This lovely book has been published as a memorial to the much missed Doctor Who/Star Trek/Space 1999 (and many others) author David A McIntee. I have a short story, Murder at the White Russian Club, which ties in to David's novel, The Shadow of Wen-Chiang. www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Title-...

Archives. Thanks to you all! To celebrate this huge anniversary, we’ll be announcing a special Archive crossing the boundary between the Black & Silver Archives later, but in the meantime, this code will knock 10% off any Archive throughout April tenyearanniversary Here’s to the next decade!

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social wrote a magical story about a young shy boy who had a dream to meet David Bowie. His wish results in a magical day set around the film Labyrinth. The book is available to buy from @obversebooks.co.uk obversebooks.co.uk/product/star...

A (Black/Silver) Archive Special to celebrate 10 years of the Archives, you say? Watch this space…

Nominated in science fiction for the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards: AS A KANG SHOULD BE by @dalesmithonline.com (@obversebooks.co.uk). Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2026

Who wants to read a lovely review of my latest @obversebooks.co.uk #IrisWildthyme novel Nobody's Sweetheart Now and then rush off to buy 15 copies of it for family and friends? danieltessier.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

I used to feel bad for Star Wars droids. People were so mean to them when they’re just lil guys doing their best, doing what they’re programmed to do. Now that we have genAI, I get it. If ChatGPT had a metal body and followed me around, I’d probably try to nudge it into a ditch.

That's us closed for our holidays - feel free to order books - please do, in fact! - but we won't be able to send them out until early April!

Noticing a worrying trend this morning for people to claim Twitter is somehow improving recently and we should all give it another chance. It hasn't improved, it's still a cesspit of misogynists, grifters, racists, transphobes, MAGA morons and kiddie porn, and we should not give it another chance.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

It's WORLD BOOK DAY, so here's a 10% off voucher for any book on the Obverse website. WBD2026 obversebooks.co.uk (and now I'm off to send @nickmcampbell.bsky.social a nice, neatly copy-edited version of his BEYOND THE ANNUAL YEARS book!)

Gay detectives sounds right up our street!

The Stones of Blood, by Katrin Thier (and David Fisher, and Terrance Dicks) fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-stone-of... This is a good analysis of a good story. amzn.to/45FMl6r

Genuinely gobsmacking that the leader of the Labour Party can claim the Greens are the 'extreme left'. Just who does that living embodiment of the Peter Principle* Keir Starmer think he's getting to vote for him with nonsense like this? * To be fair, there's barely a politician who isn't that.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Another wee Brexit bonus. From 1st March 2026, the French Government is introducing a small parcel tax for packages with a value of €150 or below sent from outside the EU to France. The new €2 tax applies to each item classified by HS code within your parcel and not per parcel.

The latest Black Archives are now on Lulu! www.lulu.com/spotlight/ob...

The latest Black Archives are now on Lulu! www.lulu.com/spotlight/ob...

We have the beginnings of a Starter Pack (thanks to @emma.best for the suggestion!) go.bsky.app/1At7oC

So, for reasons best known to its useless AI mods, Facebook has deleted the Obverse Books page, and removed all 1000+ followers. We've created a new page, so if you're on FB and want to keep up with Obverse news there, rather than here, this is the new link: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

After a six year gap. we finally have a new Iris Wildthyme New Adventure novel out! NOBODY’S SWEETHEART NOW by Dale Smith is the Who/Goodnight Sweetheart crossover - sort of, not really! - that we're convinced the world has long been waiting for! obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-...

👁️NEW EPISODE!👁️ Philip Purser-Hallard joins us to discuss his latest #DoctorWho Black Archive from @obversebooks.co.uk - The Ark. on.soundcloud.com/w0GSMXhcEeT3...

Good to see @dalesmithonline.com in there!

In an interesting twist, my backpack was pulled out by security at Terminal 5. The reason? The paper used for my copy of Party Like It’s 1998 was too good for the scanners to properly identify it as a book. Damn you, @obversebooks.co.uk, for your excellent production quality!

What's that you say, imaginary audience? You want to know all about my new #IrisWildthyme book Nobody's Sweetheart Now, published by the fine folks at @obversebooks.co.uk? Well, OK, odd request, but let me see if I have a ... aha! Here you go. dalesmithonline.com/nobodys-swee... #DoctorWho

Really lovely letter from Social Bite (annoyingly still on the child porn site but not on here) thanking us for our pre-Xmas donation. And thanks for us all too, to everyone who bought the last Cushing book!

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The new Black Archive, available in paperback and ebook format for the price of a coffee, is now on the site to pre-order (out in early Feb). Phil Purser-Hallard looks at THE ARK, the First Doctor story which is basically two stories with one set! obversebooks.co.uk/product/81-t...

Love @obversebooks.co.uk, love the Black Archive series, go buy it from the publisher obversebooks.co.uk/product/81-t...

My goodness, what could this be? #comingsoon #booksky

By-elections to be called automatically if a sitting MP crosses the floor in any direction. Seems a no-brainer to me. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Welcome to the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards competition @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, Creature Publishing, @obversebooks.co.uk, and @quillsandcosmos.bsky.social! #SSBA #SSBA2026

@obversebooks.co.uk do a great guide book to the topic, also called Downtime. SEE IT'S A PUNE OR PLAY ON WORDS obversebooks.co.uk/product/down... Obverse know their stuff here as they also produce modern incarnations of the same thing - I enjoy their Faction Paradox material.

STARDUST & SNOW, the book which inspired the wonderful new David Bowie play THE GOBLIN KING AND ME by Paul Magrs is available from Obverse. obversebooks.co.uk/product/star... (and you can listen to THE GOBLIN KING AND ME on Radio 4!)

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

Call for submissions! We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive... Closing date for subs 30/06/26 Please share! #booksky

Saying "Some TERFs made their own awards called "TERFies" & voted Donald Trump "Best Politician (Non-UK)"" would get you accused by "Reasonable Moderates" of making up stuff to smear their side but they actually did it. They had even more Awards than this & they get more & more unhinged.

An excellent review of Finn Clark's latest Times Mosaic book, covering the latter Tennant era (plus the 60s and 70s Dalek books!) 'I really can't recommend this book enough' Why not be like this reviewer and check the rest of the series out too! obversebooks.co.uk?s=times+mosa...

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 Our 10th Krynoid Pod of Christmas looks at Mawdryn Undead, the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Just a wee reminder that the final Obverse Christmas order date is Wednesday 17th December. We'll still ship books after that if you order them, but the Royal Mail do not think they'll get to you in time for Christmas Day.

We don't have any new offers for Black Friday, because Black Friday is a con. However, most books on the website are reduced all the time as a thanks for buying direct.

Now's the time for overseas buyers to pick up our Archives, Faction, iris and Senor 105 books - as well as Doctor Who and everything else - a bit cheaper via Lulu, using this code: BOOKGIFT30 www.lulu.com/spotlight/ob...

Racists dislike being called racist so much, they will try to silence the people calling them - completely accurately - racists. Which does at least suggest that Farage and the other racist leaders of the racist Reform Ltd understand that most British people are not, in fact, racists themselves.

"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?" I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.