Rhys Hughes
@rhysaurus.bsky.social
Author
Europe / India / Africa
Short Fiction, Novels, Articles, Plays, Poems.
50+ books
1000+ short stories.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Hughes
SFE: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hughes_rhys
Europe / India / Africa
Short Fiction, Novels, Articles, Plays, Poems.
50+ books
1000+ short stories.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Hughes
SFE: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hughes_rhys
Finished writing a new play. Unlike the others, this one isn't intended for performance but only to be read. It is the last part of a new book, IMAGINARY HOTHEADS, which is finished at last. I have a publisher in mind and will write to them later. 'The Cosine Wanderers' is my 35th play :-) #booksky
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Finished writing a new play. Unlike the others, this one isn't intended for performance but only to be read. It is the last part of a new book, IMAGINARY HOTHEADS, which is finished at last. I have a publisher in mind and will write to them later. 'The Cosine Wanderers' is my 35th play :-) #booksky
The ebook is free for another four days from any Amazon outlet. Hundreds of pages of whimsy, invention and fantastical adventure. Look for it if you want it. Don't look for it if you don't :-) #booksky
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The ebook is free for another four days from any Amazon outlet. Hundreds of pages of whimsy, invention and fantastical adventure. Look for it if you want it. Don't look for it if you don't :-) #booksky
Here's an early present for the coming festive season. The ebook edition is free for the next five days, starting right now.
Hundreds of pages of wacky whimsy, excessive exploits, absurd adventures and paradoxical picaresques 🙂 #booksky #books #freebooks #fairytales
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Hundreds of pages of wacky whimsy, excessive exploits, absurd adventures and paradoxical picaresques 🙂 #booksky #books #freebooks #fairytales
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My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales
My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales - Kindle edition by Hughes, Rhys. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Here's an early present for the coming festive season. The ebook edition is free for the next five days, starting right now.
Hundreds of pages of wacky whimsy, excessive exploits, absurd adventures and paradoxical picaresques 🙂 #booksky #books #freebooks #fairytales
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNRTRHBJ
Hundreds of pages of wacky whimsy, excessive exploits, absurd adventures and paradoxical picaresques 🙂 #booksky #books #freebooks #fairytales
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNRTRHBJ
ROBOTS IN LOVE will have a paperback edition soon. At the moment, there is a hardback and an ebook. The paperback edition will cross the great divide between them 🤖🤖 #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ROBOTS IN LOVE will have a paperback edition soon. At the moment, there is a hardback and an ebook. The paperback edition will cross the great divide between them 🤖🤖 #booksky
Well, that was even better than MOLLOY, which is saying a lot. Perhaps the most Kafkaesque thing I have ever read. Incredible prose. I'm not entirely sure how it follows from MOLLOY but I don't think it matters (is Malone what Moran has become or is he Macmann?) Masterful and devastating 🙂 #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Well, that was even better than MOLLOY, which is saying a lot. Perhaps the most Kafkaesque thing I have ever read. Incredible prose. I'm not entirely sure how it follows from MOLLOY but I don't think it matters (is Malone what Moran has become or is he Macmann?) Masterful and devastating 🙂 #booksky
I have been writing poems for Borderless Journal for several years. I reckon that my poem in this month's issue is the best I have published there 🙂 #poetry
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Nomads of the Bone
A Poem Of Unsuccessful Excess Art by Paul Nash (1889-1946) Ogden Nash is the finest.The snobs who dismiss his workare knobs and jerkswhose heads should be examinedand given an F minus.Of his talent…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I have been writing poems for Borderless Journal for several years. I reckon that my poem in this month's issue is the best I have published there 🙂 #poetry
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Maithreyi as Frida Kahlo and me 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Maithreyi as Frida Kahlo and me 🙂
Just received an Introduction by Brian Evenson to my short novel THE UNFAIR DINKUM. I feel incredibly lucky. All three books of my 'Knick Knack Trilogy' now have Introductions and I wish to thank Brian, Michael Moorcock, and Paul Di Filippo for their kindness :-) #booksky
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Just received an Introduction by Brian Evenson to my short novel THE UNFAIR DINKUM. I feel incredibly lucky. All three books of my 'Knick Knack Trilogy' now have Introductions and I wish to thank Brian, Michael Moorcock, and Paul Di Filippo for their kindness :-) #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Maithreyi's poetry collection is now available for pre-order at Waterstones 😊 #booksky
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Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes | Waterstones
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November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Maithreyi's poetry collection is now available for pre-order at Waterstones 😊 #booksky
www.waterstones.com/book/skinny-...
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Exactly one year ago, I received my complimentary copies of this anthology. The book includes my story 'What Actually Happened', written while I was working at the university. It was nice getting paid to write, even though my employers didn't know that's what they were paying me for 😊 #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exactly one year ago, I received my complimentary copies of this anthology. The book includes my story 'What Actually Happened', written while I was working at the university. It was nice getting paid to write, even though my employers didn't know that's what they were paying me for 😊 #booksky
Published one year ago, SECOND HAND HANDS, a collection of fifty stories. To celebrate its first anniversary, the ebook edition is free from any Amazon outlet for the next five days. These stories are mostly very short, and some are flash fictions 😊 #booksky
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Second Hand Hands: offbeat fantasy tales
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November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Published one year ago, SECOND HAND HANDS, a collection of fifty stories. To celebrate its first anniversary, the ebook edition is free from any Amazon outlet for the next five days. These stories are mostly very short, and some are flash fictions 😊 #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM32KX7T
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM32KX7T
Exactly thirty years ago, the very first experimental story I ever wrote was published.
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exactly thirty years ago, the very first experimental story I ever wrote was published.
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I think I am a pretty good writer but when I read books like DHALGREN I tend to think that 'good' isn't so great really. I know this novel evokes mixed responses but for me it's astounding, an utterly mighty masterpiece 😊 #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I think I am a pretty good writer but when I read books like DHALGREN I tend to think that 'good' isn't so great really. I know this novel evokes mixed responses but for me it's astounding, an utterly mighty masterpiece 😊 #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Three free ebooks for you. Free for three days. These two have been offered for free before:
CTHULHU WANTS YOU
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STARFISH WISH
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THE GOLDEN FLEAS
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CTHULHU WANTS YOU
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STARFISH WISH
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And here's one that hasn't been offered before now:
THE GOLDEN FLEAS
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#booksky
Cthulhu Wants You
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November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Three free ebooks for you. Free for three days. These two have been offered for free before:
CTHULHU WANTS YOU
www.amazon.com/dp/B09DB3R1S1
STARFISH WISH
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7PMCXYC
And here's one that hasn't been offered before now:
THE GOLDEN FLEAS
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPNRH4V
#booksky
CTHULHU WANTS YOU
www.amazon.com/dp/B09DB3R1S1
STARFISH WISH
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7PMCXYC
And here's one that hasn't been offered before now:
THE GOLDEN FLEAS
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPNRH4V
#booksky
Exactly 17 years ago, my novel ENGELBRECHT AGAIN was published. It was the first novel I ever wrote. It concerns the further adventures of the dwarf surrealist boxer invented in the 1940s by Maurice Richardson. The book includes an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer 😊 #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Exactly 17 years ago, my novel ENGELBRECHT AGAIN was published. It was the first novel I ever wrote. It concerns the further adventures of the dwarf surrealist boxer invented in the 1940s by Maurice Richardson. The book includes an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer 😊 #booksky
First day of November, therefore it's time to start reading a new book. Recently I read MOLLOY and thought it was excellent, so now I am launching into the second volume of his loose 'trilogy' and I'm delighted to be doing so ☺️ #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
First day of November, therefore it's time to start reading a new book. Recently I read MOLLOY and thought it was excellent, so now I am launching into the second volume of his loose 'trilogy' and I'm delighted to be doing so ☺️ #booksky
FB Memories tells me that exactly two years ago, I finished writing this book, published earlier this year by @elsewhen.press. This is one of my books that needs more love. In my opinion, THE DEVIL'S HALO is my best fantasy novel :-) 💀👻 #booksky #fantasy #fiction #novels #ghosts #demons
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am the Great Teapot. "Dunk what thou wilt shall be the whole of the biscuit." #Halloween #Crowley #chaos #tea
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I am the Great Teapot. "Dunk what thou wilt shall be the whole of the biscuit." #Halloween #Crowley #chaos #tea
THE GHOST LOSER is still a free ebook. You have today and tomorrow to download it and enjoy the spooky misadventures of Clumsy Carnacki, the incompetent son of the famous occult detective 💀👻👻💀 #booksky #Halloween #freebooks #ghosts
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The Ghost Loser: The Misadventures of Clumsy Carnacki
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October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
THE GHOST LOSER is still a free ebook. You have today and tomorrow to download it and enjoy the spooky misadventures of Clumsy Carnacki, the incompetent son of the famous occult detective 💀👻👻💀 #booksky #Halloween #freebooks #ghosts
www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWYNTFM
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To celebrate the fact I live in the village that William Hope Hodgson lived in, and also to pay my respects to Halloween, I have made THE GHOST LOSER a free ebook for the next five days. This is the link to Amazon US but the book is available on all Amazons 🙂 #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWYNTFM
www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWYNTFM
The Ghost Loser: The Misadventures of Clumsy Carnacki
Amazon.com: The Ghost Loser: The Misadventures of Clumsy Carnacki eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store
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October 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
To celebrate the fact I live in the village that William Hope Hodgson lived in, and also to pay my respects to Halloween, I have made THE GHOST LOSER a free ebook for the next five days. This is the link to Amazon US but the book is available on all Amazons 🙂 #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWYNTFM
www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWYNTFM