He already has the next war in mind...

Am interested in the new Macbook Neo. Any thoughts?

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

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Is there a new Chris Priest book out. Autobiographical essays?

This is where we currently stay: Riu Palace Maspalomas on Gran Canaria.

Robert Reich shared this one:

Dog logic. No escaping from it.

A with this, we have to live our lives....

You need a cat picture in times like these...

Trying to cram as few clothes and stuff in as small a suitcase and backpack I could find in my attic. And after the trip, I will find out that I still brought too much. Sure you're familiar with the concept.

You can have too much luxury...

And there it is, the big manuscript (in Dutch) that one day aspires to become a real book...

Some people deserve this....

Leo knew all along how it would end....

You almost pity the wee guy. Almost.

You can hear the song, can't you?

#speclist In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Confronted with all this terrible news, you probably need a cat. And books. You're welcome.

I have a couple of assistants like that too...

Obsession... The good kind.

Just got a reply from a (Dutch) publisher whom I proposed two short novels: excellent books, with a dash of humor, really nice -- but he won't publish them because they are the kind of stuff his public will not read. Speculative fiction/ literary fantasy, that sort of stuff.

As always, Tom Gauld...

You know what this all is...

#writersandwriting #writingcommunity #speclist One damn good piece of advice...

#speclist Thinking of Angela Carter and her fairy tales...

Maybe pigs do really fly.

Someone posted this somewhere (Facebook actually), but I take no responsibility for it being true...

And so, there he is again....

Antwerp, yesterday evening: presentation of the translation of Juan Gabriel Vasquéz' new book (in De Groene Waterman bookshop). Started reading right away, and it got me hooked from the first page.

So there we are: he started another war. And what? He expects a medal for that too? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I'm so very much tired of him...

Not gonna work...

Otis has my sympathy....

Borrowed this one...

#speclist #writingcommunity #scifi&fantasy #mysterywriters There is, it seems, light at the end of the tunnel... Or whatever....

Don't complain, or laugh at him. At least he's ready.

Even the dragons are evil.

#writingcommunity #speclist #scifi&fantasy This one will be a classic...

#writingandbooks #writingcommunity #mysterywriters #speclist That's how it is done: writing in your car, like Vladimir Nabokov used to do. Cars were much bigger, certainly on the inside, than today.

#writingcommunity #mysterywriters #speclist That's what I mean...

#writingcommunity #speclist #mysterywriters I'm reading, more or less at the same time, Samuel Delany and Henri Miller. There's no excuse for such hubris. But still I do it.

#writingcommunity #mysterywriters #speclist Currently working on background for a 1945 mystery/thriller situated in Berlin, where Hitler might or might not be dead, and the Americans are gathering up scientists for their own military projects, all while the new war (the cold one) is about to start.

#speclist Currently reading.... but it is hard going....

#Speclist Don't diss fact checkers.

I wonder if he was actually a nice guy. I doubt it. Still, he might have been right here...

#writingcommunity #writingandbooks #speclist #mysterywriters It used to be absinthe. I've written a novel with that title, but it had hardly anything to do with the drink.

#speclist Not my cat. Nevertheless, I'm familiar with the concept...

#Speclist The revolt of the librarians. (Tom Gauld)