those again. Or wait until the next Kickstarter. I do need to work out how to sell copies directly, but unfortunately I’m still two or three books away from the daily sales needed to justify the effort.

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Published on February 20, 2021 11:15

Book of the Week: Balefires.

Balefires is David Drake’s collection of weird/horror fiction, and it’s quite uncompromisingly good. But, if you’d rather give the money directly to Baen Publishing – and I don’t blame you for that – the direct link is here. The ebook’s not available on Amazon anyway, for some reason.

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Published on February 20, 2021 09:25

The DIABLO II: RESURRECTED announcement trailer.

Oh, geez. I’m going to end up getting this, huh?

I played a LOT of Diablo II, back in the day. The long, long ago day. My go-to class was Necromancer, because I liked fighting in groups – but I wasn’t an evil necromancer. I was totally about saving all the people and the kittens and the pretty flowers and everything. It was just that… well, if you weren’t using that corpse for anything, I sort of needed it right now.

So I am Officially Interested.

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Published on February 20, 2021 07:56

February 19, 2021