I’m making sourdough for the first time and it looks like a dog’s thrown up on my chopping board

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!

Come on down to Waterstones Worcester on the 25th of Feb, where I’ll be discussing some extremely bookish bookery with @starkholborn.bsky.social, @thomasdlee.bsky.social and Stephen Aryan www.waterstones.com/events/scien... @solarisbooks.bsky.social

ARCs of MORTEDANT's PERIL are moving out in the world and it's always a weird feeling; 'what are readers thinking?' Sadly, it's frowned on in publishing to hire a PI to track them down, kidnap them and bring them to a warehouse for questioning. Which, for the author, is very frustrating.

ALSO, if you want to fall out with me there are ARCs of A NUMBERS GAME by the awful RJ DARK available too. So if gritty-but-funny northern working class crime is your thing then hit up @daturabooks.bsky.social.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

We are DELIGHTED to see many Solaris titles on the BSFA Longlist! Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!

And here’s the form if you fancied voting for anything on the list: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wonderful to be on the BSFA longlist for the Immeasurable Heaven, and to see that its brilliantly psychedelic cover by Sam Gretton is on there too. Thanks @bsfa.bsky.social ! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted to see my acid-western-queer-romance novella, FOR THE ROAD on the BSFA longlist! It's a mega year (go check it out) but would be extremely honoured if you'd consider chucking in a nomination towards some of my rawest, strangest writing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I just thought everyone should see this

What an honour, huge thanks to everyone who voted 🍻

Immeasurable Heaven is 30% off on Amazon UK - according to my (possibly wrong) calculations that's 45 pages of alien characters, ice moon battles, stolen planets, fungal spaceships & dimension-hopping sorcerers per pound. There's also a very amusing incident with a kebab @solarisbooks.bsky.social

An absolutely mind-melting image taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, featured in @sciam.bsky.social's Best Space Photos Of 2025: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... There's just so much out there.

If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk

To welcome in the New Year, Barnes & Noble are running a 25% off preorder sale! FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON is a part of that very sale! Use the code PREORDER25 to get 25% off; Premium members get an additional 10% off! Only until 1st January 2026 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/first-mage...

We asked @caspargeon.bsky.social aka @tomtoner.bsky.social for his best books of 2025, the book he'd love for the holidays & his anticipated reads of 2026. Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why he picked @cameronjohnston.bsky.social & more! https://geni.us/immeasurable

Just in case, here's my list of titles I loved in 2025. You might want to increase your TBR

All over for another year, and you're probably wondering what to do with yourself. Watch this 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup #tierranking youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

It's time to finally talk about my favourite books of 2025, so I made a list, without any kind of order, that pretty much covers it. It may be great to fill your TBR! You can check it here: jamreads.com/articles/my-... 💙📚

If you like a book? Review it. Ask your library to buy it. If you can afford it, buy a copy for a friend. Recommend it wherever you're social. Send the author an email, or a skeet, or a Ko-Fi. Write fanfic. Blow under the wings of the paper airplane so it can fly a little farther.

Lovely chat, this. Including tantalising idea for unwritten Culture novel (man has weapon with his own memories encoded in the ammo) 👇

I'd like to talk today about one of the more egregious examples of failure in publishing I've seen: the presentation and packaging of this book.

Not just a novelist, @ursulakleguin.com was also a cartographer. Her fictional geographies were on display this fall at London’s Architectural Association Gallery, and a companion book on Silver Press sheds new light on her peerless world-building. Read our interview with editor/curator Sarah Shin.

Still time to get the "Too Like the Lightning" ebook for $2.99 today in the goldbox sale: www.amazon.com/Too-Like-Lig...

Book collectors! The last copies of the signed special paperback edition of my #novella Pollen From a Future Harvest are on sale for 2.99 pounds at shop.rebellion.com/products/sol...! The #scifi story of "Pollen" occurs 40 years before the events of my #novel The Quantum Magician.

Great to be back in my favourite city in the Upside Down 🍻 Stopped in at Minotaur Books, Melbourne’s best SFF bookshop, & signed some (unexpected) copies of the Immeasurable Heaven @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Really nice new review for the Immeasurable Heaven from Readysteadynovel over on Instagram @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Names went into an actual hat and we have a winner - congrats @betterdragons.bsky.social! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

This Thursday I'm at the Leeds Waterstones Christmas evening - they'll have a bunch of authors from around the area. If you're in town, come along and get a book signed! www.waterstones.com/events/water...

Last chance today to enter my giveaway with @solarisbooks.bsky.social : we’ve got one illustrated copy of my non-human space opera the Immeasurable Heaven (filled with as many characters and creatures as I could draw) up for grabs. See below for details

Tonight's stream was hella fun; we'll be back with EWWW IV: The Search for Plot in 2026! Having taken 3 sessions to thoroughly world build, we've got our solar system with its three main factions, an idea of the interstellar society, and 3-4 protagonists sketched out. @caspargeon.bsky.social 1/2

Very much looking forward to more extreme wildcard Worldbuilding with @caspargeon.bsky.social tonight! The first two parts were great, but if you missed them we will recap things to the best of our faulty memories tonight! www.youtube.com/live/oDwzJEC...

See the Solaris giveaway below to win a signed & illustrated copy of the Immeasurable Heaven. I’ve drawn as many characters and creatures from the galaxy of Yokkun’s Depth as I can fit inside, plus one or two Easter eggs for good measure.. @solarisbooks.bsky.social #booksky 📚🪐💙

Fourth, welcome to the weird and wonderful universe of @caspargeon.bsky.social aka @tomtoner.bsky.social. Caspar/Tom has also illustrated a copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN for a giveaway, hop over to our profile to enter wherever you are in the world! Buy the Book: geni.us/immeasurable 5/6

To celebrate #nationalillustrationday lets have some #fridayfun. Time to meet some Solaris authors who are also artists! Head down thread to learn more about the books and art of @mkhardywrites.com @artofelaineho.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social & @ Zoé Duhaime! 1/6

🚨GIVEAWAY time!🚨 To celebrate #nationalillustrationday @caspargeon.bsky.social / @tomtoner.bsky.social#nationalillustrationdayhas 1 author-illustrated copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN to giveaway. Open to entrants anywhere in the world. Like, repost, follow & drop a 🌠 in the comments to enter. Ends 23:59 GMT 1st Dec 25.

It's time for more extreme wildcard worldbuilding! @caspargeon.bsky.social is back for another EWW Workshop. Come join us live to further develop the world of our living planet, orbiting a neutron star, as we start to layer some plot on... 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT www.youtube.com/@TheRookery

A crogglingly nice review for the Immeasurable Heaven from @locusmag.bsky.social, thank you 🍻 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

My first review for NoaF - Alien: Cult by @gavingsmith.bsky.social.

Tune in next week for another extremely extreme worldbuilding workshop with my tree-dwelling friends - who knows what’s going to happen? I don’t.

Science fiction Sunday reading! A look at @caspargeon.bsky.social 's latest novel, The immeasurable Heaven. It gets the thumbs up from me.

A very old and droopy male Epir - an intelligent species of dinosaur from my first SF trilogy, the Amaranthine Spectrum

Oh LOOK, the judges have been announced for the inaugural Great Northern Read award for Northern writers with a prize of £2500 and mentoring by my agency Johnson and Alcock. And WAIT, ONE OF THOSE JUDGES LOOKS FAMILAIR! newwritingnorth.com/judges-annou...

Reskeet with a time you looked cool

Realised that it’s 10 years to the day since my first book was published - a strange old tale set in the 147th century, featuring a giant (but very awkward) hominid protagonist. There’s a lot I’d do differently if I were writing it now, but I had such a great time coming up with so much weird stuff.

Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

An interesting thing I’ve found on my travels in Tasmania - the (thankfully) unoccupied shell of a Textile Cone, a beastie so venomous that it’s also known as the ‘cigarette snail’ (because once it’s stung you you’ve got just enough time to smoke a cigarette before you’re pushing up the daisies).