Is it just us or was Alan Carr KILLING IT in last night's #CelebrityTraitors? Like a true butterfly, he transformed to show his true colours! 1/6: #TheTraitors

Can’t really choose; maybe World Leader Pretend.

COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!

Paul March-Russell on When There Are Wolves Again, in the latest episode of Critical Friends: “From a kind of Marxist revolutionary position, this book will really annoy you. But actually it is reaffirming a faith in legal, constitutional, democratic institutions.” Radical reformism? Discuss.

Tony & I had a great time talking about Star Trek: Khan with Kirsten Beyer, David Mack, and Fred Greenhalgh. If you haven't listened to the audio drama yet, drop everything and do so. C'mon. #StarTrek Listen at TrekMovie or wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/aapod238-khan

Words hold worlds, and hence hold sway over our interactions with our surroundings. For Le Guin [...] we are bound up in knotty entanglements with each other, always being woven into the ecologies that surround us. We are always more than human. www.stirworld.com/think-books-...

A handful of tickets left tonight to experience "A Warning to the Curious" in Felistowe. Suffolk coastal horror on the Suffolk coast. www.ticketsource.co.uk/two-sisters-...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

SWANS 🦢

Incredible scenes. Loved it all. #Traitors

I haven't shared this in a while, but it seems on topic right now.

The signature of Guy Fawkes at 7.10pm, 21 December 1981 and the signature of Guy Fawkes at 8.10pm, 21 December 1981.

Quick question for the Doctor Who brain trust when is Terry Nation’s first use of the name Tarrant?

Remember remember The fifth book of Flember

Sod it I’m going to have a nap

Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who is now 99p on Kindle, for a short time only, so fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-...

Having now cracked socks, I’m wondering whether I should level up again with my knitting. Is Fair Isle really hard? Is there something else I should try in between? I’ve done a bit of cable and lacy stuff.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

Celebrate 20 years of New Doctors at @bigfinish.bsky.social @nickbriggs.bsky.social @johndorney.bsky.social @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @verbatimfoley.bsky.social @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/11/05/b...

£2 to push it up to £1k on the first day. Anyone got £2?

This month, we interview #Tolkien educator Don Marshall about his new book, “J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy” being published on November 25, by Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster! Thanks for joining us, @donmarshall72.bsky.social! www.athrabethnetwork.com/athrabethepi...

Thrilled! Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF will publish ALSTON MOOR in Autumn 2026. Epic eco-fiction with two entwined storylines, 500 years apart! I’ve adored every minute of research for this novel. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Coming back to big social events is still taking me time, so I’m grateful to everyone at WFC who didn’t mind that I had to go off and sit silently in my Airbnb when I might’ve been socialising.

To all who celebrate

Normally you don't get a response like this from New York without actually busting some ghosts.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Democrats won everywhere there was voting yesterday, by larger than expected margins. This is not just a “vibes” victory - the more power we can hold in states around the country now, the better we can protect and defend people against their own (federal) government. This matters.

God, it’s good to see happy American friends on my timeline.

I'm serious. If you're feeling rusty on mind-mapping or would like some tips & tricks for thinking on paper or lateral / non-linear thinking, I would love to share / coach! Individuals / groups / orgs: let me be your anti-AI idea generator & developer! Call me The Pencil. yentling at iCloud dot com

Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...

Today is the kind of gloomy, stormy autumn day when you might like to listen to a haunting Doctor Who story. My story 'Dark is the Devil That Walks' in the Short Trips 13 collection, from @bigfinish.bsky.social, is such a tale.

Finally united with my BSFA award, for #DoctorWho Caged. Thank you to @sjgroenewegen.co.uk for collecting it, and shepherding it around most of the UK!

Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...

Chorus: Necromancer HEY! - Necromance Necromancer HEY! - The One Ring Necromancer HEY! - Necromance Necromancer, Necromance Necromancer, Necromance Gandalf The Grey: You What? (You What?) You What? (You What?) You What You What You What? Bosh bosh bosh. Loads of Uruks.

I don’t see all the free speechers coming out to bat on this one but then I have probably blocked them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last Train to Mordor Central

What Sylvia Townsend Warner books do people recommend other than Lolly Willowes and The Corner That Held Them?

Time for the onion to start doing a politics teen onion section.

Gordon Steeking sounds like a 1960s MP who tried to get British Rocket Group defunded.

Gordon steeking is too stressful for me today. #GameOfWool

🚨 WEEK 9 SEASON FINALE 🚨 The Khan Audio Drama has reached its epic conclusion. Now is the perfect time to watch our exclusive interviews with: 🎙️ Naveen Andrews 🎙️ Wrenn Schmidt 🎙️ Kirsten Beyer 🎙️ Marcus and Sam Bagala 📺 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #StarTrek

Among other things, what gets me about this book is free of genre convention it is, while also being recognisably of genre. We talk occasionally about SF that starts from the world as it is today rather than SF's conventional assumptions; this for me is one version of what that can look like.

@thetimdickinson.bsky.social Chairs of Blake’s 7 on Antiques Roadshow right now!!!

Home again home again

Afternoon Womble! I am dipping into Mathematics for Ladies by Jessy Randall on the train home from Brighton 😊 (with thanks to @goldsf.bsky.social and @unamccormack.bsky.social for the copy!)

Are you all still watching that baseball game?

I’ve read and enjoyed most of the responses to the original post but chicken hammer has made me laugh out loud. Chapeau!

Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15

Bloody love Karen and Carlos #Strictly

Nearly 25 years ago I wrote a long Tolkien fanfiction about Faramir and Éowyn and what happened after the fairy-tale. I posted chapters as I was writing them: it became my first full-length novel…