It's finally here! For the first time, you can order the physical sequel to The Last Human! Additionally, if you've missed any of my previous Kickstarters, you can order signed copies of The Domes of Calrathia and Dead Men Running!
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If I can say the weird thing?
I read three of Michael Crichton's books this year for the first time: State of Fear, Jurassic Park, and Eaters of the Dead.
I've concluded that if someone told him that they weren't smart enough to read his books, he would say: "Yes you are."
Very rare triple threat of understanding people, understanding science, and loving both.
The Warhulk Marines "shrine" is starting up. I think eventually I can modify the bookends to be a Ghoul head (hint hint on some ghoul art). 3 Auto posters, Crucible Edition, Expendable and Gear Box on order already to add to it. Room for books 2-20 @RealNickCole@kroh01
Happy Veterans day everyone. Thanks to all you've signed on that line. I make No bones about me starting this page to help deal with my own scars and demons. Heard about a friend that checked out. DONT DO THAT!!!. Reach out, people are there. If you know someone struggling give em a call. Gonna run the 22 a day challenge, join me if ya want to.
forgive my form, been a long time. Ill get better as the day's progress.
Keep reading everyone.
For the entire life of the northern berserker he remembered that day at wet and rainy Gath where the blood had run like a river rushing and the beast men had been driven back across the Doom.
The City States of the West were safe that season.
And though he had many adventures and other battles, he remembered that dark day when the strange and beautiful elves of the Wyld had come out against their common foes in those darkest of hours of Gath of the North.
He remembered that moment on the walls, forward near the gates when twenty of those elven warriors had come in like hellhounds enraged, bright swords slashing, arrows like comets burning. His brothers of Bear Clan were all dead by then, each slain in the defense of the wall. And later that day, in the night, he would burn them as the lone survivor.
But the elves had come and relieved the wall they’d died defending at just the last moment. The honor of the clan persevered. And the battle changed, and won at dire cost.
Their leader, wiping blood from her face and fine armor that bloody day of slaughtering, had given him her name… a rare thing for an elf. A sign of brotherhood among war’s veterans.
‘Summer’s Storm, Brother of battle,” she whispered. “I am sister to you in your darkest hours.”
She was young and beautiful and like every human he ached for that wonder and gossamer strangeness, and “other” of her kind.
But he was a man. And she was an elf. He would age and die. She… would not. And there are reasons the two must live apart.
The Berseker returned to his high hills and the other clans, and lived for many other battles and long expeditions. And when he was old, and dying in the tents of another clan, surrounded by his weapons and the weapons of his enemies, she returned once again.
Still young. Still beautiful. The clan cleared away, giving the veterans space for their whispers. She held his ancient scarred trembling hands, and brushed away the last strands of the grey long hair that remained him.
And then he was gone.
Ageless and beyond beauty, that strange elven comrade from that day of long ago battle, closed his sightless eyes and whispered in his ears, Brother of battle, I am sister to you in your darkest hours as you were to me.”
Veterans Day.
Comme chaque année pour le #11novembre, je remets cette excellente animation du front de l’ouest pendant la Première Guerre mondiale par https://t.co/VKUoBwTSIq :
If you're not tuning in to Nick's Writing streams, that's 100% on you.
You are missing out on picking up what Nick is setting down.
Looks like there's gonna be at least one more Office Hours stream before the end of the year.
Next week.
Don't miss it!
“Almost two centuries of starflight since the dawn of exploration and you’ll still find these early Dumb-Thrusters drifting out there in the void. Engines dark. Nav corrupted. No supplies, or some critical flight system with zero back-up damaged beyond repair. All the records from those first hundred years are corrupted from the plague and so whatever you can find out about these drifters won’t be in the Secure Archives on Sigma Prime. So… you dig into the ship, document what personal items you can, and have the drones scan all the serial and parts numbers. No one cares and half the salvagers out there are just looking for what they can sell to the private collectors. But… Syndicate Archives will pay for the flight and trouble if you get captures on all the data. So we spent three days out there on that ship, scanning. On the last day… it was J8a who insisted we take care of him. She was right. We gently removed him from the pilot’s chair so carefully it must have been like the first time his mother held him. We wrapped him tight for transport, and then… as we stood there with no real idea who he was or where he was from… or what adventures he’d had out here in the dark, what stars he’d seen, what worlds he’d tried, we thanked him for doing his best to get humanity, us, out here. Among the stars. He didn’t make it. But we did.
And he was part of us.