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Scottish/ Australian SF author. The End Times of Markusz Zielinski. The Lenticular Series. Horizon. Here for a chat but no DMs please. www.keithstevenson.com https://linktr.ee/keithstevenson

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

Hope is punk rock. 🚀📚
#EndTimesMZ purchase links: storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 4m

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert share.google/piVHT3VfaqQh...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 5h

Not yet sorry! But all the voices are in my head 😁. I'll be recording it later this year so it will be out as an audiobook mid next year, For news about End Times and discounts on that and other coeur de lion books you can subscribe to Beyond Newsletter dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/636750...

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 16h

2000 AD Prog 2453 is Out Now!

Featuring Judge Dredd, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, Void Runners, Rogue Trooper and more!

See inside & buy bit.ly/4gLKeVx
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Get cover prints bit.ly/3Ek

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 21h

Hope is punk rock.
Purchase links - storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

The End Times of Markusz Zielinski

Sci-Fi | Adventure | Action | Dystopian

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 21h

Meet the cast of The End Times of Markusz Zielinski
(part 2) 📚🪐
see thread for purchase links

Hugo Denantes (Paul Giamati) - If Fontaneau is a threat hidden in plain sight, Denantes is just an obvious threat. Youngest son of the Great Paradisan Family of Denantes, he’s lucky to have escaped being disowned, his peccadillos and excesses are so disgusting. Instead, he’s been sent to represent the family business, Fabrika SA, as part of the Redout Project. This is probably a bad thing for everyone involved (and whatever remains of humanity).

Elly Capalian (India Amarteifio) - When she was just nine years old, Elly’s parents were killed while peacefully protesting the destruction of significant historical Garian sites as part of the Redout Project redevelopment. She’s tried not to let hatred of incomers overwhelm her, but as a member of the Garian Separatists she’s killed more than a few of them.

Marthe Firmin (Clare Perkins) - Mayor of the planet Garia, Firmin has seen her entire society sidelined by the initiation of the Redout Project and her people’s culture and public spaces knocked down and reshaped by an overwhelming torrent of incomers. She’s angry and resentful, but she’s biding her time. There is a disaster coming and her all-consuming focus is in making sure her people, above all the others languishing on Redout, are safest of all.

Kelan Teel (Rhys Ifans) - A mediocre scientist – if you listen to Markusz – but at heart and according to Helena (who knows him best of all) – a political animal with all the survival instincts of a rat. Teel has been chief scientist of the CSTO Task Force on the Effect for the last eighteen years (mainly because no-one else wanted a job that seemed doomed to failure), but like any rat, he’s determined to carve out a niche to survive in, no matter where he ends up, and screw anyone else.

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 21h

Try a hopeful apocalypse for a change.
Purchase links - storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

The End Times of Markusz Zielinski

Sci-Fi | Adventure | Action | Dystopian

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 21h

Meet the cast of The End Times of Markusz Zielinski
(part 1) 📚🪐
See thread for purchase links

Markusz Zielinski (Tom Hiddleston) - A casual observer would opine that Markusz thinks a lot of himself. It’s an observation Markusz would agree with while pointing out that such high self-regard is entirely justified as he is not only a proven (and verified) mathematical genius but was instrumental in developing the only known method of saving the universe. The same observer would also note that Markusz loves his wife Helena deeply. Markusz would again agree. She makes him a better person.

Helena Murchadh (Tuppence Middleton) - A brilliant applied mathematician, physicist and engineer, Helena rose quicky through the ranks of the M-Worlds Cooperative Sciences and Technology Organisation to become Chief Engineer for the CSTO Task Force on the Effect. Noted for her significant work in identifying the anisotropic nexus of Effect events, she also works closely with Markusz Zielinski, who she fell in love with, despite his ability to annoy the hell out of everyone else on the Task Force. She was the only one to see his potential and it was their collaboration which laid the foundations for the annulus.

Sylfe Cachand (Clemence Poesy) - Sylfe, like her younger sister Yvette, was born through parthenogenesis. Her mother told her at an early age to, ‘respect herself and not be boring’. She’s determined not to be the stereotypical head of a Paradisan company (she heads up SolEng SA, which specialises in stellar engineering for M-Worlds), or a stereotypical anything for that matter. She has a deep understanding of stellar physics, a keen head for business and anyone who crosses her will live to regret it. But other than that, anything goes. The average and normal bores her – in herself as much as in others.

Ernes Fontaneau (John Noble) - Patri of one of the oldest Great Paradisan Families, Fontaneau is a dangerous sociopath. Our same casual observer who had such a negative opinion of Markusz Zielinski, would instead by completely drawn in by Fontaneau’s apparent affable and warm demeanour. But our observer would be a fool – and in some degree of danger having let his guard down around this man. According to Sylfe, Fontaneau wouldn’t know a genuine emotion if it bit him. He is cold, calculating and more than a little dead inside. He may convince you a particular course of action is for the greater good, but really everything he does is for the furtherance of himself alone and if you happen to be in the way, well… it’s been nice knowing you.

Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

SBS in Australia 😄

Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

Shout out to the best TV drama you've never seen.
Think 'Better Call Saul' but Scottish.
Each season is impeccable.

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

Hope is punk rock. 🚀📚
#EndTimesMZ purchase links: storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

But you can't know which three.

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 1d

Physics Nobel prize awarded to three quantum physicists. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Physics Nobel prize awarded to three quantum physicists

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matt Ferguson @mattferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Predator Badlands.

I’m beyond excited to share the payoff poster for the movie. Designed and illustrated by me!

@dannytrs & @20thcenturystudios having me back to work on this poster was a dream come true.

I went full on days of high adventure with this poster!

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

Thank you. I think it is 😊

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 1d

Just received author’s copies of this translation of “The Clockwork Rocket” [Book One of the Orthogonal Trilogy] from Explorer Books, a Russian-language publisher in the Netherlands.

Explorer Books: explorerbooks.org/product/cloc...

About the Orthogonal Trilogy:
www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/O...

Photo of front cover and spine of Russian translation of “The Clockwork Rocket”, showing a rocket engine firing against a backdrop of colour-trails of stars.

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 1d

Hope is punk rock. 🚀📚
#EndTimesMZ purchase links: storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Conflux was a blast! 📚 🚀 🐉 👻 So excited and honoured to win a Ditmar Award in the Artwork category on Sunday night for my cover art for Jessica Nirvana Ram’s incredible poetry collection “in the aftermath” (fifth wheel press). 💛 “Straight to the pool room” as KA Burgess said!

Conflux book haul including DROWNING IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES by Matt Tighe, ROBOT HEARTS by Donna Maree Hanson, LOKI: UNTANGLING A TALE by Leanbh Pearson, THE CURIOUS CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Stephen Herczeg, the Conflux 19: Brave New Worlds convention magazine, a nametag reading C.H. Pearce, a Ditmar Award for Best Professional Artwork, business cards for Scott Steensma and Narratives Library, a bookmark for NEVER SAY DIE anthology launch

In the Aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram (fifth wheel press)

Forever Young (writing characters of all ages) panel at Conflux 19 with Matt Tighe, C.H. Pearce, Lauren Elise Daniels, Craig Cormick, and Zena Shapter (photo by Scott Steensma)

Matt Tighe and C.Z. Tacks at Conflux closing ceremony

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

Last week, I shared an article about why Military Occupation can't happen in the U.S. - written by former DOD.

But Cy Canterel goes one step further to argue that even TRYING military occupation during a simultaneous economic crisis would expedite regime collapse.

This links to my article below 🧵👇🏼

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 2d

theintercept.com/2025/10/03/c...

Only a Billionaire Could Look at Network TV News and Say: We Need More Bari Weiss

Billionaire David Ellison installed conservative ideologue Bari Weiss atop CBS News, dropping any pretense of independence at the network.

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 3d

Yes, I can't wait for S3 of #TheRingsOfPower 😍
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rings of Power crew captured filming on the scenic Dorset coast

Crews and actors were seen filming season three of the show at Portland Bill on Thursday.

www.bbc.com

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 4d

October's Starship Alexandria will look at Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future", and our patron bonus episode will be the 1999 film "The Mummy."

Paul (he/him) @peck7235.bsky.social · 4d

I've loved 'Battle Beyond The Stars' since I first saw it as a teenager, so I'm very much with @aptshadow.bsky.social in this podcast
Listening to @emmanewman.bsky.social try to come to terms with the completely mad choices made by this film has had me crying with laughter 😂

pca.st/episode/6867...

Screen grab for the podcast Starship Alexandria - Episode 6: Battle Beyond the Stars

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Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 3d

Well don't leave us hanging!

Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com · 4d

Day 2 of #conflux19 in Canberra and we are ready to sell more books!

If you can't make it, see the coeur de lion online shop for instant downloads on ebooks and paperbacks. We ship everywhere ( zero tariffs guaranteed 😁) payhip.com/coeurdelion

Books for sale at the coeur de lion table at Conflux 19 in Canberra

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 6d

Tuesday, Canberra!

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BOOK LAUNCH:
HONEYEATER
BY KATHLEEN JENNINGS, IN
CONVERSATION WITH BARBIE ROBINSON
Join us at The Book Cow as we celebrate the launch of Kathleen Jennings' second novel, Honeyeater.
Kathleen will be joined in conversation around her new release, described as a
'richly imagined dark fantasy'.
7TH OCTOBER - 6.00PM
FREE BUT BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
THE BOOK COW BOOKSHOP
47 JARDINE STREET, KINGSTON

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