SALE! 🇬🇧 Grab yourself a Great British spy series up to 66% off. Click https://bgfn.sh/steed25 to assemble your Avengers audio drama collection. Offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 9 November 2025.

Also a good time to check ALL of your Bluesky moderation settings A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action

Late to the party today Daily deal on Kindred by Octavia Butler. 99p. Essential. www.amazon.co.uk/Kindred-grou... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Not available as ebook on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social #UKSFFBookBargains

Also there’s over 40 million Americans on food stamps. That’s well over 10% of the population. Not a ringing endorsement of Capitalism by any stretch.

382) Hedgebot. Before you light a bonfire, investigates the interior for hedgehogs and then shepherds any it finds to a safer location. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Why this stupid feed won't show parts with links escapes me #UKSFFBookBargains Anyone know how to fettle Bluesky feeds?

And another #UKSFFBookBargains. Today as a Kindle daily deal we have book three of the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennet. Quite why book 3 escapes me. I don't remember the others coming up. www.amazon.co.uk/City-Miracle... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Missing from bookshop.org

So @lizbethmyles.bsky.social @paulcornell.bsky.social 5 minute episodes on your favourite book of each year?

Lets have another #UKSFFBookBargains thread, this time looking at Kobo, and where available, @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social Reminder, I have created a feed for the hashtag, where you'd be able to find the Amazon version.

8K GIVEAWAY! Win books from @csecooney.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social an early ARC from @authortrmoore.bsky.social & more! Like, follow, repost and drop a book 📙 in the comments to enter! Ends 23:59 GMT on 13/10/25. Open to UK & IE, CAN & US only.

Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler - might be an awards contender next year? www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Axe-Bu... Naomi Alderman's The Future has a blurb quote from Alastair Reynolds, although IIRC reviews were mixed? www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BY3ZFZK1/

Amazon version of the #UKSFFBookBargains monthly thread follows. Reminder, I have created a feed, with the same name, which would enable you to follow the hashtag. It only has posts from the past few days, so may sometimes be blank. Search and it will be found. Kobo version will follow.

#UKSFFBookBargains Does not show as reduced on Kobo, but they don't update monthly deals as quickly, so check again later. Not available as ebook on @bookshop.org

Even before checking for Monthly deals, Stone and Sky, the most recent Rivers of London novel by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is a #UKSFFBookBargains. Daily deal, 99p, today only.

🎃UK GIVEAWAY!🎃 It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com#seasonofthewitch! Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter. Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25

Fat Otter!

And today in random encounters with children: A lady dropping her daughter off at swimming lesson who compliments me on my Helsinki Worldcon shirt. She is pleased to hear about @dublin2029.bsky.social and perhaps we will see each other there.

And the RuneQuest Starter Set is on sale from Chaosium: was $29.99 now $19.99 (price inc PDF)

Children of Men is definitely a #UKSFFBookBargains deal. And the others are good as well, even if they're a different genre.

I have done a thing. There is now a UKSFFBookBargains Bluesky feed This might even be a link to it. bsky.app/profile/nick... If you like cheap books please consider pinning it, sharing it and posting using the #UKSFFBookBargains hashtag.

And today's episode of #StrangeNewWorlds really could have been called 'Those Who Beam Up From Omelas'

This is also a #UKSFFBookBargains related experiment, but hey, if you're reading this, there are some great discounted books in the thread.

@skyfeed.app (not sure the best way to ask for help) I'm trying to create a hashtag based feed. Your app is far easier to follow that bsky's own help page. However, all the posts I've made which include a link aren't coming up. Established bsky feeds have posts with links in. Can I correct this?

This is a #UKSFFBookBargains related experiment

@scalzi.com I remember you saying that listening to one of your books on audio had driven you to change your dialog style, since there was just too much he said, he said, he said... Was that Redshirts? I'm listening now and can't help noticing what I'd missed entirely when I read it.

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff Block, move on.

Ok, going to try Strange New Worlds.

I go up to the press office receptionist, who hurriedly hides the book she is reading - a volume on Nazi propaganda techniques. Now, you could say "well, it's of interest in the history of blah blah blah" but no one in that office says, "Hey, maybe don't read a Nazi how-to guide at work."? (2/2)

OK, time for this story again. 2011, I'm writing a story on Alex Jones' listeners convincing the Texas Film Commission to withhold incentives for Robert Rodriguez's Machete. I go to then-Gov. Rick Perry's office to pick up documents from an open records request ... (1/2)

#UKSFFBookBargains Free book in the UK. And I understand the US and probably the rest of the world. I have never heard of it before.

This is sooo my jam and it may be yours too Big recommend for one of my favourite reads of the decade (@ruthmiranda.bsky.social I think you'd enjoy this!)

In the UK, Waterstones have a 25% off pre-order sale including some of my books, using the code OCTOBER25. The following are in the deal: Bee Speaker (paperback): tidd.ly/42Z03Cw Lives of Bitter Rain: tidd.ly/3VVn6dG Pretenders to the Throne of God: tidd.ly/46WjEEJ

@bryan-talbot.bsky.social Paul Singha came from Sunderland tonight, with mentions of Brian and Alice www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Heads up: as pointed out to me by @attenuated.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social's SHROUD is on US ebook sale for $3, so I got some. But since this is my favorite hard SF book this year, I also got 6 to give out now. #KindleBookGiveaway

@nataliehaynes.bsky.social Pronunciation question. I am currently listening to Stone Blind, and enjoying it. Athene is so snarky. I headed someone on R4 a bit back saying Per-say-us rather than the familiar Percy-us you use. Is that a legit Greek pronunciation?

The idea that you should only be able to use a doctor's website while they're in the office is truly absurd.

This might be a better post to amplify, really.

This weeks' sale is the Castle Federation series Ex-flagship Avalon is off for one last tour - but her last tour may yet define her new crew! Space Carrier Avalon is free until Friday mybook.to/scavalon Stellar Fox is 0.99 in the US and UK until Friday mybook.to/stellarfox Check it out and enjoy!

Kindle Daily Deal throws up several #UKSFFBookBargains Oryx and Crake by @margaretatwood.bsky.social, a post apocalyptic world overrun by genetically engineered weirdness. 99p, one day only. www.amazon.co.uk/Crake-Maddad... Not reduced on Kobo, not an ebook on @bookshop.org

I'm not a biblical scholar, but I think "Don't take the Lord's name in vain" is less about yelling "Jesus effing Christ!" when you stub your toe, and more about calling yourself a "Christian" while starving the hungry, denying medicine to the sick, and being violently hostile to immigrants.

Wonders why @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social has invented a new rank in the Luxembourgish monarchy. It's Grand Duke. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

There is still one copy left! www.amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee...

Very well! Because it's so good, and becuase @tkingfisher.com promoted it, here are 5 UK/IE Kindle copies of Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel). This is a *great* book. There is SMITING. By people who would fit right into a fireman's calendar. #KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGIveaway

#UKSFFBookBargains Third of the month and third day with something on the Kindle daily deals. Paladin's Grace by @tkingfisher.com fort 99p. One day only. I need to read these. Not sure about the new cover. www.amazon.co.uk/Paladins-Gra... Not discounted on Kobo, not an ebook on @bookshops.org