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Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social · 2h

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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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 3h

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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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 6h

The UK edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM is out today! I loved working on this novel about how to remain human in the age of ubiquitous AI. Readers in the UK can pick it up wherever you prefer to get your books. @headofzeus.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/all-that-...

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 4h

I‘m sure many here will be familiar with the ‘Outlaw Bookseller’ channel, but if not here‘s a wonderful place to start - a heartfelt and very erudite reflection on 25 books which have brought many hours of reading joy…
m.youtube.com/watch?v=b9nT...

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 6h

Didn't get going on this when I expected so am about half way in. Was also a slow start but have settled in now. Has a dreamlike, unsettling mood which is a bit reminiscent to me of Christopher Priest's writing. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 6d

on to this next by the author of In Ascension, a book I very much enjoyed last year. Gathering Evidence is set among one of the last troops of bonobo chimps that are behaving oddly. The scientists are soon under threat from unexpected directions. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 17h

Both I have, both I am yet to read. I've enjoyed what I have read of both authors too.

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Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI. Today is the last day to get the ebook edition of EDGES (Inverted Frontier #1) for just 99 cents!

Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 1d

Book promo post:
Right now, the ebook edition of EDGES (arguably my most popular novel) is on sale for the "why not take a chance" price of 99¢🎉🚀! EDGES is a far-future, space-faring, nanotech-drenched adventure. Links and info at my website: mythicisland.com/inverted_fro...
#sciencefiction #scifi

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 1d

We still have copies of our first letterpress project, a gorgeous signed limited edition of Ted Chiang's classic novella, Story of Your Life. Full details and snag yours: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Announcing the Signed, Letterpress Edition of STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Ted Chiang

We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.  Copies of the signed, limit...

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 21h

Nah man, Comets shut years ago, so did Dixons. Have to go to Currys now. 😀

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear. Next time!

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

A day in court today*. That'll be fun. Not.

*work related. The cops haven't caught up with me yet for including a fantasy book on my sci-fi TBR for this month.

a minion wearing a wig and goggles holds a gavel in front of a green door

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Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 1d

Book promo post:
Right now, the ebook edition of EDGES (arguably my most popular novel) is on sale for the "why not take a chance" price of 99¢🎉🚀! EDGES is a far-future, space-faring, nanotech-drenched adventure. Links and info at my website: mythicisland.com/inverted_fro...
#sciencefiction #scifi

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

No, Pete Buttigieg just pops up in my YouTube feed from time to time.

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Hate it when that happens.

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

I could listen to Mayor Pete all day. Please can we have him instead please thank you murica.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

It's only prudent.

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woody from toy story is sitting on a shelf looking at a book that says 1984

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Finished this earlier on. Some Pullman-esque fantastical elements but realistically embedded in a version of Jo'burg. Enjoyed the local flavours, the language, the colour, the strangeness, the main character. Wasn't sure where it was going but then it did go and in tense and chaotic fashion! 🪐📚

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 7d

Morning! This next on audiobook, Zoo City. Some people, the 'animaled', have familiars that go with them everywhere. They are discriminated against, but have compensating...abilities. Set in a slum in Jo'burg. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute Zero

If you're suffering from the summer swelter, you might like me be slightly guiltily looking forward to the winter. Well, I have good news. Absolute Zero, a new anthology of cold-themed horror fiction is just around the corner, and I have grim little story in there called The Cold…

Absolute Zero

If you're suffering from the summer swelter, you might like me be slightly guiltily looking forward to the winter. Well, I have good news. Absolute Zero, a new anthology of cold-themed horror fiction is just around the corner, and I have grim little story in there called The Cold Case. The Cold Case is set in Glasgow in 1960 during a period when Scotland was moving away from post-war gloom and starting to embrace modernity. Trolley buses had replaced trams and would all too soon be replaced themselves by the iconic Corporation buses.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

Think I'll content myself with gradually accumulating the 70s NEL pbks with the Pennington covers. I have 5, I think.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh they look nice. Not cheap.

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Soon to be bought…

The Edgar Rice Burroughs authorised editions of the first five John Carter of Mars novels, with Joe Jusko covers

🪐📚💙

edgarriceburroughs.com/store/produc...

Princess of Mars
Gods of Mars
Warlord of Mars
Thuvia, maid of Mars
The chessmen of Mars

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

Spammers gonna spam.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

I get them frequently and I have patently not written a book, nor am I ever likely to.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

MIT researchers have re-engineered CRISPR’s “prime editors” to slash one of their biggest problems: random DNA errors. The result is a new family of editors that keep efficiency while cutting indel errors up to 60-fold. buff.ly/5zaa88B
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Engineered prime editors with minimal genomic errors - Nature

Engineered prime editor systems with reduced occurrences of unwanted insertions or deletions during genome editing are developed.

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