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One of the alien chimera beasts from The Thing (1982). A creature made up of various body parts including a human head, human innards and parts of dog.

"Look, here's the thing..."

Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue - Detroit Metro Times Nearly 15 years later, Detroit finally has its statue of RoboCop.  The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in East...

Detroit has unveiled their statue honoring RoboCop
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Big willow tree with concerned Hobbit looking on, by artists John Howe

Hot take-

People who diss the nature writing in #LOTR are deeply wrong (and probably actually last read the book when they were wee, and should try again. No shame!).

Tolkien's nature writing is superb and utterly necessary to the novel

"So meet me, meet me at midnight
(With sixty seconds' grace)
Midnight is not a moment;
Midnight is a place.”

Joan Aiken

A photo of copies of the 2025 Angry Robot editions of Pollen by Jeff Noon (a 30th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword by Jeff and an introduction by Aliya Whiteley, with a cover by Sarah O'Flaherty) and The Village at the Edge of Noon by Darya Bobyleva (translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse and with a cover by Kate Cromwell).

These two have been out in the world for just a day.

One is a revenant of a past and hazy future, one a new arrival of old stories into an endless noon.

PREACH.

A printed image of an Eastern dragon over a stormy sea: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861), 'Dragon and Waves', Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Smithsonian, https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/S2004.3.149/.

A helpful dragon to remind you that the Call for Papers and Sessions for the inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts (23rd-25th June 2026 in Glasgow), closes on Friday 12th December.

More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....

"The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
Ursula K. Le Guin

For the evening people.

For the evening people.

Congratulations Khan! And congratulations Dreamscape Media!

Here is my review of the Queen of The Dead by Sarah Broadway- urban fantasy. @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

It behoves us to point out that some books were published by other publishers in 2025.

But please don't let that fact influence you unduly.

We can only concur - waking the Master of Moss would be a terrible idea.

A promotion panel showing the cover of Pollen by Jeff Noon. The text reads: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Pollen, the sequel to Vurt, out now.

A promotional panel for Vurt and Pollen, showing the covers for each book. The text reads: Praise for Vurt "Passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling" The Times "Vurt is a gripping piece of speculative fiction" The Guardian "Refreshing, disturbing and original" Independent

A promotional panel for Vurt and Pollen. The text reads: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pollen, the sequel to Vurt. Out now.

Published today!

Our 30th anniversary edition of Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Jeff Noon's second novel, with a new afterword from Jeff and a new introduction from Aliya Whiteley.

How cool do Vurt and its sequel Pollen look side-by-side, in their new covers? Gift worthy we reckon...

£9.99 each

A promotional panel. It shows the cover of the 2025 Angry Robot edition of The Village at the Edge of Noon by Darya Bobyleva, translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. The next reads: Everything you were afraid to find out about the heat of noon and grandma's old tales comes together... Out now!

"Valerych roared, and he struck out for the other riverbank - away from the incinerating flame and the village and his dead goddamned wife - toward the other world, the other shore."

Published today!

Is it terror in the woods? Or the truth?

Translated by @missadadoom.bsky.social.

It's Cameron Johnston's birthday! Celebrate by leaving a review for any book by any author that you enjoyed or even by placing a pre-order for a book you know you're going to buy anyway.

Both these things REALLY help authors in the current market.

LAST DAY!

Project Hanuman by @stewarthotston.com continues to rack up wonderful reviews.

A photo of a copy of the 1968 Chatto and Windus edition of The Essential Blake. The cover is a b&w reproduction of a portrait of Blake from the National Portrait Gallery.

"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."

Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.

Buy my books! Outside of a few problems*, everybody's having a good time.

*The Black Death, horrible free mercenary companies, interdimensional politicking

Because the evening people deserve bargains too.

Quality insights, entertaining chats with top folk.

A low angle, slightly tilted perspective looking up an immense chamber. The walls of segmented concrete are dilapidated and filthy. As light shines down into the cavernous space, a solitary figure leaps off his makeshift perch into open air with arms spread wide. Below, a flock of doves stirs with the commotion, fluttering up through the chamber.

LEAP OF FAITH (2002)
Acrylic on Panel - 11” x 10”

The smallest of the Faded Star series. 1/2

If you’re having dinner with family today, A or B?

Cover of the classic 1st edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS PLAYER'S HANDBOOK, with a group of adventurers gathered around a grotesque idol. Two of their number are trying to pry out one of the idol's bejewelled eyes.

Well, I reckon it's...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A promotional panel. The text reads: Black Friday Sale up to 40% off hardbacks, paperbacks and ebooks use code BLACKFRIDAY40

Do we have bargains for you at angryrobotbooks.com? Why yes, yes we do. Black Friday sale. Up to 40% off!

Go to our website use code BLACKFRIDAY40 buy books, save money.

There's still time.