@purblind.bsky.social
Centrist Dad. Big Reader. Sladek Moorcock Ballard Aldiss Wolfe. Gimme Pulp, there is no truer art
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Realised that it’s 10 years to the day since my first book was published - a strange old tale set in the 147th century, featuring a giant (but very awkward) hominid protagonist. There’s a lot I’d do differently if I were writing it now, but I had such a great time coming up with so much weird stuff.
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Realised that it’s 10 years to the day since my first book was published - a strange old tale set in the 147th century, featuring a giant (but very awkward) hominid protagonist. There’s a lot I’d do differently if I were writing it now, but I had such a great time coming up with so much weird stuff.
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Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
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Been a while since I did a charity stream on Twitch, but I'm feeling the urge again. Tomorrow (Sunday) 11 am to 2 pm Eastern I'll be playing "The Long Dark" -- an old game but a new fave, to benefit NY Common Pantry. Join me for giveaways and (probably) horrible death! tilt.fyi/YVoFdn7Efo
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November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Been a while since I did a charity stream on Twitch, but I'm feeling the urge again. Tomorrow (Sunday) 11 am to 2 pm Eastern I'll be playing "The Long Dark" -- an old game but a new fave, to benefit NY Common Pantry. Join me for giveaways and (probably) horrible death! tilt.fyi/YVoFdn7Efo
Dennis Hopper looking rough as hell these days
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Dennis Hopper looking rough as hell these days
Hell yeah!
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hell yeah!
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If you like a little Kafka with your LeCarré and a pinch of Philip K. Dick in your Agatha Christie, you should read the Fractured Europe books
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you like a little Kafka with your LeCarré and a pinch of Philip K. Dick in your Agatha Christie, you should read the Fractured Europe books
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So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
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Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
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If you haven’t read Paul’s stuff (and you should) this is the time to start. Austral in particular is a marvellous book.
Ebook editions of my recent novels (Beyond the Burn Line, War of the Maps, Austral etc) are just £2.99 at the moment. Or, so I'm told, $2.99 if yr in the US. Lots of links here:
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk/print.html
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk/print.html
In Print
Book Cover Catalogue
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you haven’t read Paul’s stuff (and you should) this is the time to start. Austral in particular is a marvellous book.
Hey @peterclines.bsky.social, saw this where I live and thought of you. Counting the days to your new book and my local neon museum has the sequel pegged
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Hey @peterclines.bsky.social, saw this where I live and thought of you. Counting the days to your new book and my local neon museum has the sequel pegged
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61. If you record PV capacity and only have room for one figure, record MW(DC), the module capacity. It tells you more about what the project will produce, how much land it needs, and what it will cost than MW(AC), which is just the size of the wire. I will die on this seemingly obscure hill.
October 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
61. If you record PV capacity and only have room for one figure, record MW(DC), the module capacity. It tells you more about what the project will produce, how much land it needs, and what it will cost than MW(AC), which is just the size of the wire. I will die on this seemingly obscure hill.
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I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez.
Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez.
Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
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Today the ebooks of four of Matt Ruff's novels are on sale in the U.S.:
-- LOVECRAFT COUNTRY is $1.99
-- BAD MONKEYS is $1.99
-- 88 NAMES is $1.99
-- SEWER, GAS & ELECTRIC is $2.99
You can read about all of his novels on his website: bymattruff.com
-- LOVECRAFT COUNTRY is $1.99
-- BAD MONKEYS is $1.99
-- 88 NAMES is $1.99
-- SEWER, GAS & ELECTRIC is $2.99
You can read about all of his novels on his website: bymattruff.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today the ebooks of four of Matt Ruff's novels are on sale in the U.S.:
-- LOVECRAFT COUNTRY is $1.99
-- BAD MONKEYS is $1.99
-- 88 NAMES is $1.99
-- SEWER, GAS & ELECTRIC is $2.99
You can read about all of his novels on his website: bymattruff.com
-- LOVECRAFT COUNTRY is $1.99
-- BAD MONKEYS is $1.99
-- 88 NAMES is $1.99
-- SEWER, GAS & ELECTRIC is $2.99
You can read about all of his novels on his website: bymattruff.com
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Still my favorite character I've ever written.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm just some random guy on the Internet, but I think the Nyx trilogy is the second best sci-fi trilogy I've ever read. Definitely worth reading all of it
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Still my favorite character I've ever written.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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The reason Adam Roberts isn’t recognized as a major writer of highbrow literary fiction isn’t that some of his stories have rocket ships in them, it’s that he refuses to write the same story twice, the fucking idiot
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The reason Adam Roberts isn’t recognized as a major writer of highbrow literary fiction isn’t that some of his stories have rocket ships in them, it’s that he refuses to write the same story twice, the fucking idiot
Made plans last week to reread Dancers at the End of Time
Genuinely bewilders me that the work of Michael Moorcock is as absent as it is from the conversations around the fantasy genre today.
The first author I read to show me what else fantasy could be. So of course I'm biased and yes I'm old.
The first author I read to show me what else fantasy could be. So of course I'm biased and yes I'm old.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Made plans last week to reread Dancers at the End of Time
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September 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Remembering when I read all the Pynchon I could, except Mason & Dixon, because I was told it was written in an impenetrable dialect. Happy now to find the prose a pure delight—the 1760s filtered through 1960s underground comix, history and seriousness through a cloud of weed-smoke and laughter
September 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Remembering when I read all the Pynchon I could, except Mason & Dixon, because I was told it was written in an impenetrable dialect. Happy now to find the prose a pure delight—the 1760s filtered through 1960s underground comix, history and seriousness through a cloud of weed-smoke and laughter
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I'd love to do a panel on "scuba diving and science fiction writing" one day because I think diving is the closest thing to space exploration that the average person can experience. Plus, everytime I dive, I get a new story idea.
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I'd love to do a panel on "scuba diving and science fiction writing" one day because I think diving is the closest thing to space exploration that the average person can experience. Plus, everytime I dive, I get a new story idea.
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I had cynicism thrust upon me, but I think growing up in 70s London will do that to a person.
September 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I had cynicism thrust upon me, but I think growing up in 70s London will do that to a person.
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Books they stole from me include all my Terra Ignota novels, my two nonfic histories, my dissertation, all my published academic articles & book reviews, & several of my scholarly book chapters; basically everything with a digital version. They really did pirate *everything* that’s online in any way
Round of applause to @srlpublishing.bsky.social for this: a web page listing each of their books stolen by Meta. More active shaming of techbro thieves from publishers, please!
srlpublishing.co.uk/product-cate...
srlpublishing.co.uk/product-cate...
Stolen by Meta - SRL Publishing
“No part of this book shall be used in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence (AI) systems or technologies.” – a small statement in our copyright page of our books, completely ...
srlpublishing.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Books they stole from me include all my Terra Ignota novels, my two nonfic histories, my dissertation, all my published academic articles & book reviews, & several of my scholarly book chapters; basically everything with a digital version. They really did pirate *everything* that’s online in any way
Time to go re-read the Bridge. Might throw in Feersum Endjinn for Bascule and his ant. We were robbed by his death. 59 ffs
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Time to go re-read the Bridge. Might throw in Feersum Endjinn for Bascule and his ant. We were robbed by his death. 59 ffs
That whole sequence is a macabre and gothic haunted house, lurking under SFF glad-rags. It contains its own metaphorical self in the feast of Thecla
"The ghost I had eaten at Vodalus's banquet was nearly calm again; I could feel her long, cool fingers in my brain, and though I could not turn inside my own skull to see her, I knew her deep and violet eyes were behind my own."
September 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
That whole sequence is a macabre and gothic haunted house, lurking under SFF glad-rags. It contains its own metaphorical self in the feast of Thecla
Jeter rocks
I remember reading K W Jeter’s Star Trek novels in high school. The quality control on those was decent and the range was very wide. Fun contrast between straight fanfic or high-concept stuff shoehorned into ‘another day on the Enterprise’ depending on the author!
September 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jeter rocks
Appleseed! Great book
Happy birthday, Clute!
John Clute sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clute_... joint editor of the SFE, was born on this day; he's wrote a few entries too: 7,856 solo & 1423 in collaboration (over 3.1m words). He also co-edited Interzone 1982-1984. Some related artwork (Judith Clute, St John Child, Richard Kadrey & Robert Mason):
September 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Appleseed! Great book