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George Lucas reveals he has literally no idea how the history of the car industry actually played out.

Updated my calling card with recent stories and Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings.

Juliet McKenna hasn't just written the Green Man books. Try her epic fantasy, starting with The Thief's Gamble, 25% off in the Smashwords July sale: www.smashwords.com/b...

When I was a kid in Toronto in the 1980s, I remember there was always a brown haze on the horizon. When I was a teenager in the 1990s, I remember realising the brown haze wasn't there any more and thinking that wow, all those environmental regulations really worked. Today, 2026:

I'm writing a gay romance about love between terminally online Nazis. It's called Tweeted Rivalry.

Have spent the afternoon at the British Library becoming ridiculously well educated about Colour Separation Overlay.

Morag has entered the chat. adoctorofmanythings.wpcomstaging.com/tales-from-t...

This is one of the frustrating things about the anti-license-fee brigade. Even if you don’t watch the BBC or Channel Four, you benefit from it.

A reminder that this is a) a Thing b) a pretty good Thing c) now available in all good bookstores and also the evil ones run by vampires and d) it would be really cool if you got one and e) reviews are always good, also and f) 🧛⚰️⚰️⚰️? g) ..............................🦇

The Green Man's Heir is available in the Best of British Storybundle. 15 DRM-free ebooks for a minimum of $40. Bargain! (And for the thousands of you who already have The Green Man's Heir, lots of other great books too.) storybundle.com/bestof

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...

He’d funny ideas, had Pimple. Seems he wanted to own everything himself, and then order other folk about. It soon came out that he already did own a sight more than was good for him; and he was always grabbing more, though where he got the money was a mystery. (Return of the King, 1011)

A Jewish joke I heard once: The most awful man in the village dies. The rest of the village sit shiva in complete silence, as nobody can think of a good thing to say about him. And then, at the back of the room, a voice pipes up: "His brother was worse!" Posting today for no reason.

There's some great books in here!

Attn editors: my way of roughing out plots always starts with writing out the main points of *Die Nibelungen*.

Seems a good time to re-share this. It was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium, which was designed by the same architect as my workplace and along the same lines, and I get uncanny valley vibes whenever I watch it. youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk?...

In January of this year, I rescinded acceptance of a story by Irene W Collins. It was a difficult decision, and came about because of various factors that made me doubt that a human writer was the sole party at the helm of the story. [1/X]

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

I'd say "thin end of the wedge", except I think that started 40 years ago when we began allowing the tabloids to run our political system. The wedge is thoroughly in now, and we need to push it back out again.

Another option: buy it on Rakuten Kobo. www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/... #books

Meta is rumoured to be collaborating with Prada eyewear on their next "smartglasses" design. It turns out the Devil really does wear Prada.

To be clear I disapprove of this from both left and right sides. The poster's meaning should be the poster's meaning. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Print copies of Andor Analysed II, Including my article on EDI and Andor, are now available to buy! You can also read the articles for free on the site but do please consider supporting Red Futures by buying a copy: redfuturesmag.bigcartel.com

I have discovered it’s actually really easy to de-Amazon. Any time I want to buy something I just check if it’s available elsewhere first. It usually is! I bought two things from Amazon in the past year and both were books by friends which I could only get that way.

Today on Too Hot For TV I am joined by Nigel Bromley to talk about the expanded universe of Blake's 7. We look at 'The Logic of Empire' by Alan Stevens and David Tulley and 'Warship' by Peter Anghelides. linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees

10/10 no notes.

10/10 no notes.

But please, tell me again that humanities departments are useless and should be closed.

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

New Morag and Seamus story over at Clarkesworld, where there are some sad goodbyes but also some very happy hellos: clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_26/

I remember this sound. I wish younger people could too.

Improve a TV show with lions: Lion Cars Doctor Lion Morgan's Lion

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Foodify a Doctor Who Title. Daleks in (a) Manhattan The Family of Blood Sausage Forest Feast of the Dead The Perrier Waters of Mars The Curse of the Black Pudding ...and an anti-foodifying, "The Hungry Earth".

Am I the only one who feels a little gaslit here? "We're stopping physical releases because the consumer prefers it!" Um, I'm a consumer? And I don't?

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Great reviews from Tam and @drfionamoore.bsky.social : Sidney Poitnier and... fuzzy animals with people legs... galacticjourney.org/june-28-1971...

“your true to life gun descriptions won't help you now!”

Drop some COPS

📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social

Happy birthday to @bohemiancoast.bsky.social, one-third of the @octothorpecast.bsky.social group mind, with whom I chatted over Nando's earlier this year during Eastercon. Celebrate her natal date by going her on Episode 284 of my Eating the Fantastic podcast! www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Andy Burnham announces a new minister for The North:

AI is the future? No, *this* is the future: www.independent.co.uk/tech/ford-ai...

Saw that "Yuri Day" was trending and thought, "oh, is it another celebration of the achievement of Gagarin?" Apparently not.

I get excited when I see that some species of wolf is trending on Bluesky and then am almost always disappointed when it turns out it's not an apex predator but a sportsball team.

There are people who say, “can we afford net zero?” This is a bit like sitting in London in 1940 and saying, “can we afford an air force?”

Okay, everybody! Cover reveal time! It'll be available for purchase at the end of September. Details here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/man...

Fission #6, containing my pig-punk post-apocalyptic story The Last Pig on Earth, is now available for purchase by non-BSFA members: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068721634

AS IT SHOULD BE