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The Essence by Dave Hutchinson: Review by Paul Di Filippo locusmag.com/review/...
January 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The Essence by Dave Hutchinson: Review by Paul Di Filippo locusmag.com/review/...
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"When I was a very small child, I had a sense, whereof I know not, that William the Conqueror was the first king of England and that history began in 1066. When I was a slightly less small child, I was delighted to learn that this wasn’t so..."
Regarding a surprisingly complicated question
Regarding a surprisingly complicated question
Who was the first king of England?
A surprisingly complicated question.
jonn.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
"When I was a very small child, I had a sense, whereof I know not, that William the Conqueror was the first king of England and that history began in 1066. When I was a slightly less small child, I was delighted to learn that this wasn’t so..."
Regarding a surprisingly complicated question
Regarding a surprisingly complicated question
Probably not a special deal as such, but Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness is now £3.49 on Kobo (and Kindle) #UKSFFBookBargains
Lake of Darkness ebook by Adam Roberts - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Lake of Darkness The mindbending new science fiction novel from Adam Roberts" by Adam Roberts available from Rakuten Kobo. Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.
The Starship Sa Niro and the Star...
www.kobo.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Probably not a special deal as such, but Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness is now £3.49 on Kobo (and Kindle) #UKSFFBookBargains
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Oh boy do we have #UKSFFBookBargains today.
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Daily Deals: Kindle Store
Online shopping for Kindle Daily Deals from a great selection at Kindle Store Store.
www.amazon.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oh boy do we have #UKSFFBookBargains today.
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
Daily deals has ten Diana Wynne Jones ebooks reduced to 99p for one day only.
That's the three Howl books plus six Chrestomanci novels and a short fiction collection
HT @emilytesh.net
Links follow in 🧵
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#UKSFFBookBargains for sure. The whole Shadows of the Apt sequence plus other stuff by @aptshadow.bsky.social for only £13.63.
Probably available outside the UK as well, but that's not my remit.
Probably available outside the UK as well, but that's not my remit.
Cross posting this 14 book bundle from @aptshadow.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚
www.humblebundle.com/books/adrian...
www.humblebundle.com/books/adrian...
Humble Book Bundle: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Epic Fantasy by Macmillan
Fantasy fans won’t want to miss this Adrian Tchaikovsky bundle, featuring the Shadows of the Apt series and more! Every purchase supports Cancer Research UK!
www.humblebundle.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#UKSFFBookBargains for sure. The whole Shadows of the Apt sequence plus other stuff by @aptshadow.bsky.social for only £13.63.
Probably available outside the UK as well, but that's not my remit.
Probably available outside the UK as well, but that's not my remit.
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The Murderbot bundle in the link below definitely counts as a #UKSFFBookBundle. £13.69 for all the (superb) Murderbot books and a bunch of fantasy by @marthawells.com.
Short window though compared to normal @humblebundle.com deals. Only two days to get it.
Short window though compared to normal @humblebundle.com deals. Only two days to get it.
Unlock and upgrade in the Return to Metroidvania rebundle, read up on exciting Sci-Fi with Matha Wells’ Murderbot & more, and add character to your game environments with the Best of Synty 4 Game Dev Assets rebundles! https://bit.ly/4oxXmjd
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Murderbot bundle in the link below definitely counts as a #UKSFFBookBundle. £13.69 for all the (superb) Murderbot books and a bunch of fantasy by @marthawells.com.
Short window though compared to normal @humblebundle.com deals. Only two days to get it.
Short window though compared to normal @humblebundle.com deals. Only two days to get it.
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The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
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Everyone has heard of Thirdhop Scarp: the house where a man murdered his entire family, found cupping the heart of his eldest daughter in his hands as tenderly as he would a wounded bird...
@pennyvixen.bsky.social 's A THEORY OF HAUNTING in eBook for only 0.99! https://geni.us/Solarissale
@pennyvixen.bsky.social 's A THEORY OF HAUNTING in eBook for only 0.99! https://geni.us/Solarissale
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Everyone has heard of Thirdhop Scarp: the house where a man murdered his entire family, found cupping the heart of his eldest daughter in his hands as tenderly as he would a wounded bird...
@pennyvixen.bsky.social 's A THEORY OF HAUNTING in eBook for only 0.99! https://geni.us/Solarissale
@pennyvixen.bsky.social 's A THEORY OF HAUNTING in eBook for only 0.99! https://geni.us/Solarissale
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"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.
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Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social.
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
Children of Time ebook by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Children of Time Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel" by Adrian Tchaikovsky available from Rakuten Kobo. Humanity is overrated.
**The tenth anniversary edition of...
www.kobo.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social.
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
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The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
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As we draw to the end of October, how about something Short and Spooky?
Snap up a spooky Solaris novella:
@pennyvixen.bsky.social's A THEORY OF HAUNTING 👉 https://geni.us/h2XM84
@emdashliu.bsky.social's IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL! 👉 https://geni.us/MPkuABI
Snap up a spooky Solaris novella:
@pennyvixen.bsky.social's A THEORY OF HAUNTING 👉 https://geni.us/h2XM84
@emdashliu.bsky.social's IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL! 👉 https://geni.us/MPkuABI
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As we draw to the end of October, how about something Short and Spooky?
Snap up a spooky Solaris novella:
@pennyvixen.bsky.social's A THEORY OF HAUNTING 👉 https://geni.us/h2XM84
@emdashliu.bsky.social's IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL! 👉 https://geni.us/MPkuABI
Snap up a spooky Solaris novella:
@pennyvixen.bsky.social's A THEORY OF HAUNTING 👉 https://geni.us/h2XM84
@emdashliu.bsky.social's IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL! 👉 https://geni.us/MPkuABI
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Happy Book-Day to Josiah Bancroft who releases the 2nd Hexologists book today!
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Happy Book-Day to Josiah Bancroft who releases the 2nd Hexologists book today!
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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
reactormag.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
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The women working in my local chippy have had enough of your nonsense today.
In fairness, it was fucking hot in there. I don’t know how they cope!
In fairness, it was fucking hot in there. I don’t know how they cope!
July 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The women working in my local chippy have had enough of your nonsense today.
In fairness, it was fucking hot in there. I don’t know how they cope!
In fairness, it was fucking hot in there. I don’t know how they cope!
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Ellen Wilkinson was such a good parliamentary performer.
Here she is in 1925, arguing for votes for women at 21 (rather than 30, as previously).
Here she is in 1925, arguing for votes for women at 21 (rather than 30, as previously).
July 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Ellen Wilkinson was such a good parliamentary performer.
Here she is in 1925, arguing for votes for women at 21 (rather than 30, as previously).
Here she is in 1925, arguing for votes for women at 21 (rather than 30, as previously).
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The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
June 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
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Dive into @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's tales of the Elflands! Explore the early days of reluctant emperor Maia's rule and the investigations of Thara Celehar!
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR bit.ly/457K5EF
CEMETERIES OF AMALO
Book 1 bit.ly/3KiqGsY
Book 2 bit.ly/3QgKxMR
Book 3 geni.us/tombofdragons
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR bit.ly/457K5EF
CEMETERIES OF AMALO
Book 1 bit.ly/3KiqGsY
Book 2 bit.ly/3QgKxMR
Book 3 geni.us/tombofdragons
June 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dive into @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's tales of the Elflands! Explore the early days of reluctant emperor Maia's rule and the investigations of Thara Celehar!
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR bit.ly/457K5EF
CEMETERIES OF AMALO
Book 1 bit.ly/3KiqGsY
Book 2 bit.ly/3QgKxMR
Book 3 geni.us/tombofdragons
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR bit.ly/457K5EF
CEMETERIES OF AMALO
Book 1 bit.ly/3KiqGsY
Book 2 bit.ly/3QgKxMR
Book 3 geni.us/tombofdragons
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We've hit 7K followers, so how about a book bundle giveaway to celebrate?!
Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June.
Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com & more!
Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June.
Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com & more!
Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We've hit 7K followers, so how about a book bundle giveaway to celebrate?!
Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June.
Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com & more!
Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June.
Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com & more!
Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
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All the Impossible times e-books are minimum price in the UK and Australia this month!
99p or $1.49
Grab 'em. I think they're great.
99p or $1.49
Grab 'em. I think they're great.
June 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
All the Impossible times e-books are minimum price in the UK and Australia this month!
99p or $1.49
Grab 'em. I think they're great.
99p or $1.49
Grab 'em. I think they're great.