Aerospace engineer, Space Force vet, sci-fi author, Philly sports fan, dad of four. Opinions are my own.
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The Europan Deception is now available from Amazon! It's a first-in-series hard sci-fi thriller for fans of The Expanse looking for a fast-paced espionage story about an ancient conspiracy looking to destabilize the galaxy. Link below.
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If you are 1 layoff away from betraying your country you shouldn't be working in the State Department.
How many fired State department employees are going to get paid overtures from foreign intelligence? And how many will be angry and financially unstable enough to take them?
We're gutting a century of American excellence in real time.
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I have a close friend whose grandparents volunteer at the NMUSAF...apparently when the F-117 arrived they had an influx of Russian and Chinese visitors who kept trying to take bits of its "skin." The RAM was long-gone, however, and I wonder whatever became of those "samples."
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This is why we've gone in-person for any interview where we're expecting them to code...
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Not the biggest deal in the world, but I finally sold a short story to a paying magazine after around 3ish years of trying! #writingcommunity
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Ben Rich is an American hero for dozens of reasons, not the least of which of is this patent.
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But I was told by big names in aerospace that the F-35 was a fat pig that couldn't meet any mission requirements! How could this happen?
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When we were certifying reuse for the DOD, the consensus was that the first flight would end up being the riskiest, the second would likely be the safest, then a slow descent to around flight 10. After that, it got a little scarier. Looks like that came to pass!
I'm amazed by the rapid change in the space community's perception of re-flown rockets. A few years ago new Falcon 9 boosters were reserved for crew flights and high-priority DOD payloads. Now SpaceX is using them for random Starlink missions, like today:
nextspaceflight.com/launches…
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I had a SatComm teacher at USAFA who's previous assignment was "Nevada" ask us this question when we wanted to know more about what he did as a flight test engineer🤣. F-117 is 60s/70s tech, B-2 is 80s tech.
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I believe it. When they had the Kirtland Air Show in Albuquerque in 2019 there were Chinese "guests" trying to get into an AFRL building...
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Isn't it cool that the Hubble Space Telescope just happened to fit inside of the Space Shuttle's payload bay? One of those weird aerospace coincidences, huh.
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We are mass producing them for less than the cost of a 4.5 gen fighter and people are somehow still blackpilling
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Absolutely insane month, my best as an indie author - at least 2-3x the next best one
And this is without any new releases! Based Book Sale helped, but even without it, it'd still be my top-selling month in my 15 months of having books published.
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I'm pleased to announce that The Europan Deception will release on May 6. It's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity; a former starfighter pilot turned intelligence operative must take on a galaxy-spanning, ancient conspiracy dating back to the lost continent of Atlantis.
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Yeah man a 15 cm waveform is totally useless on the modern battlefield, let me tell you
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This automatically disqualifies any other opinion you have on sci-fi. Last Jedi is trash.
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Release day! For fans of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child who want to take a #technothriller ride through the space industry. Hopefully the start of a series of standalones - I'm well into the second draft of the sequel!
#indiebooks #indieauthor
amazon.com/dp/B0CNNVDNKS/
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If you believe John Bolton is the only R or D in the DC area with improperly stores classified information at his or her house I have beachfront property in Kansas to sell you.
I’m reporting live outside John Bolton’s house in Bethesda as it’s being searched by FBI agents. A criminal investigation into Bolton was dropped in 2021. Bolton has been one of Trump’s most ardent critics on the issue of mishandling classified documents.
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Every time my wife and I had visitors in town when I was stationed there, that was the first place we took them. It's definitely a multi-day experience - so much history in the hangars there.
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Preorder the The Europan Deception now! It's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity, a twisty sci-fi conspiracy thriller that releases May 6. Amazon link - and ARC request form - below.
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The people who actually know what AMRAAMs can and can't do aren't discussing it in open forums.
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Reminds me of the sub feint in Debt of Honor. If you're being watched...use it to your advantage.
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The proofs! If only I had been smart enough to write a series first 😆 but I'm playing the long game.
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What the hell happened to The Blaze? This is sub-80 IQ clickbait and the sub-80 IQ author needs to go do some soul searching.
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Just sent out my first batch of ARCs for The Europan Deception!
If you're interested in the 128k word sci-fi thriller (think The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity) that's a first-in-series book, see the link in the next post.
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I got some super weird replies and quotes. Not going to call them out because they don't know better...and I've signed some NDAs.
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You forgot being into weightlifting and has a Latina girlfriend. It could be anyone in the RW group chats.
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Last chance for eARCs for my upcoming sci-fi thriller The Europan Deception. Get your free copy (in the format of your choice) via the link below.
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2 months to release! Preorder link and ARC review request form below. First-in-series hard sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity.
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Married with 4 kids and I just finished a few miles on the elliptical after they all went to bed. Not a great blanket statement from someone I generally go with on fitness stuff.
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66,000 words and 34 chapters done of The Saturn Anomaly; 14 chapters and about 24,000ish words to go. Hoping to have the first draft done by the end of the month but it'll likely be ready for betas in mid-September.
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Signing off for a few days. I was very close to crashing out on the timeline today due to current events and no one wants to see that. Pray for the kids in Minnesota.
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Clone Wars, Force Unleashed (although they weren't making many other video games), EU books were still going strong. It wasn't as popular as it once was but it was far from "practically dead." And Disney threw it all out to produce...trash.
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I would say more 2000s...but I have to be careful what I say about B-21/NGB. Someday that whole program will be declassified but not for a looooooong time.
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I remember accidently picking up one of his Star Wars novels at a library, reading a few pages, and putting it down knowing I had read the worst prose that had ever been written.
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It's the hardest part of having to have defense debates in an open forum. And, hell, even in some closed forums where not everyone has the whole puzzle.
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Despite the fact I have a master's degree in astronautical engineering, my wife says I'm the dumbest smart person she knows. I think that might answer your question😂.
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I'm going to try something different - Lag Delay is going to be free this weekend in all Kindle regions. Haven't tried giving out a free book yet, may as well give it a go! It's a great book but hasn't sold as well as my others, plus there's a standalone sequel coming out soon.
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Also happy anniversary to my wife and I. 12 years, 4 kids, 3 moves, 2 master's degrees (one for each of us!), and it keeps getting better and better.
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Most of the people doing "real shit" aren't on social media at all for good reason. Recall the Green Beret who shot the guy casing his house, the recent warning about Iran targeting servicemembers in Florida, and tons of other incidents. They don't do it for likes or book deals.
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Just finished this by @DavidJohnButler - I read it a few years ago but I want to dive into the sequels so I decided to go through it again. It's beautifully written and dives into the American mythos like few other novels do, but I really wish it was a "secret history" Tim Powers-style rather than an alternate timeline. Still scratches the primary fantasy itch like few other books do.
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Pray for Los Angeles. Two of my colleagues at our Woodland Hills office have already lost their homes, and I'm sure they're not the only ones. It's bad out there.
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After we moved to the DC area, I noticed our next-door neighbor seemed to never be at work, and when she was "working from home" (pre-pandemic even!) she appeared to be online shopping and on social media more than actually working.
She was a highly-paid contractor for the DOE.
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Quote with 5 indie books everyone should read:
After Moses by @MichaelFKane
Hacking Galileo by @WoodFenton
The Crimson Fire by @monteroauthor
The Forsaken Planet by @BWilsonAuthor
Loyalty to the Max by @DarjaniMaya
Quote with 5 indie books everyone should read (picking 5 I haven’t mentioned so far)
1. Perils of the Past, @authorKaneW
2. The Europan Deception, @ryanpatrickauth
3. The Source of Strife, @AlexArch_author
4. The Dregs, @StoneandShield
5. Vermillion Flames, @AdamFernan77094
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This game is going to bomb.
I have a lot of friends who are Assassin's Creed or Far Cry fans, even more friends who are Star Wars fans.
No one is talking about it. None of them are planning to buy it.
Flop incoming.
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We will be adding this to our test automation suite next week! Hope the DOD or NASA auditors find it as amusing as I do😉.
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Someday the story of the cat and mouse games amongst the DOD and IC agencies with respect to cloud environments (including the many missteps) will be completely told. But not for a long time.
NEW: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has eliminated the Pentagon's reliance on China for its computer cloud systems.
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I want to thank each and every one of you who bought one of my books during the sale, and especially @AetherCzar for putting it together. I personally stuffed my Kindle for the next few months 😁
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