Some stories leap readily onto the page. Others escape the book and fly away. Some are trapped in the skull: they whisper to be set free.

Or, as Neil Young once said: Fe2O3.nH2O never sleeps.

The Anthology of Disappearance seeks stories from exciting young authors who would like their words to vanish instantly into dust and air.

I had a noughtmare last night. Nothing happened. Nothing at all. Just endless blank white space and me just standing there, waiting, waiting, waiting...

John Placeholder was born in Placeholder Town. He died in Placeholder. He was known for his placeholder work. His placeholder will always be remembered with great affection. He is survived by a loving placeholder and two little placeholders.

The humans recorded 1,000,000 libraries on a speck of dust. But which speck?

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Oh Narcissus! Oh mirror, oh beam of light! Oh sticky greedy retina that devours all! Oh chemical reaction! Oh optic nerve! Oh never-ending desire!

The internet. Not since the artist Brunelleschi invented the vanishing point in 1413, has so much human knowledge rushed towards a single dot that we now call a world.

Tonight at 7pm: The Great British Let Them Eat Cake.

First time: tragedy. Second time: farce. Third time: nostalgia for the tragedy. Fourth time: nostalgia for the farce. Fifth time: the “Revolution” box set.

Movie actor Paul Hanover has been lit by studio lights, stage lights, firelight, moonlight, street lamps, neon signs, car headlamps, Victorian gas lamps, reading lamps, flashbulbs, fluorescence, phosphorescence and candlelight. But he loved in the dark. Often alone.

An old man standing at the roadside, his fragile body on the very edge of disappearance. Another world awaits him. One soft breeze would do it…

Invisible fingers work the black and white keys as though Debussy himself were sitting here at the instrument, as he did back in 1913, when making this pianola roll. The ghost plays on.

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Average number of breaths in a lifetime: 672,768,000. But hey, who’s counting?

I have given back my last reflection. My silver peels away. A name and date are written in dust on my looking glass: Alice Pleasance Liddell, 1934.

Blade Runner Bit Part The dove felt the man’s hand around her soft warm white body. The grip was weak, trembling. His end was near, she could tell by his voice: Time to die... The fingers loosened one by one. Wings in a blur, taking flight!

Here rests a machine made from human flesh and bone. A machine activated not by lightening or sunlight or electrical charge or injection or smelling salts, but by one particular memory that suddenly plays across the circuits of the heart.

Oh yeah, about your wings: Folded (fig.1) Unfolded (fig.2) In flight (fig.3) Plucked (fig.4) Cooked (fig.5) Eaten (fig.6) The bones (fig.7) Sorry.

Having lost your ID card and your mask and your mirror and your password and your entry code and your cool: now, do you feel less, or more alive?

Excellent wide-ranging chat with @jeffnoon.bsky.social yesterday about his new novel MOON OVER BRENDLE, writing, Vurt, Ray Bradbury and comics. Interview coming soon to an outlet near you.

Gogmagog is the fantasy book for if you want to be cussed out (weirdly) by a very old lady sailor with green blood. Read it if you don’t want to be a lollyhead, muckle-drinker, quarterwit, buggerknap. Thank you Jeff Noon & Steve Beard for this gem of a novel! @jeffnoon.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚🪐

"...And further: If you can solve the puzzle of yourself whilst astonishing people with the solving of the puzzle, then you can be a writer, or an artist of any kind." -MOON OVER BRENDLE by @jeffnoon.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social A Bildungsroman wrapped up in the magic of writing.

Causons pour la fin de semaine d'une aventure fluviale dans un monde fantasy/SF/cequetu veux avec une vieille héroïne qui boit et qui jure comme une camionneuse et un univers incroyable qui dépote. @jeffnoon.bsky.social ➡️ CRITIQUE :

@jeffnoon.bsky.social is fast becoming one of my all time favorite writers so it was a treat to see that his latest book is sort of a love letter to the act of writing and creating itself. I felt Nyquist in this book and Scribble and Vurt itself and the lot of them and the passion that created them.

Yet another fantastic review for @jeffnoon.bsky.social's latest novel. We're so thrilled with the response from readers for this amazing book.

New Excerpt: MOON OVER BRENDLE by @jeffnoon.bsky.social... civilianreader.com/2026/05/20/e... Out now, published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social.

2nd/3rd #booksky deliveries also came in, containing probably my 2 favorite authors. I picked up the UK 1st Ed HB of Christopher Priest's 'The Quiet Woman' (already have pb and US HB editions). Next the UK HB @jeffnoon.bsky.social House with no Doors, (I already had this but wasn't best condition).

Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who's reading Moon Over Brendle, and for saying such nice things about it. The book's plot came to me a dream. I woke up and started working on it that same day. I wanted to write about SF, and my love for the genre: "the endless possibilities of the impossible."

Moon Over Brendle by @jeffnoon.bsky.social? Don't listen to us, listen to Alex. (The praise just keeps coming for this book. We are VERY happy.)

Moon Over Brendle by @jeffnoon.bsky.social? Don't listen to us, listen to Womble: "A magnificent fantastical love letter to the power of creating stories." Oh and let Womble know what you're reading - he shares what folk are reading and there are always fresh discoveries to be made.

Cheers, Gav.

Thank you. So glad you're enjoying it!

What was the inspiration behind Moon Over Brendle? What does the novel say about how Jeff writes? @jeffnoon.bsky.social tells the story in this essay.

Thanks, Paul!

"Part ghost story, part magical coming of age tale but most of all a story about stories, memory and the ties that connect us all." Stewart Hotston, author of Project Hanuman The Dust tells the story, one grain at a time. Jeff Noon's magical contemporary fantasy meets fantastical memoir. OUT NOW.

“In the dust in the dark words are waiting” “I have read the skies, I have read the river.” “I have read the birdsong, and the fall of leaves.” “I have read the blood, and the ploughing of the fields.” “The dust tells the story.” Wishing @jeffnoon.bsky.social a very happy book birthday!

Well written and tightly paced, murder thriller by @jeffnoon.bsky.social that keeps you hooked and page turning, series of rock star related killings that expands into teenage secrecy, with a side plate of police corruption also. #booksky

Moon Over Brendle: "An unusual, magical faux-autobiography, this is a vividly written delight." A lovely review for @jeffnoon.bsky.social's new novel from Lisa Tuttle in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I'll be launching my new novel Moon Over Brendle on May 14, at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd. For the first time I'll be revealing the secret method I use to create ideas, stories, characters, etc. Please come along if you can. Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/moon-... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

“A warm, affecting tale of imagination, experience, and home, alight with wonder, and generous to even its most flawed characters.” SFX, 4.5 star review Out on May 12th, the fantastic new book from @jeffnoon.bsky.social. "One of the great masters of weird fiction" @aptshadow.bsky.social

Thank you!

Moon Over Brendle event alert! @jeffnoon.bsky.social and @adamroberts.bsky.social in conversation at Foyles. Book your ticket here: www.foyles.co.uk/events/moon-...

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"Task No.4 Construct a Time Machine This novel is the first outcome of that endeavour, a way back, for myself, and a way forwards for the spirits of the people who aided me in that summer's adventures." My finished copy of Moon Over Brendle by @jeffnoon.bsky.social has arrived, and I love it.

Nice to see that old version of Vurt!

For the London adjacent. @jeffnoon.bsky.social and @adamroberts.bsky.social in conversation about creative writing and Jeff's new book, Moon Over Brendle. May 14th, Foyles Bookshop. www.foyles.co.uk/events/moon-...

Icarus flew too close to the centre of the Internet, where all data fuses into a sphere of light hot enough to burn the wings of a dreamer.