NickPheas
@nickpheas.bsky.social
Scuba diver, SF reader, father, cyclist.
Yorkshire immigrant.
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NickPheas
@nickpheas.bsky.social
· Oct 24
I have done a thing. There is now a UKSFFBookBargains Bluesky feed
This might even be a link to it.
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you like cheap books please consider pinning it, sharing it and posting using the #UKSFFBookBargains hashtag.
This might even be a link to it.
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you like cheap books please consider pinning it, sharing it and posting using the #UKSFFBookBargains hashtag.
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❄️ WINTER WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! ❄️ Click https://bgfn.sh/wwcsale26 to browse a frankly bonkers selection of Big Finish discounts.
These offers all expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 11 January 2026 and are sold on a first come, first served basis.
These offers all expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 11 January 2026 and are sold on a first come, first served basis.
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
❄️ WINTER WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! ❄️ Click https://bgfn.sh/wwcsale26 to browse a frankly bonkers selection of Big Finish discounts.
These offers all expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 11 January 2026 and are sold on a first come, first served basis.
These offers all expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 11 January 2026 and are sold on a first come, first served basis.
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if you host a podcast, ben bowler is feeding it to AI, stripping it of ads, and profiting from it. i spent my morning submitting DMCA takedown requests and getting a cease and desist request because how fucking dare you profit from our IP when we don't even make any money from it???
The tool copying podcasts, stripping the ads, and selling them
It might have cost the podcast industry almost a million dollars in lost revenue
podnews.net
January 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
if you host a podcast, ben bowler is feeding it to AI, stripping it of ads, and profiting from it. i spent my morning submitting DMCA takedown requests and getting a cease and desist request because how fucking dare you profit from our IP when we don't even make any money from it???
I hear very good things about these books, they're high on the TBR, and they're free if you want them because @kithrup.bsky.social is very generous.
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies each of @robertjbennett.bsky.social's Shadow of the Leviathan books, The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption. These are both *very good*. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!
January 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I hear very good things about these books, they're high on the TBR, and they're free if you want them because @kithrup.bsky.social is very generous.
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The majority of Americans can’t locate Venezuela on this map
January 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The majority of Americans can’t locate Venezuela on this map
So sometime soon there's going to be a succession crisis in BBC Nature. Will the alpha presenter be Gordon Buchanan or Ranger Hamza?
Or does David Attenborough possess the One Ring?
Or does David Attenborough possess the One Ring?
January 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
So sometime soon there's going to be a succession crisis in BBC Nature. Will the alpha presenter be Gordon Buchanan or Ranger Hamza?
Or does David Attenborough possess the One Ring?
Or does David Attenborough possess the One Ring?
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We do NOT have 10 lords-a-leaping dancing but we DO have a full trio of @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar!
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 💀 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 💀 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
We do NOT have 10 lords-a-leaping dancing but we DO have a full trio of @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar!
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 💀 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 💀 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙
@fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social Surely you have to rescind the award of the Fifa Peace Prize? How else can such an ancient and honoured trophy retain any respect?
January 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
@fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social Surely you have to rescind the award of the Fifa Peace Prize? How else can such an ancient and honoured trophy retain any respect?
Another good haul of #UKSFFBookBargains in the Kindle daily deals. 99p where not mentioned.
🧵 Follows.
🧵 Follows.
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Another good haul of #UKSFFBookBargains in the Kindle daily deals. 99p where not mentioned.
🧵 Follows.
🧵 Follows.
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Something I only realized very very late in the day - The Dog Stars by Peter Heller was a Clarke Award finalist.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-Stars-Pe...
Wikipedia says a film adaptation by Ridley Scott will be released this summer....
www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-Stars-Pe...
Wikipedia says a film adaptation by Ridley Scott will be released this summer....
The Dog Stars: The hope-filled story of a world changed by global catastrophe
The Dog Stars: The hope-filled story of a world changed by global catastrophe eBook : Heller, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Something I only realized very very late in the day - The Dog Stars by Peter Heller was a Clarke Award finalist.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-Stars-Pe...
Wikipedia says a film adaptation by Ridley Scott will be released this summer....
www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-Stars-Pe...
Wikipedia says a film adaptation by Ridley Scott will be released this summer....
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 AM
5 SFF Worlds Threatened by Endless Winter (from 2023)
Winter is here to stay...
reactormag.com/5-sff-worlds...
Winter is here to stay...
reactormag.com/5-sff-worlds...
5 SFF Worlds Threatened by Endless Winter - Reactor
Winter is here to stay...
reactormag.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Weird American public domain rules seem to be throwing up a lot of better things than the rest of the world's Life+70. 1956 was a much better year for deaths.
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Weird American public domain rules seem to be throwing up a lot of better things than the rest of the world's Life+70. 1956 was a much better year for deaths.
EC is entirely right, I had forgotten to #UKSFFBookBargins the daily deals.
The McEwan he mentions does look SF, though I expect McEwan himself will deny it. Or his PR people will. Looks mainly set in 2119 after rising sea levels have inundated the UK though.
The McEwan he mentions does look SF, though I expect McEwan himself will deny it. Or his PR people will. Looks mainly set in 2119 after rising sea levels have inundated the UK though.
In the dailies, I believe Ian McEwan's What We Can Know is SFnal.
www.amazon.co.uk/What-We-Can-...
It seems to have been better received than his AI book was a couple of years ago?
Also Katabasis, a Rick Riordan spin-off, a Stephen King, and a witch (I think?) trilogy omnibus.
www.amazon.co.uk/What-We-Can-...
It seems to have been better received than his AI book was a couple of years ago?
Also Katabasis, a Rick Riordan spin-off, a Stephen King, and a witch (I think?) trilogy omnibus.
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
EC is entirely right, I had forgotten to #UKSFFBookBargins the daily deals.
The McEwan he mentions does look SF, though I expect McEwan himself will deny it. Or his PR people will. Looks mainly set in 2119 after rising sea levels have inundated the UK though.
The McEwan he mentions does look SF, though I expect McEwan himself will deny it. Or his PR people will. Looks mainly set in 2119 after rising sea levels have inundated the UK though.
Do, do we have new #UKSFFFBookBargains or is it still the 12 Days of Kindle? Looks like there's new stuff, so here goes with an Amazon 🧵.
Kobo will follow, but most books will be on both lists.
Kobo will follow, but most books will be on both lists.
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Do, do we have new #UKSFFFBookBargains or is it still the 12 Days of Kindle? Looks like there's new stuff, so here goes with an Amazon 🧵.
Kobo will follow, but most books will be on both lists.
Kobo will follow, but most books will be on both lists.
I seem to have found the One Ring
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I seem to have found the One Ring
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Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. This is a classic F/SF book. There are dragons! They fly! And teleport!
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. This is a classic F/SF book. There are dragons! They fly! And teleport!
There is a #UKSFFBookBargains in today's offers, though I'm not super enthused.
Killashandra, which is book 2 of a minor Anne McCaffrey series which I didn't even know existed. And £1.99. I mainly mention it to say something on new year's eve.
www.amazon.co.uk/Killashandra...
Also on Kobo.
Killashandra, which is book 2 of a minor Anne McCaffrey series which I didn't even know existed. And £1.99. I mainly mention it to say something on new year's eve.
www.amazon.co.uk/Killashandra...
Also on Kobo.
Killashandra: (The Crystal Singer:II): an awe-inspiring and epic fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation
Killashandra: (The Crystal Singer:II): an awe-inspiring and epic fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation eBook : McCaffrey, Anne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There is a #UKSFFBookBargains in today's offers, though I'm not super enthused.
Killashandra, which is book 2 of a minor Anne McCaffrey series which I didn't even know existed. And £1.99. I mainly mention it to say something on new year's eve.
www.amazon.co.uk/Killashandra...
Also on Kobo.
Killashandra, which is book 2 of a minor Anne McCaffrey series which I didn't even know existed. And £1.99. I mainly mention it to say something on new year's eve.
www.amazon.co.uk/Killashandra...
Also on Kobo.
I'd been to the comic shop and was walking down Cornmarket in Oxford towards the buses, reading the latest X-Men on the way.
A guy runs at me, with another running after him. The second is John Thaw. I'm assured that I do appear in Inspector Morse, but I don't know which episode.
A guy runs at me, with another running after him. The second is John Thaw. I'm assured that I do appear in Inspector Morse, but I don't know which episode.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'd been to the comic shop and was walking down Cornmarket in Oxford towards the buses, reading the latest X-Men on the way.
A guy runs at me, with another running after him. The second is John Thaw. I'm assured that I do appear in Inspector Morse, but I don't know which episode.
A guy runs at me, with another running after him. The second is John Thaw. I'm assured that I do appear in Inspector Morse, but I don't know which episode.
Apparently I'm a security consultant. There's this weird augmented human on the other shift who keeps missing about humans being terrible at security and I think he's right.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Apparently I'm a security consultant. There's this weird augmented human on the other shift who keeps missing about humans being terrible at security and I think he's right.
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There's still one available: amazon.co.uk/kindle/redeem/?t=GSWRVWKR72E557X
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There's still one available: amazon.co.uk/kindle/redeem/?t=GSWRVWKR72E557X
Absolute corker of a book. You really should read this.
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion Book 1). This is a duology, although there's a sequel book called Outlaw Planet right now. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one.
December 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Absolute corker of a book. You really should read this.
#UKSFFBookBargains
BookBub shows up a Twilight Zone: Anthology, which looks to be modern writers telling short stories which would have fitted into the show, rather than being stories from the show. £1.99. Offer duration unknown.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LA0AD4
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
BookBub shows up a Twilight Zone: Anthology, which looks to be modern writers telling short stories which would have fitted into the show, rather than being stories from the show. £1.99. Offer duration unknown.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LA0AD4
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Twilight Zone: Anthology
Twilight Zone: Anthology eBook : Ellison, Harlan, Strieber, Whitley, Crowther, Peter, Lansdale, Joe R., Estleman, Loren, Beagle, Peter S., Lippman, Laura, Serling, Carol: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#UKSFFBookBargains
BookBub shows up a Twilight Zone: Anthology, which looks to be modern writers telling short stories which would have fitted into the show, rather than being stories from the show. £1.99. Offer duration unknown.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LA0AD4
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
BookBub shows up a Twilight Zone: Anthology, which looks to be modern writers telling short stories which would have fitted into the show, rather than being stories from the show. £1.99. Offer duration unknown.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LA0AD4
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Footnote: trying to keep the death penalty but ring-fence it for only the worst offenses is why England ended up hanging Derek Bentley (a non-murderer—later pardoned posthumously) in 1953: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bentley
December 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Footnote: trying to keep the death penalty but ring-fence it for only the worst offenses is why England ended up hanging Derek Bentley (a non-murderer—later pardoned posthumously) in 1953: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bentley
#UKSFFBookBargains
While the link in the text is to .com, when I checked it rput me onto .co.uk where this excellent book was only £1.47, which it is certainly worth.
AH in which Rudolf Hess's flight resulted in the overthrow of Churchill and appeasers capitulating in WW2.
While the link in the text is to .com, when I checked it rput me onto .co.uk where this excellent book was only £1.47, which it is certainly worth.
AH in which Rudolf Hess's flight resulted in the overthrow of Churchill and appeasers capitulating in WW2.
Farthing, my alternate history mystery novel about why good people do bad things is $1.99 as an ebook right now in the US www.amazon.com/Farthing-Sto...
Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 1)
Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 1) - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 1).
www.amazon.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#UKSFFBookBargains
While the link in the text is to .com, when I checked it rput me onto .co.uk where this excellent book was only £1.47, which it is certainly worth.
AH in which Rudolf Hess's flight resulted in the overthrow of Churchill and appeasers capitulating in WW2.
While the link in the text is to .com, when I checked it rput me onto .co.uk where this excellent book was only £1.47, which it is certainly worth.
AH in which Rudolf Hess's flight resulted in the overthrow of Churchill and appeasers capitulating in WW2.
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💸 Steal from the rich deals, and give to your audio collection! Click https://bgfn.sh/bfmas25 to get the complete Robin Hood for just £9.99. Merry #BigFinishmas!
Unless otherwise stated, all offers will be available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026.
Unless otherwise stated, all offers will be available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026.
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
💸 Steal from the rich deals, and give to your audio collection! Click https://bgfn.sh/bfmas25 to get the complete Robin Hood for just £9.99. Merry #BigFinishmas!
Unless otherwise stated, all offers will be available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026.
Unless otherwise stated, all offers will be available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026.