Ryan M. Patrick
@ryanpatrickauth
Sci-fi author, USAF/USSF vet, aerospace engineer, married father of 4. Eagles/Flyers/Phillies/Sixers. Opinions are my own.
The Europan Deception is now available from Amazon! It's a first-in-series hard sci-fi thriller for fans of The Expanse looking for a fast-paced espionage story about an ancient conspiracy looking to destabilize the galaxy. Link below.
DoD gonna get some new online training.
I'm so tired of it.
Basically any Astro GR at USAFA, you could look around and see this face on anyone in the room with you. Thankfully grades were almost always curved, but not always as much as they should have been!
When I see bro during an exam sitting there like this and knowing he’s absolutely cooked
Incredibly accurate
Every writer just regurgitates fragments of the ten thousand (or ten...) books they've read
Forbes 30 under 30 has been doing this for years
“Most of us, most of the time, live in blissful ignorance of what a small elite, heroic group of Americans are doing for us night and day. All over the globe, American Sailors are doing something very dangerous. Somewhere around the world, young men and women are landing Naval…
I honestly don’t know how there is a single surviving Naval Aviator. Still less how this can be done thousands of times without operational losses.
The F-22 makes me excited. I don't think we've had one in a BF game yet?
Lock & load for the ultimate all-out war experience in #Battlefield6. Live gameplay stream hits July 31: youtube.com/live/c_BRbvYxg…
The first of many customer payloads!
The first Blue Ring mission will carry @SCOUTdotspace’s next-generation space domain awareness Owl sensors. Read more: bit.ly/4lUk58H
we lost a real one HH
RIP Hulk Hogan. An absolute legend.
kyle schwarber, obviously.
Mysterious 'ball' on Mars: Where did it come from?
As for other indie books I’ve greatly enjoyed this year- Europan deception by @ryanpatrickauth, After Moses series by @MichaelFKane Forsaken Planet by @BWilsonAuthor Dakiti by @EJFisch Halley Traveler by @mike_mollman amongst several others. And Lost Colony obviously.
Space-Based Missile Interceptors For Golden Dome Being Tested By Northrop Competition to supply parts of Golden Done is heating up with Northrop Grumman stating they have begun ground testing orbital missiles. Story: twz.com/space/space-ba…
Same author, different novel - Sphere. My goal is to give my readers the same feeling 15-year-old Ryan experienced staying up all night in his blue beanbag chair to finish it.
What’s the book you read that made you want to be a writer? Mine is Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton when I was 9 years old.
For, The Europan Deception (my 3rd book published but my first one that I started writing) I probably threw out a million words before I started what became the final version. Very, very, very normal🤣.
Debut author here 👋 Is it normal to get 10k words in and start over? 😵💫
WFH Wednesday with a ton to get done...we'll see what my productivity is like 😆
Western Civilization began in Númenor
Western Civilization began in Hyperborea
My paycheck has been delayed 4 weeks by a paperwork snafu, so I'm trying to sell some books this month. All of my books are on sale and available in ebook, audiobook, and print. Click the 2cd link for downloadable DRM-free ebooks and 50% off the Yankee Republic print omnibus!
Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing for Chinese Government’s Benefit Trade Secret Technology Designed for Missile Launch and Detection justice.gov/opa/pr/enginee…
Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing for Chinese Government’s Benefit Trade Secret Technology Designed for Missile Launch and Detection justice.gov/opa/pr/enginee…