Rhys Hughes
@rhysaurus.bsky.social
Author
Europe / India / Africa
Short Fiction, Novels, Articles, Plays, Poems.
50+ books
1000+ short stories.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Hughes
SFE: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hughes_rhys
Europe / India / Africa
Short Fiction, Novels, Articles, Plays, Poems.
50+ books
1000+ short stories.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Hughes
SFE: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hughes_rhys
The ebook is free for another four days from any Amazon outlet. Hundreds of pages of whimsy, invention and fantastical adventure. Look for it if you want it. Don't look for it if you don't :-) #booksky
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The ebook is free for another four days from any Amazon outlet. Hundreds of pages of whimsy, invention and fantastical adventure. Look for it if you want it. Don't look for it if you don't :-) #booksky
ROBOTS IN LOVE will have a paperback edition soon. At the moment, there is a hardback and an ebook. The paperback edition will cross the great divide between them 🤖🤖 #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ROBOTS IN LOVE will have a paperback edition soon. At the moment, there is a hardback and an ebook. The paperback edition will cross the great divide between them 🤖🤖 #booksky
Well, that was even better than MOLLOY, which is saying a lot. Perhaps the most Kafkaesque thing I have ever read. Incredible prose. I'm not entirely sure how it follows from MOLLOY but I don't think it matters (is Malone what Moran has become or is he Macmann?) Masterful and devastating 🙂 #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Well, that was even better than MOLLOY, which is saying a lot. Perhaps the most Kafkaesque thing I have ever read. Incredible prose. I'm not entirely sure how it follows from MOLLOY but I don't think it matters (is Malone what Moran has become or is he Macmann?) Masterful and devastating 🙂 #booksky
Maithreyi as Frida Kahlo and me 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Maithreyi as Frida Kahlo and me 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Exactly one year ago, I received my complimentary copies of this anthology. The book includes my story 'What Actually Happened', written while I was working at the university. It was nice getting paid to write, even though my employers didn't know that's what they were paying me for 😊 #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exactly one year ago, I received my complimentary copies of this anthology. The book includes my story 'What Actually Happened', written while I was working at the university. It was nice getting paid to write, even though my employers didn't know that's what they were paying me for 😊 #booksky
Exactly thirty years ago, the very first experimental story I ever wrote was published.
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exactly thirty years ago, the very first experimental story I ever wrote was published.
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.
An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)
Here's the first page... #booksky
I think I am a pretty good writer but when I read books like DHALGREN I tend to think that 'good' isn't so great really. I know this novel evokes mixed responses but for me it's astounding, an utterly mighty masterpiece 😊 #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I think I am a pretty good writer but when I read books like DHALGREN I tend to think that 'good' isn't so great really. I know this novel evokes mixed responses but for me it's astounding, an utterly mighty masterpiece 😊 #booksky
Exactly 17 years ago, my novel ENGELBRECHT AGAIN was published. It was the first novel I ever wrote. It concerns the further adventures of the dwarf surrealist boxer invented in the 1940s by Maurice Richardson. The book includes an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer 😊 #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Exactly 17 years ago, my novel ENGELBRECHT AGAIN was published. It was the first novel I ever wrote. It concerns the further adventures of the dwarf surrealist boxer invented in the 1940s by Maurice Richardson. The book includes an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer 😊 #booksky
First day of November, therefore it's time to start reading a new book. Recently I read MOLLOY and thought it was excellent, so now I am launching into the second volume of his loose 'trilogy' and I'm delighted to be doing so ☺️ #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
First day of November, therefore it's time to start reading a new book. Recently I read MOLLOY and thought it was excellent, so now I am launching into the second volume of his loose 'trilogy' and I'm delighted to be doing so ☺️ #booksky
FB Memories tells me that exactly two years ago, I finished writing this book, published earlier this year by @elsewhen.press. This is one of my books that needs more love. In my opinion, THE DEVIL'S HALO is my best fantasy novel :-) 💀👻 #booksky #fantasy #fiction #novels #ghosts #demons
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am the Great Teapot. "Dunk what thou wilt shall be the whole of the biscuit." #Halloween #Crowley #chaos #tea
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I am the Great Teapot. "Dunk what thou wilt shall be the whole of the biscuit." #Halloween #Crowley #chaos #tea
My most recent book is this novella/short novel about an explorer who can turn his head into a musical instrument when necessary... With an Introduction by the legendary Michael Moorcock 🎺🎺🎺 #booksky
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My most recent book is this novella/short novel about an explorer who can turn his head into a musical instrument when necessary... With an Introduction by the legendary Michael Moorcock 🎺🎺🎺 #booksky
Exactly two years ago in India, we went out for ice cream, and mine was served in a frying pan 😃
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Exactly two years ago in India, we went out for ice cream, and mine was served in a frying pan 😃
The book that was the biggest single inspiration on my writing career. I discovered Poe when I was 15 and became an instant devotee. This is the actual volume I owned back then. Other influences came along a few years later (Bradbury, etc) but it was Poe first 🙂 #booksky
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The book that was the biggest single inspiration on my writing career. I discovered Poe when I was 15 and became an instant devotee. This is the actual volume I owned back then. Other influences came along a few years later (Bradbury, etc) but it was Poe first 🙂 #booksky
Delighted that my story 'The Empty Vessel' has been published today in the latest issue of Nightmare Abbey. I think it's one of my best ghost stories. It's also a crime fiction mystery 🙂💀💀👻👻🙂 #booksky
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Delighted that my story 'The Empty Vessel' has been published today in the latest issue of Nightmare Abbey. I think it's one of my best ghost stories. It's also a crime fiction mystery 🙂💀💀👻👻🙂 #booksky
Some stills from last night's performance of my play 'As a Man Grows Colder' at Volcano Theatre @volcanotheatre.bsky.social The actors were superb and absolutely made the play come alive. I loved the physicality of it 🙂 #theatre
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Some stills from last night's performance of my play 'As a Man Grows Colder' at Volcano Theatre @volcanotheatre.bsky.social The actors were superb and absolutely made the play come alive. I loved the physicality of it 🙂 #theatre
The first two of my plays to be performed will be premiered tomorrow at Volcano Theatre. I have been writing plays for the past seven years. None have been performed until now. Seeing my name in huge letters outside the theatre today was a very nice surprise 🙂
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The first two of my plays to be performed will be premiered tomorrow at Volcano Theatre. I have been writing plays for the past seven years. None have been performed until now. Seeing my name in huge letters outside the theatre today was a very nice surprise 🙂
www.visitswanseabay.com/event/two-sh...
www.visitswanseabay.com/event/two-sh...
Hard to believe it has been exactly eleven years since I went to Ireland for the launch of THE YOUNG DICTATOR, and I still haven't written the sequel to that novel... But I will one day. I even know what its title will be: AGAINST THE GRAN 🙂 #booksky
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hard to believe it has been exactly eleven years since I went to Ireland for the launch of THE YOUNG DICTATOR, and I still haven't written the sequel to that novel... But I will one day. I even know what its title will be: AGAINST THE GRAN 🙂 #booksky
Library sales are the cheapest places to buy books. I picked this volume up for 20p last week. It's a compendium of Karel Čapek's work, featuring plays, short stories, essays, etc. Čapek is great. WAR WITH THE NEWTS might be the best science fiction novel published in the 1930s. #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Library sales are the cheapest places to buy books. I picked this volume up for 20p last week. It's a compendium of Karel Čapek's work, featuring plays, short stories, essays, etc. Čapek is great. WAR WITH THE NEWTS might be the best science fiction novel published in the 1930s. #booksky
Pleased to receive issue #11 of Occult Detective Magazine. Many thanks to editors Dave Brzeski and John Linwood Grant. The issue includes the second of my 'Nathan Gesture' stories, which was written for a pre-existing illustration, so it can be regarded as an ekphrastic piece 🙂 #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pleased to receive issue #11 of Occult Detective Magazine. Many thanks to editors Dave Brzeski and John Linwood Grant. The issue includes the second of my 'Nathan Gesture' stories, which was written for a pre-existing illustration, so it can be regarded as an ekphrastic piece 🙂 #booksky
Thanks to an arrangement with Raphus Press, my book TANGENTS will soon be a cheap paperback and ebook under the Gibbon Moon imprint, as well as the limited edition recently brought out by Raphus itself. The novella was my thousandth story. It is the final piece in my grand story cycle :-) #booksky
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thanks to an arrangement with Raphus Press, my book TANGENTS will soon be a cheap paperback and ebook under the Gibbon Moon imprint, as well as the limited edition recently brought out by Raphus itself. The novella was my thousandth story. It is the final piece in my grand story cycle :-) #booksky
One of my more obscure story collections, THE SEASHELL CONTRACT, is a free ebook from any Amazon platform just for today :-) #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B01N14PJYE
www.amazon.com/dp/B01N14PJYE
September 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
One of my more obscure story collections, THE SEASHELL CONTRACT, is a free ebook from any Amazon platform just for today :-) #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B01N14PJYE
www.amazon.com/dp/B01N14PJYE