Here's a new episode of Starship Alexandria in which our @aptshadow.bsky.social shares his thoughts on my recommendation "Do You Dream of Terra-Two?" by Temi Oh. Apologies for this being late. The heat is doing its best to kill me. starshipalexandria.com/episode-15-d...

This is so gratifying, really proud of this book helmed by @paulcornell.bsky.social , written by the amazing @aptshadow.bsky.social and lettered and coloured by the mighty Bowlands @pippabowland.bsky.social and @simonbowland.bsky.social (I did the inky bits in-between)

Academia is classic game and metagame. The ‘game’ is acquiring skills and knowle by dge so you can produce a paper , the metagame is ‘producing a paper’ and that’s all you’re marked on, hence cheating and shortcutting that means you win the metagame while opting out of the game.

I don't see any option to disable killer, only 'yes' and 'maybe later'

This was just plain delightful - what a great way to start the weekend. @aptshadow.bsky.social #booksky #theroarofthecrowd #adriantchaikovsky

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Here's an offer that's surely too good to miss? The Best of British SF/F bundle. storybundle.com/blog/2026bes... You'll spot The Green Man's Heir, and Fight like a Girl #2 from @wtpress.bsky.social Looking at the roster I'm thinking, 'read that, it's great, ooh, so's that, and that, and that...' 😁

I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Best of British bundle today! storybundle.com/bestof w/ @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & more! Just $30 for 15 books! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated!

This is Terrible Worlds no. 9, and the second in the ‘Transformations’ set after Saturation Point. All of them are independent insofar as character and setting go, but each trio has a theme.

We've got our lucky little mitts on an advance copy of PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, @aptshadow.bsky.social 's latest installment in his multi award-winning, thematically linked series of standalone TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas! Aug 2026. Preorder in signed limited run hardback, e & audio: geni.us/preachtc

Picture narrative is that the human really wasn't sure the neanderthal would like it, but it was exactly what he'd always wanted.

'Endlessly creative . . . so much invention peeking around every corner' @patricknessbooks.bsky.social #TyrantPhilosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social#TyrantPhilosophers, series finale #TheGraveOfPerfection coming soon Shop the series: http://amzn.to/4rdC0tK

Amazing Polish cover for Children of Memory.

In Green City Wars, a raccoon PI named Skotch must find a mouse without losing his own pelt. Why this mouse? That's just one of many questions. @aptshadow.bsky.social builds an intriguing world with sly references to Flowers for Algernon, Downton Abbey, and 1970s scifi classics I won't spoil for you

2026 #Hugo book nominee SHROUD by @aptshadow.bsky.social follows two humans who crash on a high-gravity moon and struggle to reunite with their expedition. Amazingly well-written: the hard science is fascinating, with alien life fitting logically into a harsh, dark environment. #Books #Booksky

Broken Binding, who produce some of the most beautiful editions, are publishing some new work from @paulcornell.bsky.social - always welcome! www.thebrokenbindingpublishing.com/news/paul-co...

Still grumbling feel that if your ttrpg advertises a ‘medieval world’ then it should be less ‘riding a dragon over a flying island to fight demon hordes’ and more ‘knowing when the feast day of your guild’s patron saint is.’

Then I picked up Gigs, which has the praise of @aptshadow.bsky.social, @kierongillen.bsky.social and other heroes of the people. Basically it imagines a future where we all have to do whatever gigs society demands to survive. And it’s so damn good. @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith, YES.

Just want to remind all y'all that there is a Bsky starter pack of the 2026 Hugo Award finalists so you can follow them all with relative ease. Handy tool that I hope @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social and @brisbane28.org will emulate.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... ATRAPOS is coming soon, my most thoroughly autistic game yet, filled with poetry, hot+sad people and the kind of subtext that Garth Marenghi would call cowardice.

Guided tours to a neo gothic cemetery, venue has a brewery, guests are *lit* and it’s in Portugal! What a fab way to do end September in 2027! Next year’s Eurocon looks absolutely amazing Everyone should come forumfantastico.org/ec_membershi... @aptshadow.bsky.social @sillysarasue.bsky.social

Just finished ENGINES OF REASON, the (unexpected! to me!) ELDER RACE follow-up from @aptshadow.bsky.social, and I remain in awe of Tchaikovsky's sheer talents across genres and lengths and forms. One of the very best to ever play the game. (Also, I hope we get several or at least one more of these.)

"another winner from Tchaikovsky. It is science fiction drawing on the noir tradition that uses its animal characters to shine a light on humanity." Robert Goodman reviews Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel Green City Wars: newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/adrian-tchai... @aptshadow.bsky.social #BookSky 💙 📚️

'An intriguing tangle, dense, dark, ingenious, ironic, complex, often funny, and always smart' @locusmag.bsky.social #TyrantPhilosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social#TyrantPhilosophers, series finale #TheGraveOfPerfection coming soon Shop the series: amzn.to/4rdC0tK

And is there anything @aptshadow.bsky.social in the sale this month? Of course there is. I think it's a rule. Dragonfly Rising is the second in the Shadows of the Apt series. I haven't read it, but I haven't read one of his books I've disliked. I will read it. www.amazon.co.uk/Dragonfly-Fa...

Just finished Green City Wars by @aptshadow.bsky.social and I really enjoyed it! If a raccoon detective isn't enough for you: it's dark, funny, and very hard to put down. The dialog is sharp, and the world building makes it feel incredibly lived-in. You should read this.

Really looking forward to taking part in this event in Leeds in August with @ianthegreen.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social and @rtorrubia.com It’s going to be great! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

@aptshadow.bsky.social Just finished Children of Strife and I can't say enough good things about this entire series. It introduced so many interesting ideas into my head, least of which is pondering how other space-faring species would function. So much fun.

Super proud of this story and damn grateful to be in this anthology. Check it out: a.co/d/0eqsZQjz

Obviously one does not take Slay the Spire dailies as omens for how the day’s going to go but I just got a one-round kill on Timekeeper so who knows…

My thoughts are that I really want to turn the left one onto its feet so I guess I pass the Voight-Kampff test.

'Paints a vivid detailed backdrop' @sfxmagazine.bsky.social #TyrantPhilosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social#TyrantPhilosophers Shop the series: https://amzn.to/4rdC0tK

"Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta sunk what will soon be over a trillion dollars into AI data centers because they don’t have any other ideas" www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Archaeologists are mystified by finds of a pile of birdseed, remains of a wooden prop and, nearby, the crushed bones of a coyote or similar animal.

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because MADE THINGS @aptshadow.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle US for today only! amzn.to/4aobWFW #MadeThings #ad #amazoncom

This was way back but I still get this approach occasionally amongst the deluge of more sophisticated scams and I feel a fond nostalgia when I encounter it now.

Email received via website: “I just wanted to make sure I am reaching the right person. Are you the author of Green City Wars?” Which should be fairly obvious from the website so I’m thinking it’s initial contact for a scam. Anyone else had this format of contact?

"'And who are you to adress me, slave?', Ebris of the Ganbrodiel demanded. 'The future', said Stenwold, and pulled the trigger." - "The Sea Watch" by @aptshadow.bsky.social was great again, with similair themes as the previous book in the series. Also: "'...just mad as a clam.' A brief moment of 1/

Today's Audible Daily Deal is Days of Shattered Faith by @aptshadow.bsky.social - part of the Tyrant Philosophers series and highly recommended www.audible.co.uk/pd/Days-of-S...

Really good Audible #UKSFFBookBargains today with Days of Shattered Faith by @aptshadow.bsky.social only £1.99. Kobo might price match. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D84DWWQ... The Tyrant Philosophers books are great but so is David Thorpe's reading. Can't recommend enough.

Final day!! P.S. Please preorder and tell your Magnus Archives or at least your weirdest friends to preorder, this is my first ever tie-in novvle and am I nervous that I did a terrible job? Yes. Am I concerned about becoming a subject of The Eye? Also yes.

If people want signed copies of my and Peter F Hamilton's new books (and a selection of older ones) you can go to Goldsboro Books, Forbidden Planet, Waterstones Trafalgar and Piccadilly and Foyles (all London) along with Waterstones Canterbury and, shortly, Lincoln. FP ship internationally.

SIGNED @aptshadow.bsky.social ! Woo! and also..... Hoo! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

I have a story in this Oz collection too!

Just realised that the scientist here sounds exactly like Uncharles.

Lovely review of the newly released Green City Wars.

I hadn’t seen this piece before, it’s hilarious

Along with the prior repost of UK being halfway to net zero and Australia getting free electricity from renewables there are a lot of these quiet victories going on. The fossil fuel industry is in full thrash and thunder trying to assert how irreplaceable it is but inch by inch we’re getting there.

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...