Marshall B McCloude

🖼 Multi-Medium Art Specialist.
📝 Cunning Linguist.

[Marshall B McCloude @mbmcloude]

Illegal Astronauts (Book 1) is out now!

Illegal Astronauts is a grounded, semi-hard science fiction adventure focused on the human experience and what it means to be free.

https://t.co/b7fci0glYi

#scifi #book #bestreads

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ILLEGAL ASTRONAUTS.
January 2nd 2026.

Earth is gone.

From the ashes of the most devastating conflict in human history, a new breed of spacer has emerged. Space-A-Gades: illegal astronauts, privateers, and thrill seekers who carve their living out from the fractured...

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You ever seen an animated book cover before?

Here's the reveal for Illegal Astronauts Book 1.

Read more about the project on my Subtack and stay tuned for the release news.

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I was flying a few centimeters above the brown-red water. Only the sunset that silhouetted the city's skyline shed light onto my sleek form; all mirrored across the calm surface. ...

Read the rest of Valkyrie: https://t.co/VKlfNwglm3

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The final editors draft of Illegal Astronauts is done! Now I'm onto the style guide (it's already paying off) and cover design.

Check out more on my most recent Substack post, where I talk about the next steps.

https://t.co/g3N0uJoOl2

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New #haiku "Chess" is available now.

Subscribers get some additional insight into the process too!

https://t.co/fFE75tmePh

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Audiobook and EPUB of ICE WAR: Europa are available now.
Plus the full story available on Substack for free.

https://t.co/4G9BuYM5Uw

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Here’s ICE WAR: #Europa.

A hard #scifi #shortstory following a new “icehead” on their first surface excursion where they come to realize the truth behind humanity’s shared history of conquest.

Inspired by @NASA and the social community around it.

https://t.co/FX5dmBbfhW

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@EuropaClipper See you on the Berg, warmie.

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Some of you might have seen the memes floating around about the Europan Ice War after @NASA posted that photo of the planet. It struck me as a compelling premise, so I've started working on a short story set there.

More soon.

#europa #icewar #scifi

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Every sticky note is tech debt for my notebook.

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Non Deos. Nec Dominis. Part 1 is out now.
Part of the #illegalastronauts universe.
https://t.co/ttvDb9h7wf

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You know libraries have to pay for books like SaaS now?

https://t.co/2EsrHj3DQq

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@powerbottomdad1 Be the first man to get back into reading

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It's wild we're doing the whole Robber Baron thing again in the US. We don't even get the cool parts of the Cyberpunk experience

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https://t.co/lgL4GOhQJ4

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The Hi Supra System Incursion:
The event credited with the ignition of the 1st Syndicate-Outcast War.

From the Illegal Astronauts universe.

Check out the full-length video on my YouTube channel or through the link in the bio!

#scifi #animation #illegalastronauts

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@elonmusk Do you consider art a useful product?

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The old unit iconography didn't make the cut. We're using those NATO APP-6D icons now.

Full update at: https://t.co/QQpnCEUMLE