James Swallow

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#StarTrek fans! I'm a late-addition bonus writer guest at #Warp1 @starfuryevents.bsky.social this weekend in London, along with cool folks from #StrangeNewWorlds, #DeepSpaceNine & #Picard! I'll be signing & selling books, talking about writing & more! 🖖
Event info here: seanharry.com/home/warp/

Happy new book day to m'colleague @davidmack.bsky.social! 🍻

#StarTrek fans! I'm a late-addition bonus writer guest at #Warp1 @starfuryevents.bsky.social this weekend in London, along with cool folks from #StrangeNewWorlds, #DeepSpaceNine & #Picard! I'll be signing & selling books, talking about writing & more! 🖖
Event info here: seanharry.com/home/warp/

...And a few from my patch box:
Moonbase - Star Cops (1985)
Tellus + Vesta Colony - Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Unity - Space Island One (1998)
STS-98 - Armageddon (1998)

Here's some Apollo-era ones from my files:
Ironman 1 - Marooned (1969)
Apollo 17 - Space miniseries (1985)
Apollo 18 - Apollo 18 (2018)
Camelot/Odyssey - Stowaway To The Moon (1975)

October's #StarTrek eBook sale includes the USS Titan encountering a society of artifical intelligences in my novel SYNTHESIS & my alt-history "Khan Wins!" novella SEEDS OF DISSENT in MYRIAD UNIVERSES - plus many more great books for just $1.99! 🖖
www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...

I 🔫❤️ these movies. 11 films (and counting!)

Crazy Keller at the Commando & British Comics swap meet today? (IYK,YK)

Happy cakeday to @alasdairstuart.bsky.social! 🎂👍

Comics fans! I'm a late addition to the Commando & British Comics Swap Meet event happening in Colchester tomorrow - I'll be selling, signing & talking about my Commando war comics, along with top folks Keith Burns, Andrew Sawyer, Roy Rivett, Steve Holland and more!
www.facebook.com/events/21910...

Anything in that kind of near-future, "NASApunk" space is catnip for a rocket geek like me... 😁

👍 If you ever want to share that, I for one would love to read it. Star Cops is a touchstone show for me...

This is cool.
Is it true you once wrote a pilot inspired by the 80s UK show Star Cops? Or did I dream it...?!?

50% OFF Firewall: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Legendary agent Sam Fisher teams up with a new NSA recruit—his own daughter—to save the world in this gripping new thriller from the renowned Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® videogam...

The new #TomClancy #SplinterCell animated series arrive soon, and the 50% discount on my Splinter Cell FIREWALL audiobook from @audiobookscom.bsky.social ends tomorrow! Details at the link: www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...

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Cheers buddy!

If you haven't already tried my bestselling #MarcDane thriller series, now's the time! The digital edition of NOMAD is on sale all this month for just 99p - grab it at the link below!
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

September's round-up:
#DisneyInfinity 3.0 10th Anniversary:
jswallow.com/disney-infin...
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#SpaceAboveAndBeyond is 30!
jswallow.com/space-above-...
A Double #StarTrek Book Anniversary for Distant Shores & Sight Unseen 🖖
jswallow.com/book/stvds/
jswallow.com/book/sttsu/

I discovered this show after seeing an exhibit at the National Air & Space museum in DC, later watched all the eps; it's like the 1950s version of For All Mankind, pretty good for it's time (with a few missteps)...

A screengrab from the BAFTA Connect invite, which says: Connect: Storytelling: Success across screen sectors Friday 17 October 7pm - 10pm BST Ray Dolby Room, 195 Piccadilly Join BAFTA winning writer, Corey Brotherson, and BAFTA nominated scriptwriter James Swallow in conversation as they discuss storytelling and scriptwriting across the screen sectors. More details to follow soon.

Are you a BAFTA Connect member?

Do you like writing, and interested in the craft?

Well, how about you join @jmswallow.bsky.social and myself for a little chat about storytelling across the different mediums of screen?

This week's new read, the gripping new thriller from @tonykentwrites.bsky.social & Frederick Forsyth - thanks to @transworldbooks.bsky.social for the ARC!

Grover's Mill, next exit.

The GRANTECAN telescope dome.

Inside the GRANTECAN telescope.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory.

Listening for signals from space, just like Jodie Foster's character from the movie "Contact".

...More astro stuff from 🏝️ La Palma (and me channeling Ellie Arroway); a big thank you to the teams at @gtctelescope.bsky.social & the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory for allowing us to visit! 🔭

The sea at Los Cancajos

Tenguia volcano.

A view over the Caldera de Taburiente.

Starry night sky

Sharing some holiday pix from 🏝️ La Palma; amazing 🌋volcanic landscapes at Tenguia, Caldera de Taburiente & 🌌 starry night skies...

Thanks buddy! 🌔💥

Best of luck in your new endeavour.

A double #StarTrek book anniversary for me this month: 20 years since the publication of my first Trek prose fiction in the ST: Voyager Distant Shores anthology (jswallow.com/book/stvds/) & 10 years for ST: Titan Sight Unseen (jswallow.com/book/sttsu/)! Click the links for more...

Loved that movie. Here's me chanelling Jodie Foster at the Cherenkov Telescope Array....

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