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Hanna Thomas Uose
@hannamade.bsky.social
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🌍 Making new worlds, in practice & in prose
📚 WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is out now @brazen.books
👩🏻‍💻 Supporting progressive orgs @wealign_

🔗 www.hannathomasuose.com
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tomdavidson92.bsky.social
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
Wrote a little bit about my horrible habit of abandoning books...

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Novels I haven’t finished reading are piling up by my bedside. What if that’s a good thing? | Hanna Thomas Uose
Authors are sounding warnings about the length of the modern attention span, but my series of abandonments is a sign of something else, says author Hanna Thomas Uose
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November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

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BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread
Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
Today and for the whole of October! 99p for those who are running out of shelf space :)
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
hannamade.bsky.social
Very glad to see my words in The Guardian today! Much less glad about the political developments that led to this piece. I was hoping we’d have a bit more time before the world of Who Wants to Live Forever becomes reality…😱

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Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here’s how bleak that future could be | Hanna Thomas Uose
My novel explores the consequences of extreme longevity. Meanwhile, Putin and Xi are pondering immortality in real life, says writer-strategist Hanna Thomas Uose
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September 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉
A pink background with a holographic sticker-style text reading Voting Is Open. Black and white text on corresponding backgrounds reads, for the SoA management committee elections. Fossil Free Books collectively endorses these four BRILLIANT candidates…Jen Calleja Matt Abbot Polly Atkin Mohamed Tonsy. Is the SoA the union you need? It will not change by itself. Your vote matters. The Fossil Free Books logo sits in the bottom left corner of the slide.
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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yararf.bsky.social
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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a very clear sighted, well argued essay by @yararf.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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nuvoices.bsky.social
We still have spots open for our upcoming writing workshop with @hannamade.bsky.social!

Are you a writer interested in examining social issues through a futuristic lens? Join our workshop!

More info: nuvoices.com/2025/08/13/e...

Tickets: lu.ma/hnie6mgm
Speculative Fiction Workshop: Write to Find the World You Want · Luma
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. U.S. EDT / 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. BST Location: Zoom *** A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants one day before the workshop from…
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September 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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nuvoices.bsky.social
Are you a writer interested in exploring sci-fi, and using fiction to examine social issues through a futuristic lens? Join our upcoming virtual Speculative Fiction Workshop, hosted by NüVoices and led by @hannamade.bsky.social

More information: nuvoices.com/2025/08/13/e...

Tickets: lu.ma/hnie6mgm
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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<3 <3 <3
sarabenwell.bsky.social Sara Benwell @sarabenwell.bsky.social · Aug 25
#3 Who wants to live forever by @hannamade.bsky.social - totally original, beautifully written, blew my mind in the best way. An actively STUNNING piece of writing.
August 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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minnierahman.bsky.social
The level of overt racism being experienced by friends and family especially outside of London is crazy. The UK is changing rapidly. Monkey noises, being kicked out of Airbnb's, racial slurs and a general hostility. People of colour have always had these experiences but it is ramping up.
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
I found one of Jordan Peterson’s books in the local little free library so I tore it in half and threw it in the recycling and I feel really good about it
July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
!! Very exciting !! Six years of my brain for 99p? Absolute bargain, you’d be mad not to
July 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
Was so lovely to speak to @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social founder Kerry Ryan for this!
June 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
I really do not want our speculative fiction re a war on Iran to turn out to be prophecy.
olimould.bsky.social Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Jun 18
From ‘Everything for Everyone: an oral history of the New York Commune, 2052-2072’ by ME O’Brien and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

The book is speculative fiction written as an academic oral history….
China, and me—were imes with made fated rough the ved much rotracted valries to gnment, to foster of the form of n every dst the - driven fied as These played f crisis ment. took n the came into ed in ed in es in wer Introduction 11 social services or bureaucratic management by the state disappeared. Prolonged and severe economic crisis meant that a significant majority of US residents never again found stable waged employment. Small and medium business owners, effectively wiped out in the crisis, allied with resource extraction firms to become the driving force behind a rise of fascist political movements around the US. Their strongest concentrations were in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. Left secessionist movements led by Black and Latinx militants emerged in the American South and centered in Alabama and Mississippi. Desperate to reignite national fervor and unity as well as restart the economy, the United States began an extended invasion of Iran in 2040. The war lasted for eight years, wreaking a massive and devastating toll on Iranian life. It also destroyed the last of the already fragile legitimacy of the US ruling class. The war, despite massively restructuring the productive economy, was unable to end the nation's economic depression. At the war's onset, US military morale was already weak. As the war continued, morale collapsed completely. With the institution of a draft in 2043, the war became particularly odious to US soldiers and citizens alike. As one indicator of the broad and violent opposition to the war: in 2045, by the estimates of researchers in US military intelligence, more than eight thousand commanding officers in the US Armed Forces were murdered by their subordinates. By the end of the war, the US military was in chaotic disarray and open rebellion. In the final year of the war, LARS-47 broke out, killing an estimated six hundred million people by 2051. Previously very localized, existing communes across the globe began organizing m…
June 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
New report!

The Aligned Organisation: A Brown Paper is aimed at those who work in a mission-driven or nonprofit context & want to 1) be more content & 2) make more impact.

Excited to share what @hodabaraka.bsky.social & I have learned at @wealign.bsky.social !

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The Aligned Organisation: A Brown Paper — Align
A framework for creating aligned organisations
www.wealign.net
June 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
hannamade.bsky.social
If you haven’t grabbed a copy yet of Who Wants to Live Forever, today may be your chance - the book is only 99p on Kindle until midnight tonight!

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May 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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fossilfreebooks.org
🗣️ Every woman writer belongs in their union!

🤦🏻‍♀️ With a gender pay gap between male and female authors of 41.4%, women writers experienced a 21% drop in their income between 2017 and 2020.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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helenrye.bsky.social
We're SO EXCITED to be hosting Hanna Thomas Uose for a reading and Q&A on her outstanding debut novel, Who Wants to Live Forever, at UEA New Writing Live at Marzano's, 6pm Thursday May 1. Free entry, plus readings from students of the UEA creative writing programmes! Please r/t/come and support us!
hannamade.bsky.social Hanna Thomas Uose @hannamade.bsky.social · Mar 7
If you're in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Folkestone, Manchester, Canterbury or Surrey this spring, come and say hello at one of these events! Who Wants to Live Forever is hitting the road! 🚲
April 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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markdonaldson.bsky.social
It's very rare that a book makes me cry, but the ending of Who Wants to Live Forever really got to me. Best book I've read so far this year. The world building is absolutely top-notch. It's a book about the monetisation of eternity and the people we take for granted while pursuing our ambitions.
Who Wants To Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose
April 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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scarlettletters.co.uk
Join us for a speculative fiction workshop with @hannamade.bsky.social, author of Who Wants to Live Forever!

🗓️Sun 18 May
⏰2 - 4pm

Together, we'll imagine the healthcare system we deserve and write our way towards it.

Suitable for writers of all levels!

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The Future of Healthcare: a speculative fiction and world-building workshop with Hanna Thomas Uose | The Scarlett Letters
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April 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
hannamade.bsky.social
A lovely interview in @nbmagazine.bsky.social with Evelyn Aylén from @maxminervas.bsky.social about my debut novel, Who Wants to Live Forever 💚

#booksky #interview #writingcommunity #speculativefiction

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A Conversation with Hanna Thomas Uose — nb. Magazine
A Conversation with Hannah Thomas Uose
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April 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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yararf.bsky.social
📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣

Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections.

Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
fossilfreebooks.org Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · Apr 4
The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you.

Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections.

Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators and illustrators face huge challenges right now including: falling earnings, the threat of AI, the sector’s complicity in genocide and fossil fuel extraction, challenges to free speech. Can you resist these threats? Yes! But only if you have a member-led union that truly represents you. Fossil Free Books recommends that writers, translators and illustrators join the Society of Authors. With its wealth of resources and powerful industry connections, it has great potential – but without you it can’t channel that potential into meaningful action. Recent successes at the 2024 AGM and EGM have already shown that you have the power to use its existing democratic processes to make it the healthy, bold trade union that you need and deserve. The only way to create a fairer, more sustainable industry is to create it together. Your union won’t change without you – and the first step is to join. If you need support with your union fees, you can claim £50 through our Open Collective fund (link in post).
April 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM