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R.J. Huneke began his writing career as a journalist at Newsday, Gadizmo, and The Examiner. His newest book ANTS WAKING is fantasy and our October 2025. He recently wrote a piece for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association titled, “Writing SFF With Paper & Pen Spurs Memory & Creativity”. His thriller-cyberpunk novel Cyberwar was published worldwide in 2015. R.J.’s SFF short story “The Ink From Mars” was featured in EM Magazine.

He currently has a bevy of creative projects on the horizon, including a new fantasy novel, and he lives with his wife, their daughter, a spotted dog, and an unspotted cat, New York-ers in Portugal.

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	Cyberwar (Cyberwar Series, # 1) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	THE SUBLIMINAL RELIGION it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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THE INK FROM MARS By R.J. Huneke Is EM Magazine's Featured Short Story

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THE INK FROM MARS By R.J. Huneke Is EM Magazine's Featured Short Story for the month of March 2023!

I could not be more proud of this work of suspense with a speculative fiction - science-fiction twist.

The tale follows a NASA astronaut and the crew who lands on Mars. Unfortunately, they must hustle to complete their mission before a violent storm hits their landing zone.

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“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
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“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”
― Stephen Hawking

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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.”
― Bruce Sterling

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