Shaun Barger

Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…

“Say there’s a box, painted all your favorite colors.

Say there’s a song, coming out of the box. The closer you stand to the box, the louder the song becomes.

You like the song. You really like the song…”

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Oh wow, what a gorgeous book, you should probably buy a couple 👇

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Thank you so much, @djdynamicnc.bsky.social! From one ADHD writer to another 🤘😅

Oh wow, what a gorgeous book, you should probably buy a couple 👇

Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…

I moved into a house with a courtyard, a mysterious black cat, and a master bedroom with a tiny, secret room. In the room was a curtain. Beyond the curtain, a tiny door.
Behind that door… https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/11/16/shawn-barger-five-things-i-learned-writing-mage-against-the-machine/

Now you just need to plug all but the 360 into a CRT tv and turn off all phone notifications except for calls and leave it in the other room for a day — and the illusion will be complete!

Oh I’ve actually been percolating an automated post-apocalyptic robo garden novel for a while. 😅

I’m hoping it’s the weird niche indie AIs that survive — like a robot some gardener made to observe and communicate with the local squirrels and possums, or a drone that perpetually seeks out rainbows and takes pictures for nobody.

To my great relief, turns out the whole “women account for 80% of fiction sales, men so dumb they no read LOL” was bad data.

Mage Against the Machine|Paperback Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie. The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages...

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My gold standard for "intense, ADHD-paced, mindblowing stuff happens every other page" reading is a book called "Battle of the Linguist Mages" by @scotto.org , which remains imo unmatched, but I just finished "Mage Against the Machine" by @shaunbarger.bsky.social last night and it comes damn close

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Hi Nick! Here’s the book portal — you can choose your preferred spot through there. Thank you so much for your support! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mage-A...

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Thank you so much, @djdynamicnc.bsky.social! From one ADHD writer to another 🤘😅

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Lily’s couch perch legacy!!!

Turns out, Wizard of Wor is, in fact, the greatest old school arcade game of all time. 👾🕹️

(Pictured here: my kid sis after yet another glorious wizard battle victory.)

Agreed! Utopian sci-fi feels actionable, inspiring, hopeful. I love Star Trek so much for this, and for its core tension of smart, thoughtful people trying to navigate complex cultural and political situations in the most ethical and humanistic ways possible!

Shaun Barger: Five Things I Learned Writing Mage Against The Machine The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the n…

I moved into a house with a courtyard, a mysterious black cat, and a master bedroom with a tiny, secret room. In the room was a curtain. Beyond the curtain, a tiny door.
Behind that door… https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/11/16/shawn-barger-five-things-i-learned-writing-mage-against-the-machine/

#MageAgainstTheMachine

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mage-Against-the-Machine/Shaun-Barger/9781534403055

Ditto!

Thanks! Good to be here!✌️😆

Thank you! 😌🙏