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Gareth L. Powell
@garethlpowell.bsky.social
21K followers 4.1K following 9.3K posts
✍️ I write books about starships with souls, and damaged people learning to be whole again
🏆 BSFA winner and Locus, Seiun, BFA finalist
📚 JITTERBUG coming 03/03/2026
🤝 Repped by Lucienne Diver
📍 Bristol, UK

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New reading glasses
Gareth wearing glasses with black rims on top and transparent rims on the bottom
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Drinking tea and making book-related plans.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Do you listen to music when you read or write? What's playing on your ultimate book-related jukebox?

#booksky
An old-fashioned jukebox in the corner of a pub
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Creativity, kindness, hard work: the energy I'm taking into 2026.
A collage of photos showing laptops, a teapot, the front page of Jitterbug by Gareth L Powell, and slogans: Wake up, kick ass, be kind, repeat. Live, work, create. And Get shit done.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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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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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here's the opening of FUTURE’S EDGE)
“Gov?” My barman was a mechanical, multi-limbed life form from a system in the vicinity of Arcturus.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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“Sometimes, the universe operates in ways beyond our ability to fathom. In such cases, I have found the only true wisdom lies not in concerning ourselves with what should be, but rather making the best of what is.”

― Gareth L. Powell, Descendant Machine
Gareth standing on a leaf-strewn lane with trees in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨

Novel - Future's Edge
Collection - Who Will You Save?
Novella - Doctor Who: The Well
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Scenes from the bookshop where I work part-time.
Various arty shots of bookshelves, a fern, some chairs and tables, and a cappuccino machine
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Together at last! The eight books I’ve written for @titanbooks.bsky.social

Grab them all!

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Jitterbug, who will you save, futures edge, descendant machine, stars and bones, light of impossible stars, fleet of knives, embers of war
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Opening the bookshop for our busiest day of the week
Gareth standing in front of some bookshelves holding a cup of coffee and smiling into the camera
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I had three books out this year, and they are all special to me. Future’s Edge is a novel, Who Will You Save? is a collection of 32 short stories, and The Well is a novelisation of a Doctor Who episode.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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An advance copy of JITTERBUG arrived in the post today! It looks great!

#booksky
The cover of JITTERBUG features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The beat of the future starts here! Preorder JITTERBUG today from your favourite book supplier.

#booksky @titanbooks.bsky.social
Gareth wearing a black top and half smiling into the camera The cover of JITTERBUG features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Add a vibrant splash of colour to your bookshelves this winter with my novels and short story collection - published by @titanbooks.bsky.social and available from all good book sellers (and a few evil ones too)

#booksky
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I've been #writing today. Not a huge word count, but I'm still feeling my way into the plot and characters. A walk in the fresh air always helps focus the mind.
Gareth wearing a thick winter coat, standing in a doorway beside a corroded iron door knocker.
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Why do I feel this advert is targeted at me?
A chalk sign outside a coffee shop that says miserable men Monday, come in and put the world to rights
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Good news, American friends. My cult novel EMBERS OF WAR will be $2.99 on Kindle US for the whole of November! Grab your copy and find out why readers fall head-over-heels in love with the main character, even though she's a warship!

www.amazon.com/Embers-War-G...
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I'm fortunate that my job lets me spend time with dear friends and great colleagues
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Nothing beats that first cup of tea on a Sunday morning.
#tea #sunday
A cup of tea sits on a wooden table with some houseplants and a stack of books in the background
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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“I think you’re all broken in some fundamental way, but you’re not all broken in the same place. And it’s the ways you each find to work around those breaks that make you who you are.”

― Gareth L. Powell, Fleet of Knives

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#qotd #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Good morning, rainbow. Thanks for reminding us that moments of beauty exist between the storms.
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Throwback to that time I dressed as a member of the Nostromo’s crew for Halloween

#alien
Gareth in cargo pants, a Hawaiian shirt Worn over an Nostromo T-shirt, and a baseball cap with the ship’s name on it Gareth at Nostromo T-shirt with a Hawaiian shirt over the top on a baseball cap
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Today, a customer in the bookshop told me I had sad eyes. I don't think I do.
Gareth, smiling into the camera
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Yes, it’s #halloween tomorrow. If you’re a fan of movies like Alien and The Thing, you’ll enjoy the terrifying monsters crawling through the pages of these books. Both are published by @titanbooks.bsky.social and available from all good book sellers. Get them now and give yourself a fright!

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Stars and Bones and Future’s Edge, both by Gareth L Powell
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM