Stuart J Byrne sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/byrne_... and Richard Tooker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tooker... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Bill Hughes, Reed Crandall, Melvin Hansen and Leo Morey). The 2nd was for "Tarzan On Mars" by 'John Bloodstone' (a Byrne pseudonym):

"...un-British. (This last was an ancient word meaning very bad indeed.)". Norstrilia p10.

Shelf 25 of my science fiction library. Mostly @adamroberts.bsky.social with a dash of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social at the end there. 🪐📚 #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Unless it's The Qax, a turbulent fluid life form and overlords of Earth in Stephen Baxter's Timelike Infinity. Quack qax.

On to this next, rather nice NESFA Press edition. I've read a few of his short stories but this is my first foray into his first and only novel. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Finished this earlier, was very good. Quite a bleak, parched, climate-ravaged version of a collapsing USA that he paints. City against city, state against state, in battles for water rights, whole populations on the move.💧💧💧🪐📚 #scifbooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Looks like I need to write a couple of fattish books, to squeeze @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social off the shelf altogether.

So um, Gollancz used to list other recent Gollancz SF books on the rear flap of the DJ. There's an increasingly loud part of my bookish brain that wants to follow that rabbit hole wherever it leads, a trail of breadcrumbs from book to book, a circular shopping list of emerging wants. 🪐📚

We have the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. buff.ly/BdWp207 #ShareGoodNewsToo

We are thrilled to be producing a special edition of Slow Gods by Claire North in association with Orbit 🚀

One from last year I think, a look at Wyndham's post WW2 novels. Which is your favourite? #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/2QResRyRHTk

Shelf 25 of my science fiction library. Mostly @adamroberts.bsky.social with a dash of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social at the end there. 🪐📚 #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Bit of a click-baity headline, as based on lab experiments and not yet verified in the field, but like the idea of two worlds connected by a wind of charged particles (see also: Pluto and Charon). Presumably minerals on the far side of the Moon, which always faces away from Earth, aren't affected?

Shelf 13b of my science fiction library, all A-format paperbacks ranging from Vonda McIntyre to Larry Niven via Miller, Moon, Moorcock and Nagata. A haven of alphabetical order, an island in the choppy waters of chaos that is much of my library. #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

I'm not sure which gives me the worst palpitations. The fact that the og series is near 50 years old, or that the FUCKING REBOOT* is near 25 years old. Please pass me my emergency paper bag. *among the best tv evs, btw.

In a shock twist, this shelf came up in bookshelf bingo this evening as I was recording my #sciencefiction #tbr picks for next month. But which book did the dice pick?

Has anyone done the risk assessment for this rapture thing tomorrow? Like, does it work if we're indoors? Do we need to open windows? Think I'll go outside, just in case. wouldn't want to get stuck on the ceiling when the time comes.

A Brazilian drug raises hopes of reversing spinal cord injury. Scientists in São Paulo have developed a treatment based on the protein laminin. In animal trials, it reactivated dormant nerve pathways, restoring movement and sensation after paralysis. buff.ly/Jcj1euy #ShareGoodNewsToo

The masterworks edition has everything in it. As does the Best of Walter M Miller Jr (same book, diff title) Masterworks one is even a black spine!

THE GUNSLINGER ON THE BEACH (1982) Acrylic on Board - 28" x 18" The winter months of 1980-81 were tough. My wife and I became parents with the arrival of our daughter in November, and I needn't tell anyone who has children what that means in terms of lifestyle changes...like lack of sleep. 1/4

"Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky."

EXCESSION by Iain M. Banks hasn't been available in ebook format in the US for what seems like forever. So it was with an incredible amount of excitement that I saw it available as a digital ARC on @netgalley.bsky.social this morning. It's about time! Definitely my favorite of the Culture books.

📬 New #BookMail just landed on the 🚪 mat! This is @justinarobson.bsky.social’s “Natural History”. I first heard of this book from The @scifiscavenger.bsky.social over on #BookTube, and was reminded to check WoB following a recent episode 👇 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #SeptemberBookHaul 📦

It's the moon-sized ghosts we really have to worry about...

Shelf 13b of my science fiction library, all A-format paperbacks ranging from Vonda McIntyre to Larry Niven via Miller, Moon, Moorcock and Nagata. A haven of alphabetical order, an island in the choppy waters of chaos that is much of my library. #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Finished this at the weekend, a re-read after a gap of many years. Turns out i remembered v little about it! Scenes on the flotilla were excellent, as were the scenes in the mulch and the canopy of Chasm City. Enjoyed. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #revelationspace #nowreading

Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is often overshadowed by his legendary work for STAR WARS, but is absolutely deserving of a revisit! 1/2

In which I take a look at a bunch of timey-wimey SF books that I've enjoyed, plus a few more I'm looking forward to reading. Which is your favourite?,🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookrecommendations youtu.be/xteaaQxt6wI

In which I take a look at a bunch of timey-wimey SF books that I've enjoyed, plus a few more I'm looking forward to reading. Which is your favourite?,🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookrecommendations youtu.be/xteaaQxt6wI

Bit later on, I'll be looking at some fantastic timey-wimey books. 5.15pm UK time! 🪐📚

The JWST had a new look into the IC348 star forming region last year, and here's my processed image of that observation! 🔭 IC348 is located some 1,000 light years away from us and is made of hundreds of new stars born there. HD: flic.kr/p/2ruCvCz

George R. R. Martin was born on this day in 1948. Before he fell into obscurity and was never heard from again, he wrote some science fiction, and I covered Dying of the Light (1977) Tuf Voyaging (1986) here.

Keith Roberts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robert... was born on this day, so here are three covers and his interior art for one of his own stories (Artist: Keith Page, [couldn't identify], Diane & Leo Dillon and Keith Roberts):

New additions to the collection! Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology. Let me know your thoughts on the books -- > sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/09/19/u... #scifi #sciencefiction #books #cyberpunk

Two days left for the crowdfunder. Thanks to all the authors supported this book. @megelison.bsky.social @ph-low.com @jolantru.bsky.social @jomiles.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @effies.bsky.social You're the best! Click link to view or support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

Remembering the superlative writer and editor Keith Roberts, who was born on this day 1935. A fitting day therefore to be embarking on his 1968 book ‘Pavane’, which many still regard as not only his masterpiece but also one of the genre’s finest ‘alternative history’ novels.

Author and editor Damon Knight sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/knight... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Richard Powers, Peter Jones, Jack Gaughan and [uncredited]):

Our survival depends on where we are in these 'cylinders.' And those pushing fear are committing suicide. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2015/07/altr...

Happy Friday SF fans, welcome to the weekend! I take a look at the books I finished this week, channel news, comment of the week and a bunch o' other stuff too. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/xpjlT5dK6o4

Spotted in the Museum of Brands — a rare example of an official David Lynch tie-in.

I quite like the books that drop you in the deep end. A good book that does will slowly start to help you make the connections a recent one that worked for me was Rakesfall

The Society of Time AKA Times Without Number (1962) by John Brunner ✅ - possibly the first book I've ever read a third time. Three wonderful, economical, cleverly constructed time travel / alternate history stories set in a world in which the Spanish Armada triumphed in 1588.

For decades, science fiction authors have populated Alpha Centauri with habitable planets; now astronomers have found an exoplanet in one of the star system's habitable zones...but don't start packing just yet. reactormag.com/bad-news-fro...

Shelf 4b of my science fiction library. I've even read a few of them. Several tempting prospects among the yet-to-be-read. Which have you read? Any you'd recommend? 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #shelfie

I was asked earlier how many books I re-read. Answer not v many, much as I'd like to, I have too much exploring to do, too many other books on my shelves, even more not yet acquired. I worked out that my re-read rate this year so far is around 3%.🪐📚 #scifbooks #sciencefiction

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Sad that the @atticalocke.bsky.social shout-out got cut from this! But here it is anyway… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The MRM is a really great visit, btw, well worth a trip, plus there other boaty museum delights nearby.

Although The Essence (coming soon from NewCon Press, ‘a rollercoaster of a novel in two hundred and ten rip-roaring chapters’) is ‘Enchanting’.

Shelf 4b of my science fiction library. I've even read a few of them. Several tempting prospects among the yet-to-be-read. Which have you read? Any you'd recommend? 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #shelfie