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Geoff Nelder

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Award-free cyclist, former pedagogue, published writer of the surreal, science fiction, historical fantasy and short stories. Obsessed with writing about Malta & Gozo. Occasional fiction judge and editor.

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · Nov 16

Your next #HolidayRead could be SUPPOSE WE, a #sciencefiction where a spaceship crashland on a planet so advanced the humans are ignored. #surreal, paper & #KindleUnlimited
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The butterfly is alien and very strange.

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 12h

Chaos of Mokii—where imagination constructs cities and ideas become reality. A stunning experiment in metaphysical science fiction by Geoff Nelder. mybook.to/Kaos @geoffnelder #SciFiBooks #SingleAuthors #ShortReads #ReadersLife #AmReadingSciFi

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 1d

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 2d

They're so fast!

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 3d

You have to laugh.
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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 4d

How did you persuade my wife to be your assistant?

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Anders.

Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 4d

A city imagined into existence. A reality shaped by thought. Chaos of Mokii—where science fiction meets the metaphysical mind. mybook.to/Kaos @geoffnelder #SciFi #BookTwitter #MindBendingReads #AmReading #IndieAuthor

The Chaos of Mokii: an experimental science fiction

Amazon.com: The Chaos of Mokii: an experimental science fiction eBook : Nelder, Geoff: Kindle Store

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 6d

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

Eloquent testimony to the importance and contribution of scholarly training and expertise; the richness of regional archives; and history's potential and value for civic and cultural life #Skystorians

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 11d

It's quite a gem, not just the gallery but the whole social town planning concept of Port Sunlight.

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James Geary @jamesmgeary.bsky.social · 11d

Am, maybe, if Amy was an asteroid...

Daily Mail article mistakenly claiming that Storm Amy brought 1000mph winds.

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 11d

The post person's PROOF of delivery makes me laugh.

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 12d

Fancy a short, experimental science fiction story? The Chaos of Mokii: a city that exists entirely in the collective minds of its inhabitants.
mybook.to/Kaos

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Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 13d

Me too.

Geoff Nelder @geoffnelder.bsky.social · 13d

Shakespeare used a local colloquial term for dandelion seed heads: chimney sweep.

RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday wasn't a good day, but I did begin this piece. I'm not sure where it's going - it might not be going anywhere but in the recycling...

#Art #WIP #WorkInProgress

An abstract work in progress of dandelion clocks. Created using acrylic paints on A3 board.

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 14d

“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 14d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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