🌊IT'S PRE ORDER GIVEAWAY TIME!!🌊 It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed! To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate! geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

I shall be doing a thing. Come and do the thing with me. Make sure I'm not there teaching only myself!!! #writing #SFF

So I watched Marvel Zombies yesterday - it needs a review. #marvel #marvelzombies #SFF #reviews #msmarvel #blade

so Marvel Zombies was really good.

Project Hanuman is 6 weeks away...here's a short thing on how you can help :-)

anyone know how to reach #apple, #appletv, @appleinsider.com because I want to complain about their rank cowardice in removing The Savant and they offer no channels to reach them that I can see that aren't directly product related.

This is a great bursary and it remains really important in terms if increasing accessibility and access.

It's easy to talk right wing talking points to feed our anger but this is super important. Especially when faced with non-stop bullshit from the right across almost every media channel.

Dave is a fab writer with great stories.

If you've enjoyed the folk horror shorts I've put on at Reading Biscuit Factory, some exciting news! They're screening folk horror feature THE SEVERED SUN on October 9th, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Dean Puckett, hosted by yours truly. www.readingbiscuitfactory.co.uk/movie/the-se...

The second of my entries about Quantum Mechanics. I will put together a reading list at some point for those interested

New Wombling Along! - the experiment continues with your weekly dose of reviews and other interesting things to have a look at! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

Look, if your hot take talking point is one that would make a fascist happy then perhaps check yourself before spouting it at length without actually offering anything constructive.

Remember the person who censors you most of the time is you. Do not obey in advance.

Licking a bowl of human teeth on #taskmaster. Eugh.

Nish Kumar, "Donald Trump is the sort of emblem of hope to white supremacists, to racists, xenophobes, and to frankly the richest people on the planet" "There's nothing new about Donald Trump, he's just the latest in a strong of people who have attempted to destroy our societies"

My review of the startling anime, Look Back. stewarthotston.com/2025/09/18/l...

Right. I’ve been invited to write an essay on a big idea. Knowing me what would you like to see me to write about?

Northern folk - you should get on this - RJ’s agency is too notch.

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

I've just finished Private Rites and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Much to love, especially the prose, but also...kinda deeply unsatisfying at the same time. I really loved Our Wives so not sure where I am with this one.

Holy shit.

The first of my (infrequent) series on Quantum Mechanics. :-) NB: not actually an intro - just a setting out of what is to come following a big conversation about this yesterday. #SFF #scifi #science #quantummechanics

A whole thread but this is the crux. Get off X.

Portal for @simonguy.bsky.social

@blackshuckbooks.bsky.social produce consistently excellent British horror. Well worth picking up their books.

New Author Interview - today delighted to invite @mhayinde.bsky.social to the blog to discuss their excellent epic fantasy novel A Song of Legends Lost and more! www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

I think i should probably do a quantum mechanics for dummies talk and maybe a separate special relativity for dummies talk too? Would people be interested in that? No maths, just the philosophy of both and some of the really wild implications?

It’s rhe weekend and here is a new Wombling Along with reviews and a few other things to keep you comfy with a nice cuppa! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

tremendously helpful context setting here

My thoughts on the new season of Peacemaker continuing to be a scabrous satire of arseholes and redemption. #reviews #scifi #sff #Peacemaker

Thread.

Breaking news: witch king of angmar did politics right.

Pub day! THE IRON ROAD is out today in hardback and ebook, and the Tales of the Plains trilogy is complete. I happen to think this one is bloody good, and encourage you all to get stuck in 💪💥

fully expecting @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social to valorise a neo-nazi and leave unexamined the political violence incited against minorities by same neo-nazi. They'll roll out nonsense about turning points because when left-leaning people are assassinated by the right it's not news. #auntiehasfallen

A review in 4 words: read The Crimson Road

@justinleeanderson.com Just saw your thoughts on Hanuman - dude, so glad you enjoyed it!

Friends - I have a shed load of bookplates to sign for Project Hanuman. Recommendations for best pens for signing. I'm against the wiry trace of the biro, not going to buy a fountain pen - but otherwise let me have your recs.

You want to be a person of significance? Sure, I get that. And being frustrated you're 'not' can be a strong motivator to harming others. But the real secret here? make the lives of those around you better. Lift them up, support them, build community - that, my friend, is significance.

Alien Earth has a lot to say about billionaires, capital and how we build our own dystopias. #alienearth #SFF #scifi

The @britfantasysoc.bsky.social has a diverse mentor program for writers at all levels. But we need mentors. This first year of the program has been excellent so if you are in publishing please consider it (especially if you’re a marketer, an editor and/or a leader).

FORTY PERCENT OFF 👀

I’m in that moment when my insecurity has me worrying my next book will simply vanish without trace. Sigh.

#bbc @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social The BBC's complaint process is a joke. Worse than that it's designed with one thought in mind - that's the BBC is, basically, sound, that a complaint is about exception management, not fundamental editorial skew, bias or mismanagement BBC news' current editorial

The BBC is an uncritical mouthpiece for fascism. They are radical centrists.

My review of I Who Have Never Known Men. A quiet, bleak, meditative piece about hope and humanity.

Just to note that Clarke Award winners, Sierra Grier and @laurenbeukes.com will be talking about SFF at this online event on 2nd Oct and it looks to be super interesting:

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

It’s been a long week so to help relax here is the latest Wombling Along an experiment with reviews and other things that caught my eye online www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/8/...