Geeky Greetings! What a Geek Wants...

Wishes for the season to you and yours from Untethered Realms. 

We have our geek holiday wishes ready to share.

M. Pax ~

There's so much to look forward to in 2015. I'm always wishing for more movies/shows with giant man-eating reptiles. Can't wait until summer!

Also looking forward to SharkNado 3 and the new Star Wars. When's the next Star Trek? Plus, the Juno mission arrives at Jupiter, and New Horizons arrives at Pluto. I'm really excited to see what New Horizons turns up. I've been waiting years... lots and lots of years.

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River Fairchild ~

I have a standing request in to Santa for a seat on the first flight to colonize Mars.

Barring that, I wish for some outstanding disaster movies for 2015. Or a blue phone booth. Or anything but a lump of coal.

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Catherine Stine ~

Young Marlowe

I could make a long list but I'll go for a couple items... First, I want tickets to the latest production of Christopher Marlow's play Tamburlaine the Great. Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare was a fabulously nefarious guy: a spy, an atheist and of "cruel and intemperate heart" according to his roommate, the writer Thomas Kyd. Plus, Marlowe met a suitably creepy death: stabbed through the eye in a bar fight (most likely a professional hit).

Or how about some tickets to Iceland? Mongolia? Novaya Zemlya? Some wintery frontier of weirdness, where I could snuggle up in an igloo with a frost monster. Did I say I love me some cold weather?!

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Christine Rains ~

There are so many geeky things I dream about. My own TARDIS or a ride with Dean Winchester in his Impala. How about a trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter? I've always wanted a geeky family portrait. Could Santa convince my son and husband to cooperate? Okay, okay. I'll be more realistic. Unique dice. A girl can never have enough dice.

 (Oh yes, that's a Cthulhu die!)

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Gwen Gardner ~

Geeky? Well, if asking for Barnes & Noble gift cards is geeky, then I guess I'm a geek. It's what I always ask for. And I'd like theater tickets to A Christmas Carol because I adore Charles Dickens. And I sort of want Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's a voice recognition software. I could dictate my books!

And snow. I'd like a white Christmas in San Diego. Santa? Hello Santa? Do you hear me?

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Julie Flanders ~


As I mentioned in our "How Nerd Am I..." group post back in July, I am obsessed with Game of Thrones and I am the proud owner of Funko figures of Jon Snow and his direwolf Ghost. I thought the figures would be enough to satisfy my inner geek but HBO is now taunting me with an entire set of adorable plush direwolves.

I love dogs, I love wolves, and I love Game of Thrones, so this set goes right to my geek heart and is my geeky Christmas wish for 2015.

I promise the wolves would all have a good home with me, Santa. But if the whole set is too much for you, I'll settle for just Ghost on his own.

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Ellie Garratt ~

A geeky wishlist? My list is to long to share in this post, so I'll share a couple of wishes with you. My first wish is for Santa to bring me a 17.5" Lego Space Shuttle. I've wanted one for ages, but they're expensive. In fact, Lego don't make them anymore.

My second wish is a role in Sharknado 3. I love those films - so bad, they're actually good. I don't mind if my character gets eaten by a shark. Any role would do.

What are your Geeky wishes?

Astronomy is Geek Chic

We’re all nerds about something. Yes? What sets you on fire?

For me, it’s writing and astronomy.

Six years ago, we moved to a new town. Seeking a way to become connected with my new community, I found an ad for volunteers at the local observatory on Meetup.com. There was nothing I wanted to do more. The problem? I didn’t know much about the sky. I knew the Big Dipper, how to find the North Star, and Orion. Since star guiding takes place in the summer and Orion is a winter constellation, that did me no good.

I wanted to learn. I wanted to look through telescopes. I wanted to get to know the constellations and the wonders they housed. So I took a deep breath, put on a brave face, and went to the meeting.

Little did I know at the time, that I’d spend the next six summers conducting star tours of the night sky, that I’d become as skilled at navigating the constellations with a set of star charts as a seasoned veteran. Well, now I am a seasoned veteran.

I keep trying to photograph what I see. Photos do not capture the wonder and sparkle. They don’t catch what’s in my eyepiece. There’s very little color. Why? Our eyes need a lot of light to see color.

I may not be the most knowledgeable star guide, but I’m at the top of the heap with enthusiasm and passion. I love what I do, and I’ll let you know I love it when chatting out beneath the night sky.

It fills me up with sparkles, makes my heart smile and spirit soar. What’s out there? I can’t say for sure, but I’ll continue discovering the night sky’s wonders. It’s a thrill that doesn’t get old.

Beyond the Edge

Just released! Book 4 in the Backworlds series!

 

 

 

Some truths are better left unfound.

For two years Craze’s dear friend, Lepsi, has been missing. The murmurings of a haunted spaceship might be a message and may mean his old pal isn’t dead. The possibility spurs Craze and Captain Talos to travel to uncharted worlds, searching. Out there, in an unfamiliar region of the galaxy beyond the Backworlds, they stumble upon a terrible truth.

Meanwhile, Rainly remains on Pardeep Station as acting planetlord, dealing with the discovery of her lover’s dark and brutal past. Alone and questioning her judgment, her introspection unlocks more than heartache. Latent protocols in her cybernetics activate, forcing her to face a sinister secret of her own.

In the far future, humanity settles the stars, bioengineering its descendents to survive in a harsh universe. This is the fourth book in the science fiction series, The Backworlds. A space opera adventure.

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M. Pax-- Inspiring the words she writes, she spends her summers as a star guide at Pine Mountain Observatory in stunning Central Oregon where she lives with the Husband Unit and two demanding cats. She writes science fiction and fantasy mostly. You can find out more by visiting her at:

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What gets your geek going?