Kate Rauner, Sci-Fi Author

Remember in 2016? THAT was a pi day 😸

Meme from Galaxy Quest. Aliens giving the tagline: Never give up - never surrender!

!?! FBI as entertainment ?!?

More details on the surge in bear attacks bsky.app/profile/kate...

The strange reason why bears are attacking people in Japan And what it reveals about wildlife encounters in the years to come.

Climate change is making northern Japan cloudier... with less light, forests don't produce young shoots, nuts, and other foods that bears rely on... hungry bears venture closer to towns... bear attacks increase www.vox.com/climate/4820... #climatechange #wildlife #nature

Authors with traditional publishers can't do a thing about typos, and their publishers probably are past working on the book. Independent authors, on the other hand, have total control. I'm always happy to correct a typo (dang things sneak in from an alternate universe.) Hope you liked the story 🙂📚🚀

Dr Who Silurians from the BBC

Here are Dr Who's Silurians... reptiles? Humanoid reptiles cause easier to costume the actors - I get it. Hypothesized civilizations predating our fossil record could be... anything.

Unearthing Ancient Advanced Civilizations - Skeptoid An exploration of the validity of the Silurian hypothesis, which posits the existence of a pre-human intelligent race on Earth.

Has civilization arisen on Earth more than once? The Silurian hypothesis, a thought experiment by astrophysicist Adam Frank &climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. They borrowed the word Silurian — mostly just for fun — from Dr. Who. Could we really find physical evidence? skeptoid.com/episodes/1031

Using the trick again in what I'm writing now. Kessler Cascade wipe's out space industry for long enough to kick the colony story into a future where private companies do Mars. (Nations too busy dealing with troubles on Earth.) I like stepping past NASA and Military missions to Mars #sciencefiction

First book in Kate Rauner's trilogy, Winnie Bravo, Space Pilot. She's brash, reckless, and a bit obnoxious. With her sweet partner, she chases a stealth probe in Earth orbit and across the Moon. Complete trilogy is available.

University of British Columbia studies space junk falling to Earth. By 2030, annual chance a commercial flight will be hit ~ 1 in 1,000. Space junk provides the setting for my science fiction trilogy, Winnie Bravo, Space Pilot. I try to stay ahead of reality books2read.com/LunarBase #scifibook

Incoming! 1,300-pound NASA satellite will crash to Earth on March 10 "The risk of harm coming to anyone on Earth is low — approximately 1 in 4,200."

Heads up. people. A big NASA satellite is due to crash back to Earth today (Mar 10.) The risk it will hurt someone is estimated at 1 in 4,200. I suppose it's that high because humanity bought 8 billion tickets for this lottery. www.space.com/space-explor... #NASA #space #satellite

Monday morning and Amazon is still having troubles. Can't download an eBook I just got - it just hangs. Not blaming the author! Not author's fault (as an author myself, I'm sensitive to such things) #author #Amazon

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Barsoom: Fantasy or Science Fiction? Exploring Genre with Michael Whelan

Will all scifi stories morph into fantasy over time? "Good SF seems plausible and futuristic at first, then gradually fades into fantasy. As perception evolves, it goes from serious and exciting to seeming a little naive." theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/barsoom-fa... #scifibook #scifiart

Are UFOs real? A skeptic, believers, spandex-clad cultist, and a small town reporter tackle weird sightings and crackpot theories on Cape Cod in this fun read.

BTW... while Amazon has truly been having lots of trouble (I've seen the error notices myself) keep in mind that, due to the fog of war, please view early reports as tentative

😆 I'm guessing, modern scheduling and staffing limitations reign over authenticity.

From one of my author sites: Apparently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) in UAE and Bahrain have been bombed. Yesterday was a cluster of "Sorry, Something Went Wrong at Our End" messages in the Kindle department. Inconvenience for me... death and destruction for people over there! #amazon #war #author

Why is the Blob Neil's favorite Alien ? #scienceexplained #facts #theblob #alien YouTube video by OKTA PAX

Meets the mark per www.youtube.com/shorts/Wetdk... and adds robots!

Good for you - we all give in to click-bait and outrage-posts at times, but so much better to keep the brain engaged

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Happy #WorldBookDay 📚 #amreading

Feels like this could become a movie in the classic B&W scifi style :)

Tagline reminds me a classic creature flicks

Enjoy the puzzle of a scifi story? Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer is for you #scifibooks Kate says… A man wakes on a colony sleeper ship, and something has gone terribly wrong. He doesn’t remember who he is, and sets about figuring out the ship, his fellow colonists, and th…

My bookshelf... I read this story a while ago. My copy has this dinosaur on the cover. There's a landing craft now. Which cover would catch your eye?
Colony ship & their new world. Satisfying read.
thesciencefictionfantasybookstore.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/e... #BookSky #sciencefiction #scifibook

With farmating too!

Thank you, John. AI slop is spreading. For me, AI makes a fine thesaurus, but not a ghost writer! I buy professional images to use on covers or in advertising... harder to know if those used AI. Some platforms will say they do not up front (though enforcing the policy may be getting harder.)

How to Recognize and Avoid Book Scams Learn to identify common book scams and protect yourself from fraud. Keep on reading for practical tips and advice to avoid publishing scams.

Authors - scammers are after you! For little authors like me, any unsolicited email offer is suspicious - one advantage of being a no-name 🙂 Big Names must get inundated. Scammers steal names of legit book clubs etc. Read about red flags here 🚩 🚩 🚩 blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-self-... #author #scam

Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild

Rewilding is fascinating &usually leans to bringing back woolly mammoths or other extinct critters. What about endangered Australian regent honeyeaters? Their song is dying. Wild-born birds teach zoo-bred chicks to sing. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #rewilding #nature #birds

Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over...

Think you like the oldies? 3,400 year old song - oldest known with both lyrics &musical notations. The song (prayer to moon goddess) starts about 3:19 in the first video in the article www.openculture.com/2025/04/hear... #history #music Anyone know what the oldest pop song is?

Possibly “The Tunnel Under the World” by Frederik Pohl (1955) or “The Electric Ant” by Philip K. Dick (1969) ? If by old, you mean really old.