Shoreline of Infinity

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

Pun of the day.

Pay attention, everyone.

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

YES you are outsourcing your brain, you are outsourcing your motherfucking SOUL.

As soon as you delegate a skill to AI, you condemn future you from EVER being able to learn that skill, all because you’re lazy or afraid at being bad at something. Sad and pathetic.

Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.

Not long to wait now. The new Green Man book will be available on October 30th. Pre-order now: wizardstowerpress.co...

It's good to see all the entries coming in for our Flash Fiction competition.

www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fictio...
The theme is

peace

and you have just a few hours left to go to the deadline.

Can't wait to read them all.

Cover of Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng, showing a fae queen looming over gothic spires.

Been thinking about Jeannette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun and how it's one of the few books that makes the fae as sinister and horrifying as they deserve to be. An under-read dark fantasy gothic masterpiece.

Iain Banks: the final interview Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

This is why I never invite Sam to stay in my house.

If you are reading this, then I have committed website — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer I went and had coffee with an editor the other week. That isn’t something that happens often - I think it is possibly the first time I’ve been in the same timezone as one of my editors. He gave me s...

If you are reading this, then I have committed website

That is pretty much how we did it.

Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.

Numismatic Writers, Content Creators, Authors and Designers Honored at 2025 Numismatic Literary Guild Awards | Numismatic Literary Guild Each year, the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), founded in 1968, hosts its annual awards competition, held in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. This year’s ...

In sentences I never expected to type: my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents’ has received an award from the Numismatic Literary Guild at the World’s Fair of Money.

Full details here:

nlgonline.org/news/numisma...

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your tickets, it's not too late. Buy them from the website to make sure you don't miss out - see link below. Or you can buy at the door on the day.

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest

The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your…

Cartoon of a man staring intently at a pot of tea and a mug on the table in front of him. He's saying "God I love tea!". Caption: An Infusiast

An Infusiast

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals.

Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Deffo Troughton.

locus cover art of two figures facing away from eachother and geometric lines

Welcome to the world of Locus Magazine, where your dreams of being first to know everything about sci-fi come true.

Grab a subscription to be first on the scene for new science fiction, fantasy, & horror books. Reviews, news, interviews, and more!

www.locusmag.com

No you’re not!

Well that didn't go where I was expecting! Connections to a very well known vintage sf tale within. Enjoyed that. @amendlocke.bsky.social always does a nice job with his imagined future geopolitics. It's the future, but you couldn't get there from here.

Alt Milk Presents: Post Coal Prom Queen, Penny Black, and Valensteïn Alt Milk presents another incredible night with some of Scotland's best electronic artists. Post Coal Prom Queen are Lily Higham and Gordon Johnstone. PCPQ have developed a unique sound by blending o...

If you too thought Post Coal Prom Queen were stunning at Event Horizon Cymera, here’s your chance to see them in Edinburgh tonight

wegottickets.com/event/672506...

Ah, the old “an eye for an eye, a tooth for an eye.”

On our way to Glasgow for tonight's gig!

My Authentic Shelf, by The Disappointed Skeptics Club 11 track album

Our Neil Williamson is also a band! Disappointed Skeptics Club's new album is My Authentic Shelf, and you can get it now on Bandcamp before it hits your usual streaming services.

thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut...

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One of the bookstores in Urueña, Spain. This villa del libro is home to only 200 people but has 12 bookstores.

The news today is horrific. It's easy to look at the world around us and despair. But we also need to remember that our stories and art matter even when the world turns bad. Here's my essay about why you should keep writing, keep fighting, and keep hope alive. www.patreon.com/posts/117228...

Photo of my slightly worn copy of Lyndsey Croal’s book, Limelight and Other Stories.

My review of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s wonderful collection LIMELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES is up! Incredibly fun reading: motivated characters, great pace, plenty of doomsday tech and voyaging through space…

Read it on the @shoreinf.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/3spfzkwp

Radio 4 announces 22 comedy commissions - British Comedy Guide BBC Radio 4 has announced a raft of commissions. Those involved include Omid Djalili, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Alistair Green, Slim, Ayoade Bamgboye and Pierre Novellie.

Ta da! Excited to announce i have a brand new character comedy pilot on BBC R4, recording this November
www.comedy.co.uk/radio/news/8...

Absolute Zero - deadskypublishing.com Prepare to experience fear at its coldest. In a world where the temperature plummets, so too do the depths of terror. Absolute Zero is an anthology that

Neil Williamson's new story 'Cold Case' features in anthology Absolute Zero (Dead Sky Publishing), due out on 7th October. Featuring tales of frozen worlds - both physical and metaphorical - preorders are open now at the link below:

deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-it...

@neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Graphic, text reads: "The unwise decisions two sisters make will affect the entire world. Bring Me Home, a science fiction novella by E.M. Faulds. Find it in Wiz Duos book 2. Go to wizardstowerpress.com" background graphic shows a silhoutte of a female figure with a circular hole cut out showing another smaller female figure beneath. Bottom right hand corner is a thumbnail of the Wiz Duos book 2 cover.

Graphic. Excerpt over graphics, text reads: '“Dave, I need you to tell Jayce that I didn’t kick him, I only touched him and then the sun hit my hand and mod sent out some kind of… I don’t know what, but it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it.” “Yeah, right, so your body tunnel gave you superpowers? Congrats, I’m sure you’ll do well.” “Don’t be stupid, come on, I’m trying to explain.” “If I’m so stupid, why do you need me? Can’t you all just hang out and compare mods and leave me out of it?” “You never got one,” I said out loud, stupidly. “Oh, you noticed, well done.” “I mean, why not?” He rounded on me, nearly spitting in my face. “Because I’m not stupid! You got that elagite stuff. It’s like metal DNA and nobody knows what it does to you.”' Beneath that, the titling info reads: "Bring Me Home, by E.M. Faulds. Available now as part of Wiz Duos 2, from Wizard's Tower Press". Behind is a darkened image showing a two female figures, one larger with a circular hole in its centre, one smaller standing with head visible through hole. Bottom right is a thumbnail of the Wiz Duos book 2 cover.

I poured a lot of guts and angst into this. I wanted to write different SF, about being alive, afraid, and looking for something to fill the hole that lives in all of us.

And look, you get another novella with it! Find out where to buy:
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

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