As expected, that was a lot of fun! Parts 1 & 2 on YouTube now... Part 3 planned for November! www.youtube.com/live/FvZfOpg...

Travelled by bus & train across the country with this today. It seems to be motion and vibration activated, even waking up and letting rip if someone passes within three feet of it. I caved at Bristol after an awkward train journey and opened up the box, worried there might be no off switch

Solaris Presents is back with a bang! On 27/09 at 5pm BST join us for a fun, FREE!, online event with @taranhunt.bsky.social & @voidcricket.bsky.social talking about the latest releases (THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS & AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD) in their expanding SciFi Universes! 👉https://geni.us/SPTHRH

The praise for @caspargeon.bsky.social 's THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN is, well, immeasurable! Fancy a wildly imaginative scifi novel like no other with an entirely alien cast? Here's why @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & co think you would enjoy it! Buy now: geni.us/immeasurable

I bought this creature as a birthday present for the child of a friend of mine, purely because when you press its tummy it farts. Brilliant. Problem is it won’t stop. I’ve been walking around town with it in a bag and it just keeps going. Went into a cafe & it got even louder. I love it, might keep

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

Congratulations to my friend @michaelrmiller.bsky.social!

Ca-caw! It's time to get extremely creative! This Saturday @tomtoner.bsky.social (aka @caspargeon.bsky.social) is coming on to continue his madcap inventiveness in a follow up Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop, aka EWWW2: Exo-Planet Boogaloo! Saturday 20th Sept 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT

This repost is, theoretically, against the law as I haven't read it yet. But, being 2/3rds of the way through Tom/Caspar's Amaranthine Trilogy, I can confidently deduce that this book will be utterly bloody marvellous.

Bought a lovely 18th century print at Bath market this morning of something that I don’t think exists yet, chilling out in the ruins of civilisation millions of years hence

Due to a warehouse problem around launch time, the Immeasurable Heaven won’t be stocked in any Waterstones for the foreseeable future. I’ve compiled a headache-inducing pile of nice blurbs and would be so grateful if anyone who enjoyed my weird non-human book could reshare. Thank you!

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to @voidcricket.bsky.social 's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD! 🚀“Hutchings is a bright light in space opera.” — Bethany Jacobs 🌠“Unmissable. Ren Hutchings is on my must-read list.” @garethlpowell.bsky.social Buy now geni.us/unbrw

Hey, LONDON friends, come see me, the fab @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, Marisa Linton and Alexander Beaumont at Covent garden Waterstones on the 7th of October. Should be lots of fun. www.waterstones.com/events/cross...

Apparently the Immeasurable Heaven comes out in Australia next month (fair dinkum), so more random sketches of the inhabitants of Yokkun’s Depth incoming daily to celebrate. Here’s a bellower (key for a tongue), a tootlebeast & its marvellous sled. @solarisbooks.bsky.social #spaceopera #SFbooks

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour www.emilyhare.co.uk

SEPTEMBER EVENT: We are very excited to welcome back our honorary president Alastair Reynolds on 12th September. Come and join us at the Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us online on Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1570741061799

We’re delighted to reveal the shortlist for the inaugural Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction. thealdissaward.com/the-2025-sho... This year’s winner will be announced on Sunday, 2nd October 2025, at the World Fantasy Convention, Brighton, UK.

M33 Triangulum Galaxy, 2021-08-06 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mgieU9

Had fun making these recently. No AI. If you like anything here and need a cover designed for your next novel or anything else, please consider reaching out! www.rtwrites.com/design-help/ #writingcommunity

Working on my most frustrating book yet. Thought I’d finished after 3 drafts in 2023, then took it back to the drawing board with a big rewrite in 2024. Now realise I haven’t understood it at all. In 2026 I’ll see that I’ve got it wrong again, and in 2027 I’ll realise it was correct the first time.

"It's powerful, concentrated and enthralling, a book to be inhaled as much as read, and then to be considered and turned over after." 🙏🙏

Lovely big cloud mountains over my veggie patch this afternoon

Hey, turns out my next book, MORTEDANT'S PERIL, just sneaks into the dates for Barnes and Nobles 25% off for pre-orders so why not treat yourself? Apart from murder, magic and profound weirdness it also features THOUSANDS OF CROWS. How could you not go for it? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mortedants...

Thanks to Andrew Liptak for pointing this one out. If you want an idea of how publishing and promotion have changed in the past 20 years or so, Cherie Priest's latest blog post is a rather depressing summary: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/getting...

Found a sketch I must have done years ago of Scallywag the Cethegrande (from my third book, the Tropic of Eternity) in his fancy translucent armour. I’d forgotten how weird that book was.

Damn fine new bookery from my old pal @starkholborn.bsky.social, luckily my Desert Madness has just cleared up after reading Ten Low

Join co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly as they recap their adventures at @seattlein2025.org, from yummy meals and hanging out with friends to BarCon, moderating panels and hosting their epic live episode of the podcast Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a shot of a comet visiting our solar system from another star. Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet (known as 3I-Atlas) predates our solar system by more than three billion years. buff.ly/OErbZi1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Thanks again to @frasierarmitage.bsky.social at FanFiAddict for this very kind review for Immeasurable Heaven @solarisbooks.bsky.social #booksky📚💙🪐

Million-year-old tools on Sulawesi push back the date of the earliest sea crossings. Ancient hominins crossed deep ocean to what’s now Indonesia over a million years ago. Previous to these discoveries we’d thought the first sea crossings were 194,000 years back. buff.ly/1HnxBZI #ShareGoodNewsToo

When the asteroid struck, much of the world died. Burnt wood, bone, and ash scattered under darkened skies. Fungus spread over the decay, lives that also fed surviving ants. Ants who began to farm the fungus, inventing agriculture long before we did. I’ll tell you more at Smithsonian. #InvertFest

It's me! Saying stuff to the lovely bookwomble!

Big news! For the US only (unfortunately) Orbit are producing a 10th Anniversary edition of Children of Time with a beautiful signed hardback. The pre-order page has just gone up here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adria...

Out now: THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, @caspargeon.bsky.social 's reality-bending SciFi that reads like a fable from another galaxy, and features an entirely non-human cast! “Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social Buy geni.us/immeasurable

Finished copies of FOR THE ROAD are here and they are stunning; look at those endpapers. Huge thanks to @marieoregan.bsky.social and all at PS Publishing for their hard work. (Art by Ashni Wilson). You can find it here: pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...

Some splendid book post from @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social, thank you!

You have NO IDEA how hard it has been keeping quiet about this. So friends, AT LAST, THE NEXT BOOK IS ANNOUNCED! (I'm usually a bit nervy about new stuff but feel like this one is A BANGER.) reactormag.com/book-announc...

Brian Aldiss was born 100 years ago today, on 18 August 1925. Recently, I wrote about his debut SF novel, the generation starship classic Non-Stop (1958).

Reposting for friends across the pond

The Immeasurable Heaven has been out one month today, and I wanted to say a huge thank you for the support & love my weird tale from another galaxy has had so far. @solarisbooks.bsky.social @locusmag.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social @frasierarmitage.bsky.social

On 14th October, join @samkhorton.bsky.social at Truro Waterstones in conversation with @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social to celebrate the much-anticipated launch of RAGWORT, sequel to deliciously dark historical fantasy GORSE! Tickets available now:

Congratulations to the fabulous (and MULTI award-winning) @premeemohamed.com: THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS has won the Aurora Award for Best Novel! (And well done to Premee again, for winning Best Novella whilst wearing a different publishing hat!) geni.us/siegeburning...

Another fun Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop last night with the @rookeryp.bsky.social , taught from my boiling hot spare room. Some good notes, including ‘space sepsis’, ‘accidentally horny’, and (my personal favourite) ‘what happens if it farts’.

This is the most dangerous shade your brush water can be.

This was a hoot! @tomtoner.bsky.social was great as always and the chat brought tons of brilliant ideas to bear. It's available to watch now, check it out. We're planning a part two, and I'm also thinking about how to adapt it for school...

Today's interactive world building workshop with @tomtoner.bsky.social will be wildly imaginative and loads of fun! 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT youtube.com/live/Vrc8zEf... 2/5

🏳️‍🌈 🔥 THE NEEDFIRE is aflame! @mkhardywrites.com 's Scottish Sapphic gothic is roaring onto bookshelves! Here's what @sunyidean.com @natania.bsky.social @aliettedebodard.com @rainewilson.bsky.social and more wonderful authors think of the book! Buy now geni.us/needfire

Very nice review for Immeasurable Heaven just in from the excellent folks at @locusmag.bsky.social “A wordsmith without peer… startling, unpredictable and croggling freshness of imagery and action.” @solarisbooks.bsky.social locusmag.com/2025/08/the-...

Two very different novels on the go, notebooks piling up, eyelid twitching, shoulder blades buggered, neck strained, fingers spasming, brain fried - still my favourite thing to do

🎉 🎂 Happy UK Book Birthday to STARSTRIKE - the sequel to Yoon Ha Lee's Locus award-winning and multi award-nominated MOONSTORM! Discover the LANCERS series, a tale of empire, mecha-robots, survival and family. Buy STARSTRIKE (Book 2): geni.us/starstrike Buy MOONSTORM (Book 1): geni.us/moonstorm