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Runalong Womble
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Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
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CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station is considered a classic for a reason. Let's discuss this thrilling tale of space warfare, which focuses more on suffering and survival than on tactics and strategy...
Warfare and Survival: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh - Reactor
A science fiction classic about the true costs and consequences of war.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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peat.bsky.social
Super excited to finally share this with everyone.

Even more excited to hopefully share the book me and Fab are working on down the line, but one step at a time.
kiagency.bsky.social Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social · 4h
It is announcement season at Ki - we are thrilled to welcome @peat.bsky.social and his epic fantasy murder mystery to the agency. Peat is represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social

Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/peat-lo...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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shonak.bsky.social
As should I… 😂

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want
Text reads: Chapter One. Mairead. 28th July 1745 The end was in sight. The old man’s rasping breath hitched in his chest, stuttering in time with the flickering light coming from the hearth. Mairead dropped her knitting into the basket at her side and leaned forward, placing her warm hand atop his cold, frail one. He coughed and sighed, his breathing once more settling into an unsteady rhythm, and Mairead squeezed his fingers before letting go and sitting back again. Old Callum’s wasted body barely made a hump beneath the blankets and plaids piled atop the bed.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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georgesreads.bsky.social
“May I be frank with you? This is hard. @catrionaward.bsky.social’s writing is slippery and elusive and entirely unreasonably hard to describe. It’s like trying to bottle fog. It refuses to sit still enough for a neat summary and I fear I’ve made a pig’s ear of trying…”

But try I do. Full review:
Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for lon ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.

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SPFBO Champions: By Blood, by Salt by J.L. Odom
Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
into every generation, a 007 is born, one agent in all the world, a Chosen Bond. He alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness
twbarber.bsky.social T. W. Barber @twbarber.bsky.social · 3h
"James Bond" isn't a person, it's a title. Every generation, a spy at MI6 proves themselves good enough to take on the mantle of 007. That explains why he looks different and has a slightly different personality every so often. Or you could just say he's a TimeLord and be done with it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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krisvm.bsky.social
Mirror, Mirror on my screen, is this the best Trek episode you've ever seen?
Schedule 15/11 (BST):
17:00: Marine Boy: Rustlers of the Deep
17:25: Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror
18:10: Dad's Army: The Big Parade
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November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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garethlpowell.bsky.social
The opening page of my forthcoming novel, JITTERBUG. If you want to read more, you'll have to preorder the book from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good booksellers. Links here: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
PROLOGUE JUSTICE BROWN Come sit here by me, Copernicus. Listen to your grandmother. I want to tell you a story. I want to tell you how it all began... It was a hot night in South London, back on Earth. This was many years ago, when your father was just a baby. It was the kind of night you have all the windows open, and it doesn't make a lick of difference, except you can hear the traffic and the sirens in the streets nine floors below. I'd just got the baby down when Leon called and told me to come up to the roof. "Why the hell am I coming up to the roof?" I asked him. He laughed, but I could hear he was scared. "It's Saturn, Justice." "What about Saturn?" "It's started." "But Malcolm-" 'Bring Malcolm. This is historic." "I only just got him to sleep."
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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New Review: Morning Folks! Today’s review is The Black Lord by Colin Hinckley. It’s a weird fiction tale that uses both folk and cosmic horror to create a tale that held my attention

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BOOK REVIEW | THE BLACK LORD | COLIN HINCKLEY
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Protagonists don't have to be likable, but you need to keep readers from rejecting them completely. James Davis Nicoll offers five strategies for building a story around deeply problematic main characters...
Five Ways to Build a Story Around an Unlikeable Protagonist - Reactor
Thoughts on hateable, problematic, and morally bankrupt characters.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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wsbookclub.bsky.social
I read The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. It's hard to put into words what made this book such a treasure, but I tried.

#bookblogger #booksky #TheEverlasting #bookreview
Book Review: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian se…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
runalongwomble.bsky.social
A really smart and unsettling tale
yrioona.bsky.social trill symbiont @yrioona.bsky.social · 5h
As "AI" slop becomes more and more inescapable, I think about this wonderful, funny, creepy story by @thomasha.bsky.social every day:

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(btw Thomas Ha if you read this I rly want to know if it's "muhb" or "moob")
The Mub by Thomas Ha
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
runalongwomble.bsky.social
Do a Doctor Who - ignore it. Fandom while hating contradictions actually will then enjoy decades of making their own headcanons
willardfoxton.bsky.social Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 10h
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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shonak.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be on @maryrobinettekowal.com’s blog today to talk about My Favourite Bit of Daughters of Nicnevin! maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...
My Favorite Bit: Shona Kinsella talks about DAUGHTERS OF NICNEVIN
Shona Kinsella is joining us today to talk about her novel, Daughters of Nicnevin. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 174…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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aknighton.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

Walking a Wounded Land opens with…
A page from a paperback book, it reads: Andrew Knighton Walking a Wounded Land Chapter One To my left is the sea, endlessly in motion, a vast expanse in which my magic has no power. The sea holds no memories, no paths I can walk.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
Hard to imagine a better articulation of how fannish brain has broken Hollywood. How is Bond back after dying in the last movie? Because he’s a fictional character and we’re not done telling stories about him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Audio Review: Star Trek: Khan
Star Trek Khan is a nine episode audio drama directed by Fred Greenhalgh and written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Nicholas Meyer.
@princejvstin.com has our review
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Audio Review: Star Trek: Khan
Star Trek Khan is a nine episode audio drama directed by Fred Greenhalgh and written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Ni...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
The Anderida special edition of the Terrible Worlds : Revolutions book, cover and interior art by Ian McQue, truly a thing of beauty.
miguelpeck.bsky.social Miguel Peck @miguelpeck.bsky.social · 10h
I think this is now the most beautiful book I own. Yes, it’s Adrian’s text (as good as ever) and Anderida did amazing work here, from typography to binding, etc. but my lord, Ian McQue’s art goes f-ing hard.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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imyril.bsky.social
This year's #ScifiMonth read-along is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I'm excited to revisit the Imperial Radch - this week, we're discussing the first 6 chapters
Ancillary Justice: week one
This year, we're returning to Ann Leckie's much-awarded debut for our ScifiMonth read-along. The Justice of Toren is a Radchaai troop carrier, bringing her cargo of ancillaries - once-human soldiers, now mere bodies slaved to her consciousness - to its new conquests. Trouble is stirring at the empire's edges that will one day lead to sole ancillary leaving the Radch in search of a weapon that can kill its millennia-long leader Anaander Mianaai.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
runalongwomble.bsky.social
Review tomorrow but this is a really interesting space opera out today!
stewarthotston.com Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 10h
Project Hanuman is here. I hope you'll take a look as I think it's a pretty good space opera - no hero's journey here - this is about community, how we build back better and, of course, mind bending space battles in sentient ships.

#spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction
Discover Project Hanuman: A Unique Sci-Fi Adventure
Discover 'Project Hanuman', a thrilling adventure of galactic civilizations, survival, and community. Get your copy now!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
Boosting this: if you're in the creative industries or have other creative skills or merch (eg signed books/prints) you can donate to our Sudan auction fundraiser, sign up here! If not? Please do share with your networks! #KeepEyesOnSudan #Creatives4Sudan
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
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November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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shonak.bsky.social
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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effies.bsky.social
Jupiter says trans rights
apod.shinyakato.dev Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 12h
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

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The planet Jupiter appears full frame in apparent colours of a variety of blues and some pink bands. The Great Red Spot is visible on the lower left as a dark spot. Jupiter's Moon Ganymede is visible on the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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carturo222.bsky.social
This essay is beautiful and painful.
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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renay.bsky.social
Out now over on Lady Business, my (non-spoilery for the second book, not for the first) review of The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott. The Witch Roads duology is complete!

🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/11/11/t...
Screencap of a slice of The Nameless Land cover by Kate Eliott. A woman and a man stand side by side on a dirt road, backs to the viewer, looking into the distance where there's a riverland plain covered by fog. Text selections read: The Witch Roads Book II and "An absolute gem of a story."
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM