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Stephen Gallagher

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Doctor Who. BUGS. That creepy monster thing you might remember. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe www.stephengallagher.com

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · Nov 17

In case you missed them, I wrote some books:

Poster montage of covers for currently available Stephen Gallagher novels and collections, information and links for all titles at https://stephengallagher.com/books/

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 1d

Drama and English, joint honours. I’ll have my 30 years of staggering taxes back, please. Not sure what to do about the jobs created along the way

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1d

You can get my book Borderlines in electronic form for an amazing 99p at the moment; at a time when politicians are fetishising borders, why not look at them in a bit more detail, and get the view from Europe’s borders? www.amazon.co.uk/Borderlines-...

Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders

Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders eBook : Baston, Lewis: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Iain Lee @iainlee.com · 2d

Iain Lee - Imposter Syndrome worked last night and I think it is something very special.

I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120.

Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any?

[email protected]

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

Kalos? (I zoomed in)

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

Which one? Is it Feltrinelli?

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

He’s Robert Jenrick and no one chased him out of town. That’s exemplary tolerance

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

Don’t know what you make of it but I’m rather fond

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

Chaned? Writer credentials being revoked as we speak

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 2d

Chaned my profile pic. Me and Vesuvius. Closest I’ll ever look to cool

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 3d

Not that I’m aware, but I’ll not check - I’m not looking to ID anyone

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 3d

The main memory is of the trip to Trader Joe’s where I bought most of them. Overall a good time, and an unexpected late-career reset

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

(I didn’t have enough books to fill the shelves so I made a display of my emptied wine bottles. When I moved out they filled two double wheelie bins)

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 4d

I reiterate: every single person, regardless of the year they were born, has to make a conscious effort not to shit on the following generations the moment they realize they themselves are approaching middle age or older. It’s not just boomers and X that are susceptible.

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

So if you want to take the piss out of my work, go ahead. I can always use the karma.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

...I was working and living in LA at the time, and this was my writing space.

Gallagher stands in the corner of a wooden deck overlooking canyon foliage in Beverly Glen

Gallagher in his LA apartment with laptop stand and the ever-so-comfortable writing chair that he misses to this day

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

Scroll on a decade or so. Other Writer shows up in the lit pages complaining about the poor rates in literary fiction and having to give up his office and write in a cramped space at home. I mean, I don't read him, I'm sure he's good. But forgive me a touch of schadenfreude. Not least because...

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

No one apologised, they rather tried to carry on like after you drive over a bump and try to ignore it. One of the women started a conversation with me, a pity chat. I left early, though not before I'd eaten all the parma ham. I hope I handled it with grace. But these things stay with you.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

They didn't twig that it was a 2-writer do. One found my book and took the piss out of the cover. Then encouraged by the response started reading the blurb aloud with gestures and high sarcasm. Agent was furious and shut him down but the damage was done.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

Short thread. Back in the 90s my then-agent, whom I love to this day, threw a launch party in her flat for two of her authors. I was one of them, down from the north and alone. The other guy was more lit-fashionable than me, and brought friends. The guy was OK, I think. His friends were arseholes,

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

Like a Roomba, but for your teeth

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 4d

Shhh

Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 5d

I'm also the guy who wore the same shirt in three successive passport photos

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 5d

That's brilliant. Here's a favourite of mine:

Old newspaper headline, without context: Alarming Report Comes from Colon

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 5d

The small things that can give you pleasure. My oldest bookmark in continuous use

Bookmark on thin card, advertising Len Deighton‘s billion dollar brain, now in penguins, five shillings

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