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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 3d

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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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 9d

Very kind quote just in from @realjacksonford.bsky.social :)

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#booksky

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Next week, 7pm 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!

Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 19d

Starting on some illustrated editions of the Immeasurable Heaven for an upcoming giveaway, probably around the middle of next month to coincide with the Australian release.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 19d

Fun evening teaching part 2 of my extreme worldbuilding workshop with @rookeryp.bsky.social, this time focussing on essentials like the Kardashev scale, Lindor chocolate balls, & why the horny robots hate the poo moon pirates. Pop along for part 3 if you fancy building an alien world from scratch.

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Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · 22d

If you missed the first part of the extreme wildcard Worldbuilding workshop @tomtoner.bsky.social did with us, here's a blog with all the deets:

www.patreon.com/posts/139328...

Join us in a few hours for part 2:
7pm UK / 2pm PT / 11am ET

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 24d

The praise for @caspargeon.bsky.social 's THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN is, well, immeasurable!

Fancy a wildly imaginative scifi novel like no other with an entirely alien cast?

Here's why @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & co think you would enjoy it!

Buy now: geni.us/immeasurable

A 3D Copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon surrounded by white text:

“Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative, and wholly satisfying.” — Gareth L Powell

“Wildly, explosively imaginative, The Immeasurable Heaven is a feast of a book: among the most original science fiction I've read in years.” —Stark Holborn

“The intrigue, character, humour, plot, world building, and sheer breadth of imagination, makes The Immeasurable Heaven a truly exceptional piece of Sci-Fi. The best and most original book I’ve read in years” —Ed Cox, author of the Relic Guild trilogy and The Wood Bee Queen

“An absolutely wild ride through a formidably original universe, filled with the bizarre and phantasmagorical.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky

“If you're the sort of person who likes to have your brain bent in the best possible way, you really need to give this a read. This book is a wild ride, and I promise you won't regret it.” —Ed Ashton, author of Mickey7

“Escape from mundane reality to this slice of epic, bold, multiversal, sci-fi heaven.” —Eeleen Lee

“One of the widest canvases I’ve ever read in an SFF novel... An experience like few others, in a setting completely alien to our own.” —Nerds of a Feather

“You’re not ready for this book. The Immeasurable Heaven is a stunning ode to the weirdness living inside us that’s just waiting to be discovered, one layer at a time. To say this book is inventive is like saying the Mona Lisa is a portrait. It’s true, but it doesn’t really scratch the surface. Caspar Geon has thrown restraint out of the window. There’s more imagination in some of the sentences of this novel than there are in entire books.” – FanFiAddict

“A wordsmith without peer… (a) startling, unpredictable and croggling freshness of imagery and action, Geon/Toner’s new book is like the treasures of a thousand thousand phaslairs.” — Locus

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Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · 27d

Ca-caw! It's time to get extremely creative!

This Saturday @tomtoner.bsky.social (aka @caspargeon.bsky.social) is coming on to continue his madcap inventiveness in a follow up Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop, aka EWWW2: Exo-Planet Boogaloo!

Saturday 20th Sept
7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 29d

Bought a lovely 18th century print at Bath market this morning of something that I don’t think exists yet, chilling out in the ruins of civilisation millions of years hence

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · Sep 12

This repost is, theoretically, against the law as I haven't read it yet. But, being 2/3rds of the way through Tom/Caspar's Amaranthine Trilogy, I can confidently deduce that this book will be utterly bloody marvellous.

Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Due to a warehouse problem around launch time, the Immeasurable Heaven won’t be stocked in any Waterstones for the foreseeable future.

I’ve compiled a headache-inducing pile of nice blurbs and would be so grateful if anyone who enjoyed my weird non-human book could reshare.

Thank you!

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Due to a warehouse problem around launch time, the Immeasurable Heaven won’t be stocked in any Waterstones for the foreseeable future.

I’ve compiled a headache-inducing pile of nice blurbs and would be so grateful if anyone who enjoyed my weird non-human book could reshare.

Thank you!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to @voidcricket.bsky.social 's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD!

🚀“Hutchings is a bright light in space opera.” — Bethany Jacobs
🌠“Unmissable. Ren Hutchings is on my must-read list.” @garethlpowell.bsky.social

Buy now geni.us/unbrw

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · Sep 10

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk

huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it.

a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall

a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside.

a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 10

Apparently the Immeasurable Heaven comes out in Australia next month (fair dinkum), so more random sketches of the inhabitants of Yokkun’s Depth incoming daily to celebrate.

Here’s a bellower (key for a tongue), a tootlebeast & its marvellous sled.

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#spaceopera #SFbooks

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lovely big cloud mountains over my veggie patch this afternoon

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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · Sep 9

"It's powerful, concentrated and enthralling, a book to be inhaled as much as read, and then to be considered and turned over after."
🙏🙏

David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · Sep 9

New #review - For the Road by @starkholborn.bsky.social. Very grateful to the author for a copy of this gritty, myth-haunted weird Western fantasy, a young man faces truths and consequences. An absorbing read. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Cover of book “For the Road” by Stark Holborn. A right hand held up with a heart in its palm. Wrapped around it, an infinity of looped railway track.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Working on my most frustrating book yet. Thought I’d finished after 3 drafts in 2023, then took it back to the drawing board with a big rewrite in 2024. Now realise I haven’t understood it at all. In 2026 I’ll see that I’ve got it wrong again, and in 2027 I’ll realise it was correct the first time.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Found a sketch I must have done years ago of Scallywag the Cethegrande (from my third book, the Tropic of Eternity) in his fancy translucent armour. I’d forgotten how weird that book was.

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Damn fine new bookery from my old pal @starkholborn.bsky.social, luckily my Desert Madness has just cleared up after reading Ten Low

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks again to @frasierarmitage.bsky.social at FanFiAddict for this very kind review for Immeasurable Heaven

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#booksky📚💙🪐

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

Out now: THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, @caspargeon.bsky.social 's reality-bending SciFi that reads like a fable from another galaxy, and features an entirely non-human cast!

“Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social

Buy geni.us/immeasurable

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Immeasurable Heaven has been out one month today, and I wanted to say a huge thank you for the support & love my weird tale from another galaxy has had so far.

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
@locusmag.bsky.social
@aptshadow.bsky.social
@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social
@frasierarmitage.bsky.social

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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · Aug 17

Another fun Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop last night with the @rookeryp.bsky.social , taught from my boiling hot spare room. Some good notes, including ‘space sepsis’, ‘accidentally horny’, and (my personal favourite) ‘what happens if it farts’.

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Andy Leask @andyleask.bsky.social · Aug 16

This was a hoot! @tomtoner.bsky.social was great as always and the chat brought tons of brilliant ideas to bear. It's available to watch now, check it out. We're planning a part two, and I'm also thinking about how to adapt it for school...

Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today's interactive world building workshop with @tomtoner.bsky.social will be wildly imaginative and loads of fun!

7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT

youtube.com/live/Vrc8zEf...

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Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop, with Tom Toner (ItR Special Episode 10:2)

Join us Inside the Rookery with for a special worldbuilding workshop with author Tom Toner. For more on his most recent book, check here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Immeasurable-Hea...

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Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today's interactive world building workshop with @tomtoner.bsky.social will be wildly imaginative and loads of fun!

7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT

youtube.com/live/Vrc8zEf...

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Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop, with Tom Toner (ItR Special Episode 10:2)

Join us Inside the Rookery with for a special worldbuilding workshop with author Tom Toner. For more on his most recent book, check here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Immeasurable-Hea...

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