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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!)
@gusharrisreid.bsky.social
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Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng MIMechE), Author, Nerd, Libra, He/Him, Sailing the Starless Sea 🐝🗝️🗡️

https://www.gusharrisreid.com/
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Happy International Men's Day!
Diagrams showing how masculinity is like a jam doughnut in which men are discouraged from showing the jam (feelings)
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Morning Womble! Currently reading Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by @clclark.bsky.social 🐺💪🏻⚔️
Novel cover of Ambessa Chosen of the Wolf (Arcane League of Legends) by C.L. Clark
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Convincing you to read the opening lines of my military sci-fi mech novel EngineMasters: Retribution 🤖⚙️💥

Share yours!
Opening page of EngineMasters: Retribution
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Morning Womble! I rarely read non-fiction, but I'm just about to finish @carolinelucas.bsky.social's Another England 💚
Novel cover for Another England by Caroline Lucas
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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My TANKHEAD art book by @emersontung.bsky.social arrived yesterday 🤩🤖⚙️💥

#mech #mecha #WWII
Cover of TANKHEAD art book featuring a brown mech with a tank turret for a head Page from TANKHEAD artbook featuring a green mech with a tank turret head based on the WW2 Sherman tank Page from TANKHEAD artbook featuring a grey and red battleship with robot arms and legs, based on the WW2 Japanese Yamato flagship Page from TANKHEAD artbook featuring a fictional map loosely based on the real-life world map
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The Warning have won Rock Sound's Best International Artist Award 🤩🖤💥
Black and white photoshoot of The Warning Band (Alejandra, Paulina and Daniela Villareal) on a black background with gold text 'The Rock Sound Awards 2025' above and 'The Warning Best International Artist' below
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Century Child (Nightwish)
Queen of the Murder Scene (The Warning)
Gladiator soundtrack (Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard)
Album cover of Century Child by Nightwish, featuring a woman in a white dress standing in purple water holding a black rose, with waterfalls and black cliffs in the background Album cover of Queen of the Murder Scene by The Warning, featuring a girl in a red cloak, casing a monstrous shadow on a wall behind her Album cover of the Gladiator soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, featuring the main character Maximus armed with a sword and standing in a Roman arena
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Morning Womble! I've just started rereading His Last Command, book 9 in Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series 💥

(IIRC it was the most boring book in the series when I first read it (back in 2005), as nothing much seemed to happen in it. Let's hope I get more out of it this time around 😅)
Novel cover of His Last Command by Dan Abnett, featuring camo-cloaked soldiers running away from an exploding ancient-looking stone wall
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Today marks 6 months since the release of EngineMasters book 1! 🥳🤖⚙️⚔️💥

Ebook only $0.99/£0.99 on Amazon - a.co/d/anVoPD4

#mech #mecha #robot
Novel cover of EngineMasters: Retribution, featuring a red and blue mech armed with a cannon and a glowing white sword
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The Daily Telegraph complaining about Brexit border checks 🙄🙃
Photo of hundreds of cars and lorries in queues at the Port of Dover and the caption 'Holidaymakers face four-hour delays as France toughens border checks' Man in a hotdog suite from the "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme
October 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A girl (with the text 'Big Companies') holding a tuba (with the text 'Putting AI into every fucking thing imaginable') over the face of another girl (with the text 'People who never asked')
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Morning Womble! I've just started A Song of Legends Lost by @mhayinde.bsky.social!

You know it's going to be epic when it starts with a map and a 4-page Dramatis Personae 🤩❤️
Novel cover of A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde, featuring a man standing in front of a giant orange warrior made of fire/smoke and armed with swords, echoing the man's pose
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Four frames from Lord of the Rings films showing a) Gandalf hitting his head on a doorframe, b) Aragorn hitting a flying dagger with his sword, c) a Bree inhabitant staring at the hobbits and d) Aragorn kicking an orc helmet, with the line "the four horsemen of pausing the movie and explaining pointless facts to some poor new viewer"
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Almost every frame from Arcane could be framed, but this particular one from Season 1 lives in my head rent-free 😍⚡💥
Scene from Arcane showing the character Vi (armed with magical, mechanical gauntlets) leaping and punching a man with a purple-visored helmet and glowing green blades in place of hands
September 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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👀🪶❤️
Chart showing different bird wing shapes for different types of fight
September 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Morning Womble! Just started Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen, which has been sitting in my TBR pile for nearly 2 years now... 😅📚
Novel cover of Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen
September 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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While I don't do much character development in advance - I generally let my characters write themselves - I do always have in the back of my mind "Would these characters (and their vehicles) be marketable as action figures?" 😆🤖🦾
Novel covers for the Marshals of Rhea trilogy, featuring knightly-looking mechs fighting mechanical monsters and other mechs Novel covers for the EngineMasters trilogy, featuring fighting mechs with glowing swords
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Morning Womble! I've just started The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo 🖤✨
Novel cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
September 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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When it comes to uniqueness of geometry/composition, I do actually think the Union Flag is #1 (not that I'm biased or anything) 😅

That being said, I do love the Tanzanian flag 💚💛🖤💛💙
Flag of Tanzania
September 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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🤣🙃💰
A man saying "Why do billionaires care if they lose all their money? They'll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it all back with their unbelievable work ethic,' and another man saying "Plus if they're poor, all the money will trickle back down to them, making them rich again."
September 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Morning Womble! I'm currently (re)reading Traitor General, book 8 in Dan Abnett's magnificent Gaunt's Ghosts series ❤️💥
Novel cover of Traitor General by Dan Abnett
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Share a favourite TV show character that isn’t the main character 💚
Green-skinned Twi'lek Hera Syndulla from Star Wars Rebels
August 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It's been one month since book 3 in my military sci-fi EngineMasters trilogy was released!

If you like BattleTech, Gundam and/or Pacific Rim, you'll probably like EngineMasters: a tale of comradeship, perseverance, and plenty of mech-vs-mech combat 🤖⚙️⚔️💥

Book 1 only $0.99/£0.99: a.co/d/baVoACq
Book cover display for the EngineMasters trilogy by Gus Harris-Reid, featuring fighting mechs armed with swords
August 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Today is my 15th anniversary of moving to Edinburgh, Scotland! 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Sunny view of Edinburgh Old Town from Calton Hill
August 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM