Caspar Geon

My first review for NoaF - Alien: Cult by @gavingsmith.bsky.social.

Tune in next week for another extremely extreme worldbuilding workshop with my tree-dwelling friends - who knows what’s going to happen? I don’t.

Thanks Phil, glad you liked it 🍻

Conceiving the Alien Caspar Geon (AKA Tom Toner)'s The Immeasurable Heaven set off ripples of interest with its promise of a 100% alien cast of characters. Some...

Science fiction Sunday reading!

A look at @caspargeon.bsky.social 's latest novel, The immeasurable Heaven. It gets the thumbs up from me.

A very old and droopy male Epir - an intelligent species of dinosaur from my first SF trilogy, the Amaranthine Spectrum

Judges announced for the inaugural Great Northern Read Award - New Writing North RJ Barker, the critically acclaimed author of award-winning fantasy fiction including the Tide Child trilogy, The Wounded Kingdom trilogy and...

Oh LOOK, the judges have been announced for the inaugural Great Northern Read award for Northern writers with a prize of £2500 and mentoring by my agency Johnson and Alcock.

And WAIT, ONE OF THOSE JUDGES LOOKS FAMILAIR!

newwritingnorth.com/judges-annou...

Reskeet with a time you looked cool

Thank you Paul - will have something new (and different) for you soonish, but I’m not allowed to talk about it yet…

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Thank you!

The promise of the child, part 1 of the Amaranthine Spectrum

Realised that it’s 10 years to the day since my first book was published - a strange old tale set in the 147th century, featuring a giant (but very awkward) hominid protagonist. There’s a lot I’d do differently if I were writing it now, but I had such a great time coming up with so much weird stuff.

Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

Empty shell of a venomous textile cone

An interesting thing I’ve found on my travels in Tasmania - the (thankfully) unoccupied shell of a Textile Cone, a beastie so venomous that it’s also known as the ‘cigarette snail’ (because once it’s stung you you’ve got just enough time to smoke a cigarette before you’re pushing up the daisies).

A copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon held up in front of a California Lilac bush. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

The race for reality has begun in @caspargeon.bsky.social's THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN!

"Fans of Ian M. Banks should run not walk to pick up this groundbreaking, headlong rush through realities, space and time." @catrionaward.bsky.social

Buy now: geni.us/immeasurable

The cover of Europe at Midnight, by me. It’s blue and black and features two male profiles looking left and right either side of a railway line down which a train is approaching

So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.

Stone tool discovery suggests very first humans were inventors The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.

'...tool use in (humans and human ancestors) is probably much earlier and more continuous than we thought it was.'

Great to catch up with my old editor, Simon. ‘Tom the Not Unwelcome’ sounds like a useless but cheerful Saxon king that the chroniclers almost forgot about, and I’d be delighted to have that as my epithet

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Found a bunch of sketches I did of the 147th century post-human beasties from my first trilogy, the Amaranthine Spectrum. Had so much fun coming up with these offshoots of humanity and imagining their filthy, chaotic worlds - would love to write another book about them one day

‘An endlessly enjoyable read, up there with Jack L Chalker’s Well World series and Robert Silverberg’s ‘son of man’. Strongly recommended!’ C.M. Kosemen, author of All Tomorrows

Lovely quote for Immeasurable Heaven just in from the disgustingly multitalented @cmkosemen.bsky.social

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Unfinished experimental sketch I did a while back of the Learned Gysemme, from my favourite @aptshadow.bsky.social story, Goblin Autumn

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

Cover reveal for my Science Fiction Gothic Horror (!) novella out next year.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 154:
Feed your writing daily. Feed it with fiction, non-fiction, news, games, theatre, films, art. Feed it with conversation. Feed it with experience. Feed it with curiosity. Don't expect to get anything out unless you also keep putting in.

My most recent novel is (spoiler, kind of) based on this idea. Link, as they say, in bio.

‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Against a gold fabric background, a splayed hardback stack of GORSE and RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to RAGWORT, @samkhorton.bsky.social 's much-anticipated sequel to his deliciously dark fantasy GORSE!

Welcome back to 18th century Cornwall, where Keeper Nancy Bligh is still holding the line against the dark...

Buy now - geni.us/ragwort