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Mike Brooks

@mikebrooks668.bsky.social

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That Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him. All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 2d

www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

Titan snags ‘refreshingly original’ fantasy adventure from Mike Brooks

Titan Books has acquired a new fantasy adventure novel from The God-King Chronicles author Mike Brooks.

www.thebookseller.com

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

I mean if we’re talking flashbacks then The Untamed takes the cake, but I’ll grant you that’s just one long flashback (over 20 episodes or something) rather than to previous episodes.

I just remember Dragonball Z where every footstep gets a five second reaction shot from all other characters 😄

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

Gorgeous visuals so far, and just enough suggestion of intrigue that you get the feeling there's something else going on underneath the enemies-to-lovers story it's set up as, but it's real blink-and-you-miss-it pacing. It sort of feels like it's a regular C-drama playing at double speed.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

Started 'Love in the Clouds' on Netflix, mainly so it was on the queue and I didn't forget what it was called after I saw it, but I'll say this for it: the opening is so instantly batshit that I hung around and watched the entire first episode.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

I hate baked beans, I think that’s enough for the government to revoke my citizenship

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10h

cheese on toast is far superior though

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 11h

good evening EXCLUSIVELY to the irish

There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. In the story "Aided Derbforgaill" several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of Lugaid Riab nDerg, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and Cú Chulainn avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150.

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The Chromatroid @thechromatroid.bsky.social · 15h

willing to go down to £35, I mainly just wanna move them and any money helps

The Chromatroid @thechromatroid.bsky.social · 17h

Selling these two as a set:
Gamer Edition WFC Optimus Prime and Megatron with toyhax labels

£40 including postage

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Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 12h

We need to come to terms with the fact that this timeline isn’t just stupid, it’s really fucking weird too

Dominoes increasing in size

The smallest says ‘Eggs are expensive’
The largest says ‘Inflatable frogs face down ICE in Portland’

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 11h

only 44 more...

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

at 15k followers i will cast a curse on donald trump

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 14h

Ah, that would be Nick Clegg, another former British political leader who went to Big Tech after his politics career nosedived.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 17h

First time we watched it and he appeared in the plane my wife and I were both just the DiCaprio pointing at the TV meme.

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Zoë; commissions open! @tankpotzoe.bsky.social · 17h

Out of the woods for a bit but I’d still like to shift this, mainly because I’ve already done a box for a client a few months ago and I’ve not much drive to do one for myself…

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social · 19h

My 12yo has burst 3 pairs of shoes in 2 weeks and now needs both school shoes/boots and trainers immediately. Please buy my books so that I can keep this child shod

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

TINAAAA!!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

It was a statement of fact, not a recommendation!

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

Tyranids can in fact solve all those problems.

They do it in a way that causes very different and even more terminal problems, but those original problems will have been solved!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

Goddammit AB did you short the economy *again?*

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re near Leeds (I’m not, I’m fighting Tyranids in Nottingham) you should definitely go to this.

British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 1d

TONIGHT! LEEDS!
Moderator @katiebruce.bsky.social is joined by SFF writers @aptshadow.bsky.social David Wragg & @rjbarker.bsky.social for Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them at Waterstones, Albion Street. Tix: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

A background of moorland with dry stone walls and a grey, cloudy sky. Pictures of the authors around the outside and their books in the centre. Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Hungry Gods, David Wragg - The Iron Road, RJ Barker - Heart of the Wyrd Wood

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

May I humbly suggest DOA: Dead Or Alive, if you haven’t seen it, which knows exactly how cheesy a movie of a fighting game is, and leans into it *gloriously*. Everyone knows they’re in A Very Silly Movie and balances it just right for maximum entertainment.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Lora Gray @loragray.bsky.social · 1d

Super excited that my poem, “My Love Wails in the Mending” is now out in Strange Horizons!

Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 1d

My Love Wails in the Mending
by Lora Gray @loragray.bsky.social

"her bones wailing low,
her wind in them willows
like a storm a-gathering"

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

POETRY

by Lora Gray
My Love Wails in the Mending

Quote
"her bones wailing low,
her wind in them willows
like a storm a-gathering"

6 October 2025
Strange Horizons

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