SciFiScavenger
@scifiscavenger.bsky.social
I'm Jon, I have a YouTube channel focused on collecting, reading and chatting about science fiction books old and new. I plan to do the same on here.
https://youtube.com/@scifiscavenger
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Progress through November's planned TBR pile. Four down, six to go. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #tbr
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Progress through November's planned TBR pile. Four down, six to go. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #tbr
Well, quite.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Well, quite.
Putting the finishing touches to a video looking at the very human, social SF of Chris Beckett, one of 🇬🇧's best living science fiction writers and all round lovely chap. Out later on today. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Putting the finishing touches to a video looking at the very human, social SF of Chris Beckett, one of 🇬🇧's best living science fiction writers and all round lovely chap. Out later on today. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
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The audio for EXISTENCE used three great readers making terrific distinction among the many characters. Now I’m happy to announce a refresh of the audio of HEART OF THE COMET, my collaboration with Gregory Benford. Especially as comets are much in the news.
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Heart of the Comet
Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in this bold collaboration about our near human future in spacePrescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The audio for EXISTENCE used three great readers making terrific distinction among the many characters. Now I’m happy to announce a refresh of the audio of HEART OF THE COMET, my collaboration with Gregory Benford. Especially as comets are much in the news.
www.downpour.com/products/boo...
www.downpour.com/products/boo...
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Embarked on ‘Inverted World’ over the last few days & it had me hooked from the opening chapters. I’ve still some way to go of course, but I’m already thinking that it’s likely to end up as one of my top 5 reads of the year.
My first novel by this fine author - & I’ll certainly be seeking out more…
My first novel by this fine author - & I’ll certainly be seeking out more…
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Embarked on ‘Inverted World’ over the last few days & it had me hooked from the opening chapters. I’ve still some way to go of course, but I’m already thinking that it’s likely to end up as one of my top 5 reads of the year.
My first novel by this fine author - & I’ll certainly be seeking out more…
My first novel by this fine author - & I’ll certainly be seeking out more…
I very much enjoyed this one too. What are you waiting for? 🪐📚💙 #scifbooks #sciencefiction #spaceopera
Super late to the party on this one, but loving it - by @byzantienne.bsky.social - just stunning world building, the level of detail in language and names is breathtaking.
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I very much enjoyed this one too. What are you waiting for? 🪐📚💙 #scifbooks #sciencefiction #spaceopera
This is fab, btw, having a great time. Think more than Bear Head, even, but then I'm a sucker for the end of the world. 🪐📚💙
Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is fab, btw, having a great time. Think more than Bear Head, even, but then I'm a sucker for the end of the world. 🪐📚💙
Random thought today. SF books with moving cities. Can you think of any?
Here's a few to prime the pump:
Inverted World
The Quantum Thief
Cities in Flight
Absolution Gap
Mortal Engines.
Any others? 🪐📚💙
#scifibooks #sciencefiction
Here's a few to prime the pump:
Inverted World
The Quantum Thief
Cities in Flight
Absolution Gap
Mortal Engines.
Any others? 🪐📚💙
#scifibooks #sciencefiction
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Random thought today. SF books with moving cities. Can you think of any?
Here's a few to prime the pump:
Inverted World
The Quantum Thief
Cities in Flight
Absolution Gap
Mortal Engines.
Any others? 🪐📚💙
#scifibooks #sciencefiction
Here's a few to prime the pump:
Inverted World
The Quantum Thief
Cities in Flight
Absolution Gap
Mortal Engines.
Any others? 🪐📚💙
#scifibooks #sciencefiction
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No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
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Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my...
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Starship Alexandria: Episode 8 - Mythago Wood
For our eighth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, for Emma to consider. Our caveat from the episode: “If you have not read this boo...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my...
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
This next on audiobook, continuing my gradual re-read of the Revelation Space books. Cathedrals on rails, or something, i seem to recall. 🤷♂️🪐📚💙🚀
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This next on audiobook, continuing my gradual re-read of the Revelation Space books. Cathedrals on rails, or something, i seem to recall. 🤷♂️🪐📚💙🚀
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera
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Ben Bova sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bova_ben was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jack Faragasso, Chris Moore, Chris Moore and David Mattingly):
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ben Bova sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bova_ben was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jack Faragasso, Chris Moore, Chris Moore and David Mattingly):
No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
No, YOU have a book problem! Just recorded November's haul video which will appear next weekend. Probably. Collection gap fillers, bookshop browsings, gifts plus a few charity shop finds. Now I just need to find space for them on my shelves....🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
Finished this earlier on, mostly audiobook. Was interesting to read a re-framing of a familiar story. Bean's early life, his troubles in Battle School, his unseen support of Ender and a glimpse into what follows for him after the defeat of the Formics. Pretty good. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
This up next. Having enjoyed Ender's Game back in the day, I am intrigued to read essentially the same story but from Bean's perspective. 🚀🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #battleschool
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Finished this earlier on, mostly audiobook. Was interesting to read a re-framing of a familiar story. Bean's early life, his troubles in Battle School, his unseen support of Ender and a glimpse into what follows for him after the defeat of the Formics. Pretty good. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
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What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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Weekly Sci-Fi Reading Report | Stephen Baxter, Isaac Asimov | November 7th 2025
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November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie
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The hiatus is over, and the self-replicating machines are on the loose - this week's article and podcast ep cover John Sladek's anarchic, comic debut SF novel The Reproductive System, AKA Mechasm (1968).
Silicon and steel: The Reproductive System (1968) by John Sladek
Machines run amok in a comic disaster ahead of its time
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November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The hiatus is over, and the self-replicating machines are on the loose - this week's article and podcast ep cover John Sladek's anarchic, comic debut SF novel The Reproductive System, AKA Mechasm (1968).
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REVIEW: “WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED is a future classic. It’s another essential book from an author who is building a reputation for saying the hard things in inventive, new, stylish, challenging, and remarkable ways.”
Full review 👇🏻
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Review: Where The Axe Is Buried by Ray Naylor | FanFiAddict
Synopsis All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
REVIEW: “WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED is a future classic. It’s another essential book from an author who is building a reputation for saying the hard things in inventive, new, stylish, challenging, and remarkable ways.”
Full review 👇🏻
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Full review 👇🏻
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Cover reveal for Reality Rift.
#Concept #darkshepherd #SciFi #coverart #scifiart #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
#Concept #darkshepherd #SciFi #coverart #scifiart #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Cover reveal for Reality Rift.
#Concept #darkshepherd #SciFi #coverart #scifiart #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
#Concept #darkshepherd #SciFi #coverart #scifiart #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
Weekly Sci-Fi Reading Report | Stephen Baxter, Isaac Asimov | November 7th 2025
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
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November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
Seems the collective noun for bears is a sloth of bears. So now we know.
Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Seems the collective noun for bears is a sloth of bears. So now we know.
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Had to manage what I can buy due to the sheer volume of hobby stuff I want, but I’ve kept two new science fiction releases on preorder
New Claire North - Slow Gods
New M R Carey - Outlaw Planet
🪐📚💙
#scifi #sciencefiction
New Claire North - Slow Gods
New M R Carey - Outlaw Planet
🪐📚💙
#scifi #sciencefiction
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Had to manage what I can buy due to the sheer volume of hobby stuff I want, but I’ve kept two new science fiction releases on preorder
New Claire North - Slow Gods
New M R Carey - Outlaw Planet
🪐📚💙
#scifi #sciencefiction
New Claire North - Slow Gods
New M R Carey - Outlaw Planet
🪐📚💙
#scifi #sciencefiction
Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Shelf 36a of my science fiction library. A herd of bears. Flock? Troop? Pack? Bunch o' Bears anyway, plus a few more. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting #shelfie