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Simon Spanton

@simonguy.bsky.social

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"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · Nov 26

"Out on the pale criss-crossed sand, high-stepping, fringed, gauntleted, stalked some fantastic leviathan..."

To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 4h

Well this is amazing.

A photo of the CD case for Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión Segun San Marcos. The cover features a man in a white top with an embroidered top standing with arms spread wide against a black background.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 8h

You are, after all, only human.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 8h

Next time you're on Scotland you could always confront him about it in person. I'm sure he would be suitably abashed.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 9h

"Cecilia on one certain day
She dressed herself in man's array
With a brace of pistols all by her side
To meet her true love, to meet her true love
To meet her true love away did ride."

A photo of a copy of the 2014 Penguin Classics edition of The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, edited by Steve Roud and Julia Bishop. The cover art, Stallion and Groom, is by C.F. Tunnicliffe.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 9h

Also if you time it well enough and jump up just before it hits you'd almost certainly be fine...

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 9h

"I have Starfleet on the communicator, Captain."

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 9h

He knows it, and that we are in thrall to him.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 10h

Oh for goodness' sake...

A photo of golden roan working cocker-spaniel lying on a grey blanket on a bed, his head is resting on a soft toy of a highland cow. A bookshelf and window with a blind behind.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 11h

Semper Feed.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 11h

"Open the Tony Hatch, HAL."
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12h

"You're a mythago. I made you. My dreams made you. Like the journal said..."

A photo of copies of the 1986 Grafton paperback of Mythago Wood, the 1990 Grafton paperback of Lavondyss and the 1994 Grafton paperback of The Hollowing, all by Robert Holdstock. The cover art of the first is by Peter Goodfellow and of the second and third by Geoff Taylor.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 2d

I had such a great time writing this piece for Reactor! one of the great things about publishing a book is people let you write about things you’re vaguely obsessed with

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:

reactormag.com/dystopian-me...

Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor

When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...

reactormag.com

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12h

More of this sort of thing.

Spider-Father @spider-father.bsky.social · 13h

A great story about the positive effect being part of a supportive hobby can have on your mental well being.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line

Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 13h

Park life.

A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel, stood on short grass, with a white football boot in his mouth.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight.

A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel asleep on a bed with his paws out in front of him.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. His walks are his art in the main and that's something which is entirely personal and private - the evidence of them in the book is necessarily scant. It's a fascinating and enticing conumdrum. So odd for it even to have become a thing for others.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Walk The Line is a book with b&w photographs and descriptions of his landscape walks and colour photos of his stone sculptures and mud abstracts. His walks are odd and vast endeavours with exact and bizarre rationales. He COMMITS. Book is amazing but also kind of frustrating as it can only hint.