Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 49m

Cool, good point

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 50m

OK, thanks!

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1h

Box-set readers, lend me your ears...
Books 2 & 3 in my SciFi trilogy have catch-up intros, in case you've forgotten what happened previously. I don't need those in the box set, right? Or wrong? Guess I can't assume everyone is reading straight through 1200 pages of fabulous SF?
#SciFi #reader

2 2

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 3h

Can confirm – rattling good read, with a kick-ass librarian doing the sleuthing
#BookSky 💙📚

Dave Dobson @davedobson.bsky.social · 18h

My latest is off to a good start on Goodreads.

Review from Goodreads:
Five stars
I spent every idle moment reading this book...it is one of those "impossible to put down".
The story is simply told, and every bit of it so carefully packaged it pulls you in and won't let go. The editing was superb...no misspellings, no extraneous punctuation.
The main character is true to life, sympathetic, as we said in literature class. It is rare to find such a riveting read!

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 4h

You say cloud, I say inter-dimensional war-beast. Start running

1 1

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 14h

Waning Gibbous Moon. 2029UT 8 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Moon at waning gibbous phase on a dark background.

15 63 450

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

termagant @abductedcow.bsky.social · 19h

I feel this amazing news is getting somewhat drowned out by all the noise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

www.bbc.co.uk

1 1

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Feel good scifi with a touch of Red Dwarf humour. I highly recommend his trilogy of Orphan Planet, Twin Landing and Star Bound

Treat yourself. Or don’t, but it’s your loss

🪐📚💙

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

So, this is happening... anyone interested in a complete feelgood SciFi series with bonus short story? Coming very soon to a retailer near you
#SciFi #boxset #newrelease

3D box-set image of the Odyssey Earth series by Rex Burke, featuring three books

1 1 6

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 1d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

26 250 900

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

Going for the David Attenborough Blue Planet-feelgood SciFi crossover crowd, obviously

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

So, this is happening... anyone interested in a complete feelgood SciFi series with bonus short story? Coming very soon to a retailer near you
#SciFi #boxset #newrelease

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, that's kind!

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you kindly! You're always a huge support, much appreciated

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I do NOT write like this! I’m impressed. My chapter notes go, ‘some SciFi stuff here’ and ‘the characters do something’

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

So, this is happening... anyone interested in a complete feelgood SciFi series with bonus short story? Coming very soon to a retailer near you
#SciFi #boxset #newrelease

2 7 6

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

AUDIOBOOK INCOMING! 🎧
Third Loch From the Sun is up for pre-order as an audiobook!

It will be available worldwide (from Quest/WF Howes) on 18 December, and to say I'm excited is to entirely underestimate the giddiness in the Burke household today

#BookSky #Audible #audiobook #SciFi #romcom

Audiobook cover of Third Loch From the Sun by Rex Burke, published by Quest/WF Howes, showing mysterious bubbles in a Scottish loch surrounded by mountains

3 8

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 1d

AUDIOBOOK INCOMING! 🎧
Third Loch From the Sun is up for pre-order as an audiobook!

It will be available worldwide (from Quest/WF Howes) on 18 December, and to say I'm excited is to entirely underestimate the giddiness in the Burke household today

#BookSky #Audible #audiobook #SciFi #romcom

3 8

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 2d

I had to look up 'opprobrium from a gaslit crowd' in the dictionary, and it says, 'booing the shit out of the same old rubbish as last year'.

1

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 2d

Creepy reads for October

Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 2d

👻In September I asked #BookBloggers / #BloggingCommunity for their favourite book to read during #Spooktober! Today I am sharing all those #Recommendations! Come find your next spooky/cozy/scary read!🎃

#Blogging #Halloween #Horror #Books #BookSky📚💙

twirlingbookprincess.com/2025/10/spoo...

Spooktober Recommendations From the Blogger Community

Afternoon all!

twirlingbookprincess.com

1 1 2

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 2d

With book recommendations from @foxesfairytales.bsky.social @beckysbooks.bsky.social @rexburke.bsky.social @thecosymoose.bsky.social @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social @tessahastjarjanto.com @thebacklistbook.bsky.social Thank you all for sending me your recs!

1 5

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 2d

Jilly Cooper is very much the writer we all should aspire to be. She wrote her first book in 1969 and, according to her obituary today, 'lost the manuscript on a London Transport number 22 bus after a very liquid lunch.'
#BookSky #JillyCooper

2

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 4d

The single random shout 2 minutes in! I think this could open an indie folk horror film about a village where things are not as they seem

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 5d

Looks timely

The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 6d

🚨OUT NOW🚨
Space-suit vs Jackboot – Can science fiction save us from fascism? Writer, critic and host of a fascinating online science fiction community @damiengwalter.com discusses the lessons of future oligarchs, space tyrants and cosmic populism with @nndroid.bsky.social 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

1 3

Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 5d

I like to think they’ve returned this one because they’ve spotted two more of mind that they’d rather have. They should be showing up in the chart anytime soon

1

Reposted by Rex Burke is SciFiRex

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 5d

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ebx.sh

5 9