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Bill Bridges
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Writer * Game Designer * Sagacious Fool — World of Darkness / Fading Suns — bill-bridges.com
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I got some coffeehouse writing done today at #thecatfe. Cinnamon sat on my laptop bag to make sure I didn't slack on my work.
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Scored tickets to Florence + The Machine (in May)! Way up in the nosebleeds, but they were affordable. If you haven't listened to her new one, "Everybody Scream", get on that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It’s #Godzilla Day, but did you know that Ray Bradbury’s 1951 short story was an influence on the creation of Japan’s most infamous Kaiju? Bradbury’s story influenced the film THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS which, in turn, influenced the OG GODZILLA!

#RayBradbury
Godzilla’s profile with a red/pink background. An image of the dinosaur attacking the lighthouse in the film, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 Fathoms, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Fog Horn.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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My Werewolf: the Apocalypse tribe novels -- Bone Gnawers and Stargazers -- from many years ago are now available again in ebook form (print and audio books coming soon). Get 'em -- don't let the Wyrm win!
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Bone Gnawers & Stargazers (Werewolf Tribe Novel Book 4)
Bone Gnawers & Stargazers (Werewolf Tribe Novel Book 4) - Kindle edition by Bridges, Bill, Achilli, Justin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bone Gnawers & Stargazers (Werewolf Tribe Novel Book 4).
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September 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I posted earlier about the upcoming Broadleaf Writers Conference, but there have been a few changes to my worldbuilding panel, so I’m using that excuse to post again and remind you writers out there that this is a really good, intimate conference with lots of great speakers.
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Now that the madness of Dragon Con is over, I can turn my attention to the upcoming 10th-Annual Broadleaf Writers Conference, this September 20-21 at the Decatur Library in downtown Decatur, GA. I'll be moderating a panel on worldbuilding! Come join us! broadleafwriters.com/10th-annual-...
September 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Our classic #4X #indiegame Emperor of the #FadingSuns is part of a #Steam bundle with HyperEmpire and Noble Armada: Lost Worlds. I am streaming HyperEmpire while talking about how a #gamedev can set up their own Steam bundles. youtube.com/live/A78_isk...
August 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My Dragon Con '25 panel schedule is now available -- check it out on my website: bill-bridges.com/dragon-con-2...
Dragon Con '25 panel schedule - Bill Bridges
Below is my TENTATIVE panel schedule for Dragon Con, over Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. Bookstore MemoriesDescription: Step back in time to the Golden Age of Bookstores as we reminisce about B. Dalton...
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August 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I’ll be paneling at Monsterama Con this year, August 8-10, at the Atlanta Marriott Northeast/Emory Area, (2000 Century Blvd NE, Atlanta, GA 30345). More at monsteramacon.com! See my panel schedule here: open.substack.com/pub/billbrid...
July 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Our classic strategy PC #indiegames, Battles of Destiny, Machiavelli the Prince, Hammer of the Gods, and Emperor of the #FadingSuns are all currently on sale at www.gog.com/en/games?dev...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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In 1974, Jack Kirby Kirby did a story where the super-rich are so powerful they are able to rent entire cities and turn them into their playground & push aside all lawful authority. ("In the Era of the Super-Rich," OMAC #4, 1974).
June 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I’m one of those “freedom freaks”!
brucemccorkindale.bsky.social Bruce McCorkindale @brucemccorkindale.bsky.social · Jun 27
Jack Kirby's prescience working overtime.
June 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...
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June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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So @billbridges.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park in the Fading Suns character book.

Like damn in 2025 that sure hits like a truck.
"The Temptations of Technology In the late 21st century, humankind began to see that the impacts of technology had produced profound behavioral changes. Instead of sensibly rejecting it, people leveraged technology’s new tools to wreak havoc on the political and cultural landscape. Had this been as far as the trend went, and if people had learned their lesson, perhaps society could have avoided the worst to come, but instead they decided to take the next obvious step: integrating new, psychologically altering technology directly into their brains, past the filters of their senses. This next leap of “innovation” gave rise to a twisted kind of artificial slavery, where advertisements were dumped into people’s heads unless they paid for filters to keep them out. This innovation facilitated the rise of revolutionary movements. The Neo-Luddites hid from society’s worst excesses, while the extra-solar Sathraists, unknown to most, sometimes gained psychic powers from exposure to an even higher level of technology. These two extreme ways to preserve identity — the use of lower-level or higher-level tech — gave birth to the idea of techgnosis. The concept of techgnosis concerns itself with whether the subject can maintain their integrity, a sense of whether one’s soul mirror can receive the holy Light while being shadowed by technology’s animus. It’s the primary epistemology through which the Church expresses sentient relationships with technology. Those who fall too deeply into technology’s shadow open themselves to compulsions that arise, not from within themselves, but from the tools they are using."
June 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I do love a good Writerly Meetup and these are some of the bestest folks.
Featuring
@dzgrizzle.bsky.social
@billbridges.bsky.social
@marcmonroe.bsky.social Jessica Nettles
Derek Phillips
C. Adam Volle

#WriterSky
Writers meet up at a coffeeshop
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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So much so that RFK Jr. should wear a “BOB’s On BOARD” bumper sticker.
oldbaby.bsky.social ye olde baby 🌲🌟 @oldbaby.bsky.social · May 14
he bears an uncanny resembling to leland palmer, right? is it only me?
May 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Join me at JordanCon this weekend! At the Crowne Ravinia Plaza in Atlanta. Follow the link for the panel schedule: bill-bridges.com/join-me-at-j...
Join me at JordanCon - Bill Bridges
This weekend (April 25-27) in Atlanta! Go here for details. See you there? Here’s my panel schedule: Gaming Build Friday April 25, 2025 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDTDeKalb A game design workshop with profession...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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oh, WHOAH. on the slope up to Douglas Preston's Extinction. And? Cool that GRRM was behind the curtain on this—cool for me because when we played Werewolf Apocalypse (see @chuckwendig.bsky.social there, & @billbridges.bsky.social running it!), I was . . . a dire wolf for the whole campaign!
four people playing Werewolf: the Apocalypse WITH the dude who created it.
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It's a great day for an Emperor War! "Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced" is now on Steam! (store.steampowered.com/app/2799350/...) To help celebrate, the Merchant League hath decreed a sale on digital Fading Suns products! (www.ulisses-ebooks.de/browse.php?f...) A great time enter the jumpgate!
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced on Steam
Command intergalactic forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your royal house through battles on ...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In better news the stiff tariffs on Gilligan’s Island may finally break the totalitarian rule of the Marxist DEI-swollen “professor”
April 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Jenn Lyons' latest update for her "Full Negative: A Novel" crowdfunding made me realize it's time once again to share the link for that. There's 9 days left to back it, and I really want to see the full Setting Guide stretch goals -- so help a guy out, won't you? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...
Full Negative - A Novel
Acclaimed, best-selling author Jenn Lyons is publishing her sci-fi space opera novel, Full Negative, about a secret agent who finds herself ill-equipped to deal with the end of an interstellar war, an...
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April 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Next week, April 7 at 9pm, I'll be live on Dragonmount's #reWoTch, to discuss episode 6 of season 3 of The Wheel of Time. Click the link to get notified when it goes live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fMs...
#reWoTch The Wheel of Time Season 3 .6 w/ Bill Bridges & Nikhil Koparkar
YouTube video by Dragonmount - A Wheel of Time Community
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April 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM