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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · 25d

I have a very strong memory of D&D being banned in Inverness at some point in the 1980s because of the Satanic Panic but I can find nothing online about it. Can anyone else remember anything about this? Points if you know of any sources on the matter.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Jul 15

That’s a great book.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some gorgeous #BookPost - coming this November is this exciting science fiction novel Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston - thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

PROJECT
HANUMAN
A NOVEL

STEWART HOTSTON

Cover shows a murky glowing green space scene

BLENDING INDIAN MYTHOLOGY AND CLASSIC SPACE OPERA, A BOLD NEW SF NOVEL, PERFECT FOR FANS OF ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY.
The Arcology: a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online, forever and in bliss.
But tired of paradise, Praveenthi "Prab' Saal has had herself : printed into the physical world of Sirajah's Reach, working as an Interlocutor - a go between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood. Then one evening Sirajah's Reach stops, goes dark; the links to the Arcology cut.
In the midst of the terror Prab receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical. They discover that the entire Arcology is missing. If they don't find out what's going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.
Their only resource is their living ship, carrying all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology. But this nameless is dying - slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it's been asked to hold
Was the Arcology attacked? What could possibly have overwhelmed sométhing so vast? Prab, Kercher and the ship embark on a quest to save the Arcology and find hope in their lives.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Jul 10

It's Poppy Hedgepig.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today's typo: ...an expression on his face as though he really hadn’t liked the taste of the last think he’d eater.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Jun 30

Some holiday reading with @sarahpinborough.bsky.social

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Jun 19

For any SFFers in Somerset, @starkholborn.bsky.social & I will be in conversation at @mrbsemporium.bsky.social, Bath’s loveliest bookshop, on July 17th.

Join us for a glass of wine, a nice sit down, & potentially some vaguely sci-fi discussion

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
@titanbooks.bsky.social

Join Stark Holborn and Caspar Geon in conversation at Mr B’s in Bath, July 17th, 6.30pm

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Jun 3

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

www.newyorker.com

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Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social · Jun 3

Out on thursday in the UK;-)

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · May 8

I’m here for you, like a sad-angry monkey.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · May 8

I can do this, doesn’t even have to be pinballs.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · May 8

I'm a little bit late to this as ever but here is the first chapter of Alien: Cult, out later this year!

Alien vs. Predator Galaxy @avpgalaxy.bsky.social · May 3

#ICYMI Alien vs. Predator Galaxy exclusively released the first chapter of Titan Books & Gavin G Smith's upcoming novel Alien: Cult as part of our #AlienDay celebrations! #Alien #Aliens #AlienRomulus #AlienEarth #Xenomorph #AlienvsPredator #AliensvsPredator www.avpgalaxy.net/2025/04/26/e...

[Exclusive] Read The First Chapter of Gavin G. Smith’s Alien: Cult! - Alien vs. Predator Galaxy

The staff at Alien vs. Predator Galaxy's headquarters arrived to a mysterious package this morning. There were no sender details. Just a warning about a strange religion taking hold within the streets...

www.avpgalaxy.net

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · May 2

I thought Sutcliff was the immortal Boudicca's pen-name. (Sutcliff.)

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · May 2

She was born in the same village as my (not-so) local, we're going there this evening.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · May 2

First copies are here!!!

My kitchen table, with a box of copies of VIANNE…

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · Apr 25

Since it's Friday, does anyone fancy a promo code for the audiobook of FALLING DARK? I have a couple to give away! Retweet and comment if you do and I'll DM you.

Details of the book in the link:

www.amazon.co.uk/Falling-Dark...

cover art for Falling Dark by Tom Lloyd - a derelict spaceship hanging in space before a greenish gas giant.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 25

According to autocorrect the people of East Germany drove Treants.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 22

Well, well it would appear that @tadethompson.bsky.social has done Doctor Who (not rhyming slang): cultbox.co.uk/news/two-new...

I can reveal (I think) that I have read it and it is much goodness!

Two new Doctor Who Icons books coming this summer

Two more books in Penguin's Doctor Who Icons range are coming. One features writer Shirley Jackson, while other stars musician Fela Kuti.

cultbox.co.uk

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 7

I mean I understood some of it.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 5

Today’s films, my two favourite Kilmer performances, Tombstone and Heat.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 2

Are we urinating on the jellyfish or the sting? If the former, are we telling them its raining? You know who we haven't heard from on this medical matter. Our (goth) medical expert @rjbarker.bsky.social.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations on becoming painfully woke.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 1

Not to snake bites, unless it's the same solution. Drink heavily to kill the venom, ideally single malt but a stirred dry gin martini in an emergency? That's what I took from this, anyway.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 1

@edwardcox.bsky.social Tade it literally sucking the joy out of snake bites.

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gavingsmith.bsky.social @gavingsmith.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tade, we need solutions, not more problems.

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