Marshall Ryan Maresca

New pinned intro thread! I’m Marshall Ryan Maresca, fantasy author who works on all sorts of things, including: -a big interwoven fantasy epic - The Maradaine Saga -a dieselpunk fantasy of motorcycles and mayhem - The Velocity of Revolution -a 5x Hugo nommed podcast (@worldbuildcast.bsky.social)

You ever come across a photo of your wife and wonder how you of all people ended up married to this absolutely glorious woman?

I’m doing my part!

I keep thinking about this. Like.. you have a bunch of writers going to a writing convention and so you pick *the revolting Nazi* to cover the event? You couldn't have fucking emailed *any other writer* in attendance for 600 words?

Hmm. I don’t recall buying that cat statue.

I have been wondering where the hell Matt was.

Fuck absolutely everyone involved in generating this AI flood that is materially damaging real creative laborers. Here's hoping this work helps win more lawsuits, though. Anything that might help pop the bubble is a delight to me.

One of the real ironies in this whole thing is, to a large degree the main reason we are even aware of JDA is because F770 kept treating his every shenanigan as news. If he had been ignored ten years ago, he'd be another forgotten drop in the sea of sub-par right-wing SF writers no one cares about.

Ana Lucia was done so dirty.

Today, my brain pulled this up out of the archives: Low bridge! Everybody down! Low bridge! Cuz we're coming to a town! And you'll always know your neighbor You'll always know your pal If you've ever gone a mile on The Erie Canal! If you grew up in upstate NY, sorry for the earworm.

No matter what happens on election day, once it's passed, we can at least look forward to not getting 20 text messages a day asking us to donate.

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"Oh this thing looks cute, I'd love to take a closer loo-" It's AI-generated.

I, for one, am looking forward to Redstone: 2283, where the Dutton Family have the largest ranch on Mars.

Sometimes when I'm writing by hand, but writing too fast, instead of writing "with the", I just write "withe", and I think we should embraced this new contraction as legitimate.

Diminish an anime! Spirited Just A Tad

Many, many times I have been in the grocery store and someone approaches me thinking I work there. Sure, I’ve got that vibe, I get it. This was a first: the person who approached? My wife. You’d think she’d know.

Imagine being served hundreds of Meatless Cheeseburgers, each one served by someone SWEARING they're just like real meat and you can't taste the difference, but they all taste like sawdust and paste, and someone is all, "but how can you be sure they're not meat?"

I mean, when I send a cold email to a writer I don't really know to invite to be on the podcast, it's usually little more than, "Hi! We'd love to have you on Worldbuilding for Masochists. Wanna?" You can tell its fake when you're being slathered with I Can Believe It's Not Butter.

I wonder if the folks sending these AI written pitches think we can't tell. WE CAN TELL. And certainly we'll not have a guest on the show who is pitched to us with one of them.

Selfie train. reskeet with a moment when you felt gorgeous (The company was great as well.)

If you’re at Multiverse Con, I’ve dropped a signed copy of From Unseen Fire in the free books section of the WRITE room! Yoink at will!

Zacharia notwithstanding, I want to say it is really impressive the amount of effort Campos-Duffy has put in to taking the "most despicable person from Real World San Francisco" title away from Puck. She was not content with just the silver medal.

OK, listen up, Universe. I want just ONE GIG with Marvel Comics, it doesn't matter what the gig is, as long as Luca Maresca does the art, because then the credits up top are MARESCA MARESCA and that would be rad as hell.

The number of times I've seen people say that the Democrats ran on only "Orange Man Bad", when that shows me they just didn't pay attention to anything else that was being said.

I got one of those scam-slop AI-written emails about marketing THE VELOCITY OF REVOLUTION, but, weirdly, this is one that actually might have actionable advice in it? Like, suggestions about Amazon categories and such that... isn't bad? I don't know how I feel about that.

I honestly think the way to grab the left edge of the Overton window and pull it to a more reasonable place is for politicians to not only take positions like this and then insist that they are a moderate and these are moderate positions. Say it over and over until the media parrots it.

You know you're in a real small-town restaurant bar with regulars who are fixtures when they need to find you a table, so they point to a guy sitting at a table alone and say, "Hey, Jimmy, go sit with Mitch" and Jimmy gets up and joins another guy sitting alone, and now you have a table.

It's spooky season - a perfect time to read aboud Dread Lord Gavrax having a Terrible, Horrible Very Bad Day.

Age yourself with a childhood crush

oh helllllllllll yeah This is the energy we need. Not reconciliation. Yeah, we're a divided country, because the people on the other side of the line are fucking fascists. I'm fine being divided from them. And they need to face some goddamn consequences when they lose power.

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🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

Today my brain dredged up a memory of the 1987 Michael Caine/Sally Field RomCom SURRENDER, where the meet cute involves an incredibly rushed sequence where they're in a mass robbery, forced to strip at gunpoint and are tied up naked, and instead of lasting trauma it's all "ANYWAY... romance!"

This is honestly a ripping fantasy series with incredible but not overwhelming worldbuilding, a complex and intertwined plot, mashed up genre combinations and spectacular characters. Really one of my favorites of the last decade.

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Really liked this book! ♡ One of the best ones I've read this year! I definitely recommend reading it.

I am reaching an age where you occasionally find out someone you knew passed away a while ago, and you’re only just finding out now because you had long since lost touch.

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This'll probably start a fight.

The problem I'm constantly plagued with

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