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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐

@nicquattromani.bsky.social
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Author of a lizard book. Also seen publishing space articles, sci-fi reviews, and original short fiction on letsgetoffthisrockalready.com

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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Grew up hating and fearing these guys. Now I love 'em. Any other recovering arachnophobes on here? (Yes I know it isn't technically a spider) #spiders #bugs #nature
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
What's up with Pathfinders? Well... For various reasons---to be detailed in an upcoming blog post---I have decided to change my entire approach to the book. I'm shooting my shot at trad pub. Self-publishing just isn't for me. My book will eventually get published, somewhere! But it'll be a while.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A little friend.
Small spider on the side of a computer mouse.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Bonneville Dam from the air yesterday! Seen as I was coming in for landing at PDX.
Aerial view of a dam seen from a passenger jet.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Important! Also, fuck scammers.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Another review dug up from the archives: Professor Avi Loeb, Harvard, thinks we should take the prospect of alien intelligence seriously. I think he's right. #aliens #space #science letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2025/07/14/b...
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Book Review - Extraterrestrial (Avi Loeb) | Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
Avi Loeb believes aliens are real, and they’ve visited our Solar System. But this man is no fringe conspiracy theorist, dressed in ratty flannels and a tinfoil hat, broadcasting rants from a pirate ra...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Coming this Friday: the third chapter of "Last Flight from Tazab Station"! In which we finally meet the big creepy crawly that has gotten loose aboard the Free Trader Chixlu, and action ensues. #scifi #writing #horror
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Man shit's depressing. What a bleak and sordid world.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A moral government would systematically favor employees over employers, tenants over landlords, and those without property over those who have it. This should be contrasted not just with the policies of the current administration, but with the deeply ingrained culture of the American public...
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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
BUY SOMETHING! Is it truly social media anymore? Or is it more like selling media? It invades everything. It's obvious to wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet don't care for nature, climate, the earth or the universe. So I painted the invasive nature of ads in nature.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
God I'm glad I got a copy of this book before people noticed it. Paid only $30, which was still pretty steep for a damaged paperback novelization of a '90s horror movie. And no, I am not selling.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The Moon made an appearance above DFW today.
View looking across the tarmac of an airport, with a full moon in the daytime sky.
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Tuscany is a magical place — warm, sunny and earthy. I toured through this summer and fell in love with the rolling fields, white gravel roads and iconic skinny Cypress trees. Enjoy! TUSCAN RIDE, 16x16”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil
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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 07/11/2025
🚨⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ⚠️🚨 i just found out that the smallest mustelidae is literally called the least weasel
The least weasel - a brown ferret looking creature that can be as small as 8 inches
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Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I'm really enjoying Anemone. It's a quiet, brilliant, arthouse film that requires all of your attention. It should have gotten more attention #filmsky
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Metal!
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
HONK HONK! HONK HONK HOOONK! I ironically love traffic. I unironically love this painting.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Literally an entire sci-fi/horror novella just beamed into my brain while I was passed out for an evening nap. I will begin writing it presently. Does anyone else ever have stories revealed to them in dreams? Are they ever any good? #writing #WriteSky #amwriting
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Morning fellow plebs and assorted rascals xx
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If Cato worked in the filing room. #Rome
A piece of paper labeled "Carthage" being placed in a box that says "to be destroyed".
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It isn't easy, doing field work 35 light-years from home---but there's nothing like the thrill of discovery. #aiart #synthart #Midjourney #aiartcommunity
AI-generated image of a female scientist scooping water from a pool in an icy landscape.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Watcha looking at, punk?" Such grumpy bois. Bettas are my favorite fish.
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Ghostbusters.net @ghostbusters.net · 06/11/2025
@karads9.bsky.social
Whoopi and febreze.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Interesting thesis: authors who repackage the same derivative material "that readers want" will lose out to AI. The flood of sameness will then drive demand for uniquely human stories. What do y'all think, #BookSky? productiveindiefictionwriter.com/why-writing-...
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Why Writing to Market Won’t Serve You Anymore – The Productive Indie Fiction Writer
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Some updates on the blog! letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2025/11/05/s...
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Some Updates, and Some Apologies | Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
Howdy, everyone! I have some news today about my novel, and a few other things. It’s been a bumpy three months for me, personally, though I will hardly bore you with the details—other than to say that...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The lake view from my late grandmother and grandfather's house in St. Paul, Texas. Many hot, lazy summers passed here. ... God I miss them.
View over a lake, with trees and a field in the foreground.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This essay was what I needed to read today. All about authenticity, purpose, living instead of just existing. Great work by @mariapopova.bsky.social and great insights by the inestimable Nathaniel Hawthorne. www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...
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How Not to Waste Your Life
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the p…
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Walt Watson Astrophotography @waltwatsonastro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dragonfly Cluster (NGC 457) is an open star cluster in Cassiopeia. It a visually striking cluster that resembles the insect and is shown here with a visual aid and without. It was discovered in 1780 by William Herschel. Moonless, Bortle 3 sky, 99 min exposure, 10/22/25 #astronomy #astrophotography
Dragonfly Cluster (NGC 457) is an open star cluster in Cassiopeia. It a visually striking cluster that resembles the insect and is shown here with a visual aid and without. It was discovered in 1780 by William Herschel.

Moonless, Bortle 3 sky, 99 min exposure, 10/22/25

Equipment:
Telescope: SVBony SV503 102ed
Camera: ZWO ASI533 mc pro
Mount: ZWO AM5
Controller: Mini PC running NINA, Phd2, Stellarium
Filters: SVBony UVIRcut
Processed in SIRIL, Graxpert, and Affintiy Photo 2
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#authorsky #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #writer
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
No, I won't commit to a genre. We're doing space exploration sci-fi, we're doing pulpy retro thrills, we're doing cosmic horror fantasy and post-apocalyptic dystopia---the sky is the fucking limit!
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Two astronauts take flight to save a doomed world---except the world is not Earth, and these astronauts have scales and claws. Pathfinders launches February 3! Look out for the first chapter, which I will post to my blog very soon here... #scifi #writing #books
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Aaaand this kind of attitude is why Amazon is crowded with derivative, paint-by-numbers slop. Don't sell out, indie writers. #books #writing #indie
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
21st-century American realism. And a damn fine painting!
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Let's go!!! Finally some good news.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just plugging my review of Saturn 3---a seriously weird sci-fi movie from the early 1980s. Farah Fawcett vs a deranged robot. It's a trip! #scifi #movies #moviereviews #blogs letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2025/07/05/s...
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Sci-Fi Film Review - Saturn 3 (1980) | Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
You find the darndest things in the back catalog of Amazon Prime. One of those darndest things is the 1980 feature Saturn 3—a film that tried to ride the wave of late-’70s sci-fi (Star Wars, Alien, St...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Yeah... we do... A wealth tax would be worth it just to break up some of this concentration.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We are so back. To celebrate, I published another blog post! letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2025/11/02/t...
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The Event Horizon Prequel Comic: First Impressions | Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
This past summer, the sci-fi/horror cult classic Event Horizon got its first official tie-in comic: Event Horizon: Dark Descent. Regular readers may have seen the sneak peek I shared back in June. As ...
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 01/11/2025
Document cover for the Mars 94 mission.
Document cover for the Mars 94 mission.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Anyone in the UK might want to check this out! (I, sadly, am not)
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Better than seeing a bird inside.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Finally posted some fiction again! This continues my short story "Last Flight from Tazab Station." Something has hitched a ride aboard the Free Trader Chixlu, and war-weary veteran Adler Brin is the only one who can stop it... (Links below!) #scifi #horror #writing
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Refueling over Jupiter. This depot in LJO would have to be heavily shielded but is well situated to maximize the Oberth boost of any departing spacecraft. #space #art by Emrys Ryan. www.artstation.com/artwork/V2V5Qn
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm probably going to steer clear of the Nic Death House, myself.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
spook
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Tackman Babcock @tackmanbabcock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This flag? This flag right here? The flag with the horizontal rod along the top? I dunno Kim, I'm mystified.
zoom in on the flag in the photo from the moon surface to see a visible cross-bar along the top, as designed by NASA engineers who (like conspiracy theorists decades later) are quite capable of realising the moon wouldn't have wind.
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Space pup! Complete with a pressure vessel. Incidentally, this is not unlike what the Soviets really used to send dogs into space: letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2024/10/20/t...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Just started this Year's Best anthology from 2015... the first story, "Slipping" by Lauren Beukes, was phenomenal, so my hopes are sky-high for the rest. #scifi #reading
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Orion and some power lines...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We live in a gloomy time, yes, but this is hardly the first one...
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Nic Quattromani 🦎🚀🪐 @nicquattromani.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Interplanetary adventure with teeth and claws! Blending hard-sci-fi realism with pulpy thrills, Pathfinders is a space voyage like none you've read before. Look out for Kindle and paperback editions, launching February 3, 2026 🚀🦎 #scifi #books #writing
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