JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
@jpspalding.com
Sci-fi enthusiast querying a space opera novel which asks ‘how does technology change us?’
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novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
JpSpalding.com
novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
Look at that 👀 I’ve hit another milestone in followers and the holidays are approaching, a perfect time to hock my cute & cozy birb novella! It’s like 100 pages long, not a huge lift.📚
It’s literally as cheap as I can get it, i make like 1¢. Available in ebook, audio, & paperback!
#BookSky #gift
It’s literally as cheap as I can get it, i make like 1¢. Available in ebook, audio, & paperback!
#BookSky #gift
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Travel with 48 hours of no sleep is a unique experience. liminal and dreamlike. My body keeps micro sleeping anytime I’m not totally locked in. I have made it to my gate half by instinct and the other half I’ve forgotten.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Travel with 48 hours of no sleep is a unique experience. liminal and dreamlike. My body keeps micro sleeping anytime I’m not totally locked in. I have made it to my gate half by instinct and the other half I’ve forgotten.
Ok here’s some more
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ok here’s some more
At the peak of fan xi pan (10,000 ft) in SaPa and it’s a little foggy today
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
At the peak of fan xi pan (10,000 ft) in SaPa and it’s a little foggy today
Here’s what I’m seeing, it’s like a marshmallow
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Here’s what I’m seeing, it’s like a marshmallow
Listening to the audiobook of The First Five Pages by Lukeman and had to stop and play it back to capture this quote in my notes app. it is such a great way to judge when you are ready to start that new draft.
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Listening to the audiobook of The First Five Pages by Lukeman and had to stop and play it back to capture this quote in my notes app. it is such a great way to judge when you are ready to start that new draft.
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
After a busy workday we’re hanging out eating some pistachios.
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
After a busy workday we’re hanging out eating some pistachios.
Finishing up a screenplay at Corvus this morning with the world’s best cortado in hand. #Film #WritingCommunity #ScriptSky
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Finishing up a screenplay at Corvus this morning with the world’s best cortado in hand. #Film #WritingCommunity #ScriptSky
What you need is a beer belly fanny pack~
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What you need is a beer belly fanny pack~
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE X THE MINISTRY OF TIME
The thousand worlds of the Sovereignty enjoy a golden age under the rule of Caretaker, a godlike Synth Intelligence. But new tech, RESURRECTION, threatens to upend the galaxy, flooding the future with lost souls from a savage past~
#DVPit #SF #BVM #POC
The thousand worlds of the Sovereignty enjoy a golden age under the rule of Caretaker, a godlike Synth Intelligence. But new tech, RESURRECTION, threatens to upend the galaxy, flooding the future with lost souls from a savage past~
#DVPit #SF #BVM #POC
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#TheCalculatingStars went into this thinking it was decades of space travel like Seveneves, but found it was a far more modest journey~
Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#TheCalculatingStars went into this thinking it was decades of space travel like Seveneves, but found it was a far more modest journey~
Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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Pros
The detail! The accuracy! It’s rich in precise alternate history
Cons
A dearth of unremarkable domesticity without literary nuance to keep it interesting
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#ThePlayerOfGames For the first 150 pages I HATED it, and then it was totally solid and I loved it~
Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ThePlayerOfGames For the first 150 pages I HATED it, and then it was totally solid and I loved it~
Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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#HowFascismWorks short punctual to the point with examples from around the world and through history.
Pros
Summarizes what Hannah Arendt took 800 pages to say in 200
Cons
Not up to date, predates Biden era still, I need a new version!
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Pros
Summarizes what Hannah Arendt took 800 pages to say in 200
Cons
Not up to date, predates Biden era still, I need a new version!
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#HowFascismWorks short punctual to the point with examples from around the world and through history.
Pros
Summarizes what Hannah Arendt took 800 pages to say in 200
Cons
Not up to date, predates Biden era still, I need a new version!
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Pros
Summarizes what Hannah Arendt took 800 pages to say in 200
Cons
Not up to date, predates Biden era still, I need a new version!
💙📚
#VenissUnderground Vandermeer’s debut with a promised level of gore and strangeness that would define his career
Pros
Any novel that deigns to dive into second person for several chapters and pulls it off is a winner in my book
Cons
The world building at times felt silly or somehow lacking.
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Pros
Any novel that deigns to dive into second person for several chapters and pulls it off is a winner in my book
Cons
The world building at times felt silly or somehow lacking.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#VenissUnderground Vandermeer’s debut with a promised level of gore and strangeness that would define his career
Pros
Any novel that deigns to dive into second person for several chapters and pulls it off is a winner in my book
Cons
The world building at times felt silly or somehow lacking.
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Pros
Any novel that deigns to dive into second person for several chapters and pulls it off is a winner in my book
Cons
The world building at times felt silly or somehow lacking.
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#TheTenantOfWildfellHall Hot take, but this is a better story than the more famous wuthering Heights by her sister
Pros
The absolute badass and knockout misses graham who is smarter than everyone in the book *swoon*
Cons
We don’t get enough time with the surface story.
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Pros
The absolute badass and knockout misses graham who is smarter than everyone in the book *swoon*
Cons
We don’t get enough time with the surface story.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#TheTenantOfWildfellHall Hot take, but this is a better story than the more famous wuthering Heights by her sister
Pros
The absolute badass and knockout misses graham who is smarter than everyone in the book *swoon*
Cons
We don’t get enough time with the surface story.
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Pros
The absolute badass and knockout misses graham who is smarter than everyone in the book *swoon*
Cons
We don’t get enough time with the surface story.
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#UnderstandingShowDontTell A short and sweet book on craft that tackles the age old question from a new angle
Pros
Actionable homework + examples
Concise easy and conversational
Cons
Some solutions felt mundane or worse than the telling example
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Pros
Actionable homework + examples
Concise easy and conversational
Cons
Some solutions felt mundane or worse than the telling example
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#UnderstandingShowDontTell A short and sweet book on craft that tackles the age old question from a new angle
Pros
Actionable homework + examples
Concise easy and conversational
Cons
Some solutions felt mundane or worse than the telling example
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Pros
Actionable homework + examples
Concise easy and conversational
Cons
Some solutions felt mundane or worse than the telling example
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#PerdidoStreetStation one of the strangest, chaotic and yet beautifully written stories I’ve read. I can’t even tell you what genre it is~
Pros
Descriptions of the city
Wild and weird cast of characters
Depth of world building
Cons
Of all the wild things they setup, they go with a monster flick
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Pros
Descriptions of the city
Wild and weird cast of characters
Depth of world building
Cons
Of all the wild things they setup, they go with a monster flick
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#PerdidoStreetStation one of the strangest, chaotic and yet beautifully written stories I’ve read. I can’t even tell you what genre it is~
Pros
Descriptions of the city
Wild and weird cast of characters
Depth of world building
Cons
Of all the wild things they setup, they go with a monster flick
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Pros
Descriptions of the city
Wild and weird cast of characters
Depth of world building
Cons
Of all the wild things they setup, they go with a monster flick
💙📚
In a far-flung golden age, the galactic Sovereignty’s Eden project resurrects the dangerous zealot Malcolm Gray, setting off a war for the soul of mankind and blurring the boundary between life and death.
#preDVPit #SFF #A #WritingCommunity
#preDVPit #SFF #A #WritingCommunity
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In a far-flung golden age, the galactic Sovereignty’s Eden project resurrects the dangerous zealot Malcolm Gray, setting off a war for the soul of mankind and blurring the boundary between life and death.
#preDVPit #SFF #A #WritingCommunity
#preDVPit #SFF #A #WritingCommunity
Chillin’ in the backyard~
September 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Chillin’ in the backyard~
#WIPSnips in which Bernard grows tired of the cost of his criminal background as he commutes across space~
#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Authors
#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Authors
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#WIPSnips in which Bernard grows tired of the cost of his criminal background as he commutes across space~
#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Authors
#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #Authors
