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Simon Spanton

@simonguy.bsky.social

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"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · Nov 26

"Out on the pale criss-crossed sand, high-stepping, fringed, gauntleted, stalked some fantastic leviathan..."

To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 3h

It was EXACTLY like that.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 4h

Trying to cross a steep scree slope before heading back up onto the ridge to find a path again. Genuinely thought we were going to die.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 4h

Climbed that. Cloud came down, zero visibility, lost the path. It was absolutely horrendous.

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Lagangarbh Hut, Buachaille Etive Mor

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remote dwelling with a large hill behind

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 5h

Don't you want me to open the podbay doors, Dave?

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 5h

Cooking tea music.

A photo of the CD case for Dare by The Human League. The case has a "SALE £4.99" from Tower Records on it.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 5h

"Oz came swimming to us out of history, because we needed it, because it needed to be. A book, a film, a television ritual, a thousand icons scattered through advertising, journalism, political cartoons, music, poetry."

A photo of a copy of the 2007 Gollancz edition of Was by Geoff Ryman. The cover, featuring a pair of ruby slippers against a white background, was designed by Edward Bettison.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 9h

Courtesy of a rec. from @stewarthotston.com.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12h

Morning! I'm reading Daljit Nagra's ebullient and vivid retelling of the Ramayana.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12h

Sun bathing.

A photo of an Antony Gormley statue stood, ankle-deep, in calm river water. Autumnal leaves in the background.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12h

"monkeys handsome from eating only berries,
monkeys who could fly across mountain ranges,
monkeys who could morph into bears and serpents,
monkeys who could swallow a fireball
spitting it back with missile might,
monkeys flashing tiger-teeth and diamond nails"

A photo of a copy of the 2014 Faber edition of Ramayana: A Retelling, by Daljit Nagra. The cover is an illustration from the Ramayana from the Indian School.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve just watched a tribute that Meryl Streep gave to Diane Keaton in which she said that Keaton had “a stream of consciousness like a hummingbird” & my goodness that’s it, that was her entirely.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 13h

The long, still look Lamb gives her when she calls him an old man. Quietly terrifying - perhaps only Oldman capable of delivering quite so much menace with just a steady narrow-eyed gaze.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 1d

Well, la di da.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Portal number 225.

A close-up photo of a dark, tattered leaf with a hole in it. A sunlit street and blue sky beyond.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

a man is eating a can of soda .

Alt: a man is eating a can of soda .

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Ladybird was all of us, all this time. Forever and again.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

"How different the moonlight made everything look! They seemed to be on the edge of a deep forest, pierced by shadowy glades, instead of the straggling copse they knew..."

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Horrid though the dump was it was very noticeable there was no plastic in it. Didn't expect that to be one of the most powerfully nostalgic things about the book...

(I realise this is not the most literary of observations.)

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOD - @regretteruane.bsky.social! LOOK! LOOK!

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

The window made of end-on bottles in Stig's house - how I LOVED that as a kid.
The phantasmagorical journey into the deep past at the end - how I LOVED that when I read it again recently.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being 9 and going home to read STIG OF THE DUMP. Stig of the Dump m8, that's a proper book that is.

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous!

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

HP Unrequited Lovecraft #moregoth

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 1d

I actually prefer William Despair Hodgson #moregoth

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d