Shoreline of Infinity

A brass band is more than the sum of its parps.

An amazing night; so excited to have The Needfire out for readers to encounter and (hopefully) enjoy!

Happy birthday Lyndsey!

Weaving the Uncanny writing workshop with Jeda Pearl Join Scottish Jamaican poet and fiction author Jeda Pearl to create pieces of writing braided with folklore and supernatural elements.

Weaving the Uncanny
writing workshop with Jeda Pearl
29 Aug, Berwick-upon-Tweed – £20

Join Scottish Jamaican writer @jedapearl.bsky.social to explore Paxton House’s history & links to the Caribbean, & create writing braided with folklore & supernatural elements
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Book cover IAIN M. BANKS THE PLAYER OF GAMES Cover quote: "There is now no other British SF writer to whose work I look forward to qith greater keenness: – The Times The cover image is in greys, blacks, and magenta. Under a dome, beyond which is a black sky with a few white stars, a giant, multi-level game board depicts a variety of strange game-pieces. A human figure is silhouetted in the background, weight on one leg, left arm supporting the right elbow, the right hand raised to the chin in contemplation. In the foreground, one of the pieces – a hunched warrior with a short sword and a leaf-shaped shield – is morphing into a human figure standing in the same pose as the silhouette. Or perhaps the human figure is morphing into the warrior-piece.

“a guilty system recognises no innocents”

—the demilitarised Murderer-class General Offensive Unit LIMITING FACTOR explains the politics of the oppressive, expansionist, & disturbingly coherent Empire of Azad to Culture citizen Jernau Gurgeh, in Iain M. Banks’s THE PLAYER OF GAMES
#WyrdWednesday

#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #MoonLitGetaway

Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in English Literature (Part Time) - Grade 7 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job opportunity teaching science fiction in Liverpool. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC313/l...

Why we need books during troubling times 🧵 (applies to all writing & the arts in general)

Our Brian M. Milton's got a bumper new tale for fans of sentient spinach. Spinach 419 is being serialised this week in The Daily Tomorrow, concluding this Saturday (2/08).

Read parts 1 & 2 at the link below now:

@munchkinstein.bsky.social (1/2)

photo of a box full of delicious THE SALT ORACLE advance review copies, plus information sheet. The cover is too gorgeous for words, but umm... in a kind of woodcut art style - light blue waves with gold orcas against a dark blue background, and dominating it all, the profile of a gold girl, eyes closed, her tangled hair full of fish and bird skeletons, and fishing line with sliver hooks.

Said books out of the box, on a light blue blanket, with two bonus promo bookmarks, one with the book quote 'she doesn't know what she is yearning for, only that she is a deepwater current now...like a song sung into the darkness.' The other has a blurb from the amazing Steward Hotston, that reads 'written with reckless beauty and a finger on the heart'

SHE'S ALIVE!!!

And she is *ridiculously* gorgeous omg

It’s official!

We’ve raised more than $40 MILLION for independent bookstores since we launched in 2020! 🥳📚

Where better to explore stories of Edinburgh and Scotland than in the heart of the capital’s Old Town? See Auld Reekie through the eyes of locals in Athens of the North @markthannah.bsky.social and visitors in An American Love Letter to Edinburgh. 1/3

🎟️ sholink.to/f7d8b9ed

It was 56 years ago today…
🧪🔭

Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. stands next to a U.S. flag planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. (Neil A. Armstrong/NASA via AP, File)

56 years ago today, humans set foot on another world for the first time, confirming what we still know to be true today: If we work together, there is no greatness we cannot achieve. #Moon #MoonParty2025 #Apollo11 #Space 🌓👨‍🚀🔭🦛

#BookSky

Shoreline of Infinity #39 (Summer 2025) Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.  Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity

Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.

First podcast cued up for my trip back to Scotland!

Gulp!

must get my tickets!!!

#QuickflyerFriday! Fresh from our Buxton Fringe run, Flora Macdonald and Zombies is @edfringe.bsky.social on odd dates 1-15 August at the gorgeous @scotstorycentre.bsky.social! Tunes! Zombies! Historical inaccuracy, 'irreverent and fun'!
scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:62...

A dynamic illustration of a superhero character with wings, wearing a helmet and a cape, reaching out with an outstretched hand against a dark, swirling background. The character appears determined and powerful.

Pocket Book Guide to Scottish Superheroes starts at

www.sfcaledonia.scot/the-pocketbo...

We're at chapter 8 of Kirsti Wishart's thrilling series of Scottish Superheroes (think Superman necking a can of Irn Bru)

www.sfcaledonia.scot/chapter-8-mi...

We’re so, so chuffed for Dave on this win! He’s part of the ESFF mod team and staff, and now we get to call him “award-winning author David Goodman” — how cool is that? Massive congrats from everyone at ESFF!

#writingcommunity #edinburgh

Unveiling the Exciting New Luna Novella by Andrew Knighton in 2026! We are delighted to welcome a new novella by Andrew Knighton, for Luna Novella 2026! After his high fantasy novella, the SCKA Finalist 2024 Ashes of the Ancestors, Andrew returns with a science fictio...

Just went through proofs of All That is in the Earth, my upcoming @lunapress.bsky.social novella, & it's rekindled my excitement for this story. It touches on a lot of stuff I've been obsessing over in recent years, & is different from my recent books.
www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/andrew-...

You can now listen to BFA Finalist Daughter of Fire and Water all the way through on Spec Fic Radio Theatre, one of the projects I'm most proud of and what also led to the expanded novella in Dark Crescent! Give it a listen, music, acting, production all fantastic (and hopefully the script too!) ✨️💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My tribute to a very good boy.
#superman #krypto

a fundamental experiment in the history of #Physics. Why Schiehallion? Isolation, so neighbouring mountains don't interfere, and regularity of form, which makes it easier to estimate its volume: the same features that make it stand out so beautifully seen from afar (here from Loch Rannoch)

Christopher Priest sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/priest... was born on this day, so here are some of the covers to his first two novels (Artist: Bruce Pennington, Richard Powers, Geoff Taylor and Mike Ploog):

I love the cover of that paperback edition of A Dream of Wessex.