Chris Barnham
@chrisbarnham.bsky.social
Lewisham Labour councillor, former lead member for children's services.
Also science fiction writer (“Better plotted than Connie Willis” - Interzone magazine) and Reading FC fan. Check out chrisbarnhambooks.com
Also science fiction writer (“Better plotted than Connie Willis” - Interzone magazine) and Reading FC fan. Check out chrisbarnhambooks.com
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📌 #1 Added to playlist:
"Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)" by 2nd Magpie Project
"Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)" by 2nd Magpie Project
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📌 #1 Added to playlist:
"Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)" by 2nd Magpie Project
"Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)" by 2nd Magpie Project
Now adding @listigeplaylists.bsky.social 🎄
I know, I know - maybe too early for Christmas songs. But if you want a new one, which starts off a bit silly and turns sad, this is for you 😁🎄🎄🎄
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Now adding @listigeplaylists.bsky.social 🎄
I know, I know - maybe too early for Christmas songs. But if you want a new one, which starts off a bit silly and turns sad, this is for you 😁🎄🎄🎄
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot)
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I know, I know - maybe too early for Christmas songs. But if you want a new one, which starts off a bit silly and turns sad, this is for you 😁🎄🎄🎄
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
open.spotify.com/album/59dTNW...
Back on the coastal trail. Still haven't learned how to plan it properly!
The Length of Coastal Miles – Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Part One
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” - Hippocrates I'm with Hippocrates on this. Whenever life gets oppressive nothing works as well as lacing up the boots and getting out of London for a day of solitary walking. Occasionally, I'm lucky enough to carve out the time to do something more substantial.
www.chrisbarnhambooks.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Back on the coastal trail. Still haven't learned how to plan it properly!
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#FundraiserPerk This 25th Anniversary limited edition of SUMMER OF NIGHT by Dan Simmons is a treasure. Don't miss this signature horror story of the 1990s. Out of Print. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!
May 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#FundraiserPerk This 25th Anniversary limited edition of SUMMER OF NIGHT by Dan Simmons is a treasure. Don't miss this signature horror story of the 1990s. Out of Print. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!
If you need to talk to a Crofton Park councillor, I’ll be at Crofton Park library 11-12 on Saturday 10th May.
Or else phone or email anytime
@calicolibraries.com
Or else phone or email anytime
@calicolibraries.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you need to talk to a Crofton Park councillor, I’ll be at Crofton Park library 11-12 on Saturday 10th May.
Or else phone or email anytime
@calicolibraries.com
Or else phone or email anytime
@calicolibraries.com
My story "Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is Nowhere" is in the newly-published Dragon Gems Spring 2025 anthology (among many other great stories).
Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is Nowhere
My story, "Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is Nowhere," was published eighteen months ago in top Scottish SF magazine Shoreline of Infinity. It's always lovely to have a story picked up and given a second life, so I'm pleased that it's being republished in the latest anthology from Water Dragon Publishing, the Dragon Gems Spring 2025 Anthology. …
www.chrisbarnhambooks.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My story "Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is Nowhere" is in the newly-published Dragon Gems Spring 2025 anthology (among many other great stories).
I'm reading Ian Leslie's great new book on McCartney and Lennon, and it led me to this fabulous video of the Beatles doing Hey Jude.
Beatles songs are so familiar, it can be gard to hear them. Leslie's book gave me new ears 🙂
youtube.com/watch?v=A_Mj...
Beatles songs are so familiar, it can be gard to hear them. Leslie's book gave me new ears 🙂
youtube.com/watch?v=A_Mj...
The Beatles - Hey Jude
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'm reading Ian Leslie's great new book on McCartney and Lennon, and it led me to this fabulous video of the Beatles doing Hey Jude.
Beatles songs are so familiar, it can be gard to hear them. Leslie's book gave me new ears 🙂
youtube.com/watch?v=A_Mj...
Beatles songs are so familiar, it can be gard to hear them. Leslie's book gave me new ears 🙂
youtube.com/watch?v=A_Mj...
If you need to talk to a Crofton Park councillor, I will be @LibrarySE4 11-12 Saturday 8th March.
Or else phone or email anytime.
Or else phone or email anytime.
March 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you need to talk to a Crofton Park councillor, I will be @LibrarySE4 11-12 Saturday 8th March.
Or else phone or email anytime.
Or else phone or email anytime.
February 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Writing-wise, most ridiculous moment of decade was as writer-guest for a workshop held at someone's house. During the workshop, I got a massive headache & asked for aspirin. Someone gave me aspirin after which I began to itch. "Sorry--gave u my anti-itching pills by mistake." 1/?
January 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Writing-wise, most ridiculous moment of decade was as writer-guest for a workshop held at someone's house. During the workshop, I got a massive headache & asked for aspirin. Someone gave me aspirin after which I began to itch. "Sorry--gave u my anti-itching pills by mistake." 1/?
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The editors at The SFWA Blog @sfwa.bsky.social love a good opportunity to broaden the conversation about SFF. Lívian Bonato helps us with that task this week, with a look at how Brazilian SFF is building better from local histories of demographic stereotypes.
Lots to learn from thinking globally!
Lots to learn from thinking globally!
Decolonizing History in Brazilian SFF - SFWA
Despite many recent additions to global science fiction and fantasy (SFF), Eurocentrism is still a challenge in many fictional universes. Today, SFF demands authentic representation.
www.sfwa.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The editors at The SFWA Blog @sfwa.bsky.social love a good opportunity to broaden the conversation about SFF. Lívian Bonato helps us with that task this week, with a look at how Brazilian SFF is building better from local histories of demographic stereotypes.
Lots to learn from thinking globally!
Lots to learn from thinking globally!
Got a horrible feeling I know how this movie ends…
phys.org/news/2025-01...
phys.org/news/2025-01...
Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland
Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a f...
phys.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Got a horrible feeling I know how this movie ends…
phys.org/news/2025-01...
phys.org/news/2025-01...
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Dead Girls Don't Dream has been out in the world for two months today. It came out the week after the election, which was...not exactly ideal for promotion. If you like angry girls, body horror, folklore, the New England that rich people ignore, please give it a read. ninocipri.com/booksmerch/
January 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Dead Girls Don't Dream has been out in the world for two months today. It came out the week after the election, which was...not exactly ideal for promotion. If you like angry girls, body horror, folklore, the New England that rich people ignore, please give it a read. ninocipri.com/booksmerch/
Gave myself the day off for a hike in frosty (and gorgeous) Kent, southeast of London.
No output without input 🙂
No output without input 🙂
January 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Gave myself the day off for a hike in frosty (and gorgeous) Kent, southeast of London.
No output without input 🙂
No output without input 🙂
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Great way to start the new year! New SF story "Go Your Own Way" is out now in the latest edition of the splendid Analog SF magazine.
Go Your Own Way – Out Now
No better way to start the new year than to make my debut in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, a magazine that gave birth to so many of the SF stories that inspired me when I was a kid. "Go Your Own Way" is the fourth in my "Way" series. You can read about earlier instalments (and read one of them) …
www.chrisbarnhambooks.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Great way to start the new year! New SF story "Go Your Own Way" is out now in the latest edition of the splendid Analog SF magazine.
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🚨 Update on #Brockley eColi & water:
Guardian Reports of an E.coli outbreak are incorrect. Only ONE property is affected, likely due to an internal issue. Neighbouring properties have been tested—no E.coli found. Bottled water provided. Thames Water will address residents soon
Guardian Reports of an E.coli outbreak are incorrect. Only ONE property is affected, likely due to an internal issue. Neighbouring properties have been tested—no E.coli found. Bottled water provided. Thames Water will address residents soon
January 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🚨 Update on #Brockley eColi & water:
Guardian Reports of an E.coli outbreak are incorrect. Only ONE property is affected, likely due to an internal issue. Neighbouring properties have been tested—no E.coli found. Bottled water provided. Thames Water will address residents soon
Guardian Reports of an E.coli outbreak are incorrect. Only ONE property is affected, likely due to an internal issue. Neighbouring properties have been tested—no E.coli found. Bottled water provided. Thames Water will address residents soon
Maybe worth staying on Twitter a tiny bit longer 🤣🍿
January 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Maybe worth staying on Twitter a tiny bit longer 🤣🍿
Surprised to see velociraptor so low. A friend's daughter is planning to call her child Velociraptor. (If female - apparently Stegasaurus is better suited to a boy.)
A new 166m year old dinosaur trackway has been discovered in Oxfordshire, with footprints from cetiosauruses and a megalosaurus
The real crowd-pleaser would have been a T-Rex, though, which our recent poll found is Britain's favourite dinosaur, at 30%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
The real crowd-pleaser would have been a T-Rex, though, which our recent poll found is Britain's favourite dinosaur, at 30%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
January 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Surprised to see velociraptor so low. A friend's daughter is planning to call her child Velociraptor. (If female - apparently Stegasaurus is better suited to a boy.)
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Huge personal news—my debut short story, “Battle Buddy”, will appear in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine (@analogsf.bsky.social)!
I’ve been working towards this goal for years, and it’s incredible to finally see it come to fruition.
I’ve been working towards this goal for years, and it’s incredible to finally see it come to fruition.
December 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Huge personal news—my debut short story, “Battle Buddy”, will appear in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine (@analogsf.bsky.social)!
I’ve been working towards this goal for years, and it’s incredible to finally see it come to fruition.
I’ve been working towards this goal for years, and it’s incredible to finally see it come to fruition.
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✨ Publication news! ✨
I’m beyond thrilled to share that my novella, APARTMENT WARS, is out in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog SF. 👵🏻 📻 🐈
It’s retro #sciencefiction and #cronepunk. You can read an excerpt online. I hope you enjoy!
@analogsf.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com
www.analogsf.com
I’m beyond thrilled to share that my novella, APARTMENT WARS, is out in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog SF. 👵🏻 📻 🐈
It’s retro #sciencefiction and #cronepunk. You can read an excerpt online. I hope you enjoy!
@analogsf.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com
www.analogsf.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:03 AM
✨ Publication news! ✨
I’m beyond thrilled to share that my novella, APARTMENT WARS, is out in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog SF. 👵🏻 📻 🐈
It’s retro #sciencefiction and #cronepunk. You can read an excerpt online. I hope you enjoy!
@analogsf.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com
www.analogsf.com
I’m beyond thrilled to share that my novella, APARTMENT WARS, is out in the January/February 2025 issue of Analog SF. 👵🏻 📻 🐈
It’s retro #sciencefiction and #cronepunk. You can read an excerpt online. I hope you enjoy!
@analogsf.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com
www.analogsf.com
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Our January/February issue is full of great stories by Tom R. Pike, Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social, Mark W. Tiedemann, Sakinah Hofler, Sean McMullen, Kelly Lagor, Robert Hampson, and more! Grab your copy today [http://analogsf.com/store]
December 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Our January/February issue is full of great stories by Tom R. Pike, Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social, Mark W. Tiedemann, Sakinah Hofler, Sean McMullen, Kelly Lagor, Robert Hampson, and more! Grab your copy today [http://analogsf.com/store]
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I've long been a fan of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, so I'm thrilled to share that my short story "Our Lady of the Gyre" made the cover of the Jan/Feb 2025 issue.
Take a look and tell me what you think!
@analogsf.bsky.social
www.analogsf.com
Take a look and tell me what you think!
@analogsf.bsky.social
www.analogsf.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:30 PM
I've long been a fan of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, so I'm thrilled to share that my short story "Our Lady of the Gyre" made the cover of the Jan/Feb 2025 issue.
Take a look and tell me what you think!
@analogsf.bsky.social
www.analogsf.com
Take a look and tell me what you think!
@analogsf.bsky.social
www.analogsf.com
Check it out (and many other great stories) @analogsf.bsky.social
Great way to start the new year! New SF story "Go Your Own Way" is out now in the latest edition of the splendid Analog SF magazine.
Go Your Own Way – Out Now
No better way to start the new year than to make my debut in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, a magazine that gave birth to so many of the SF stories that inspired me when I was a kid. "Go Your Own Way" is the fourth in my "Way" series. You can read about earlier instalments (and read one of them) …
www.chrisbarnhambooks.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Check it out (and many other great stories) @analogsf.bsky.social
Great way to start the new year! New SF story "Go Your Own Way" is out now in the latest edition of the splendid Analog SF magazine.
Go Your Own Way – Out Now
No better way to start the new year than to make my debut in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, a magazine that gave birth to so many of the SF stories that inspired me when I was a kid. "Go Your Own Way" is the fourth in my "Way" series. You can read about earlier instalments (and read one of them) …
www.chrisbarnhambooks.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Great way to start the new year! New SF story "Go Your Own Way" is out now in the latest edition of the splendid Analog SF magazine.