@shoreinf.bsky.social
Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe. https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
Original Yith were so kawaii!
Jings!
Everything's better in the countryside, right?
HOME SICK
July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: geni.us/homesick
Really pleased to share that not only have I written my first ever non-gruesome short story (it was a fun challenge), but it’ll be broadcast on Friday 27th March as part of BBC Radio 4’s Short Works
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#BBCShortWorks #BBCRadio4 #Autism
On to this next, one of @amendlocke.bsky.social's earlier books, 1st of the Engines of Light trilogy. One chapter in, I can report that there are already dinosaur aliens, 700 metre zeppelins and an ancient castle, so we're off to an interesting start. 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
So excited to share our teaser for our brand new series this Friday!
In Iain M. Banks’s 1996 #scifi novel EXCESSION, the Zetetic Elench explorer ship Peace Makes Plenty, investigating a little-known part of the galaxy’s Upper Leaf Swirl, discovers something that should’t really exist…
#coverart by Mark Salwowski, 2005
#WyrdWednesday 💙📚
www.salwowski.com/Gallery1
#InternationalBagpipeDay, you say? May I recommend Julia Wolfe’s LAD? Which sounds like giant monoliths in space slowly moving into a jig
A have a new book out tomorrow! Real war, fake prophecies, & uncertain loyalties as the Forged for Destiny trilogy reaches its end in Forged for Royalty.
Will the kingdom be liberated from its occupiers? And perhaps as important, will it be a kingdom...
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-r...
Launching a Book (Edinburgh version) at 7pm on Thursday 9th April at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, if you're into that sort of thing lighthousebookshop.com/events/polbl...
"Each dawn, since the hollyjack had come to the cathedral bringing her strange dreams, the boy had started to think of waking as the opening of petals, or a form of budding."
🔭 The Aurora Tree
Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace
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I absolutely loved taking part in this festival last year. Highly recommended!
Happy Birthday, Rhiannon!
Cymera festival in Edinburgh is coming soon! 5th-7th June. Get your Early Bird Weekend Passes now!
www.cymerafestival.co.uk?utm_source=s...
My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Out and about this month with the paperback of PAPERBOY! Check here for dates/times/places:
callummcsorley.com/2026/03/05/m...
Reminder: the Science for Fiction podcast current has two episodes - The Random Universe and Planets Everywhere - available via your usual podcast services eg. open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyN...
📢Calling all Black Writers in Scotland📢
Join us for an online workshop “Undo me” – Language, Form and the Potentiality of Unsettling with Olumide Popoola curated by Martha Adonai Williams. Check out the full details & register now:
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/loose-ends-e...
Everyone who has been nominated for a BSFA Award deserves applause, but we are particularly delighted to see PictCon2 Guest of Honour Neil Williamson nominated for Best Collection, Blood in the Bricks.
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Yup, well deserved!
Congratulations to @bethkesh.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and @jennicoutts.bsky.social for their BSFA award shorlistings!
How Mellotrons Work and What Makes Them So Special flypaper.soundfly.com/produce/how-...
Percy Shelley’s journal: last night I awoke to a creature watching me through my bedroom window with a face white as chalk
Mary Shelley’s journal: read four books today. Learning three languages while discussing astronomy and mathematics. Also Percy tried to chase his creature again.
To echo the sentiments of G.K. Chesterton, fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist — because they know that already. But rather more importantly, fairy tales tell them (and us) that the monster can be killed. And such stories must never ever go out of fashion.
“And best of all is finding a place to be
in the early days of a better civilization”
—Dennis Lee, “Civil Elegies”
Alasdair Gray adapted Lee’s words into his epigram “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation”. It features on the wall of the @parliament.scot
#WyrdWednesday #GrayDay
Befriended a local ghost in Edinburgh, had a rainy adventure, committed to the bit... @lunapress.bsky.social 👀👻✨️🖤
An excellent piece by Stew - if you're not already subscribed to his newsletter, I strongly recommend it.
Top work.