Joseph Shoer

@jpshoer
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Interplanetary spacecraft engineer, amateur fantastical cartographer, board gamer, physics Eph, and Doctor of Spaceships. Opinions my own. Fight the Empire. www.josephshoer.com
Personal sitehttps://josephshoer.com/about
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WhereDenver
Okay, @npr , can we quit it with the stenography headlines? HE LIES

A new #scifi #map #wip !

Arcs are one day long. Positions are fixed to the date I started work. Each moon has a unique border inspired by something about its character. Guess the system! 😉

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
My pulp sci-fi style map of Jezero Crater is coincidentally centered...
#Jezero #Mars #Perseverance #NASA
Meanwhile, over here in the Imperium where a once-large empire fractured into mostly independent polities, an opportunist governor has expansionary ambitions. He learns about features of the looming galactic disaster under research in the nearby Republic, thinks he can take advantage, and launches a devastating attack. There's court intrigue and space battles galore! #scifi #novel #amquerying

My #scifi #novel centers on a young scientist who discovers an encroaching disaster. The old guard scientists are skeptical until the disaster obviously hits a major trade route. A powerful senator, bankrolled by ancient, wealthy interests, tries to deflect the scientist by demanding more study, which backfires as the scientists prove effective at uncovering the ancient conspiracy behind the disaster.

It makes scientists and science the heroes, all while they act like scientists.

Aaaaah! Just started querying for my sci-fi novel!!!!! I'm so excited to see if I can get this epic space opera about scientific discovery, academic tension, ancient conspiracies, political intrigue, and galactic battles out there!
#scifi #novel #amWriting #amquerying
Oh, just a page from the #Passover Haggadah that my family used since I was a kid. Every year, the Haggadah tells me to fight MAGA authoritarianism.