Am slow reading these days, but nearing the end of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Paul McAuley's fantastic LOSS PROTOCOL - highly recommended!
18,000 words - that's BEFORE breakfast!
Timely is my middle name
those radical greens!
green energy suddenly seems like a good idea doesn't it
... i'll put you down as a "maybe"
happy belated book day!
first we take surbiton
so... it's a no from you?
anyone going for that human authored label thing? it feels a bit like those fair trade coffee labels but... and what if a talking cat helped you write?
in even less exciting news i sent off some edits on a short story
godspeed
it's london book fair, which i have not attended in a very long time, but am expecting the usual flurry of "someone you'll never hear of again has just signed a seven figure advance with 47 territories pre-sold!" etc
Award winning cartoonist here
fair point!
to misquote donald justice
Men at forty
Learn to fart softly
Into rooms they will not be
Coming back to
"Great Britain has only two days of gas stored"
I am certain I could single-handedly make up that shortfall
romantocyberpunktasy
I wonder if the new Neuromancer show on Apple, if successful, will usher in a new era of cyberpunk novels in its wake
writing novels is for people who can't hack it in short stories
I approve of this shelfie
nice!
Not saying this is the greatest movie ever made, but I AM saying this is the greatest balloon noir movie ever made
if there's no found family i don't even
Let's celebrate Vampire Friday with this forthcoming magnificence!
Thank you for asking me to play, Jared & Lavie (@lavietidhar.bsky.social ) !
/ list of those best books here :
endlessbookshelf.net/best-books/
weird to get a royalty statement that doesn't make me want to weep in despair but there you go, there's a first time for everything.
If you can believe it, we've reached #Shelfies 78! (or is it 73?). Antiquarian bookseller Henry Wessells shares some of his favourites here, including Kavan, Gilman and Straub. What else can you spot?
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London Book Fair next week, no wonder my inbox is empty
making To Do lists in the vain hope I might actually To Do something
