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Radiant Star by Ann Leckie - Standalone Imperial Radch novel

it's a great universe, and I can't wait to see what we have in store from Leckie!

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Radiant Star by Ann Leckie
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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(2/3)
The Faith of Beasts, #2 in the Capitve's war series by James SA Corey

I loved the Expanse, so dived into the first of the series - The Mercy of Gods. It's an engrossing read, despite the fact that I usually don't like too many aliens in the story! Now I'm invested!
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The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Day 23 of #SciFiMonth and we're making way for 2026 releases we're looking forward to. (1/3)

Platform Decay, the next Murderbot novel by Martha Wells

Since I tend to devour Murderbot as soon as it comes out, it's been a while since I've read the last one!

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Cover for Platform Decay by Martha Wells. The image is of a suited astronaut figure holding onto what looks like the outside of a space station, or perhaps a deep inside chasm.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The last one which wasn't visible in the previous photo, some right classics on there! (7/7)

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Single shelf stacked with books.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The overflow shelves (as I like to think of them). Purely reflective of space constraints, not the quality of books on / in them. Also my old interzones. (6/7)

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2 shelves in the wall and a standing bookshelf stacked with books and magazines.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My Folio Complete stories of PKD in their box 😍, my old Al Reynolds and a bunch of other stuff including SF Masterworks (5/7)

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3 shelves stacked with books.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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And we move to the bedroom bookshelves - plenty of tor.com novelleas in there as well! Mostly relatively recent stuff. (4/7)

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2 shelves completely stacked with books.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Paperback shelves! Most of them picked up from 2nd hand bookstores and fairs. (3/7)

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2 Shelves stocked with old SFF paperbacks
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Graphic novels and comics - a bunch of SF titles amongst them. (2/7)

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Bottom half of a bookshelf with 4 shelves showing assorted comic books and graphic novels
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Day 22 of #SciFiMonth and I'm a little late to the party, but I could not resist the prompt to show my bookshelves! Also since my TBRs are scattered amongst them. They have a bunch of mixed genres, but it is what it is (1/7)

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Tall shelves in wall full of books
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The @financialtimes.com really has some of the best and most objective news reportage in the UK nowadays. Really worth subscribing beyond just you know financial news.

Good ol lefty rag 😂
Screenshot of Bloomberg News app showing an opinion piece article by Rosa Prince with a phot of Shabana Mahmood with the headline “Britain Has Finally Found a Competent Politician” A screenshot of the FT news app showing an article by Stephen Bush with the headline “Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism” Sub header: Home Secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of minister’s poor approach to race relations. There is an image of Shabana Mahmood with the caption: Shabana Mahmood said the asylum system was ‘out of control’ and dividing Britain as she sought to win over backbenchers uneasy about the changes.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Park finger
A tree stump in a park shaped like a hand giving someone the middle finger
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Happy Birthday! Excellent timing for what came in the post today :)
Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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…but I’d love to draw attention to Terminal Boredom, a collection of stories by Izumi Suzuki. These felt fresh and relevant despite being >30 years old. The style and affect very distinct from most regular genre fare.

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The Book Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki. The cover shows the author - a Japanese woman in her 20s/30s at the time of the photograph, with her hands sprawled across a flat surface, looking up at the camera, her face framed by a tangled volume of hair Inside cover of Terminal Boredom with the following text: Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi Suzuki, a cult figure in Japanese literature. The fissures in a queer matriarchal utopia are exposed when a boy – a creature usually contained in ghettoised isolation – appears beneath young Yūko’s window; an extreme government initiative curbing overpopulation prompts a woman to re-evaluate her friendships; the last family in a desolate city learns to be human through the awkward appropriation of popular culture; passive-aggressive furniture provides unwelcome romantic advice; tense interplanetary politics distort Emma’s love life; Jane’s ex-girlfriend reappears, radically altered and insistent on a catch-up; Tokyo’s teenagers, disaffected and numb from excessive screen-time, find distraction in violence. Suzuki’s singular slant on science fiction remains fresh and essential. Concerns about technology, gender and imperialism dovetail irresistibly with flights of speculative wonder. And with a kitchen sink in the corner of even her wildest stories, Suzuki reminds us that while technology may be limitless, relationships remain impossible.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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And this one where it’s a bit zoomed in and you can see the light reflected in the skyscrapers - I really do love this city sometimes :)
A photograph looking East from Blackfriars station. The Thames is in the foreground with the City of London skyscrapers covering the left half of the view. There is pale yellow sunlight illuminating the sky from the right, which reflects slightly on some of the skyscrapers. There are bridges and Canary Wharf in the distant background.
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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It’s all rain and sleet today, but managed to capture this beautiful morning light a couple days ago.
A picture of London looking East from Blackfriars station. The Thames makes up most of the foreground with the Shard and the Tate Modern on the right and the office buildings of the City of London on the left. The sky is a gorgeous light blue with light scattered clouds on the left and a pale yellow morning sunlight glow coming from the right even though the sun cannot be seen.
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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10/10 #FutureClassics

Saving (one of the) bests for last. The Grand Dame herself.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

One of the best artists of prose I have ever experienced.

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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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9/10 #FutureClassics

It's been ages since I read this, but spotting it browsing my shelves it definitely deserves a place as a classic.

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller A

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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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8/10 #FutureClassics

Another one which is pretty much already a classic and doesn't need much introduction.

Ancillary Justice by @annleckie.com

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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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7/10 #FutureClassics

I think this one definitely wins the award for the most devastating cover art explain.
Also it's a Culture novel by Iain M. Banks so I don't need to explain why it's a classic.

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

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Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. The cover has a white chair in the foreground, and a plethora of guns and assorted weapons in the background. If you know you know.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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6/10 #FutureClassics

Speaking of coolest titles for SF novels.

A Memory Called Empire by @byzantienne.bsky.social
Such a rich and gorgeous duology! I think it's safe to say this one is already a classic despite being relatively recent :)

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A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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5/10 #FutureClassics

Of course this is already a classic.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

Also one of the coolest titles for a SF novel.

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SF Masterworks edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick.
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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4/10 #FutureClassics

Yes, lesbian necromancers in space, but I think it's the unique voice of this book / series (amongst other things) that destines it to be a classic.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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3/10 #FutureClassics

The Revelation Space books by Al Reynolds had an intensely formative effect on me as a reader. I've been fortunate to meet him a few times in person, and he's always been humble and great to chat with!

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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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2/10

Moving closer to the present, the Terra Ignota quartet by @adapalmer.bsky.social is one of the freshest and most monumental works of SF I've read. Imagine a polycule of Le Guin, Homer, Gene Wolfe, Jacqueline Carey and Foucault had a baby.

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November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM