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Gareth L. Powell
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📚 Award-winning SF author of 20+ books 📖 WHO WILL YOU SAVE? — out now ✍️ Editor @ Stars & Sabers Publishing 🤝 Represented by Lucienne Diver https://linktr.ee/garethlpowell
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
People ask where to start with my #books, so here's an introduction. Scroll to see them all. Continues in replies. - 1/3
A photo of Gareth surrounded by book covers JITTERBUG: Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. WHO WILL YOU SAVE? With settings ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the seedy backstreets of Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters. FUTURE'S EDGE.When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you!
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Congratulations @genni.bsky.social
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 12h
Thank you!
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 12h
A quick update
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I'll pass, thanks
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 13h
My granddaughter came to visit this afternoon, and I had forgotten how tiring it can be running around after a toddler.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21h
My most recent interview with @locusmag.bsky.social was in February this year. You can read a sizeable extract on their website.

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Gareth L. Powell: Big Universe
GARETH LYN POWELL was born September 3, 1970 in Clifton, Bristol, England; he grew up in Bristol, and lives there still. He studied humanities and creative writing at the University of Glamorgan (l…
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21h
Yes, I’m back on my feet
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d
A weekend reminder 😊
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 4d
The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle deal for October in the UK, for those keen to catch up with the series before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October, with a launch at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton 😁
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The Green Man's War eBook : McKenna, Juliet E: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Slowly
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Been down with the 'vid for a week
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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d
This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Do check out Tim's latest, especially if you hate sleeping and want to lie awake all night with the lights on.
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Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social · 1d
By the way, I have a new novel out!
(photo by Tim Love)
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
You're doing a great job
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
It's time we gave Gen-Z some movie memories as good as the ones we were given in the 1980s.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Illness defeated and books to write. To quote John Wick, "Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back."
Gareth in a black t-shirt, looking into the camera with a resolute expression.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
OMG even as a kid who *adored* Battlestar Galactica, I could tell the one where they got to Earth and zoomed around on flying motorbikes sucked.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
People ask where to start with my #books, so here's an introduction. Scroll to see them all. Continues in replies. - 1/3
A photo of Gareth surrounded by book covers JITTERBUG: Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. WHO WILL YOU SAVE? With settings ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the seedy backstreets of Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters. FUTURE'S EDGE.When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Not yet 🤷
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Negative test result, at last!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
Title: Where writers really get their ideas. A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying: "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
An introduction to my #books - 3/3
Light Chaser by Gareth L Powell and Peter F Hamilton. Amahle is a Light Chaser – one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone, trading trinkets for life stories.But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages, she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds. something terrible is happening, and only she is in a position to do anything about it. The Recollection. Four hundred years ago, Ed and Alice Rico threw themselves through a mysterious portal on the London Underground, hunting for Ed’s lost brother—Alice’s husband—Verne. Now, starship captain Katherine Abdulov embarks on a desperate race against a ruthless rival captain to try and earn back her family’s trust. Tomorrow, all their lives will be thrown together as an ancient evil stirs among the stars, threatening the survival of all life… ABOUT WRITING. Positive, blunt and refreshingly honest, this is a guide to the practical business of writing from a professional author with a decade’s experience, who has navigated working with publishers of all sizes, and walked the path from debut to award-winner. Written with Gareth L. Powell’s trademark warmth and wisdom, About Writing is here to help you achieve your goals, and write your own story. Books available from all good vendors, most as audio books as well.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
An introduction to my #books - 2/3
Descendant Machine. The human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks. But the universe is stranger and more deadly than anyone could have foreseen. When Nicola Mafalda’s scout ship comes under attack, she’s left deeply traumatised by her ship’s drastic attempts to save her. Months later, when an old flame comes to her for help, she realises she has to find a way to forgive both of them in order to stop a giant machine from destroying history. STARS AND BONES. The human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks. But the universe is stranger and more deadly than anyone could have foreseen. The human diaspora runs up against a being capable of infecting and usurping anything it touches, and it’s up to Eryn King and her scout ship Furious Ocelot to to seek out a legendary recluse who just might hold the key to humanity’s survival. THE EMBERS OF WAR trilogy - The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners find themselves at the centre of a conflict that could engulf the entire galaxy. Doctor Who: The Well. Joining a military rescue mission to an isolated mining colony, the Doctor and Belinda find a single survivor of a violent catastrophe. What killed the colonists? Why is every mirror in the base smashed? The chilling truth spells horror and death…
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
People ask where to start with my #books, so here's an introduction. Scroll to see them all. Continues in replies. - 1/3
A photo of Gareth surrounded by book covers JITTERBUG: Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. WHO WILL YOU SAVE? With settings ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the seedy backstreets of Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters. FUTURE'S EDGE.When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks!
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