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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 6h

This exactly how I see my role in life.

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 6h

I am in this post and I’m very happy about it.

Diane Ackland @author.dianeackland.com · 6h

My TBR will always be larger than I can read, and that is OK because I supported the authors.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 8h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 7h

The cover of Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 6h

Happy book birthday 🎈

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 9h

Happy UK book-birthday to me!
The Feeding is now available in the UK.
#BookSky
Details here:
anthonyryan.net/2025/10/14/t...

The Feeding: A Pulse-Pounding Vampire Horror Novel

Dive into A.J. Ryan's gripping vampire horror novel, 'The Feeding', where survival tests await in a post-apocalyptic world.

anthonyryan.net

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 8h

Good review (and lots of other interesting books covered too). My review of this is in the October Locus, won't be online for a bit, but I liked it a lot.

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 12h

For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press.

www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 6h

I wish I had the legs for flares…

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 10h

It's spooky season! So I reviewed four great recent scary books:

Fiend by @almakatsu.bsky.social
Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
Slashed Beauties by A Rushby
You Weren't Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

4 terrifying new novels to get you through the scariest season

With an emphasis on body horror, these books by Alma Katsu, Bitter Karella, Andrew Joseph White and A. Rushby will leave you with a lingering sense of dread.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7h

Sometimes a cover sells me a book blurb ‘sells’ me a book, sometimes it’s just the tile and cover. Covers matter.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 8h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 7h

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.

It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!

Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 12h

Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social are doing a preorder deal of 25% off First Mage On The Moon until the 17th of October!
Get on that! 🚀
Coming out on April 14th from me and @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

www.waterstones.com/book/first-m...

Waterstone Preorder deal of 25% off First Mage On The Moon by Cameron Johnston. A magical rocketship covered in arcane glyhs and scaffolding.

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7h

Too much temptation

Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 9h

October is packed with books: I've got another SF/F book list out to subscribers: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/sci-fi-fanta...

14 more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to check out this October

More books to add to your TBR this October

transfer-orbit.ghost.io

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 7h

Iconic. In particular the poster art for Carpenter's The Thing.

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 7h

Farewell to poster titan Drew Struzan. Painfully obvious that they don't make em' like that anymore. His design for Carpenter's The Thing is one of my all-time favourites - all the more remarkable for the fact it was concepted, approved by the studio and painted within 24 hours..!

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 8d

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

strangehorizons.com

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 8h

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 10h

So the U.K.’s biggest book chain is having a pre-order sale. Outside any feelings on the promotion, it’s a great way to learn what books are coming out.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14h

Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.

We're ravenously seeking:

QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)

QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)

No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14h

Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.

This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙

Full guidelines on our website:

Submissions — Bona Books

www.bona-books.com

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 16h

Happy book birthday!

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Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social · 20h

HAPPY PUB DAY to @nuzo.bsky.social #Africanhorror, #Magicalrealism novel, FUTILITY. She's a great writer and a wonderful human, so go get yours now!

titanbooks.com/72646-futili...

Futility

Crackling with wit, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award ® for Lifetime Achievement and ‘Queen of...

titanbooks.com

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 17h

I had fun writing this!!

National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social · 17h

9 feminist horror novels to read this Halloween 📖 👻

Gemma Amor (@manylittlewords.bsky.social), author of the folk horror ITCH!, joins us to share her favourite feminist horror novels to pick up in your local bookshop this Halloween, from modern literary frights to hair-raising classics. 👇

9 fantastic feminist horror novels to read this Halloween

Gemma Amor is the author of the feminist horror novel ITCH!, about the psychological turmoil of a woman who discovers a dead body in the woods infested by a horde of ants that then seem to crawl…

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 16h

Happy book day!

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 16h

It's new book day! The Lychford Collection, containing the first three books, is in all good bookstores, physical and digital, now! (And I'll have copies at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !)

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 1d

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30

'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile

Extremophile

Pre-order now:

geni.us

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