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Really nice day at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social

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 · 2w 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!)

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

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

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 · 2mo ago

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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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

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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

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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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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Nice review from the excellent Ramsrambles over on yonder TikTok :) @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Lovely review just in from Howler13reads over on that there instagram @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Took the trusty old notebook into the woods for a few days - didn’t get much written, but did meet a fox who likes bread

Lovely tribute to Ian Watson on this Warhammer site.

Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman@theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A lot of things to talk about in this week's Black Library Weekly, now in its new home on Substack. Thank you to those who have helped make the jump a gratifying success! #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary blacklibrarian.substack.com/p/black-libr...

My wife had gone into TK Maxx & I was loitering for a while next to this bin when I first had the idea for the Immeasurable Heaven sometime in 2018. I always make time for a bit of loitering now - you never know when you’ll come up with something that drains your lifeforce, vampire-like, for years

Two notebooks filled, so time to turn the sod on this fantasy novel & begin the actual typing of it. Always some false starts at this stage as I try to work out where to enter the story, then of course I need to stop and take essential photos of my laptop, and by then the day’s pretty much over

Delighted to find both Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus shortlist this year, amongst some amazing company!

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists locusmag.com/2026/04...

So this is a thing if you're free later today. No trouble if you're busy. We've all got a lot on our plates these days. www.reddit.com/r/TheCaptive...

From the TheCaptivesWar community on Reddit

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Home to some excellent book post - the House on Utopia Way by the brilliant and multiglottal (although that sounds like a medical condition) @stefmowords.bsky.social

Hi! I'm Lur Noise; illustrator, concept/2D artist and comic creator. I like drawing machines, architecture and critters, and have worked for people such as Deconstructeam, The Mountain Goats and Summer Eternal ~* #PortfolioDay

Had some statements for books of mine that have earned out (the dream!) so I think it's worth reminding people: if you love an author, seek out her backlist. Ask bookshops to order them if you can. Bookshops these days often won't have older titles, because of space limitations & returns policies🧵

Having so much fun writing my first ever fantasy novel. This is the one project I’ve been putting off for years, tinkering with notes but always thinking I needed to wait for the right time to begin in earnest. But bugger it - now’s as good a time as any to lose yourself in something you love doing

These interactive sessions with Tom have been some of my favourite ITR streams ever. Hope you can join us on Saturday!

Rookery Publications@rookeryp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ca-caw! We're back #InsideTheRookery this Saturday for the 4th (and final?) Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop with feathered friend @tomtoner.bsky.social aka @caspargeon.bsky.social ! This time...the plot thickens! Saturday 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT www.youtube.com/live/JTV7BmX...

Ca-caw! We're back #InsideTheRookery this Saturday for the 4th (and final?) Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop with feathered friend @tomtoner.bsky.social aka @caspargeon.bsky.social ! This time...the plot thickens! Saturday 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT www.youtube.com/live/JTV7BmX...

EWWW Part 4, The Plot Thickens with Tom Toner (ItR Special 11:9 180)

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Another #eastercon panel sketch! This time we're talking Space Opera.