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Books, Toys, Games UK Personal library of SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Kaiju No to AI. No to policing others' reads and recommends. Opinions are my own https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/127259529-kds https://www.librarything.com/profile/KevDS

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · Nov 8

Book shelves pin. This is about a third of my physical. I collect and read SFF, Pulp, Gothic, Weird Fic, Penny Dreadfuls, Adventure, Kaiju and some Horror

I primarily post pictures of book mail, reading progress, action figure collections, trading cards, reviews, video games, RPGs and board games

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, that'll be related. The Grand Tournament is in the UK for the first time in 30+ years and started today at the Royal Albert Hall

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

Thanks! :)

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

Ah well. It'll sit there with Dhalgren and some of the Strugatsky books at the bottom of the priority list I think

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

It's one of those "trippy" books as i understand it. And given I loathe PKD's writing and struggled through Lucius Shepard's Life During Wartime, I'm confident in saying that particular Aldiss is unlikely to click with me. I might give it a chapter or two just to see though

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

Fun. Missed most of it, but hopefully catch the next couple of nights at least

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Ooh, there’s sumo wrestling on the BBC!

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

I have 1-12 of Dumarest and a Gollancz omnibus of three of his other titles that I can't remember. Not started them yet, but they sound so much fun

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

I'm about 20-25% through reading them all (including several dnfs). I keep them tagged to my database below (although I know the list is missing a load due to some quirks in the system since removing the black spined editions)

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Oh yeah I agree - I liked it, but couldn't finish it first attempt. I'd def give Non-Stop or Greybeard a go instead. They are much, much better books. Two of the best Masterworks for me

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve made quite a headway with the masterworks since covid, despite collecting since 1999. Priority to read include Rama, le Guin and giving Delaney a 2nd chance

Next though will be Land Under England, just because I like interior Earth stories

“For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky”

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

One of those Aldiss books is very… different. Which have you read previously?

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes I double up for the cover art, but I lean towards reissues these days as personal preference

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Do you have the Aldiss grains of sand one in vintage pb? If not, you can have mine when this is published if I can find it

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Pacifist space opera on a hospital floating in space. It is a very well regarded series, but it’s only been available via ebook for a long time. Somewhere round here I’ve got the first novel

Somewhere…

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Barefoot from the Head will almost certainly sit on the shelf unread given what I’ve heard about it, but the Sector General stuff I’ve waited a very long time to read

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, it’s those I’m looking forward to most. I only have Star Surgeon in pb with its wacky cover.

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 5h

The SF Masterworks has been in a lull for the last year or so. The schedule lists 5 new ones coming. I’ll likely replace any vintage pbs I own to continue my set of these

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Sector General omnibus 1 and 2 (James White)
The Forge of God (Greg Bear)
Galaxies like Grains of Sand (Brian Aldiss)
Barefoot in the Head (Brian Aldiss)

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Hard Switch is a great book. Long wait for a follow up, but glad it's happening!

Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 7h

BIG NEWS! Get ready for more THE HARD SWITCH by @odpomery.bsky.social! 🎉 The trio is back, hiding out and searching for a sustainable way to travel between worlds... but trouble is mounting! Look for this sci-fi sequel in Fall 2026!

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah in the last couple of months *I think*. It's quite expensive though at (in your currency) $60

Pic of blu ray of 6 Errol Flynn films in a warner archive collection, taken from Reddit

Robin Hood, Sea Hawk, Santa fe Trail, Edge of Darkness, Objective Burma, Don Juan

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 7h

It'll likely happen, but I think Warner did a 6 film boxset with those two in it this year

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly!

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 9h

One of my mounts gained a new skin yesterday via a gift and it's a bee!

a warrior mounted on a giant fuzzy bee in green and brown colours, under a pine forest

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 10h

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 11h

When I mean sub, I mean going to the feed and pinning it to your feed lists (which can be sorted in any order from the feeds menu). You can then peruse a given feed from the top or side bars on Bluesky

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 11h

For those who want to add to their existing SF, horror, crime, non-fic BookSky feeds, there are now some new ones - thanks to Elise

As said below and with the other feeds, keywords and specific emoji combos will add a post to the feed. But these things only work if people sub to them as well

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 18h

I've made some new Diverse Book feeds.
-Trans & Nonbinary Books 📚💙💕
-Black Booksky 📚🖤
-Black Queer Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
-Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

They're linked with emojis & or keywords they pick up/to put your posts on them, in this thread🧵👇

Also in thread: Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐. Aro & or Ace Books

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