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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1h

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. buff.ly/JXM4dIv
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Paris Agreement at ten – ‘brakes slammed on’ emissions growth, finds…

Annual increase slowed fivefold to just 0.32% since agreement signed

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1h

In my 100 Years of Space Opera video research, I'm heading into the 1990s, where 🇬🇧 space opera is finally emerging from its New Wave enforced cold-sleep. Carrying some influences from the bracing gloom of New Wave, Greenland also injects some joy back in. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #spaceopera

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Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 2h

Just watched THE LIBRARIANS from BBC4 & on iPlayer.
WOW!
Horrifying, shocking & ultimately hopeful story about US librarians fighting against book-banning by some warped, fascist & hate-fuelled crackpots.
If you care about freedom - and saving the *ideas* within books - watch it!
#TheLibrarians

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 2h

OUT NOW - @edashtonwriting.bsky.social's THE FOURTH CONSORT!

A new, darkly comic, standalone, SciFi novel from from the author of #MICKEY7 - the book behind major new motion picture #mickey17, starring #robertpattinson and directed by #bongjoonho!

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 21h

Among other things, I take a look at Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, I yap on about some potential changes to the channel, I take a look ahead and more besides. Check it out 👀!
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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Science Fiction Reading Update - Zoo City by Lauren Beukes + October Book Haul Tease

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Classic SF with Andy Johnson @andyjohnson.xyz · 19h

Written by "Murray Constantine" (Katharine Burdekin) and published in 1937, Swastika Night is a terrifying vision of a far-future fascist dystopia, and a novel which is troublingly relevant today. This week's article is here.

Reign of evil: Swastika Night (1937) by Murray Constantine

An extraordinary and “exceptionally nightmarish” dystopian vision

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Paul Franklin @paulfranklin.bsky.social · 19h

Starburst, Omni, Science Fiction Monthly, + the occasional issue of Interzone kept me going. This cover was painted by an art teacher at my brother’s school in the 80s :-)

A man in blue grey space armour stands in front of an exploding black and yellow space ship

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SCIFI.radio @scifi.radio · 21h

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two of them).

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 20h

Flood insurance is problematic though!

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 21h

Doggerland, innit.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 21h

Among other things, I take a look at Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, I yap on about some potential changes to the channel, I take a look ahead and more besides. Check it out 👀!
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/vJK3-1_4mCE

Science Fiction Reading Update - Zoo City by Lauren Beukes + October Book Haul Tease

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 1d

On the flesh easting scarabs from the 1999 film The Mummy

"I like a film that has good acting roles for insects" @aptshadow.bsky.social

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Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck!

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh very good to hear the outlook is fine. All the best with your continued recovery and treatment. Be good to yourself.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

I shall be cancelling my Amazon Primm subscription forthwith.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to part 2!

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

This is nice. Tell your friends and remind your enemies.

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50% OFF The Mercy of Gods

From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series. HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CAL...

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

That seller has a fantastic collection (that he bought in bulk) that he is busy selling book by book.

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

There was a mint copy of Player of Games for sale on ebay recently, I thought I might bid on it but it went for hundreds in the end. Loads of folks fighting over it.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I got them (Folio) for xmas a couple of years running, just on the basis I was unlikely ever to snag a 1st ed hardback of those two books. They go for da big bucks.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

Shelf 48 of my science fiction library. Plenty o' Banks, the Zones of Thought and a recent two-fer by MR Carey. 🪐📚💙 #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting

Books by Iain Banks with and without M, Vernor Vinge and MR Carey.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Good!

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

My son decided he wanted to play double bass at age 7. They kept getting bigger and bigger.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 2d

Just sent the new book off to my publisher, and my poor, banged-up old desk is much lighter all of a sudden. Can’t say much about the new one just yet, but I’ve been working on it since 2021 and it’s unrelated to the Immeasurable Heaven. Equally weird, though, possibly even weirder…

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