I think I’m on this panel at comicon on Friday too - come on down/up/along/under to Birmingham for some good Worldbuilding chat @solarisbooks.bsky.social

MK Hardy@mkhardywrites.com · 10h ago

Shortish notice on this but M will be making a flying visit to MCM Birmingham! 0.5 x MK Hardy will be on the Writers Block stage at 1pm with @ianthegreen.bsky.social & @clclarkwrites.com (others tbc) to talk about diverse worldbuilding, then signing books - who'll be around?

Looking forward to chatting with the Science Fiction Bookclub tonight at 8.30pm (and possibly again on the 17th!)

The Jewel Box Cluster, NGC 4755 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dBvSPv

THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is out this week. "Outstandingly swashbuckling, outrageously gripping and out-of-this-world brilliant" Monsters, pirates, empire, and magic. Order now, have fun, spread the word if you know people who like cool things 🏴‍☠️ geni.us/TDATDcovrev

Celestial fossils Image date: 26 February 2024, 06:00 This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster known as NGC 1841, which is found within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162 000 light-years away. Satellite galaxies ...

Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rFniEA

2016-11-27 --- ENCELADUS UNCROPPED (Enhanced) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/PGX8i2

ROSETTA (9) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKfpDv

A cover reveal for the paperback edition of my Best Of story collection (audiobook also on the way).

Head of Zeus@headofzeus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Check out this cover for #TheBestOfAdrianTchaikovsky 37 stories, more than 600 pages, the ultimate collection of @aptshadow.bsky.social short(er) fiction. Beautifully illustrated by Joe Wilson Pre-order now at @bookshop.org: https://bit.ly/4brqFAi

Pretty much one year exactly since the Immeasurable Heaven came out, so it’s lovely to be able to compile a few nice things readers have been saying over on Goodreads. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Titan - March 19 2013 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/QJXMJM

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can EVADE the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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A dream to be working with @headofzeus.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social to bring you THE LAST VERSE OF THE HARP LORD in 2027. I'm coming for your hearts... In 2028 you get my GWYDION, a tale of the Mabinogi’s trickster-magician in his own charmed words & as you've never heard it before.

Random dump of beasties from my sketchbook @solarisbooks.bsky.social

A museum that existed before classical Greece or Rome, displaying artifacts as old to them as Roman artificats are to us...

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · last mo.

In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley was excavating the temple complex at the ancient city of Ur. That's the ziggurat in the background. As the excavation proceeded, he found something quite surprising: artifacts hundreds of years older than Ur itself. Let's talk about the oldest known museum.

This is wonderful - when I wrote the Immeasurable Heaven (set in a giant ring of connected galaxies) I never thought they’d actually find one about 6.9 billion light years away @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.sciencealert.com/impossible-s...

Mammoth Structure Found in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

A massive structure detected in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

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@thebrokenbinding.bsky.social has appointed Simon Spanton as commissioning editor on a part-time basis as the fantasy imprint continues to expand its publishing programme. 👇

The Broken Binding Publishing appoints Simon Spanton as commissioning editor

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Green City Wars is out this week, US and UK covers below. A cyber/solarpunk noir detective story starring a raccoon. Available at your bookshop of choice, ebook, audio and hardback.

fossil hunting is a cool hobby because it will take you to some truly beautiful spots but also to some places where a wise man wouldn’t go with a gun

Apropos of *trying to make a living as an author*... can I interest any of you in a nice math-western alt history satire in these trying times? Renegade gunslinging mathematicians fighting against the vilification of expertise? payhip.com/StarkHolborn

If you missed our latest Worldbuilding workshop, do check it out. We fleshed out the culture of one of our species pretty thoroughly, exploring their language and religion, and how this would feed into our ongoing plot. @tomtoner.bsky.social will return after the summer for the next installment!

Rookery Publications@rookeryp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ca-caw! We'll be back with @caspargeon.bsky.social tomorrow for another Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop! We'll be fleshing out the biologies, cultures and histories of our alien races; and we need your ideas, the wackier the better! 7pm UK/2pm ET/11am PT www.youtube.com/live/HrhQq6_...

Ca-caw! We'll be back with @caspargeon.bsky.social tomorrow for another Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop! We'll be fleshing out the biologies, cultures and histories of our alien races; and we need your ideas, the wackier the better! 7pm UK/2pm ET/11am PT www.youtube.com/live/HrhQq6_...

EWWW Part 6: Growing Cultures

YouTube video by Rookery Publications

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Caspar Geon@caspargeon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ll be teaching my regular Extremely Extreme Worldbuilding Workshop tomorrow with my feathered friends at @rookeryp.bsky.social - all welcome to drop in and shout things at me

I’ll be teaching my regular Extremely Extreme Worldbuilding Workshop tomorrow with my feathered friends at @rookeryp.bsky.social - all welcome to drop in and shout things at me

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Scott McDonough@sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really want some knock offs of these medieval socks from Egypt (12th century CE?) at the GWU Textile Museum. collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio...

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have travelled between breeding grounds off Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 kilometres (8,700 miles) of open ocean. Science Daily buff.ly/hLKFRI7 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Humpback whale breaks migration record with 15,000 kilometer ocean journey

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000…

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Getting close to this year's Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, am looking forward to it. I'm giving a talk - 'Sea Monsters Past and Present' (on claimed connections between fossil animals and modern monsters) - on Friday June 12th. It's a ticketed event, book here www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/event/talk-s...

Talk: 'Sea Monsters Past and Present' by Darren Naish - Lyme Regis Museum

‘Sea Monsters Past and Present’ An illustrated Talk by Darren Naish 12th June, 3pm, The Pine Hall (Baptist Church), Lyme Regis Ever since ancient times, people have believed that giant, monstrous... R...

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Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...

Young inventor who left engineering studies removes nearly 50 million kilograms of ocean plastic, aims to eliminate 90% of floating waste by 2040

'There was a time when the oceans were filled with plastic, and then we solved it':

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