Shoreline of Infinity
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Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe. https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
Edits on a commissioned short, and two new flash fiction stories submitted today! Finally getting my short fiction writing brain back after a longgg break of working on novel stuff 😅 It's a good itch to scratch ✨
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The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen The Shape of Monsters The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen: A gothic descent into a world of darkness, magic and twisted loyalties....
The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen
The Shape of Monsters The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen: A gothic descent into a world of darkness, magic and twisted loyalties. It started with an image of a tattooed man in his car, with his life in a shambles. I knew he was broken, and I knew he’d lost his family and was making a last ditch attempt to reconnect with his estranged sister.
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GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio
🇳🇱🎉 TODAY! 🎉🇳🇱 We’re playing Plato on the Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam at 16:30! If you’re in Rotterdam, come along, say hi, and join us for some proggy chaos! 🎸👋 See you there! 😁 #rotterdam #progrock #netherlands #music #nederland #muziek
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
bringing dead batteries back to life is revolting
Support independent bookshops, for if we don’t use them, we’ll lose them | James Jobson
Independent bookshops: vital to local communities
Support independent bookshops, for if we don’t use them, we’ll lose them
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"The writer's role is to be a menace of the public's conscience. "He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism. And he must focus on the issues of his time." -Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone
Pre-orders are a huge deal and, very selfishly, I'm hoping that The Killing of a Chestnut Tree will sell enough copies that I can continue writing Havelock Harper mysteries! I love the characters. Right now, there's a pre-order sale on at Barnes & Noble, with a whole 25% off, if it'd tempt you!
Edinburgh pals, have you ever wanted to become a qualified Ghosthunter? Then join our spirited event on Wednesday 7th October - ghost stories followed by Ghosthunter Academy, then use your newly acquired skills in Blackwell's haunted bookshop... 👀👻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-an...
Haunted and Hunted: An Evening of Ghosts
An evening of chilling ghostly tales after dark followed by Ghosthunter academy, and a real-life haunted bookshop ghost hunt!
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After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue 💔 www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...
The Skinny is closing
After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue.
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To avoid all the doomerism! I feel a combination of restorative writing/reading and some form of real-world activism can avoid that sense of being overwhelmed.
I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It’s just gorgeous
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters@clhellisen.com · 3w ago18 days until The Shape of Monsters comes out in print from TorUK! I am so excited for people to read my queer gothic fantasy -- pre-orders are up! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/cl-h...
In my mind David Attenborough is narrating: "After a 3yr gestation, the elusive freshly published book has been spotted in the wild for the very 1st time. And what a specimen she is. A truly magnificent creature!" 😂 Alistair, I'm hoping that you enjoy reading it, as much as I enjoyed writing it!🤗
Alistair Wylie@alistairjw.bsky.social · 3w ago@astroroyalscot.bsky.social I got my copy a little before pub date from @chepstowbooks.bsky.social (which apparently is OK). Looking forward to this!
And that was the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Plenty of reviews over on the @starburst.bsky.social website from me, lots of amazing shows seen and it was great to catch up with folk.
“We cannot run them in a virtual environment […] You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God” —from NEWTON’S WAKE, by @amendlocke.bsky.social (2004) 💙📚 #SF www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ken-m...
Newton’s Wake
'Stylish, witty, and engaging!' - San Diego Union Tribune 'Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure...
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ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 4w ago... what the hell are these people talking about?
I’ve been looking forward to this one. Today for #SolarpunkArtAugust we’re doodling solar ovens. This one is inspired by a story I published in @shoreinf.bsky.social about solar-oven taco trucks in San Antonio 🌮🚚☀️ My doodle for today vs the professional illustration in the magazine!
"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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Like something out of an other-world futuristic sci-fi movie .... but it's 100% real, not AI, and totally and utterly 🤩 FYI the ELT (extremely large telescope) building is about the size of the Munich football stadium. Go big or go home is the usual mantra of all astronomers... 🔭
ESO@eso.org · 4w agoA rare snowy day for the ELT ❄️ Two weeks ago northern Chile was affected by severe weather. It caused damage to several cities and brought snow to our observatories, leaving stunning imagery like this drone video of our Extremely Large Telescope. 🔭 1/2
BlueSky! I dusted off my rusty old html coding skills..... 🤓 The UK "tour" starts in 🏴 Dumfries and Galloway next week for the #Kirkcudbright Fringe! If you're in the area, do come along! 🗓️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
How to Design a Universe: Events
Join Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, at events across the UK celebrating her new book, How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds.
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Happy birthday for tomorrow to Mary Shelley who was born on the 30th August 1797. 🎂 Did you know that in her most famous novel, she wrote that Dr Frankenstein travelled to #Orkney to create a mate for his monster? So that was nice. She must have thought it was lovely here.
Here's this week's link to the new titles at Transreal Fiction: transreal.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/t...
Our friends in Glasgow have this anthology due out very soon. Read all about it here, and go buy it in October!
Glasgow SF Writers' Circle@gsfwc.bsky.social · last mo.#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
