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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

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · Jun 13

Shoreline of Infinity 39 is available this very moment.

www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor...

In paperback, PDF and ebook formats.

Includes Dark Matter by Caitriana NicNeacail, the winning story of our @cymerafestival.co.uk / Shoreline of Infinity short story competition

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 20h

stop thinking right now

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Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social · 3d

I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · 2d

I want to move to Seattle so I can call myself a Seattleite.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 3d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 3d

Pun of the day.

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · 4d

Pay attention, everyone.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 4d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com · 7d

YES you are outsourcing your brain, you are outsourcing your motherfucking SOUL.

As soon as you delegate a skill to AI, you condemn future you from EVER being able to learn that skill, all because you’re lazy or afraid at being bad at something. Sad and pathetic.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 7d

Not long to wait now. The new Green Man book will be available on October 30th. Pre-order now: wizardstowerpress.co...

Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · 11d

It's good to see all the entries coming in for our Flash Fiction competition.

www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fictio...
The theme is

peace

and you have just a few hours left to go to the deadline.

Can't wait to read them all.

Flash Fiction Competition for Shoreline of Infinity 2025 – Shoreline of Infinity

It’s back! We return with our summer holiday project where we ask you to write a short science fiction story up to a 1,000 words long. This year’s theme is...

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 11d

Been thinking about Jeannette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun and how it's one of the few books that makes the fae as sinister and horrifying as they deserve to be. An under-read dark fantasy gothic masterpiece.

Cover of Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng, showing a fae queen looming over gothic spires.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25d

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
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Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 12d

This is why I never invite Sam to stay in my house.

Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 13d

From the diary of Samuel Pepys today in 1665

So I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again.

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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · 13d

If you are reading this, then I have committed website

If you are reading this, then I have committed website — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer

I went and had coffee with an editor the other week. That isn’t something that happens often - I think it is possibly the first time I’ve been in the same timezone as one of my editors. He gave me s...

www.louisinglishall.com

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · 13d

That is pretty much how we did it.

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Michael Teasdale @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social · 17d

Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.

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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · Aug 31

In sentences I never expected to type: my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents’ has received an award from the Numismatic Literary Guild at the World’s Fair of Money.

Full details here:

nlgonline.org/news/numisma...

Numismatic Writers, Content Creators, Authors and Designers Honored at 2025 Numismatic Literary Guild Awards | Numismatic Literary Guild

Each year, the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), founded in 1968, hosts its annual awards competition, held in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. This year’s ...

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Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social · 19d

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest

The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your…

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest

The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your tickets, it's not too late. Buy them from the website to make sure you don't miss out - see link below. Or you can buy at the door on the day.

portobellobookblog.com

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22d

An Infusiast

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Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals.

Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 25d

⛓️‍💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐

Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI.

Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM!

www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 24d

Deffo Troughton.

Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 25d

I preferred it when he just fought daleks

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 26d

Welcome to the world of Locus Magazine, where your dreams of being first to know everything about sci-fi come true.

Grab a subscription to be first on the scene for new science fiction, fantasy, & horror books. Reviews, news, interviews, and more!

www.locusmag.com

locus cover art of two figures facing away from eachother and geometric lines

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Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social · 25d

No you’re not!

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 26d

Well that didn't go where I was expecting! Connections to a very well known vintage sf tale within. Enjoyed that. @amendlocke.bsky.social always does a nice job with his imagined future geopolitics. It's the future, but you couldn't get there from here.

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 27d

Morning peeps. On to this next, a cheery post 9-11 tale of nuclear terrorism (or is it?), conspiracy, surveillance, espionage, infowar & manipulation. Written almost 20 years ago, it resonates now a lot more than you'd like. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

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