Hi folks, new video 🎬! Some new acquisitions for my groaning shelves. Some new books, some fancy editions, and some in-the-wild-finds. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul 📚🪐💙 youtu.be/9lyNjMpxvJc

Spent my solitary remaining Audible credit on this, ensuring value for money. It's 56 hours long! Might take me a while to get through... #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 📚🪐🩵

Finished this, a good follow up to TMOG and it teed up the finale pretty well. Not as accessible as The Expanse, perhaps, but I'm enjoying the Captives War so far. Solid space opera fun. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera

I'm onto this next, a post-apocalyptic tale and allegedly a stone-cold classic. Let's see. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 📚🪐

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a look at some new releases out now or coming soon. See if you can spot the deliberate mistake. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/HXIGgDRFHpA

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a look at some new releases out now or coming soon. See if you can spot the deliberate mistake. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/HXIGgDRFHpA

I talk a bit about James Blish's "Spock Must Die!" and souls. latestartrek.substack.com/p/spock-must...

“In the dust in the dark words are waiting” “I have read the skies, I have read the river” “I have read the birdsong, and the fall of leaves” “I have read the blood, and the ploughing of the fields” "The dust tells the story“ Wishing @jeffnoon.bsky.social a very happy book birthday.

Righto, this next in actual book. I quite enjoyed The Mercy of Gods, hope I can remember enough about it to go straight into this one. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera 📚🪐💙

I really enjoyed this. Jeep is a very interesting world, an interstellar colony isolated for hundreds of years meets recently arrived explorers. A virus has made Jeep an all woman planet. Tbh, even as a guy, I didn't miss the men! Splendid. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 📚 🪐 💙

Hi Folks, I take a look at the origins, development and surprisingly rapid end of Cyberpunk as a literary phenomenon. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐🩵 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #booktube youtu.be/UeCJF7sLI4U

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a look at the origins and evolution of cyberpunk, your favourite neon corner of SF. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #cyberpunk youtu.be/UeCJF7sLI4U

My 25 yr old daughter is heading off to look at a 1st car purchase. A fairly sensible lass generally, she is nonetheless unaccountably very excited by the fact that it is shocking pink 💗. Mileage, cost, service history, make, model, are not decision factors, it seems. 🤷‍♂️

Ammonite up next and 70 pages in, consider me hooked. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 📚 🪐 💙

A new ion engine has been tested in a lab, proving itself to be 25 times more powerful than NASA's current state-of-the-art one. This advanced technology could one day assist humans in reaching Mars. 🧪

“A warm, affecting tale of imagination, experience, and home, alight with wonder, and generous to even its most flawed characters.” SFX, 4.5 star review Out on May 12th, the fantastic new book from @jeffnoon.bsky.social. "One of the great masters of weird fiction" @aptshadow.bsky.social

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a look back at the science fiction I read in April, tier-rank them, then declare a book of the month. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/MIWaUKjlueM

Pleasing round number, but not as pleasing as it will be at 10,000. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a look back at the science fiction I read in April, tier-rank them, then declare a book of the month. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/MIWaUKjlueM

Charity shop find. Looks unread to me.

About 150 pages to go, tremendous fun so far.

Hi Folks, new video! I suggest some great sci-fi books that fans of the recent box office smash might like to read. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #phm #projecthailmary youtu.be/CcKWHmNxbio

Hi Folks, new video! I suggest some great sci-fi books that fans of the recent box office smash might like to read. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #phm #projecthailmary youtu.be/CcKWHmNxbio

Alright, finally getting to this one after so many people nagged me to do so. Looking forward to it! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 📚 🪐 💙

In case you missed it.

Thank you to @gabino.bsky.social for the SUPERB review of Jitterbug in this month's Locus magazine! Jitterbug is out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social and available everywhere!

Frankly obscene quantity of books in May's haul. Video coming in mid-month. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul

Probably over-ambitious sci-fi TBR pile for May. Pretty good range, looking forward to getting stuck in! Any that you think I should prioritise? 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #tbr

This is first off the TBR pile for May's reading. I think this is the only one of his novels I haven't yet read. A cheery post-Brexit tale told from 250 years in the future. Or something like that. 📚🪐🩵 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #tbr #nowreading

Finished this, somewhat to my surprise, almost none of it is set on or near Orbitsville, we're mostly back on a much changed Earth, 200 years after most people buggered off to the Big O. Less sensawunder than the original, still pretty good. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

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Hi Folks, new video 👀! Join me as I let the fates choose my reads for May. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #tbr 🪐📚💙 youtu.be/ttY6tV30Z4A

This next in actual book, sequel to Shaw's Big Dumb Object classic. Set 200 years later, short and sweet, last of my planned reads for April, should just about fit it in. 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Finished this earlier. Very fascinating future depicted very well. Reminded me a bit of Sterling's Schismatrix. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

If the geezer from The Darkness was a vampire.

Hi Folks, new video 📹! I take a look back at my 3rd year on the choob. Stats, ££, popular videos, that kinda of thang. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #channelupdate youtu.be/5pjSG-yJQzY

New oil painting process video up. youtu.be/RRKvsV1tMs0 #DarkShepherd #book #writing #concept #SciFi #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev

Hi Folks, new video 📹! I take a look back at my 3rd year on the choob. Stats, ££, popular videos, that kinda of thang. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #channelupdate youtu.be/5pjSG-yJQzY

I feel I ought to take down the outside Xmas lights soon, before it becomes easier to leave them up till next time...

Finished this earlier, final part of Kindom trilogy. I listened to all three as they arrived and I've thoroughly enjoyed the story arc. Very engaging characters, an age-old story of rebellion, loyalty, love and betrayal, and narrated very well to boot. 📚🪐💙 #spaceopera #sciencefiction #nowreading

Picked this up on audiobook next. Not on my planned tbr for either April or May. Oops. 🕷🦐🌎📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Did we really need another re-make?

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! In celebration of our shared 3rd channiversary, Richard (of VintageSF) and I do very civilised battle over books. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/6CbJylhTlR4

Finished this yesterday. A slow descent into unhinged madness involving numerous dead cats, copious amounts of fried liver, re-re-enactments, an accidental bank heist and plenty more. V interesting debut novel. 📚🪐💙 #nowreading

Hi Folks, new video 🎥! In celebration of our shared 3rd channiversary, Richard (of VintageSF) and I do very civilised battle over books. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/6CbJylhTlR4

On to this next, already pretty strange. In a good way. 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Couple of hardback arrivals, both Crack (on and collect) upgrades from the recent Back, Sack or Crack shelf audit episode. V nice. ##scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Whoah. The many, many permutations of a single deck of 52 cards given some sense of scale. 52 factorial (52!) is 52x51x50x49x48x47x...x3x2x1. youtube.com/shorts/L0nmx...

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I happened to finish Alien Embassy (1977) in the week that we learned Ian Watson has died. Here is my new essay on the novel, about astral projection and set in Tanzania, Miami, and Tibet.