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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat

Cover for Samit Basus new novel. A wolf-headed suit-clad man lounges on a couch. Bright red background

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also a camera that swims lasciviously around the beautiful and frequently naked Asia Argento.

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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Had a wonderful first @readercon.bsky.social (#Readercon) in Boston last weekend! So many great conversations, panels, new (& old) friends - also loved being there with my Western MA author pals (& genius creatives) @robertvsredick.bsky.social & Mira Bartók! Feeling inspired! Now, to finish a novel!

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I do love Readercon. Who's going to be there?

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hey, know what that is? My indecipherable scribbling, done with feet in river. Know what it's going to be, when I type it up? Manuscript page 1307 of The Fire Sacraments series. Know how many pages this last part of the series will have when completed? Fewer than 1330 (he said, glowing inside).

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hard to believe there's now a world without Jane.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Oh no. I'm so very sorry, Adam. She was a extraordinary person in so many, many ways. It was a privilege to know her and learn from her.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And if you do anyway, I never want to hear a complaint about AI from you again!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I was so happy to hear how well the Greens did.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I don't think counter-violence will free us Americans from our addiction to violence. Sept 11 2001 only deepened our addiction. We have to free ourselves.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Seriously, what kind of a sick fuck goes to war w/ the courts to NOT FEED PEOPLE?

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Mark Z. Barabak @markzbarabak.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Whitewashing Watch: Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter. Jack Dolan www.latimes.com/california/s...

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A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history

Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

If someone claiming to be ICE approaches & won't show ID when asked, am I legally obliged by to cooperate with ANYTHING they do? If I don't obey their orderrs, is that actually a crime? Not asking about the extra-legal BS they're getting away with. Asking about federal law and what it states.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A collage from the front page of today's NY Times. "'Cause out on the edge of darkness..."

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

If the last 190 days were a written satire, it would be dismissed as over the top.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

People reveal their own wounds with words like that--both in the pointless hostility of the remark and the sad misuse of their imagination. Any & all glories can be connected somehow to vile things, if that's where we train our brains to go. Face the sun, my man.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

You can be a Christian or a Trump fan, but not both. If you think otherwise, explain it to me. Just be sure you've explained it to Jesus first. Sincerely, a secular fan of transcendent love.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hullo World! I'm reading from SIEGE in support of the Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women--this Saturday at 8:30 Eastern Time. LIVE - ON - YE - OLDE - YOU - TUBE. Nine full minutes long. But these are Talupéké minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards! Link in comments.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My r/fantasy AMA is Live! Please ask something awkward or amusing! Or even profound, if you must. ; ) www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

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From the Fantasy community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Want to ask me where Book III is? Whether Pazel and Thasha will ever make out again? Why a certain character died (or didn't)? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. Stop by my Reddit Fantasy AMA on Tuesday (8/19) and let fly.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Doing a r/fantasy AMA in support of The Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women, Tuesday (Aug 19) from 10:00 AM EST. Come & heckle! Fielding questions about SIEGE, The Fire Sacraments, The Chathrand Voyage, what feminism means to me, love during wartime, etc. infinito. And please share.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Something to be happy about: a 3500+ year-old dolphin fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, complete with stylized sea urchins and some very worried looking fish.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/07/2025

The confirmation of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing. Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.

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Emil Bove confirmation is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just stumbled over these lines from SIEGE, written early last year. To think I worried once that readers wouldn't be able to relate to such passages.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The Trump cult has unleashed a racial profiling attack & kidnapping force. Watch the video, and recall that what gets filmed is only the tiniest fraction of the abuse going on. This is racist insanity run amok. Trump voters, this is on you.

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just watched Episode 1 of The Prisoner (1967), and I'm 100% sure it was made by a time-traveling David Lynch.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Hehehe! I'll try that one on my editor...

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Thank you so much! I definitely can't wait forever--I'm living to get this book out in the world! Back to it now...

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just a cool map of lions then & now. I love story research.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Such a pleasure to meet you, Caitlin. Great times. And a great panel.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

At Readercon, I'll be reading from (what else?) Siege, the last book in The Fire Sacraments trilogy. Which I'm STILL WRITING AND IT'S KILLING ME. But the chapter's a fun one, an oasis of peace in the middle of a book about war.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Such a marvelous book. I hope its fame continues to grow.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A very sensible thread about the Asimov AI cover fiasco, and Interzone's problematic response.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

If you love this country, try to make it smarter and kinder. That’s all that can save it. Stupidity will see it blunder from disaster to final disaster. Cruelty will strand it snarling alone. Make it smarter and kinder, and then be proud of your love.

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Robert V.S. Redick @robertvsredick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

READERCON! Absolutely thrilled to be heading there in two weeks' time! Who's going to be there?

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