The Pangolin Republic

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SF/space opera book series. Book 1, Flight of the Pangolin, now available in paperback & ebook! Also, check out the SF book series "Mike's Book Report" on our Booktube. https://linktr.ee/thepangolinrepublic

End of Rise of Skywalker in 4 panels: Panel 1: Old lady asks Rey, "Who are you?" Panel 2: Rey replies, "I'm Deez." Panel 3: Old lady replies, "Deez who?" Panel 4: Rey looks off into the middle distance heroically.
Star Trek TOS title card, "I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream"
Benoit Blanc Muppet
Sharovipteryx on 4chan: "Guys. Guys listen I have the best ide guys listen I have the best idea ever guys I'll put WINGS guys wings I'll put WINGS guys listen here I'll put WINGS...on my BACK legs."
LEGO 75388 - Jedi Bob's Starfighter figure assortment: Jedi Bok, Ackbar Trooper and Servo (SR-V0)
Chameleons' Mark Burgess, August 2024.
Space: Above and Beyond
Superman from Superman III, at the bar pouring his self a drink.
A dozing Shih Tzu named Chewie
Pop-up Panorama Book of Dune
The Book of Boba Fett: a Trandoshan drug lord objects to Boba's change in direction, paraphrased from the film Black Dynamite. "But Boba Fett, I sell drugs to the community!"
The Dinosaurs, by William Stout.
Poster for the film The Strange Case of Señor Computer, directed by Tom Sawyer.
The late great Judy Tenuta, from her appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast: "Friends are just enemies who don't have the guts to kill you."
Nerdy kid wearing straw glasses. Caption: I didn't choose the thug life...the thug life chose me.
Streaming plot synopsis for the film Dog Day Afternoon: "A man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines."
A very trippy vintage piece of TOS collage artwork.
Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, by Anne McCaffrey
Kathleen Kennedy: "Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack." "There's no source material. We don't have comic books. We don't have 800-page novels." Expanded Universe fans: image of 24 novels that have been relegated to Legends canon
"Getting robbed? Just say no. Your robber legally cannot take any of your possession without your consent."
Chloe Grace Moretz on 30 Rock gushing about meeting Dr. Robert Ballard, but Ballard, as portrayed by Brother Dusk from the AppleTV+ show Foundation, informs her that "Bob" is short for "Bobert."
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 37 of 50 books read (7 ahead of schedule) with 143 days left.
Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine: "Fun will now commence."
Lt. Cmdr Hitchcock, portrayed by Stacy Haiduk on SeaQuest: DSV
The system-agnostic spaceship RPG book An Infinity of Ships, with art prints and sticker sheet.
Dr. Crusher with one of her non-sex candle toting mentors, the improbably-named Dr. Dalen Quaice. Their uniforms are clearly different shades of blue; while Dr. Crusher's is truer, Dr. Quaice's is leaning towards teal.
Old Indiana Jones, from ABC's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, now shamefully erased from history by Lucasfilm.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Mike wearing his TNG captain's jacket uniform with optional kilt and Spock socks, posing with a great cosplayer in a TNG film era environmental suit.
Zaphod Beeblebrox from the BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams masterpiece The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The latest book haul stack, containing the following: The Left Hand of Darkness and Buffalo Gals, both by Ursula K. LeGuin Second Stage Lens Lensmen by E.E. "Doc" Smith Hyperion by Dan Simmons A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster Grass by Sheri S. Tepper Star Trek TNG: Maximum Warp Books 1 & 2 by David Galanter & Greg Brodeur Star Trek: Vulcan's Heart by Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen by David Weber Star Trek II Biographies by William Rotsler Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks Far-Seer by Robert J. Sawyer Club Contango by Eliane Boey At left: Compendium One (Issues 1-50) of Larry Hama's legendary G.I. Joe comic run.
Trope map of the book Flight of the Pangolin, with arrows pointing from tropes to the book (clockwise from top left): Megacorporatocracy Badass Older Woman With a Katana So Many Space Opera Tropes A Giant Spider For No Real Reason The Occasional Dinosaur Spacecraft Theft My Editor Thinks It Should Be Stocked as Lit Fic Regime Collapse Space Pirates Space Battles (of course) Political Intrigue.
Autographed copy of Babylon 5: The Shadow Within by Jeanne Cavelos. The inscription: "Mike - Beware of shadows!"
Jerry Goldsmith's Explorers soundtrack on vintage vinyl.
DVD cover art for The Strange Case of Señor Computer, a film by Tom Sawyer.
Trope map of the book Flight of the Pangolin, with arrows pointing from tropes to the book (clockwise from top left): Megacorporatocracy Badass Older Woman With a Katana So Many Space Opera Tropes A Giant Spider For No Real Reason The Occasional Dinosaur Spacecraft Theft My Editor Thinks It Should Be Stocked as Lit Fic Regime Collapse Space Pirates Space Battles (of course) Political Intrigue
Han Solo in Return of the Jedi (1983)
Old Indiana Jones, from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
A 6 panel webcomic in which a person builds a time machine without factoring in the change in the location of the Earth in space over time.
Cover for the prescient comic Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal (now classified as Legends canon, or current events). This is a real thing that actually exists.
Invading aliens: "Do you realize Earth is helpless against our superior weapons?" Young lady: "Please go away...I'm reading!"
John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants.
Bermuda
Panel 1 - Yoda: "Luke...when gone am I..." Panel 2 - Luke watches Yoda. Yoda (cont.): "...the last of the Jedi will you be." Panel 3 - variation of the "annoyed guy in puff vest and plaid shirt at the football match" meme, with 4 annoyed people: Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano, Grogu and Cal Kestis.
Actor Tom Baker ("Doctor Who") in a television interview: "I like to...remain optimistic, y'know, in the face of the facts."
Señor Computer teaches his creator how to set up a candlelight dinner, in an effort to help the depressed scientist date more effectively so he will feel less lonely.
5 star Amazon review text for Flight of the Pangolin by Michael Moutinho: "A perfect balance between action, politics and world building" "The characters and the world around them is enticing to get to know and feel relatable" "As the story went on, you couldn't help but feel that you were at the beginning of seeing something greater."
A Mon Calamari fisherman from the hit Disney+ television program "The Mandalorian."
Scene of a spacedock containing the USS Enterprise in the distance. In the foreground, an Edward Hopperesque space diner with Spock behind the bar and Scotty, Kirk and McCoy seated.
Pootie Tang, from the film "Pootie Tang."
Zaphod Beeblebrox, from the BBC adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
"Say the line" Simpsons meme substituting Bart with Babylon 5's Kosh, saying the line, "If you go to Z'ha'dum you will die." Yay!
Trope map of the book Flight of the Pangolin, with arrows pointing from tropes to the book (clockwise from top left): Megacorporatocracy Badass Older Woman With a Katana So Many Space Opera Tropes A Giant Spider For No Real Reason The Occasional Dinosaur Spacecraft Theft My Editor Thinks It Should Be Stocked as Lit Fic Regime Collapse Space Pirates Space Battles (of course) Political Intrigue.
Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville (1965).
Smashwords 2024 year end sale - 50% off until January 1st.
MST3K's Joel: "It stinks!"
Trope map of the book Flight of the Pangolin, with arrows pointing from tropes to the book (clockwise from top left): Megacorporatocracy Badass Older Woman With a Katana So Many Space Opera Tropes A Giant Spider For No Real Reason The Occasional Dinosaur Spacecraft Theft My Editor Thinks It Should Be Stocked as Lit Fic Regime Collapse Space Pirates Space Battles (of course) Political Intrigue.