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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1h

This is my next read on audiobook, not on my planned TBR this month. I continue my sporadic re-read of the Revelation Space books. Going in, I remember very little about it. 🪐📚 #hardsf #spaceopera #scifibooks #sciencefiction

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 8h

Way ahead of you...

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David William Sheridan @dwsheridan.bsky.social · 14h

#cats and #vampires

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 21h

If this planet is basically a giant stress ball then @premeemohamed.com really has some questions to answer

www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

Strange 'puffy' alien world breaks every rule for how planets should behave

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

www.space.com

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 18h

Finished Creation Node. Revelations on the very edge of the solar system, a giant quasar, an...unexpected guest, existential threats, multiverse theory, factional politics, fusion drives, crew dynamics, omnipotent powers, difficult choices. Lots packed in! V good. #hardsf #nowreading #scifibooks

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 8d

Up next on audiobook, recentish one from the Don of 🇬🇧 hard SF.
Meant to be a good one, let's see. Or rather listen. 🪐📚
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #hardsf #nowreading

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 8d

Up next on audiobook, recentish one from the Don of 🇬🇧 hard SF.
Meant to be a good one, let's see. Or rather listen. 🪐📚
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #hardsf #nowreading

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 18h

Finished Creation Node. Revelations on the very edge of the solar system, a giant quasar, an...unexpected guest, existential threats, multiverse theory, factional politics, fusion drives, crew dynamics, omnipotent powers, difficult choices. Lots packed in! V good. #hardsf #nowreading #scifibooks

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 8d

Up next on audiobook, recentish one from the Don of 🇬🇧 hard SF.
Meant to be a good one, let's see. Or rather listen. 🪐📚
#scifibooks #sciencefiction #hardsf #nowreading

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

One from last year that I thought was good but underperformed. Here with a new thumbnail and title to see if it can tickle the algorithm. Why don't we see evidence of intelligent life in the galaxy? Check it out 👀!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #fermiparadox
youtu.be/JZbNe9yv2K4

AWESOME Sci-fi books that explain why we don't detect ALIENS! Answers to the Fermi Paradox.

YouTube video by SciFiScavenger

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 22h

100%

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Life goals.

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

Something slightly related that might interest you and one I bought on high recommendation. Presented by the European Astrobiology Institute

Life beyond us. An anthology of SFF stories and science essays

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

I get similar pitches for books I haven't ever written!

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I've heard that's good, think Sue Burke recommended it to me last year.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Naturally, I believe my "solution" to the paradox the correct one, and will loudly shout "no! no!" and wave my arms if anyone suggests another.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, as is your privilege and indeed job as an authorly type. I am yet to read The Thing Itself, I'll bear the Fermi element in mind when I do. 👍🚀👽

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

After a year out of print, due to the demise of my ex-publisher, my 2018 story collection Help The Witch is now re-available. I've a few signed copies here, available with a free plague doctor linoprint postcard by my mum.

Please email me at [email protected] if you'd like one (& are in the UK).

The paperback of Help The Witch and my mum's plague doctor linoprint

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Alison, an artist and sometimes writer from London, UK, and I draw comics, book covers and editorial. Can't show you the sequentials I'm drawing right now but I'm open for covers (especially books), comic writing and to discuss the next thing.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

One from last year that I thought was good but underperformed. Here with a new thumbnail and title to see if it can tickle the algorithm. Why don't we see evidence of intelligent life in the galaxy? Check it out 👀!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #fermiparadox
youtu.be/JZbNe9yv2K4

AWESOME Sci-fi books that explain why we don't detect ALIENS! Answers to the Fermi Paradox.

YouTube video by SciFiScavenger

youtu.be

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

And for those that prefer a more leisurely stroll through the same stack, here's the full-fat version!
🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul
youtu.be/_6RtXgYqijM

Collecting Science Fiction Books - Latest additions to my sci-fi library

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm about a third in. Very much enjoying the way Barker fills in the outlines of the world with minute, full colour details, almost with each passing sentence, the whole image coming gradually to life in front of my very eyes. 🪐📚💙 #fantasy #nowreading #notscifi

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 3d

Might get struck down by the vengeful gods of scifi, but am risking all to read what I hear is a pretty good fantasy book next. First of a trilogy though, so the risk could well escalate.
🪐📚🐉⚓️
#fantasybooks #theboneships #nowreading

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1d

Really enjoyed Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky (out today!) a novella giving us a greater look at how the Tyrant Philosophers world works on those who live in it - review to come!

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Mur Lafferty @mightymur.bsky.social · 1d

We are both at computers and alive to talk, so join @tkingfisher.com and me at Ditch Diggers live on Twitch.tv/mightymur

Mightymur - Twitch

She/her. Author, podcaster, editor. Runner, gamer, dog person. Hugo winner. Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick loser. Podcaster Hall of Fame.

Twitch.com

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

100%, same here. And all my best mates too.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Triffic. Couple of longer videos coming soon. Ish.

SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah seems much more peeps prefer the full fat version.