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Ryan Southwick

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Science fiction author, programmer, gamer, agile evangelist, nature lover. Author of the Lost Colonies series, Timeless Keeper Saga, Z-Tech Chronicles. SPSFC4 quarterfinalist (Enigma). ryansouthwickauthor.com

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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 22/07/2026
Woohoo!!! Thanks @bbnya.bsky.social !
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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In 1st Place .... The WINNER of #BBNYA2025 is .......... Fiona and the Forgotten Piano by @k8demaiowrites.bsky.social A huge congratulations to you. Well done!!!!!!
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 27/12/2025
#SFF authors, how do you handle errata? I discovered a big inconsistency in one of my series. Very fixable, but MUST be fixed for my own sanity and I want to make it available to readers ASAP. Thanks! #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #WriterSky
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 02/12/2025
My warm fuzzies this morning. 💙📚🪐 "This book blew me away. It's a fantastic mix of tech, cyborgs, vampires, and a waitress that lands in the middle of a war for power. ... Fantasy, sci-fi, romantasy, urban fantasy—wow, what a powerful mix. This is by far my favorite read of 2025." #SciFi #sff
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JL Henker's review of Angels in the Mist (The Z-Tech Chronicles #1)
5/5: This book blew me away. It's a fantastic mix of tech, cyborgs, vampires, and a waitress that lands in the middle of a war for power. The underlying love triangle between Anne (the waitress), a cy...
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 29/11/2025
A single, unexpected story twist can tip the rest of your outline into the trash bin. The Z-Tech Chronicles had a few of those, along with other surprises. 💙📚🪐 #ZTechChronicles #sff #SciFi #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #UrbanFantasy #BookSky
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Fun Facts About The Z-Tech Chronicles
Whirlwind travel. Inspiring students improve health for all. Fun Facts about The Z-Tech Chronicles.
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 24/11/2025
John Scalzi's best-known series hooked me from the first chapter. A 75-year-old widower signs his life away in exchange for eternal youth out among the stars because... well, why wouldn't you? 💙📚🪐 #sff #SciFi #sci-fi #BookReview #BookSky #ReaderSky
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Book Review: Old Man's War
A delightful tale of a man who misses his dead wife, wrapped in the guise of a military space opera.
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Ramsey Hootman @ramseyhootman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My kid's friend came over the other night and I walked in on them working on D&D stuff like they were studying for a test 😆
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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Huge congratulations to our 17 #BBNYA finalists!!!
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 25/08/2025
Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 16/08/2025
We could all use some good news bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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The Cosy Moose @thecosymoose.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
#BBNYA is an annual literary competition for indie writers pf all genres, and there are many fantastic stories out there. The semi-finalists for this year's competition has been announced by @bbnya.bsky.social today - you can follow the authors in this handy starter pack! go.bsky.app/AdukL2Z
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 04/08/2025
Yesterday was zero writing, all "where is the story going next?" Fortunately, I figured it out. =] Onward! #TimelessKeeper #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting #WriterSky
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Actual photo of a D&D party after locking their keys in the car.
Photo of a real car exploding. Text: car explodes in giant fireball
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 22/07/2025
Woohoo!!! Thanks so much! 💙📚🪐 #sff #SciFi #fantasy #LostColonies #BBNYA2025
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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Watch this space!! Semi finalists for BBNYA 2025 being announced tomorrow!! 😬
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 16/07/2025
Wrote 2,600 words over the last 2 days after a long drought. It felt goooooood. 💙📚🪐 #TimelessKeeper #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #novel #AmWriting #WriterSky #writing
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 06/07/2025
The thing is, one can craft a mediocre thing that everyone will think is kind of ok. Or one can craft something good or great and then there will always be people who love it and people who hate it My rule of thumb is checking whether critiquer is my target audience before taking critique onboard
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David R Beshears @drbeshears.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#drwho quote #doctorwho #newwho My favorite new era doctor who...
"Oh, I survived. Brilliant. I love when I do that." -- eleventh doctor (Matt Smith)
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 21/06/2025
Loving this keyboard. My full review.
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Keychron Q6 Max: The Perfect Writer's Keyboard
They Keychron Q6 Max is, so far for me, the perfect keyboard for writing and programming. This review delves into the quality and features that make it so.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/06/2025
👇👇👇 [Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Good morning
Gomez Addams saying, "Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be a good time."
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MrsMika @mrsmica.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@ryansouthwickauthor.com One Man's Trash is a fun, clean romantic comedy. "Everything fits together so naturally, from the character dialogue, to the cleaner robots who love Croft, to Maria's relationship talk with a true AI" amzn.to/4mqUuF2
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One Man's Trash (The Truck Stop at the Center of the Galaxy)
One Man's Trash (The Truck Stop at the Center of the Galaxy) - Kindle edition by Southwick, Ryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading One Man's Trash (The Truck Stop at the Center of the Galaxy).
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 15/05/2025
From my WIP. 💙📚🪐 #WIPSnippet #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #sff #scifi #WriterSky #writing #TimelessKeeper
“You were right,” Fi said loud enough for the suffocating woman to hear. “Our behaviors are guideposts for others. You sent a child across the galaxy to die alone. You deprived your people of a Straala to protect them from the other factions. The Kaitet may not believe in capital punishment, but the Federated Nations does — and you, E’Uma’Kemechasa, are in Federated Nations domain.”

From Peleos (Timeless Keeper Saga Book 3)
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 14/05/2025
Funny how almost every book I've written began with the flash of a compelling scene in my head. I listed them out for the heck of it. 😁 💙📚🪐
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Where did all those book ideas come from?
Yard work, visitors, kids are moving in! Peleos re-plotting. BBYNA 2025 entry. The sparks for each of my series and books. Book reviews for: Wind and Truth; Start-Up Nation.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#booksky
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 05/05/2025
Wind and Truth was a love-hate relationship for me. It drew me in with a strong start, then slowed significantly until the final 25%. Great themes and messages, though preachy at times. Full review below. 📚💙 #ReaderSky #sff #BookSky #fantasy #BrandonSanderson #WindAndTruth
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Book Review: Wind and Truth
A golden nugget of epic fantasy that includes current, hard topics everyone needs to hear.
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 25/04/2025
Thanks for having me! Excited to get to know the community and learn about some new authors. Best of luck to everyone in #BBNYA2025 ! 🪐📚💙
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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A big #BBNYA2025 welcome to Enigma by Ryan Southwick Welcome aboard and best of luck!!
Cover of Enigma - a woman with a giant white tiger
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Feeling attacked, honestly.
Muscle shirt on a store mannequin. Obviously intended to convey "NEVER QUIT—DO YOUR BEST," but the arrangement of the words on the shirt is this:

NEVER
DO YOUR BEST
QUIT
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 04/04/2025
Met a fellow Pennsylvania native in Shizuoka, Japan, of all places. He happened to enjoy sci fi, so I gave him the copy of Enigma I shlepped from the US for just such an occasion. Felt much better than selling a copy to a stranger. Mission complete.
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just witnessed an assassination....
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 08/03/2025
I took a short break from the madness of the world and came up with wacky anime titles for my books. I think my favorite is, "Once Upon a Nightwalker: Returning as an Overpowered Vampire To My Old Job Where My Co-Workers Hate Me" 😂 #BookSky #SciFi #sff #anime #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity
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If My Books Were Anime Titles
We have furniture (almost)! Fun anime titles for my books. Bluesky migration update, plus tips for getting started.
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 08/03/2025
I'm honored to be among the other amazing quarterfinalists. Thank you team Ground Control to Major Tom!! #SciFi #Booksky #SPSFC #SPSFC4 #LostColonies
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BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Yes, we need it all! Don't let fascists kill your passion, your creativity, your sources of inspiration and beauty. (Plus, join me in daily practice esp if you are in US: breathe, ground, center, phone Congress) #solarpunk #activism #justice
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2025
Just went and got my second dose of the Covid (spikevax) vaccine. If you had the first dose six months ago and you're over 65, or have any kind of immune compromised issues, consider getting a second dose. Or getting a first dose if you haven't had one yet.
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Nighttime Tea @nighttimetea.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Maybe you can convince me to get through book 1 of mistborn. I've heard such good things, the author seems like a good guy but the way women are being handled in book 1 is disappointing. He admitted himself it was a valid criticism(I went and looked to see if I was alone in this feeling).
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 05/03/2025
Almost halfway through Winds of Truth. It seems to have more irons in the fire than any 2 other books in the series combined! Better, it addresses several modern topics around diversity and inclusion that have made me a true #BrandonSanderson fan. We need more of this. #BookSky #ReaderSky 📚🪐
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 03/03/2025
Z-Tech Chronicles Book 5 partially takes pace near the Pacific Highway. I wanted to convey just how beautiful it is, so I pictured it in my mind and let the words flow. Years later, I see this amazing pic that captures everything I wanted to say. Breathtaking. #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity
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Attached: 1 image #SilentSunday
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 02/03/2025
My kid told me he started reading one of my books, and that he intends to read them all. There is no greater happiness. 😊 #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #novel #AmWriting #WriterSky #writing
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Rosetta Yorke Author @rosetta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
'The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.' ― Stephen King Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters! Take care & stay safe, 🐢🍀❤️ ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity
Sepia sunset image of a man holding the hand of a small child, walking along a railway track towards distant trees and mountains.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 01/03/2025
"Tol Himling IV" #Photography #MonoLake
An island of tufa that looks like a shipwreck or castle framed between two tufa walls partially covered by snow. It's all foggy and cold, the water still, the light dim.
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 28/02/2025
In addition to participating in today's #boycott, my wife and I have finally joined the growing masses moving completely away from Amazon. Surprisingly tough, but it feels right. Stand strong together.
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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
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Thomas Wrightson (he/him) @thomaswrightson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I don't normally post this kind of stuff for the sake of my mental health, but this is hilarious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Experts have questioned the company's explanation that it is due to the two words being similar.
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Ryan Southwick @ryansouthwickauthor.com · 27/02/2025
Wild and incredibly cool! Er... less cool, now? #science
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Frozen worm comes back to life after 46,000 years
Scientists discover a worm in Siberia that has been frozen for 46,000 years and is brought back to life in a laboratory.
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The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A team of judges shrouded in myth made All Hope of Becoming Human by Lonnie Busch an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. tinyurl.com/allhopehuman "Busch does a tremendous job of eliciting strong emotional responses to all characters in this book, no matter how great and small they are."
The cover of All Hope of Becoming Human by Lonnie Busch. The title of the novel over abstract red texture from which emerges a monster with long savage teeth and an eye staring at the viewer.
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