Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Reread this for the first time since it came out after I got into the TV series. Remembered why I didn’t read any of the rest; great world building but indistinguishable characters & glacial plot. You could easily cut 150 pages out of the middle & it wouldn’t be missed. Or noticed. One of those 100
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Excellent book on the Mars Fad that swept America & Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries with an emphasis on Percival Lowell, the inventor of the infamous canals. It’s also a timely story on the power of the media and the strength of scientific misinformation. #amreadi̇ng 030
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Keep your friends close and your resource books and books about writing closer #amwriting 020
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2025First edition of William Jennings Bryan’s account of his 1896 presidential campaign. $25 at an antique store. 120
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025The racism misogyny & homophobia in Grimdark isn’t historically accurate & indicates laziness or weirdness on the part of the writers 010
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Inserting historical figures who were born decades or centuries after your POD is just lazy writing 010
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025If the Confederacy had won its independence it would’ve collapsed in a decade or so 000
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025The Soviet Union never had the capacity to invade the Japanese Home Islands 000
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Nazi Germany never had the capacity to successfully invade Britain #alternatehistory 000
Patrick G. Barkman @barkmanwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025There’s no such thing as “canon.” The writers of your favorite comics, tv shows & movies were just making it up as they went along to suit the needs of the story. 000