Thomas D. Lee
@thomasdlee.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him)
Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel
Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London
Worried about climate stuff
Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency
Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel
Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London
Worried about climate stuff
Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency
Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
Utter bollocks. There are enough problems in publishing without making up new ones that don't exist.
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Utter bollocks. There are enough problems in publishing without making up new ones that don't exist.
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MAN DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA HOW MUCH PETROL IT TAKES TO RUN A CAR
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
MAN DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA HOW MUCH PETROL IT TAKES TO RUN A CAR
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
Merry Christmas, one and all
December 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Merry Christmas, one and all
I wrote a sappy Christmas story in which Santa rescues a pair of downed aviators during the First World War. It's not the sort of thing that SF/F mags are very interested in picking up, so I'm sharing it for free on my horrible Wordpress site. Enjoy!
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Over By Christmas
A Short 184. Art by Stephen Spiteri and Raymond Agius by Thomas D. Lee 24th of December, 1917 Nairn put the kite down in the drink. It was a pretty smooth landing, all things considered. Even on a …
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December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I wrote a sappy Christmas story in which Santa rescues a pair of downed aviators during the First World War. It's not the sort of thing that SF/F mags are very interested in picking up, so I'm sharing it for free on my horrible Wordpress site. Enjoy!
thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...
thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...
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You won’t regret giving the excellent @thomasdlee.bsky.social’s debut a read, if you haven’t already!
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Review: Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee.
An elegy for an England that never existed?
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December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
You won’t regret giving the excellent @thomasdlee.bsky.social’s debut a read, if you haven’t already!
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It's so gratifying to read such a thoughtful review which gets what I was trying to do beyond the 'wackiness' of the premise. @najpullen.bsky.social is right: I love this island but hate the people who govern it, and Perilous Times was an attempt to reconcile that.
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Review: Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee.
An elegy for an England that never existed?
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December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It's so gratifying to read such a thoughtful review which gets what I was trying to do beyond the 'wackiness' of the premise. @najpullen.bsky.social is right: I love this island but hate the people who govern it, and Perilous Times was an attempt to reconcile that.
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My wonderful friends and D&D buddies have commissioned this lino print as a shockingly thoughtful Christmas gift: it depicts the scene from Perilous Times in which Lancelot approaches Manchester on his Brough Superior. I'm utterly delighted.
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My wonderful friends and D&D buddies have commissioned this lino print as a shockingly thoughtful Christmas gift: it depicts the scene from Perilous Times in which Lancelot approaches Manchester on his Brough Superior. I'm utterly delighted.
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My favourite time of year has come - when Tom sends me his beautiful illustrations of scenes from my book in his Christmas card. Thank you so much! And a merry Christmas to you too @thomasdlee.bsky.social! 🎄
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My favourite time of year has come - when Tom sends me his beautiful illustrations of scenes from my book in his Christmas card. Thank you so much! And a merry Christmas to you too @thomasdlee.bsky.social! 🎄
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cannot stress enough how willing i am to point another scholar in the direction of resources in my field. i have access to one of the greatest libraries in the world and i have on many occasions called up centuries old books to photograph a page for someone on here. and i'll do it again
They could slide into our DMs for free half the time but would rather do anything than work with another human being
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
cannot stress enough how willing i am to point another scholar in the direction of resources in my field. i have access to one of the greatest libraries in the world and i have on many occasions called up centuries old books to photograph a page for someone on here. and i'll do it again
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Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.
Support the tram drivers! ✊
Greater Manchester tram drivers to strike on 19, 20 and 31 December. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unite announces Metrolink NYE strikes across Greater Manchester
Tram drivers are striking on key dates across the upcoming festive period, including New Years Eve.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Support the tram drivers! ✊
I'm looking forward to chatting with the Writeopolis gang in February! Based on my previous interactions with @rjbarker.bsky.social I'm sure chaos will reign and @katiebruce.bsky.social will regret putting us in the same Zoom call
22nd Feb - we have Thomas D Lee to tell us all about his debut, Perilous Times, a contemporary take on the King Arthur tales that sees the Knights of the Round Table trying to fix modern problems, and perhaps we'll even get a taste of the upcoming prequel...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm looking forward to chatting with the Writeopolis gang in February! Based on my previous interactions with @rjbarker.bsky.social I'm sure chaos will reign and @katiebruce.bsky.social will regret putting us in the same Zoom call
There's a special place in hell for the ghouls and jackals who are using the Supreme Court ruling as a stick with which to threaten women's organisations, many of which have welcomed trans women for years or decades. It doesn't achieve anything or make anyone safer, it's just performative cruelty.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There's a special place in hell for the ghouls and jackals who are using the Supreme Court ruling as a stick with which to threaten women's organisations, many of which have welcomed trans women for years or decades. It doesn't achieve anything or make anyone safer, it's just performative cruelty.
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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Happy publication day, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & your brilliant collaborators!
An Honour & A Privilege is now available to order from wherever you buy books online, as well as direct from Stanchion in physical & PDF form
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An Honour & A Privilege is now available to order from wherever you buy books online, as well as direct from Stanchion in physical & PDF form
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy publication day, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & your brilliant collaborators!
An Honour & A Privilege is now available to order from wherever you buy books online, as well as direct from Stanchion in physical & PDF form
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
An Honour & A Privilege is now available to order from wherever you buy books online, as well as direct from Stanchion in physical & PDF form
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
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Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The thing about brainstorming is that it produces results that bear the imprint of the brain in which the storm happened. The output is of almost zero interest if the brain is “the average of all past brains, randomly stolen and mashed together.”
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The thing about brainstorming is that it produces results that bear the imprint of the brain in which the storm happened. The output is of almost zero interest if the brain is “the average of all past brains, randomly stolen and mashed together.”
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Dr Dee:Mortlake to Manchester' exhibition at @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which rendered Dee's dreams as mesmerising light displays. Very impressive.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Dr Dee:Mortlake to Manchester' exhibition at @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which rendered Dee's dreams as mesmerising light displays. Very impressive.
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I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.
If you fancy a rollicking detective story set in an alternate Victorian London then you're in luck: HIGH VAULTAGE by my friends @jensugden.bsky.social and @chrissugden.bsky.social is only 99¢ on Kindle in the US!
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you fancy a rollicking detective story set in an alternate Victorian London then you're in luck: HIGH VAULTAGE by my friends @jensugden.bsky.social and @chrissugden.bsky.social is only 99¢ on Kindle in the US!
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will