Finished Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social and my goodness, what a fascinating and prescient examination of AI & automation. Such a funny - but simultaneously insightful - book. The protagonist is such a perfect choice for the role, and yet wholly unsuited to it. Cannot recommend enough!

Some more award news - delighted to find that Li Keqin’s translation of City of Last Chances has won the Best Translated Work in this year’s Chinese Galaxy Awards.

post a female character you like olli timo from @aptshadow.bsky.social's 'final architecture' trilogy. an ass-kicking disability rights icon, and probably my favorite human character in all of scifi lit.

Some lovely news. The audiobook for Bee Speaker (narrators myself, Rod Hallet, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain) is on the shortlist for a British Audio Award. www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

Edits still: usually by the proofing stage I'm very over a book, but this one (and previous works in this Tyrant Philosophers series) still grips me. I'm at the point everything comes together for the last act, as I re-read, and I am extremely happy with how all the pieces mesh.

ICYMI the latest episode of Starship Alexandria is live, in which @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss the movie Battle Beyond The Stars. starshipalexandria.com/episode-6-ba... It's a cosy, nerdy chat, with zero stakes and lots of laughter. I hope it helps to give respite and comfort x

Also, for patrons, we look at Miller's A Canticle for Liebowitz!

Battle Beyond the Stars! My recommendation to Emma for this month's Starship Alexandria. Did she like it? Only one way to find out! (No, not "Fight!")

Hey friends, if you're in THE NORTH (and why wouldn't you be?) then the agency who rep me, Johnson and Alcock, and @newwritingnorth.bsky.social are running a competition for emerging writers with a 2.5k prize and it opens in November. newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...

Hello! Today is my birthday 🎉🍰� Can I kindly ask for a RT as a gift today? It would mean the world if you could share my art ❤️ As always, thank you all who've supported my work. I apreciate all of your words, can't thank you enough! #dnd #art

Published today! Order WHO WILL YOU SAVE? by Gareth L Powell from your favourite bookseller. #books

Edits still, but there are some nice moments when you sit back from the nth re-read of your own work to think, "actually there are moments when I turn out a decent line."

This up next, a short story collection by @justinarobson.bsky.social author of, among others, Natural History, Mappa Mundi and Silver Screen. Contains a story "Legolas Does the Dishes" which sounds most intriguing. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

Just finished listening to another banger by @aptshadow.bsky.social Bee Speaker was incredible. So thankful to have had another adventure into the Dogs of War series. Yall get on this

Professional misconduct insurance rates must be through the roof about now.

Tonight at 8pm I'll be chatting to @aptshadow.bsky.social LIVE on YouTube for @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social youtube.com/live/mkqu-Hj...

Book Review: Libes of Bitter Rain by @aptshadow.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Slay the spire post: sweetest of victories in the daily: beating Timekeeper with a shiv deck, without Accuracy or any strength gain.

Has anything gone out about World Fantasycon programming yet?

Doing proofs - very final go over a book before print. 90% correcting punctuation, verb tenses and echo words. 10% sudden revelations about superior wording.

The Hungry Gods @aptshadow.bsky.social SF novella set on a depleted, poisoned earth, telling a parable about the risks of concentrating too much power in the hands of hubristic tech moguls. It's an enjoyable read with a satisfying ending and some rather spectacular set pieces. Recommended

Some more older pics - this is Permian Gangs of New York.

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

Back from 6 days in Bulgaria having a wonderful time at Bulgacon and associated events. Bulgarian covers to Time/Ruin are amazing.

This Saturday!

“Sometimes action is all we have, to stave off despair.” - from SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social

Our next fabulous panellist is @aptshadow.bsky.social! Adrian's latest release is The Hungry Gods, which follows Amri, a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the blasted landscape of a shattered, poisoned world. Until the Gods returned.

Age verification: nowhere does that good fried trilobite any more.

You want free comics? I got free comics...! If you subscribe to my patreon.com/pauljholden you can read this in full colour (so far!) Terran Omega Page 2-3

AND AND.... I could never ignore my beloved LEEDS so pop down to Waterstones on the 9th of October where me and other local boy @aptshadow.bsky.social will be joined by outcomer @davewragg.com to talk about Brilliant Worlds. www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

Wanted to some fan art of the novel “Alien Clay” by @aptshadow.bsky.social. I recommend this book if you like Scavengers Reign or Annihilation. #illustration #fanart #AlienClay #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart

This has crept up on me! Gnomes of Lychford is out on Tuesday! The new Lychford book, I think the best, and, weirdly, a great jumping-on point! torpublishinggroup.com/gnomes-of-ly...

Shroud @aptshadow.bsky.social A ship from a corpocratic,end state capitalism dystopia finds a peculiar biosphere with no visible light,juxtaposing the darkness on both sides.Tchaikovsky is at his best writing the 'other',conveying alien qualia in an accessible way,& does so superbly here. V.good

Honestly this (the Meta additions below the image) exemplifies the utter idiocy of FB’s obligatory AI additions. Questions nobody would ask, posed by an app that understands nothing. Like a restaurant where one in three meals comes randomly garnished with a used sock.

Finished reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Shards Of Earth: The Final Architecture: Book One." amzn.to/40aul3G 📖🚀 Well, this was one heavy, rich, inventive, and ultimately engaging and epic #HardSciFi #SpaceOpera story. Book 2 soon. #ScienceFiction #SciFi @aptshadow.bsky.social @orbitbooks.bsky.social

I feel this is what my Slay The Spire posts look like to people who don’t play the game.

I don't imagine Blizzard is looking for another World of Warcraft variant/restart, but I always felt that the neutral stuff going on outside Horde and Alliance felt really interesting. The goblin factions, the pirates, all the rogues and go-between profiting off the war without taking sides...

At last I know what to do with my army of giant ants.

pass the word. Publishers pay you.

Fascinating (and spot on) little essay on Service Model and how it relates to the real world.

That was quite the journey @aptshadow.bsky.social I already miss Olli. Probably the best series I've read this year.

So I swear this isn't just because @kierongillen.bsky.social was saying nice things about Service Model recently, but instead prompted by the arrival of volume 2 of The Power Fantasy, so I've been re-reading book 1. And if you haven't, you really should. It's one of the best comics I read maybe...

This is an extraordinary book, highly recommended.

The Kickstarter for Ersatz is LIVE! Consider supporting the production of a solo-animated indie pilot! When a nameless amnesiac wakes up in a bunker, they're immediately thrust into the trenches of an endless war. Trailer below 🌟

Hello #booksky! Today marks two years since we set up this account, so we have done our first starter pack! This is authors we know and have been to store, authors we read, authors we think should be included. To be added to as I notice who has been missed. go.bsky.app/JcSXPVv

New project started, one chapter done. Main first impression is this will be the one to break my spellchecker.

Chirp has all 3 of @aptshadow.bsky.social’s Architects books for under $5 (audiobooks). www.chirpbooks.com/purchases/ne...

As it's currently #invertefest I've unearthed some old art and I give you... the palaeozoic invertebrates of the revolution! Part of a sequence of historical/palaeofauna images I did a while back.

Just in time for Labour Day, our list of stories depicting labour unions in science fiction and fantasy has reached 250 entries. Thanks to @joachimboaz.bsky.social for all the help on this. List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... List as Google Doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/