E. J. Swift
@catamaroon.bsky.social
Author of When There Are Wolves Again (BSFA winner Best Novel 2025), The Coral Bones (Clarke Award shortlist 2023), Paris Adrift, The Osiris Project trilogy. Repped by Margaret Halton at PEW Literary. https://geni.us/WhenThereAreWolves www.ejswift.co.uk
Author copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Next week we'll celebrate The Arthur C. Clarke Award's 40th anniversary and reveal this year's winner! 🚀 Meanwhile Chair of Judges, Dr Andrew M. Butler, discusses this year's shortlist 👉 fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best Science Fiction: The 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The Arthur C Clarke award highlights six outstanding science fiction books every year. This year’s field shows the breadth of contemporary science fiction, says chair of judges Andrew M. Butler. From ...
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SURELY, with wildfires causing the worst damage in Europe since WWII, politicians will take the opportunity to transform our approach to the climate crisis, right?? Report from me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @mjflepage.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Sn...
Heatwave and Wildfire Crisis: Why 2026 Is So Dangerous
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Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds - Yuri Gagarin (yes, that Yuri Gagarin) is now a down-at-heel private eye on a generation ship. Some books don’t deliver on their initial premise but this brilliant, fun, noir thriller totally does. 💙📚 #Booksky #BookReview
For the Observer today… the soaring popularity of birdwatching. I spoke to Mya-Rose Craig, @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the @rspb.bsky.social, and the people behind the Merlin app. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Don’t call us twitchers: birdwatching brings in diverse f...
The hobby has been transformed by young influencers and celebrities seeking not only a retreat from a virtual world, but a way to highlight the plight of the UK’s depleted wildlife
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Some lovely book post - a copy of @annecharnock.bsky.social 's wonderful new novel Alston Moor, out in September from @goldsf.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/alst...
Terminons cette semaine avec un roman d'éco-science-fiction qui montre le réchauffement climatique à hauteur humaine et tente de changer les choses par le parcours de deux femmes (extra)ordinaires. D'une actualité brûlante ! @bragelonnefr.bsky.social @catamaroon.bsky.social
Quand les loups reviendront : Se battre pour demain
Ré-ensauvager le monde
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The BSFA are working in partnership with English Heritage and Flame Tree Press to produce an anthology of works including The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, one of the earliest works of #ScienceFiction. @englishheritage.bsky.social
Allen Stroud and Juliet E. McKenna are at Bolsover Castle today talking about Margaret Cavendish and Science Fiction. If you are in the area, do come and say Hi! @julietemckenna.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social
This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
All excellent booksellers are taking pre-orders for my latest, a work of eco-fiction, set in the peatlands of North Pennines today and 500 years ago! ALSTON MOOR coming: 1 Sept 2026 @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Have you read the Clarke Award shortlist yet? 📚 Would you like to be one of the first to find out the winner? 🚀 The latest edition of the Clarke Award newsletter has all the details you need and more! 👉 open.substack.com/pub/clarkeaw...
I find myself almost daily recommending "Fire Weather" by @johnvaillant.bsky.social to people. A terrifying and insightful read, superbly researched and sympathetically peopled. It was already a book which has stuck with me, but its more evident than ever that we live in a fire world.
Now the Booker-longlisted End of Everything thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners and three debut novelists
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Niall Harrison@niallharrison.bsky.social · last wk.On The End of Everything: locusmag.com/review/the-e...
Ooh an intriguing list this year! So great to see The End of Everything and May We Feed The King on here, both fab.
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last wk.‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
We're entering the Great Burning. But it can also, longer term, be the start of the Great Turning. Here's my (hopeful, really) thought experiment on what it might look like to have come through and begun the restoration of our planet and society. Please share!
The Milder Sun
On ecological grief and hope - a thought experiment
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Great Barrier Reef microbiome mapped as researchers discover 500 bacterial species previously unknown to science www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🌎🦑
Great Barrier Reef microbiome mapped as researchers discover 500 bacterial species previously unknown to science
Research identifies 808,585 viral genomes belonging to what scientists estimate to be 362,802 different viruses
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I wrote about language, lying & world-building for the NYTBR as expressed in 3 extraordinary & very different books: THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm, THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley, & THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by SL Huang.
New Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War (Gift Article)
Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.
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Just 2 weeks left to grab the giant Best of British SF/F bundle! storybundle.com/bestof supporting independent publishers and authors - no Amazon or mega corporations here, and the bundles provide a vital infusion directly to your favourite writers. Also it's great value for money!
Delighted to be chairing the Otherwise Award jury this year. To recommend works to the jury, the form is here: otherwiseaward.org/2026/07/intr...
Introducing the 2026 Awards jury « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Motherboard is pleased to announce the Otherwise Awards 2026 Jury: The jury is now considering works for the 2026 Awards, and will announce its decisions by late May 2027…
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Whirlwind 48 hours in Liverpool to give my first ever keynote at @crsfliverpool.bsky.social . Thanks so much to all the brilliant conference organisers and attendees for making me feel so welcome 🥰
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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I am so grateful to Lancaster University for awarding me an honorary doctorate DLitt for my fiction ‘including near-future environmental collapse and ectogenesis.’ Many thanks to Dr Oliver Langmead for his oration, and Prof Rebecca Lingwood. A joy to share the day with all the graduating students!
Best review Publisher's Weekly has ever given me! Really lovely to see. 🌳 www.publishersweekly.com/9781250448613
The Killing of a Chestnut Tree: A Havelock Harper Mystery by Oliver K Langmead
Langmead (City of All Seasons) offers up an enchanting Sherlock Holmes pastiche that follows gay detective Havelock Harper and h...
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Hi Folks, new video 🎬! I take stock of the year to date and recap my top 7 science fiction reads of 2026 - so far. All are in contention for my book of the year. For now! Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup youtu.be/rabF96R5KHw
The 7 Best Science Fiction Reads of 2026 - so far!
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
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Two baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫
Reminder that the ebook of Loss Protocol (‘an eco-thriller like no other’ — the Guardian) can still be yours for just 0.99 GBP on Kobo, Amazon etc
Loss Protocol ebook by Paul McAuley - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Loss Protocol A mesmerising ecological thriller from 'one of Britain's best SF writers' (The Guardian)" by Paul McAuley available from Rakuten Kobo. 'A beautiful story of intrigue and mystery' P...
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I've a new book out 7th July. The Next Enemy Shall Be The Last features an absent father and his failson split by 40 years, cold war spies, love that transcends death, weird physics and nuclear war. I'm really proud of it and would love you to give it a go #SFF #scifi Get from B&N/Amazon in the US
The Next Enemy Shall Be the Last by Stewart Hotston | Waterstones
Buy The Next Enemy Shall Be the Last by Stewart Hotston from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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