Sam Wilson

Thank you for getting me onto SNW, by the way. I’m still on S1, but loving it deeply

In Dune (1965) there are specially trained people called Mentats who use the spice melange to unlock their power of their minds, allowing them to perform tasks that other people would need a computer for, like composing their own emails

The Egyptian barber I go to plays Christmas carols over the speakers constantly. March, July, doesn’t matter when. Incredible cultural power play, got to respect it

I’ve deliberately made the ground insubstantial so I could fall through it, which was very exciting, but I got such an adrenaline burst that it woke me up

I’ve had several lucid dreams. I tend to break them by pushing them a little too hard, like flying up in the air and trying to force my subconscious to generate an entire view of the city

Took my daughter to a “Jack and the Beanstalk” pantomime yesterday. Jack was about to sell his cow to a couple of thieves for a bag of beans. “Should I trust these men?” Jack asked the audience. “Noooo!” a young voice piped up from the back of the auditorium. “They’re going to screw you!”

THIS is the way to do it

Poster for the animated movie “Jungle Beat 2 The Past”

I wrote and directed this movie! It’s coming out in cinemas across South Africa tomorrow. If you know any kids who like dinosaurs, aliens or cute jungle animals, this might be up their street. (The first movie is available on Showmax in ZA, and on Netflix everywhere else in the world)

YouTube video by I'm Happy You're Here I'm Happy You're Here: Anxiety!

For all my friends out there with anxiety, a hysterically funny primer: youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?...

Great article from my cousin @mellow-belly.bsky.social about OCD, whiteness and Kinshasa

Yes but snacking rules

Sam Wilson at the Franschhoek Literary Festival holding a stack of homemade author bingo cards

Keeping myself amused at the Franschhoek Literary Festival with homemade bingo cards with all the authors names

Sam Wilson standing in front of a poster for Jungle Beat 2 The Past

Went to to the movies yesterday and found a poster for a movie I directed! Coming 27 June.

Huge and well deserved!

Screengrab of final auction results: £20083.25

Sorry, update, we're officially over 20k on the auction alone because buyers have been adding donations to their final payments! 😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️ + £1000 raised @easterconuk Belfast

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

In the meantime, she's ALSo got the new auction Genre Creators for Trans Rights Part 2 up at the same link, now live and running til 7 June. www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans. This time our charities are Gender Intelligence in the UK and Gender DynamiX in South Africa

Books and cool items on offer at the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Online auction

Books and cool items for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction

Some of the featured items on the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Charity Auction, inclkuding books, a desk, a dedication in KJ Charles' new book.

Handmade things of beauty donated for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights online auction. Images clockwise from top right, handspun Kent Romney yarn in trans colours, a hand-painted fan, a handmade music box inspired by Good Omens, which is a white wooden bench with a bird perching on it and a black hat resembling Terry Pratchett's iconic hat, a crocheted pink whale held aloft by a person's hand.

Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.

Flier for Sam Wilson at Cape Town Comic Con. Wow, I hope this descriptive alt text is never used to train an AI

I’ll be back at Comic Con Cape Town on Sunday with a great panel of local authors. If you’re around, see you at the Pop Taku stage at 12pm!

Then they realise that people in the future are using Aorist Rods to burn the present, and they quickly have to destroy all knowledge of Aorist Rods before the people in the future do it. Anyway, doesn’t sound at all like any modern technology, I don’t know why I mention it 2/2

Douglas Adams’ short story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe”, mentions Aorist Rods, which are a cheap form of energy that burn the past as fuel. Some people object to this, and are accused of progress-blocking sentimentality. 1/2

Congratulations!

A poster for Sam Wilson at Comic Con Cape Town, 1 to 4 May at the CTICC

Self-promotion continues unabated

Author Sam Wilson looking frankly a little smug

Poster: My World, My Rules. 17 May

Hey everyone! I’m back at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this year, on the panel MY WORLD, MY RULES – "In a genre where almost anything can happen, how do you decide what that will be?” Saturday, 17 May, 10 am

www.webtickets.co.za/v2/EventCate... #flf2025

A fire opal set in a necklace.

The parachute of the Perseverance rover with the hidden message encoded: DARE MIGHTY THINGS

"The First Murder On Mars" includes a mention of fire opals. As a small part of my thanks for all her support, I bought Kerry a fire opal. Kerry and Megan-Jayne McFall designed a setting for it based on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover, which had a hidden message:
DARE MIGHTY THINGS.

All pterodactyls sound like hadedas, this is fact

YouTube video by Indigenous Film Distribution JUNGLE BEAT 2 THE PAST Official Trailer

Here’s the trailer for the movie I wrote and directed! Coming to South Africa on the 25th of April! youtu.be/Tqi64U-g9ak?...

I got a new car and now I can run at 70mph! Running is now accessible! What do you mean I “shouldn’t be in this marathon” because my car is “killing a bunch of real runners” stop being a gatekeeper

Poster for the animated movie “Jungle Beat 2 The Past”

IT'S HAPPENING! The movie I wrote and directed, Jungle Beat 2 The Past, is coming to South African cinemas on the 25th of April! It's the sequel to Jungle Beat: The Movie, which is currently on Netflix (or Showmax in South Africa).
Huge love and respect to everyone involved!

A poster for Audience: The Game Show!

“Play Things” is a monthly showcase of interesting new theatre, dance and comedy performances.

I’m back on the line-up on Sunday the 6th of April, performing my latest interactive comedy “Audience: The Game Show”

R125. 6pm, 6th April, at the Theatre Arts in Obs.

Come on down!

Occasionally I open Threads instead of Bluesky and I only realise my mistake when I start foaming at the mouth in fury