The more elusive @Devon_Eriksen_ wife. 50% red hair, 50% enthusiasm. By weight.
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By popular demand (literally no one asked for this), I present:
Life with My Sisterwife.
What do you guys think, should I make more?
I love that Theft of Fire isn't just "a good book", it's a book that makes people feel something.
This is a review of Theft of Fire by @Devon_Eriksen_ .
I saw him on the internet during a certain creative writing trend that reminded me I used to read more. I picked up the paperback from Amazon, because I have bookshelves and they need new meat from time to time.
The fact is I’ve done a lot of reading over the years, mostly recreational. I’ve read books that were supposedly deep and intelligent but left me cold. I’ve read books I know to be shallow entertainment, but enjoyed every moment. I’ve read books that I’ve hated every moment of but respect the payoff and understood the message.
And, rarely, I’ve read books that would keep me up at night, heart racing as I’m desperate to devour the next story beats but unable to skip a paragraph for fear of missing something meaningful.
For the avoidance of doubt: Theft of Fire is one of the latter.
Devon has clearly read some very good novels and seriously looked into what made them work. He’s not just telling a story, he’s feathering the emotions of the reader to build and release tension in a way that reminds me very much of a certain master of action set-pieces.
So let me spend a moment recommending the novel without spoilers, starting with the excellent blurb on the back:
“At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.”
Then describes the Male lead and his plans to not be there; then describes the female lead and her plans to not give him a choice; and finally tells us in no uncertain terms that neither of their plans is going to work how they wanted.
Stakes, Cast, Chaos? You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.
Within the first 50 pages you get the details of the title’s meaning, a good idea of what the hidden treasure will be and the framework of the interpersonal drama developing between a small cast of character. This sparks the imagination of how such matters might be resolved: an internal imagination of the conversations that need to happen, continuously updated as new actions and contexts are introduced. The course is charted, but I needed to know how they get there – and what they will do when they arrive.
Outside of that, the setting feels organic and natural – it seems to have grown out of the logical consequences of the circumstances that set it up. A verisimilitude that supports the stakes and the themes. It’s a serious sci-fi setting that introduces a future concept and stays faithful to it, while giving the character room to act out their story without re-writing the rules of the world in the process.
This is real science fiction, excellent action and a will-they-wont-they romance that you can yearn for.
TL/DR - When's the sequel out?
Acrobatic Hobbit retweeted
I lately heard that some people don't hear an inner voice when they read.
Mine...is very loud. Operatic even.
This is how my favorite author and ILM* @Devon_Eriksen_ sounds in my head.
Ok, ok, the music bed mighta been 10steps too far. But I had fun making it! I gotta do something while waiting for Box of Trouble, right?
*internet loud mouth, copyright pending.
There is an important reason that the right never wins the culture war overall, despite the left being so poor at tactics that they often end up shooting their own feet.
That is the reality that logistics are more important than tactics, and tactics only matter once you have sorted logistics out.
The left has sorted logistics out by creating patronage networks, while the right refuses to do so because it's still controlled by a curious kind of boomer paleoliberal who thinks that "free market" means "everything should pay for itself".
Thus, both the cultural and political struggles of the right must be waged by broke young men as a side project to their careers, while fighting for the left is a career.
The young men fighting for the right are simply expected to purchase their own rifles, ammunition, uniforms and kit, provide their own transport to the front, then organize themselves into units to defeat the communists.
If you understand this, then you will understand why the retards manage to win a lot despite being retards.
The left is giving people 100K fellowships for writing lesbian novels, while the right is charging its own guys $200 to listen to some theoretical ramblings about the antichrist.
No, that's not a metaphor. I wish I had made either of those two facts up as some sort of hyperbole.
Only the left understands how to get and use political power.
The left understands that power is a form of currency. So if you want it, you have to buy it, with some other form of currency. Such as money.
The right thinks that political power is a side effect... something that you naturally accumulate while doing business.
Possibly this is because most wealthy right-wing people are investors. They start a project, or put money into it, and they expect to get their money back and then some. That's what they are used to.
That's how investment works.
But that's not how power works.
And if you have wealth, but no power, then the people with power will just take whatever you built.
I don't know exactly what the tech right, the business right, the wealthy right, should be spending on political power. But what they are spending is clearly not enough and in the wrong places.
Because George Soros sure as hell isn't selling people tickets to listen to him talk.
Acrobatic Hobbit retweeted
The mark of a great artist is there ability to capture an emotion fully, and my boy @theexileddraco does it so well here. If you havent read @Devon_Eriksen_'s book Theft of Fire it might not all make sense, but theres like 3-4 layers to this scene and Draco absolutely crushed it.
Bruised, broken, but no blood.
Im really looking forward to the 2nd book in the series (countdown has started...) and the resulting fanart (*cough*). Until then...
Acrobatic Hobbit retweeted
I read 50-60 books a year. Nonfiction, fiction. Hardcopy, Kindle or audio.
There's still some 2026 left, but I gotta say. 2 of this year's best novels are indie.
Theft Of Fire by @Devon_Eriksen_
And
After Moses by @MichaelFKane
Trad isn't king. Not anymore.
Viva indie.
Acrobatic Hobbit retweeted
To whom it may concern, Theft of Fire by @Devon_Eriksen_ is a really good fun read and worth your time. Can't wait for the sequel.
Medicaid tax dollars in MA are now going to include "gender affirming care".
Thought you would want to know.
Ok I know this is just a silly commercial, but I can't help but get a bit defensive when Otezla saved me from being covered head to toe in psoriasis in one of the miserable side effects of immunotherapy.
I 💜 Otezla.
(Ps. Otezla I would totally be a spokesperson)
SNL took a commercial for a real psoriasis medication and turned it into a story about a mysterious force that may have existed before humanity.
Ryan Gosling, Sarah Sherman and Ashley Padilla helped turn “Otezla” into one of those sketches that gets more ridiculous the longer you watch.
Here’s how it works.
Acrobatic Hobbit retweeted
I will say Theft of Fire by @Devon_Eriksen_ was highly entertaining, if a bit awkwardly horny at times, but its author showed actual restraint in his prose and and I’m excited for Book 2 to come out
No!! Not stolen! I DREAM of inspiring others to spread the word of Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1.
Literally that's the only way Devon's career can progress. Reader recommendations are crucial to the success of the Orbital Space series.
The duty isn't mine. It's everyone's.
Neil Asher loved Theft of Fire and wrote it a fantastic review.
nealasher.co.uk/theft-of-fir…
Did you know there's no reason to pirate Theft of Fire? You can get any version completely free at the library!
And if your library doesn't have it, you can request it.
These things happen!
I also would suggest you request Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 be added to your library's catalog :) Means you AND others can read it for free!
Oh no. Doing mockups with AI is making me want to give the website a facelift.
Stop it AI, I have enough projects. 😶