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Sci-fi/horror author and designer. Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, Darkness Rises. he/him. Trans rights are human rights. Fuck AI 'art'. Get all my books at paulstephensonbooks.com Find everything here: https://linktr.ee/prsbooks

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 13h

Starting the day off listening to Swans so either I'm gonna fuck this day right up or end up rocking back and forth on my chair, weeping. Can't wait to find out!

The cover to the album Birthing, by Swans (2025). It is a black circle on a beige background, except it looks all weathered and old, like an old record.

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 13h

Feels like the most natural endpoint for both, tbf

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 13h

Couldn't help but read this in a very particular voice

The 'Brilliant!' guy from The Fast Show, as played by Paul Whitehouse

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit that blurb....

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

A map of the new future regions of Britain, including 'Wolves' and Wild Golf'.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 2d

oh no!

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Went to see the Inside Number 9 stage show last night — if you're a fan at all, I HIGHLY recommend it. Laughed so much my sides ache this morning.

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 4d

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Back to normality after a week in Canada, but I've got a cold, I slept like shit, and my to-do list looks like the fucking Declaration of Independence.

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 14d

oof, yeah, this is a bit of me, cheers

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Holy shit, new Conjurer, new Psychonaut *and* a surprise new Rolo Tomassi ep all dropping the same day? In this economy?

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Not knowing what you're already across, @av4apod.bsky.social is an absolute treat. There was a great Bandsplain series on grunge last year that will last way longer than that flight, there's 2 Promoters 1 Pod, from the guys behind ATG and Damnation, and there's the mighty Pop Collaborate and Listen.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19d

I never realised how small sumo wrestlers were

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's a car that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage

The 6000 SUX from Robocop, because bigger is better

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 21d

love to say it'd be the latter but all evidence points toward the former, with the far right riding the crest of that wave, high fiving themselves in glee.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 24d

can we as a community normalize this

ai is never used in my art, if you think my art looks bad it’s because it is by @ownlittleworldshop

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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 28d

My working definition of "successful book"

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Helen @internethelen.bsky.social · 28d

If I see this on here, I repost it, very simple

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 28d

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 29d

I ran a silly music website that gave me such good friends that two of them travelled for miles to meet me for the first time at my actual wedding.

I learned about self publishing which allowed me to publish 5 novels and have a random person in Alabama call me their favourite author ever.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 8

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 29d

on the downside, you met me. And Geoff. Bloody Geoff.

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Shame. I'm sure it's very good but it's strayed a bit too far out of my wheelhouse, whereas Brave Faces was pretty much my entire wheelhouse for a little while.

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Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Interesting, I must admit I checked out halfway through first spin of that album, didn't even realise the lineup had changed. Have they gone back now?

Paul Stephenson @prsbooks.bsky.social · 29d

I'm not really enjoying SLS's continuing evolution into The National, I have to say.