Halloween is coming! Creepy - but relaxed! - readings and chat from award winning authors NUZO ONOH @nuzo.bsky.social and IAN MCDONALD @ianmcdonald.bsky.social 7pm, 14 Oct, Star of Kings Free! Reserve your spot at srfc2025Halloween.eventbrite.com

Reviewers: BOY, WITH ACCIDENTAL DINOSAUR by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social is available for request on @netgalley.bsky.social…! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... Due to be published by TorDotCom, on February 3rd, 2026. @torbooks.bsky.social

THE WILDING, the latest acclaimed novel by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social is a 99p Kindle Deal this month! www.amazon.co.uk/Wilding-Ian-... Published by @gollancz.bsky.social

THE WILDING is also 99p via Kobo in the UK! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social

Stories by: @naomikritzer.bsky.social @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @spires.bsky.social @faithmerino.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com and others The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #9 Pre-order: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9LGGHF5

Having enjoyed Chaga recently I was reminded of a nice chat I had with the author @ianmcdonald.bsky.social last year. Lovely chap. 🪐📚 youtu.be/SXTCYAnHE1c

Finished The Wilding @ianmcdonald.bsky.social - a fantastic folk horror adventure with brilliant characters, prose to die for(!) and the best use (& love) of Yeats I've encountered for some time. The contradictions inherent in nature v human are judged perfectly 💚 #booksky #lovereading

@ianmcdonald.bsky.social is a finalist in the horror category, for THE WILDING - published by @gollancz.bsky.social.

signed, numbered, limited collectors' edition: --art by @manzieriart.bsky.social www.infinivoxsf.com/3-hard-shots... paperback: www.amazon.com/3-Hard-Shots... ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZPJ54JB "The Menace from Farside" @ianmcdonald.bsky.social

And all the way from Japan, Hayakawa’s classy translation of Ian McDonald’s novella TIME WAS A gorgeous little hardcover production @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @zenoagency.bsky.social

The Wilding by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social broke me. This is not my usual genre, but I took a punt because everything the man has ever written is deep magic. If you have ever been in the wild, just out of earshot of modern life, just beyond the high-water mark… you will know that grip on your heart.

My first holiday read is THE WILDING by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social . It's wonderful. Which is no surprise, since Ian has been one of my favourite writers for many years, but it is a joy...

Including @ianmcdonald.bsky.social’s THE WILDING (Horror)…

bears repeating

Happy New Year!

"The old gods are dying, and the new gods are being built in silicon and code." #booksandquotes #booksky💙📚 @ianmcdonald.bsky.social

Well. Just read “Sigh no more” by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social, from @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social’s Communication Breakdown, and it made me cry. Some people just know how to bring disparate elements together into sublime beauty.

🎺🔅🎺🔅🎺 "This above all: to thine own self be true." Superb story by sci fi's splendid scribe! @ianmcdonald.bsky.social Free US shipping in November!! www.infinivoxsf.com/best-sf-eart... #Books #BookSky

apologies if I haven't followed you back yet but I have literally thousands of new followers to wade through

If you’re looking for a spooky read this week (and, duh, why wouldn’t you be?) I can heartily recommend THE WILDING by the very excellent @ianmcdonald.bsky.social Superior, scary folk horror that draws on our relationship with the land. Excellent stuff.

THE WILDING by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social is featured in @GuardianBooks’s weekly SFFH round-up! “Vividly written, this is perfect scary fare for the Halloween season.” Out now, published by Gollancz. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

THE WILDING, the latest masterpiece by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social, is on sale at the moment - the eBook is only £5.99! There's no better time to start reading this chilling and thrilling taut folk horror. Enter the Wilding if you dare... brnw.ch/21wNBHI

In the mood for a modern folk horror proposal? That's The Wilding, by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social, published by Gollancz, a great atmospherical story that I absolutely loved. Those are my thoughts on it: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

alas, I'll not be at @octocon.bsky.social this year: I don't get back from France until 6th

to get it to go away I have to restart the entire phone. God I hate apps.

Blue sky seems to be jamming my phone up in that the app won't ever close.

out today!

Out next week: THE WILDING by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social! www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/ian-m... Due to be published by Gollancz, on Sep.26th!

Also, in Germany all the music warps back 40 years

so, now in Frankfurt airport. if I say 'there's nowhere to sit' does that give my age away?

A man in the West fjords called Police and said there was a polar bear outside his house. He has not been reached since, but they have sent helicopters and boats to check it out. Polar bears sometimes come over to Iceland on ice from Greenland, and there have been unusually many icebergs lately.

Dublin Airport . 3 hour layover in Frankfurt.Whatever shall I do?

so, second leg of the journey to Sofia for Bulgaricon.

Reviewers & booksellers: @ianmcdonald.bsky.social’s excellent new novel is available for request on #NetGalley! www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book... Due to be published by #Gollancz, on September 26th.

Congratulations to all the ESFS Awards winners! Special Congratulations to @natural20.bsky.social , @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and @glasgow2024.bsky.social, and Ireland's Chrysalis Award recipient Courtney Smyth! www.facebook.com/share/p/c2oJ...

Coming Soon: THE WILDING, the highly-anticipated new novel from @ianmcdonald.bsky.social! zenoagency.com/news/ian-mcd... Due to be published by Gollancz in the UK, on Sep.26th.

@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Jan/Feb 2024 #Fantasy #SF Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown by Ian McDonald @ianmcdonald.bsky.social In a world…where Words—any Words—have power…and the Voice commands the Words, can the Voice be monetized?

watch the Grindavik volcano erupt live! www.youtube.com/live/hvcP4kV...

Reading some older Clarkesworld stories recently, just searching favourite authors, and I enjoyed this one by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social: It's a ghost story about an artist who assembles pieces out of debris washed ashore from a years-ago tsunami.

coporate/academic friction on the moon? Mm-hm www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Great moments with a great writer @ianmcdonald.bsky.social Donde pudimos disfrutar de su presentación de Tiempo que fue de paradojas temporales, ciencia ficción e incluso tuvimos un flashback en los Highlands con Connor MacLeod del Clan MacLeod mientras nos gritaba que ¡solo puede quedar uno!

PRH edita algo diferente por allí, tanto los títulos de Nova CF como en los de George R. R. Martin cambian cosas que saltan a la vista, incluso me traje una joyita editada allí e inédita en castellano: El Rag del Armagedón🔥🎸 Pero @ianmcdonald.bsky.social y @tieryasxu.bsky.social estaban presentes💙📘

Two Zeno titles are #kindledeals this month in the US! Both $2.99… -SERVANT OF THE UNDERWORLD by @aliettedb.bsky.social - RIVER OF GODS by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social Both published in North America by @awfulagent.bsky.social

Mañana en compañíade @cinexina.bsky.social e @ivanledesma.bsky.social para la presentación en @gigamesh.bsky.social de @ianmcdonald.bsky.social

are you quite sure about this?

I shall be in Barcelona Saturday December 2 talking about this beauty! (includes UFOs, super-recognisers and the place the dogs won't go)

UK paperback edition of HOPELAND by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social is out now! zenoagency.com/news/hopelan...

✨ #R3COMM3ND3D2023 Day 1 ✨ Today I am delighted to welcome #BookBlogger @bluebookballoon.bsky.social to #damppebbles to share 3 favourite books published in 2023 3⃣ 📚 ❤️ Find out which 3 books David chose here... ➡️ buff.ly/3QFyecE #NatalieMarlow @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @JulietEMcKenna.bsky.social

Well lookee here! November eBook deal: HOPELAND, the acclaimed new novel by @iannmcdonald is only 99p this month in the UK! Kobo: kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/ho… Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Hopeland-Ian-M  Published by @gollancz.