Press release: Wizard's Tower to Publish Andrew Knighton's Executioner Series wizardstowerpress.co...

It's Book Quote Wednesday, and the word is AFTER. Gilmore meets his master, Mad King Richard, ruler of UK-1, the largest spaceship ever – and soon realises he's not mad at all. #bookqw #spaceopera #yasf www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no... Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'after'. As it is Eurocon week, this week's quote is taken from the title story of Aleksandar Žiljak's collection, As the Distant Bells Toll. #BookQW wizardstowerpress.co...

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'after' #BookQW #BookSky Hadrumal's wizards are a varied lot, and Casuel will never be anyone's first pick. But Darni's been working for the Archmage for a while and experience means he'll take what he can get. Learn more here www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-ta...

If you want a hit of multiverse sci-fi with fantasy trappings, go pick up Wiz Duos 1!

I gotta have this guess logged somewhere because if it turns out to be right I will walk tall for months. Anthony Hopkins.

I think there are lots of people who can sympathise with the plight of the Society of Saint Pius X; paypal disapproval can be the death of any small business.

For #BookQW, let's drink in the haunting beauty of industrial decay. wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

Question for scholars of video games - what was the first video game you know of to use the 'billboarding' technique of using pre-scaled sprites to create the impression of 3D space? I can push it back to 1984 with Lords of Midnight but I'm sure there must be earlier examples.

Hello! You probably know me as that less entertaining associate of someone else. It turns out I have been advised that I am 'at risk of redundancy'. I am bricking it. There has never been a better time for you to throw a few quid at one of the various silly things I've made. I've made a list.

No Sam, I can’t recall the cold side of the pillow nor the need for socks… I’m naked in the dark with four fans going, no veil between me and the wheel of fire.

For more context, the 'typical' high for an average June in the UK is 18°C. Last night's overnight *low* in Oxfordshire was 23°C. Yesterday's 'feels like' maximum was 38°. I don't think many homes cope well with temperatures 20° higher than what they were designed for.

Looks like Puzzle Agent is currently 60% OFF on Steam right now! store.steampowered.com/app/31270/Pu... #grickledoodle #games #puzzleagent

Need help with researching something and google is not helping. I remember there being discussion of encryption, and how 3(?) methods were published in a standard, but 1 of them was suspiciously slower, to the extent that experts assumed the method was compromised by design.

You've rÿched your last queen.

I think us Europeans should try to learn from our US friends, so here’s a list of American Bluesky tips to stay cool in the heatwave: - just rent places with aircon already installed - have very cheap energy - be wealthier & ignore the poor - stay hydrated, arrogant and dismissive - elect fascists

Recently published, book #2 in Joel Cornah's epic Sword-Breaker trilogy: The Sky-Slayer. There are more pirates, more dinosaurs, and lots more penguins. wizardstowerpress.co...

The heat is making me a bit fighty and at current rates I will have blocked every American alive for being ineducably wrong about UK heatwave issues by the end of next week.

Shredded chicken. Putting the hen in hench.

For #BookQW, a caravan is being tailed by monsters! Read the full story so far here: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

*Wades face-first into the ice lolly discourse several hours late*

My partner once overheard some business dickhead on a train talking about his family's cars - "the Lexi".

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

God. It really IS so hot you could be an egg on the roof of your car

Thinking using AI makes you an artist is like thinking sitting on a kiddie ride makes you a train driver.

This fuckin guy

FUCK

"The Steam Machine costs in excess of a thousand dollars" ok America we get it, you don't have kettles

I know it might not be a popular idea, but I feel the need to remind people that platform exclusivity (for games* and streaming) is fundamentally an anti-consumer move, and there is very little moral wrong in emulating/pirating such platform exclusives.

DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career

Smurfs are cute but I bet if you live in Australia you get used to seeing them get hit by cars

*charity voiceover* and with your help, we can reduce this figure even further. Just ten pounds a month can make a real difference.

A FATHERS DAY THREAD: Hey everybody whose dad is not in the picture for one reason or another: I am right there with you. My dad died in 2011. We weren't estranged, but he was such a distant figure in my life that not a lot has changed in our relationship.

Need help with researching something and google is not helping. I remember there being discussion of encryption, and how 3(?) methods were published in a standard, but 1 of them was suspiciously slower, to the extent that experts assumed the method was compromised by design.

We watched Bathory (2008) tonight. It is a film I would describe as 'delightfully cracked'. Not good, per se, but certainly entertaining and entirely unexpected in many ways. Audacious, even.

This is the kind of mental deterioration you get when you only perceive games as a vehicle for for-pay cosmetics.

Jacob's Ladder. Tim Robbins.

One of the all-timer syrup figs here.

For Woman Scotland should be proscribed for terrorising the trans + community with fascist lawfare. RT if you agree. Meanwhile Grannies get arrested for peacefully protesting against a litteral Genocide.

Congratulations to Andrew Knighton, whose novella, 'Walking a Wounded Land', is a finalist for this year's British Fantasy Awards. wizardstowerpress.co...

I think there are three broad styles of creativity, in practice. (Yes, yes, categories are human constructs imposed on a non-conforming world, bear with me please.) - Intentional - This is cool - First idea

Absolutely chuffed to share this update of the TOC for @wtpress.bsky.social upcoming anthology, They Are Still Here, which will include my story 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 huge thanks to @hierath77.bsky.social for picking my story out of the slush pile and helping polish it up ✌🏻 can’t wait to read the other stories

For #BookQW the word is 'never'. Eilert has returned to his home, and with a home like this no wonder he travels... You can get hold of the novella a number ways: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'never' #BookQW #BookSky Warlord Daish Kheda couldn't have imagined making an alliance with a barbarian from the north. But he never expected to see dragons in Aldabreshin skies. There's only one way to fight this particular fire and that's what he needs from Dev.

I am pleased to report that my littoral recreation body is out of drydock.

I spent more time than I should wondering why they were staring at the pools of piss on the table before I realised it was probably whatever fucked-up colour legal notepads are in the US.

Oreos are goddamn disgusting.

Heartened to hear about Americans encountering English fans, taking them out for a meal, and discovering that, actually, they *do* know all about Nepalese and Thai and other food. Maybe this will lead to less Discourse in future.