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📬 I do have form for entirely missing release promo on books 🫣 Other times I manage to go blissfully unaware of companion books in a series 😯

So I went “ooOoO” in the case of “Memory” by @lindanagata.bsky.social when I saw the below 👇 promo recently!

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A paperback edition of Linda Nagata’s “Memory” sat on a table. The paperback edition of Linda Nagata’s “Memory” stood cover facing out on a bookshelf alongside the other books in the “Inverted Frontier” series. All five books from Linda Nagata’s “Inverted Frontier” series laid out on a table. “Edges”, “Silver”, “Needle” and “Blade” are all in a row, with “Memory” placed above them.
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📬 I see a lot of hypewagon for the initial hardback release of a book, but a bit less for the paperback edition ~1y later.

Turns out I had entirely missed the paperback release of @jannywurts.bsky.social’s “Song of the Mysteries” back in April! 😳😲

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A paperback edition of Janny Wurts’ “Song of the Mysteries” sat on a table.
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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📬 Picked up a copy of @garethlpowell.bsky.social’s “Who Will You Save” from @titanbooks.bsky.social.

I’ve got a fair few of them now 🤗 Who will I save? I am not sure yet 🫣

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A paperback edition of Gareth L. Powell’s “Who Will You Save?” sat on a table. A collection of various Gareth L. Powell paperbacks, arranged on top of a bookcase. They’re mostly the ones published by Titan Books, with a couple of early books, self-published, and another collection of stores.
October 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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📬 Before The @bunkerpod.bsky.social were on 🦋 I listened to “'Beyond terrifying' - What a nuclear war would really be like”, about a book that @nndroid.bsky.social described as “This is without doubt the most terrifying book I’ve ever read.”

😳

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A paperback edition of Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” sat on a table.
October 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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📬 Through the year @scifiscavenger.bsky.social has mentioned @caspargeon.bsky.social’s “The Immeasurable Heaven”.

It was hearing them chat about it together that fully tipped it onto my wishlist.

And lo, here it is, via @solarisbooks.bsky.social 🤗

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A paperback edition of ‘Caspar Geon’’s “The Immeasurable Heaven” sat on a table.
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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📬 Quite some while ago @hannahfearn.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social interviewed Eliza Filby on @bunkerpod.bsky.social & had a superb chat about the #BankOfMumAndDad.

Filby’s book #Inheritocracy has arrived in paperback, and now my shelves 🤗

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A paperback edition of Eliza Filby’s “Inheritocracy” sat on a table.
October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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📬 Yet another purchase related to @andyjohnson.xyz’s podcast, this time a conversation with @sfgeek.bsky.social and @kdsbooks.bsky.social spawned off in the comments👇

Comparisons between “The Demolished Man” and “The Stars My Destination” were made.

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A paperback edition of Alfred Bester’s “The Demolished Man” sat on a table. This is a new purchase from the SF Masterworks series. Two Alfred Bester paperbacks are in my collection now. An older black-style SF Masterworks edition of “The Stars My Destination” positioned to the left of a newly arrived yellow-style SF Masterworks edition of “The Demolished Man” on the right.
October 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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📬 Recently @andyjohnson.xyz highlighted a Stephen Baxter that I abruptly realised I was missing from my collection (he has his own shelf in my Library).

It turns out there’s a collected edition of the “Mammoth” trilogy which suited me just fine.

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A paperback edition of Stephen Baxter’s “Behemoth” sat on a table.
October 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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📬 I’ve been a bad, bad boy and done a #BookHaul 🤭

Mostly SFF plus a couple of non-fictions too.

I’ll toot up separately about some of these when I dig out some additional linkage and folks whom I want to mention.

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An array of 11 paperback books arranged spine-facing-up on a table, between two book-ends. The books are mostly SFF with two exceptions, and mostly B-format in size apart from one MMP-sized edition over on the right.
October 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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📬 Oh my, what are *these* that have just landed on m 🚪 mat today 🤭

Why it’s more books for my TBR, courtesy of @andyjohnson.xyz’s recent podcast rec. ☝️🥳

Used via WoB, pretty good nick with unbroken spines, though “Judgement” has a sun faded spine.

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Three paperback books arranged in a row on a table. They are MMP editions of the “Orbitsville” trilogy by Bob Shaw. From the left we have “Orbitsville”, “Orbitsville Departure” and “Orbitsville Judgement”. The back covers of each of the “Orbitsville” books, again side-by-side on a table. The spines of all three books are edged up a little to demonstrate how that of “Judgement” has faded at the spine and slightly around the edges compared to the similar “Departure”.
October 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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📬 Oh, hello, new #BookMail just in 🤗

This is “After the Syzygy”, which I read about over on @alankdell.bsky.social’s blog and thought sounded really interesting.

And suddenly it arrived! 😲 Fancy that! 🤭

Nice and short, will defo be read imminently.

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A paperback edition of J.D. Sanderson’s “After the Syzygy” sat on a table at a jaunty angle.
October 31, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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📺 This chat between @scifiscavenger.bsky.social and @sueburke.bsky.social reminded me to go hunting for “Dual Memory” which arrived in paperback a few months ago.

I still have a while to wait for “Usurpation” in p/b, but that gives me time for a series reread.

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A paperback edition of Sue Burke’s “Dual Memory” sat on a table.
October 25, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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📬 And finally, “The Never-ending End of the World” by Ann Christy was a #BookTube recommendation via the Sound & Fury Book Reviews channel.

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A paperback copy of “The Never-ending End of the World” by Ann Christy, sat on a table.
October 6, 2023 at 12:42 PM
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📬 Taiyo Fujii is a new author to me. I don’t recall how I came across this title, though my noggin is suggesting The Shades of Orange on #BookTube as a source. Either way, it has been on a wishlist for quite a while, and now it’s no longer on it!

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A paperback copy of “Orbital Cloud” by Taiyo Fujii, sat on a table.
October 6, 2023 at 12:41 PM
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📬 A fifth #SPFBO9 finalist got announced a few days ago, and since I had already been meaning to try some J.D.L. Rosell, I swooped on a copy of “The Last Ranger” to add to my growing finalists collection.

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A paperback copy of “The Last Ranger” by J.D.L. Rosell, sat on a table.
October 6, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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📬 A couple of these new arrivals were mentioned recently in an episode of BeckyM’s #BookTube show. They sounded interested, so I wishlisted them.

Then @alankdell.bsky.social’s arrow diagram appeared in my timeline and I took it as a good sign! 😆

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Three books by Alan K. Dell in his series “The Augment Saga”, plus a single book by John Coon, “Hollow Planet”. “The Re-Emergence” and “Hollow Planet” were mentioned by BeckyM, while “From the Grave of the Gods” appeared in the arrow diagram on BlueSky, so I decided to haul all three while I was it.
October 6, 2023 at 12:36 PM
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📬 A sneaky little mostly (I think?) indie/self-pub #BookHaul just landed on my doormat…

👨‍💻🛒📦🚛📬🥳

It just happens sometimes 😚 Totally out of my control 🤭

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A selection of new books stacked up on their edges to show the spines and book titles. They are “Hollow Planet” by John Coon, three books that make up “The Augment Saga” by Alan K. Dell, “The Last Ranger” by J.D.L. Rosell, “Orbital Cloud” by Taiyo Fujii, and “The Never-ending End of the World” by Ann Christy.
October 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM