I take a look at the many works of Chris Beckett, award winning author of Dark Eden and The Turing Test among others. Minimum rockets, maximum humanity. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting youtu.be/dUr0Vr30w_k

Righto, this next. Seen the movie, obvs, but never read the book. I am curious to see how it differs to the Nolan version. I've loved what I've read of Christopher Priest's so far, so my expectations are high! 🪐📚💙🪄 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Progress through November's planned TBR pile. Four down, six to go. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #tbr

Well, quite.

Putting the finishing touches to a video looking at the very human, social SF of Chris Beckett, one of 🇬🇧's best living science fiction writers and all round lovely chap. Out later on today. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

The audio for EXISTENCE used three great readers making terrific distinction among the many characters. Now I’m happy to announce a refresh of the audio of HEART OF THE COMET, my collaboration with Gregory Benford. Especially as comets are much in the news. www.downpour.com/products/boo...

Embarked on ‘Inverted World’ over the last few days & it had me hooked from the opening chapters. I’ve still some way to go of course, but I’m already thinking that it’s likely to end up as one of my top 5 reads of the year. My first novel by this fine author - & I’ll certainly be seeking out more…

I very much enjoyed this one too. What are you waiting for? 🪐📚💙 #scifbooks #sciencefiction #spaceopera

This is fab, btw, having a great time. Think more than Bear Head, even, but then I'm a sucker for the end of the world. 🪐📚💙

Random thought today. SF books with moving cities. Can you think of any? Here's a few to prime the pump: Inverted World The Quantum Thief Cities in Flight Absolution Gap Mortal Engines. Any others? 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction

No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my... Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)

This next on audiobook, continuing my gradual re-read of the Revelation Space books. Cathedrals on rails, or something, i seem to recall. 🤷‍♂️🪐📚💙🚀 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera

Ben Bova sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bova_ben was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jack Faragasso, Chris Moore, Chris Moore and David Mattingly):

No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Finished this earlier on, mostly audiobook. Was interesting to read a re-framing of a familiar story. Bean's early life, his troubles in Battle School, his unseen support of Ender and a glimpse into what follows for him after the defeat of the Formics. Pretty good. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction

What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...

Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie

The hiatus is over, and the self-replicating machines are on the loose - this week's article and podcast ep cover John Sladek's anarchic, comic debut SF novel The Reproductive System, AKA Mechasm (1968).

REVIEW: “WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED is a future classic. It’s another essential book from an author who is building a reputation for saying the hard things in inventive, new, stylish, challenging, and remarkable ways.” Full review 👇🏻 fanfiaddict.com/review-where... @orionbooks.bsky.social

Cover reveal for Reality Rift. #Concept #darkshepherd #SciFi #coverart #scifiart #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev

What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...

Seems the collective noun for bears is a sloth of bears. So now we know.

Had to manage what I can buy due to the sheer volume of hobby stuff I want, but I’ve kept two new science fiction releases on preorder New Claire North - Slow Gods New M R Carey - Outlaw Planet 🪐📚💙 #scifi #sciencefiction

Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie

Rather handsome arrivals via PS Publishing's special offer site. Noice. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #limitededitions #bookhaul

Ending a week of fine short stories with Samuel R. Delany’s ‘Driftglass’, a tale concerning humans who have been biologically modified to live & work in the ocean depths. A fine character study & all rather beautifully written - amazing to think that this story ranks amongst his earliest work.

📆 Ooo, I like that rapid release cadence! 🤗 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

High Noon in the Tangle Wood.

Remembering author & curator/librarian David I. Masson, born OTD 1915. A frequent contributor to New Worlds magazine, Masson’s stories were later assembled in the 1968 volume ‘The Caltraps of Time’. His 1965 debut ‘Travellers Rest’ was a huge influence on a young & aspiring Christopher Priest.

This up next. Having enjoyed Ender's Game back in the day, I am intrigued to read essentially the same story but from Bean's perspective. 🚀🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #battleschool

I take a look at all 11 books I read in October, rank 'em mercilessly and ultimately declare a book of the month! Check it out 👀! 🪐📚🩵 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #wrapup #booktube youtu.be/Zy5Y3BJ_4as

This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.

Blew through this today, tag-teamed it with audiobook and paperback on my commute. I really enjoyed it, very clever time-travelly paradoxy loopy stuff. One of his better novels I reckon. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #asimov

Very happy to receive not one, not two, but three books off my wishlist today, courtesy of Allan, a regular viewer. Very kind of him and very lovely for me! Smashing. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookhaul

A slightly more rambling post than normal. Post-FantasyCon and straight back into work, my brain is well and truly fried.

Aside from being scruffy northerners, we've built our reputation on the strength of our historical fiction the last couple of years. Well, we also love the weird and wonderful as well! Have you had a look at any of these 2025 releases yet?

I take a look at all 11 books I read in October, rank 'em mercilessly and ultimately declare a book of the month! Check it out 👀! 🪐📚🩵 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #wrapup #booktube youtu.be/Zy5Y3BJ_4as

The race for reality has begun in @caspargeon.bsky.social's THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN! "Fans of Ian M. Banks should run not walk to pick up this groundbreaking, headlong rush through realities, space and time." @catrionaward.bsky.social Buy now: geni.us/immeasurable

If you haven't already read these books, do, highly recommended. Spy thriller meets SF and a very different geopolitical landscape.

This Asimov classic up next. Will love overcome the Time Technician's training, and can he free humanity from the interfering do-gooders of Eternity? Let's see. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Well this was fun, a full-on Vernian romp with proper Englishmen, dastardly Frenchies, pesky Prussians & even anarchists. Baxter inserts a more serious tone into the final act as the prospect of anti-ice war looms. Most unlike his other early works. Fun. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Looks like they still have some (where some is >=1) so be quick!

I gather the Mythago anthology did well at the con recently. I haven't read the original but did score a lovely signed slipcase edition of the anthology on the PS2 site for 25 quid. It's a file copy I think, so not in the numbered run, but still. pspublishing2.com/heartwood-si...

A chapter title to gladden the heart of any red-blooded Victorian gentleman! Achieved with clockwork navigation and water as reaction mass. What-ho! Now we just have to find some water on the moon to get back to Blighty. Baxter had a lot of fun writing this, I'd guess. #scifibooks #sciencefiction

Meant to record my wrap-up for October this evening but I find I'm woefully unprepared, plus I need to go for a drive with #4 child who has her test in a month or two. Suspect I wont get it done tonight. Tomorrow then. Sigh. YouTuber problems eh?

A message from Graham Sleight and myself concerning the "Wonders and Visions" project: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/wonders-an...

Just noticed that the ebook editions of my recent novels (Beyond the Burn Line, War of the Maps, Austral etc) are just £2.99 at the moment. Lots of links here: www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk/print.html