Justin Thomas Watson
@JustinTWatson
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I'm an Afghan and Iraq vet who enjoys movies, tabletops gaming, comics, and reading and writing sci-fi & fantasy.
Joined March 2019
New interview is live! @paulsemel recently interviewed "RINGER" author @JoellePresby! They talk about the link to "THE DABARE SNAKE LAUNCHER" as well as what is coming next! https://t.co/Nx2sgz6i2t
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The Difference Between Amoral and Immoral Some people are calling me a hypocrite. Not many, but a few. They say I defend “locker room talk” in the force but condemn those who publicly celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Let me be VERY clear: these two things are not the same. Not
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Castles & Crusades by @trolllordgames Hyperborea by North Wind Adventures Barbarians of Lemuria Horde Wars by @DM_Blackwall Shadowdark RPG Untold Destiny by @hill_jowett Six Fantasy RPGs of various styles and systems worth checking out. Any to add lads?
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It’s your life, internet rando, but I suspect quantity over quality as a philosophy for sex and romance makes the vast majority of people who embrace it deeply discontent, even if they don’t realize it until it’s too late.
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Raistlin, Caramon, and Tika (high detail) from the cover of "Dragons of Spring Dawning" by Larry Elmore (1985) #Dragonlance #FantasyArt
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I’m proud of @BaenBooks for continuing to commission art from actual artists all these decades. What happened to the covers of the latest DragonLance novels was a crime against humanity.
Can you tell which is Larry Elmore iconic art that was on best selling Dragonlance books and which is digital art for modern audiences?
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More fun CONtraflow, the buttons on the chair were even canon accurate to the episode TOS episode Court Martial.
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Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Try to teach a man to fish, and someone with a master’s degree in Fishing Studies, who’s never fished a day in their life, will sell him a $100,000 four-year degree so he can better understand how hard and unfair fishing is.
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Spending the weekend at CONtraflow here in New Orleans, @BaenBooks owner Toni Weisskopf moderated a panel on fanzines of yore and today, and I got a cool bit of unexpected swag. 🙂
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For you late pledgers. 😀
Reminder: the American Paladin series launch Kickstarter is now open for late pledges until Oct 16 due to a bunch of people wanting to play that newly recorded "Ballad of Paladin" theme song while they read Larry's book. Tell everybody who hasn't backed there's still hope in
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With the eARC of @TKratman's latest time traveling novel dropping this morning (FOR THE ETERNAL GLORY OF ROME), we decided for #WeReadWednesday that we were going to revisit "DIRTY WATER," his 2023 novel about time travel, the city of Boston, and one very special calico cat. A
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I'm starting to realize that GWOT veterans have a non-obvious calling to speak to the American people. It's up to us to explain the sheer evil of Sharia law and Islamic government to the American people. It's come to my attention that many, many Americans simply do not believe
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This is going to be dope.
We do love it when a new eARC drops in the middle of #ReleaseWeek here at Baen! "FOR THE ETERNAL GLORY OF ROME" by @TKratman is now available in eARC today! Scheduled for a January 2026 hardcover release, what would happen if a Roman Legion is transported out of time, then back
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Check out Jason's website for a sneak peek at our upcoming novel!! #BronzeLegion
"To Tread Obsidian Shores" -- Snippet 1 is LIVE over at the website. https://t.co/sP1RwBekBz
#BronzeLegion #TTOS @MelissaOlthoff #SF #Snippets
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And it turns out another friend of mine, who also has been a huge help to my career, has a new release today, only the great @DavidJohnButler was too humble to say anything to me about it. :D Today is the release for his third Cunning Man novel, which is this weird, 1930s
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It’s October, which means it is time for soup, the leaves to change color, and for our readers to Fall Hard for SF! This month we have new titles as well as old to read while enjoying the temperatures cooling off a bit. This month we have novels from @Jringo1508 & @caseymoops,
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So... this is a thing. "To Tread Obsidian Shores," Book 1 of the Bronze Legion by myself and @MelissaOlthoff, is available as an eARC today only from @BaenBooks. Hardcover is coming out January 6, 2026, but you don't have to wait until then to get your early access copy.
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It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! Do de do do Do de do do doo
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