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Bad Egg Publishing announces three new series!

Bad Egg Publishing announces three new series! #comics #comicbooks

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#alejandro arbona #altrverse #andrew dalhouse #bad egg publishing #brett weldele #charlie white #comic books #Comics #dave sharpe #david wellington #jacksepticeye #james asmus #john bivens #laura helsby #megan huang #plague seeker #skylar patridge #suzi blake #the somewhat incredible jackie boy man #vamkire trannel #void silver

[80smovies]

#New World Video #Zombie Nightmare #Creepshow 2 #Jack Bravman #John Fasano #David Wellington #Michael Gornick #Stephen King #George A. Romero #Lucille Fletcher #80s

[kammartinez]

You okay?” she asked. “I’m trying out one of those weird human emotions. You know, the ones that don’t seem to do any actual good but you apparently need them anyway.” “A human emotion? Which one?” “Hope,” Rapscallion told her. “I’m hoping this goes well. Despite the fact nothing else has, ever since we got here.

Paradise-1, by David Wellington

#quotes #paradise-1 #red space series #david wellington #books #science fiction #scifi #sff #horror #cosmic horror

[ehhgg-art]

someone talk to me about paradise 1. please.

#especially about zhang lei #please talk to me about zhang lei #paradise 1 #david wellington #idk what else to tag it like nothing about it exists im so

[hanniballover67]

#JohnZabel #HughDancy needs to play a role where we just see him get spanked! preferably by #MadsMikkelsen but I think #LinusRoache is itching to get his hands on him!! #Homeland

#linus roache #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #homeland #John zabel #David Wellington #brat #John Zabel Über-Brat

[kamreadsandrecs]

Title: Paradise-1 (Red Space #1) Author: David Wellington Genre/s: science fiction, horror Content/Trigger Warning/s: blood, gore, violence, cannibalism, emotional and mental manipulation, sexual assault, emotional and physical abuse of a child, depictions of extreme PTSD and depression Summary (from publisher’s website):  Paradise-1. Earth’s first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate. What they find is more horrifying than anything they could have imagined. Buy Here (publisher’s website): https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-wellington/paradise-1/9780316496742/ Spoiler-Free Review: So I picked this up because I needed some more horror after finally wrapping up my reread (and read, in the case of The Lure of the Moonflower!) of the Pink Carnation series. I was in the mood for a little more horror after practically devouring Catriona Ward’s Sundial. And since I’m always game for some cosmic horror, Paradise-1 seemed right up my alley. And in a way, it was! The overall concept was intriguing, and I was pulled into the whole thing by the first handful of chapters. I really wanted to know what was going to happen to the characters as they left the Solar System and headed for Paradise-1, and when the first disaster struck, I was ready to see how things would devolve and how the (surely) horrific mysteries teased at the beginning of the story would be revealed. But that didn’t turn out to be the case. Fun as the concept is, the potential horror lost a LOT of its power when the story began to go on, and on, and ON. Put simply: this was way, WAY longer than it needed to be. In fact, there are twenty to thirty chapters - whole chunks of narrative - in this novel that could absolutely be taken out and it wouldn’t affect the narrative at all - in fact, it would be a significant improvement. Take it down to something in the vicinity of 300-350 pages, instead of the 600+ it currently has, and it might read much better. Trim out all the fat, as it were.  As for the horror, I can SEE where it would be scary, but instead there’s a lot of parts where it feels like the author’s presenting a kind of set piece to play out in front of the reader, in the hopes that it’ll scare them. Which honestly, just doesn’t work for me: I’m someone who can watch a slasher movie while eating and not be put off my meal. I need something more insidious than blood, gore, and guts to really get to me - and the sad thing is? This novel HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR THAT. It was just stretched out for far longer than it needed to be, and many of the scenes that SHOULD have felt scary felt more like they were there for nothing more than shock value - which honestly becomes really old, pretty fast (especially when the same scenario is presented THREE TIMES, just in slightly different flavors). The above also affects the characters. Initially they feel likable enough, but it gets kind of hard to keep on liking them when bad things keep happening to them and they keep on walking into them. I’m especially disappointed with the way Zhang was characterized, as there was plenty of potential there to explore the effects of PTSD when one is thrust into a scenario that reopens all those old traumas, but given how long the story dragged and how often he walked into the Same Scenario in Three Different Flavors thing, it’s easy to lose sympathy for him. The only one I think I actually liked was Rapscallion, but I can easily imagine him being an even more interesting character if the aforementioned flaws weren’t there. You know what really gets me about this though? As long as it already is, as bloated as it already feels, IT ACTUALLY HAS A SEQUEL. Which I’m slightly intrigued by because I want to know what happens next, but if it’s another overlong monstrosity like this one? I might have to pass.  Rating: two AI cores

#book review #book reviews #horror #science fiction #scifi #cosmic horror #sff #paradise-1 #red space series #david wellington #books

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Paradise-1, par David Wellington (Orbit, avril 2023)

Un truc à base de “ratés”  plus ou moins exilés vers le monde lointain de Paradise-1. Vide et mal écrit, en tout cas jusqu’à la page 48…

#science fiction #David Wellington #5

[jonathanpongratz]

Book Review: The Last Astronaut

Book Review: The Last Astronaut

  Hello Astronauts and Intergalactic travelers! I hope you’re enjoying the spooky season and some nice weather (finally!). The past week has been insane with grad school, but I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I haven’t had to do more overnighters yet this week so I’m sooo grateful for that. It’s time for another book review! This time I read The Last Astronaut by David…

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#book review #david wellington #horror #science fiction #scifi #the last astronaut

[follows-the-bees]

Introduced my friend to Wellington Paranormal with the David Fane episode, and we need to make this moment into a meme.

#wellington paranormal #wwdits #ofmd #david fane #david fane is a treasure

[sherlockig]

#ofmd #our flag means death #Ewen Bremner #lucius spriggs #nathan foad #the swede #nat faxon #matthew maher #black pete #nathaniel buttons #Michael Crane #Officer Wellington #David Jenkins #Officer Shaw

[doctorqueensanatomy]

and remember kids. proper credit is sexy af

#NOTE i know taika co-created wwdits movie but tv show eise its primarily jemaine #sheamus speaks #jemaine clement #david jenkins #our flag means death #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #taika waititi #wellington paranormal

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David P. Jordan pointing out the hypocrisy of coalition propaganda portraying Napoleon’s intentions as “selfish ambition” and everyone else’s as “patriotism”

His ambition is still regularly invoked to explain his fabulous career and taint his revolutionary credentials. Ambition is a commodity never in short supply in public life and there is no way to differentiate the quality or quantity among its acolytes. Some are forgiven (even celebrated) and others are damned. Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington were as ambitious as Napoleon, and as ruthless. […] Both became national heroes, their apotheosis still unchallenged, their ambition muted or absorbed into patriotic fervor.

The ambition of Nelson and Wellington, indeed of all those ambitious men who overthrew Napoleon, was honored as the defense of king and country, resistance to the tyranny and insatiable appetites of the conqueror, or patriotic zeal. Napoleon’s every act was tagged naked self-aggrandizement. The fear of the Revolution was focused on Napoleon, its nightmarish incarnation. It was not Napoleon the man, the general, the First Consul or the Emperor who was loathed and feared so much as the French Revolution he embodied.

Source: Napoleon and the Revolution

#napoleonic #napoleonic era #first french empire #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #french empire #history #quote #David P. Jordan #Jordan #Napoleon and the Revolution #Wellington #Nelson #duke of wellington #admiral Nelson #1800s #france

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Are two full seasons of What We Do in the Shadows going to air before we even get a release date for Our Flag Means Death season 2

#I'm not up on ofmd info... but one of you will let me know if we get real news right ? #also. the new season of wwdits hasn't aired yet tbf. but it starts next week so.... #woes of emily #I'm not mad. like. there's plenty to watch #everyone go watch Wellington Paranormal it's special to me #rhys is an episode. + David fane #in fact when i saw fang for the first time I was like. i know this man how do I know this man #.... did the same with frenchie (trollied) and izzy (cucumber) #omg + the badmintons (black mirror / general British tv) #but yeah idk. this got away from me

[kammartinez]

What happens if a god devours a mortal. Does the mortal’s flesh become deified by the act of consumption? It removes the moral conundrum as well. If, by eating you, I make you something more, something greater, then that’s hardly a sin. Is it?

Paradise-1, by David Wellington

#quotes #paradise-1 #red space series #david wellington #books #science fiction #sci #sff #horror #cosmic horror

[vincentaureliuslin]

the nominees for the phaethon prize for the current graduating class are

#quincy cynthius martin #vincent aurelius lin #surprised sfx #ambrose wellington bassford... #beatrix valeria campbell #david elizabeth hawthorne #drew rodrick harrison

[kamreadsandrecs]

Out here in the endless night you couldn’t forget how small you were, or how much you could never know. You were reminded that you would not exist forever, that even robots could die, be destroyed, whatever. That time would continue unrolling before him long, long after he would cease to be aware of its passing.

Paradise-1, by David Wellington

#quotes #paradise-1 #red space series #david wellington #books #science fiction #scifi #sff