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Robert V.S. Redick

@robertvsredick.bsky.social

Fantasy novelist and teacher of writing, forever in love with the craft. Worked for environmental & social justice organizations all over the world. Finishing SIEGE, concluding volume in The Fire Sacraments epic fantasy trilogy.

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Let a duck tell you.

28.01.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

28.12.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.11.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.'

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...

04.11.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

04.11.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A collage from the front page of today's NY Times. "'Cause out on the edge of darkness..."

03.11.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If the last 190 days were a written satire, it would be dismissed as over the top.

25.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GET OUT, BE COUNTED. #nokings

18.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

23.09.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

23.09.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Read For Pixels 2025 (Fall Edition): Robert V.S. Redick Reading+Q&A Session
YouTube video by The Pixel Project Read For Pixels 2025 (Fall Edition): Robert V.S. Redick Reading+Q&A Session

This Saturday at 8:30 eastern

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16.09.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 TalupΓ©kΓ© minutes, and she packs a punch. Q& A afterwards!

Link in comments.

16.09.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community

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

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19.08.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

18.08.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

12.08.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

02.08.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Emil Bove confirmation is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Emil Bove confirmation is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system

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 β€” then helped fire him for refusing.

Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.

30.07.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2042    πŸ” 723    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 33
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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.

29.07.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: β€˜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

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.

26.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.07.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.07.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

24.07.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a cool map of lions then & now. I love story research.

23.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.07.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

17.07.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Retagging @pennyvixen.bsky.social

12.07.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.07.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part One - PSYCHOPOMP.COM With the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, I thought about taking some time to discuss the concept of β€œFantasy” itself. Then […]

hey it's FANTASY FRIDAY βœ¨πŸ¦„

our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com!

read it here ✨

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