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Will Wiles

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"The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt) is out now! Author of several novels, most recently "The Last Blade Priest" (Angry Robot), which won best novel at the 2023 Kitschies. Its sequel, "The Dead Man's Empire", coming 2026. He/him

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · Jul 9

"The Dead Man's Empire", long-awaited sequel to the award-winning "The Last Blade Priest", now has a cover! It's available for pre-order and is published in March 2026, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social. Duna and Elecy fight to escape the Hidden Land, and at the Brink something terrible stirs...

A graphic from Angry Robot showing the cover of "The Dead Man's Empire". The cover shows two silhouetted young women on a mountainside looking across a range of peaks, with birds wheeling overhead. It was designed by Alice Coleman.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 6h

Anthropic settlement details are available today, might have something to do with it

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

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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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11h

Pevsner said that the destruction of Soane's Bank of England was the greatest architectural crime of the 20th century. A century later the Bank is putting the perpetrators up for parole. I consider the evidence.

Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 14h

Sir John Soane described the Bank of England building he designed as ‘the pride and boast of my life’, but in 1925 his masterpiece was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes @willwiles.bsky.social

The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again

It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 1d

The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again

It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 1d

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Homage to Marty Feldman?

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds great. A bit Brion Gysin, a bit Jack Rosenthal.

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I know - I suppose my wording should have been "would this be like ..."

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Is this like the DIY poetry / philosophy / etc fridge magnets that were a middle-class staple for a time in the late 90s and early 2000s?

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
J.R.R. Tolkien

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 2d

This thread was a great start to my week!

Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoyed the Lovecraftian turn towards the end, and then ‘The Acknowledgements’ kicker

Appreciated the wide range of unexpected references too: from ceefax to James Turrell art installations, from Gaudi to EBay style ‘sniping’ tools…

I finished this collection in a day, which is my endorsement 👌

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Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 3d

Just started The Anechoic Chamber and Other Weird Tales (2025) by @willwiles.bsky.social published by @saltpublishing.com and based on a @raynewman.bsky.social endorsement

Three stories in and it’s really great. Stylistically diverse and highly addictive without resorting to pastiche 🤌👌👍

#booksky

Will Wiles - The Anechoic Chamber paperback cover

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Rob!

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 5d

Well he was a gentleman to Lisa

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 5d

Immediate mental image: Nelson Muntz going "haw haw"

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 9d

Who needs to do that *twice* though. I blame the diet. He was probably stuffed with lampreys or partridge or something

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 9d

Weird that it's announced by the chancellor and not the secretary of state for education

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 10d

Oooooh. I am a total sucker for these editions.

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11d

The Moria Crack'd

(that's the best I can do)

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11d

What is it anyway? A sort of expansion of Yimbyism?

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11d

"Millennarian" is the word I'd use. Also it's a straight-up endorsement of terrorism and political violence, which I thought we were meant to be against, as a way of legitimising beliefs. If there's 10% that wants violence if they lose an election, that's a matter for the police, not public policy.

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you Simon!

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12d

I would be very glad not to have to email a scan of my passport to another university department, or struggle through the dodgy-seeming third-party verification app insisted on by a conveyancer; but I was also born outside the UK, in an age of imperfect paper record keeping ...

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12d

(I should add that as a non-driving-licence-holder I can appreciate many of the arguments for the convenience of universal ID in theory and the main plank of negativity about the whole thing is deep distrust of the British state to do anything right or for the right reasons!)

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12d

I suppose that's possible, *if they had it*, but I would contend that it's at least equally possible it would it have legitimised their unjust removal and made it harder to overturn.

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