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Runalong Womble
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Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
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Womble joins the tour for Project Hanuman by Stuart Hotston today!
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by Stewart Hotston with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Angry Robot for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Angry Robot Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £6.85 ebook ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by @stewarthotston.com with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! Thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Angry Robot for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Angry Robot Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £6.85 ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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mariahaskins.com
I loved this book. Such quiet, devastating, beautiful science fiction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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aknighton.bsky.social
I swear, this isn't a zombie story. It just has some not-quite-alive monsters in it.

And people fleeing from them in a desperate bid for survival.

No Z word though, that's what counts.
lunapress.bsky.social Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 14h
Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! All That Is in the Earth by
@aknighton.bsky.social When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead 🪐
www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
That flesh, like all of their flesh, was pale and sagging, shot through with thick, dark veins. The head of one horse-like creature trembled and a section of its neck slid off, breaking into chunks and dust as it fell, but the beast didn't collapse. All That Is in the Earth Andrew Knighton
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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waterstones.bsky.social
If you see this post you deserve a new book 🤗
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Lives of Bitter Rain, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (pub by Head of Zeus) is a great bite-sized novella in the world of the Tyrant Philosophers that fleshes out a key character; a character-driven novella in contraposition with the choral play that are the novels

Thoughts:
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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite
In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world
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November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station is considered a classic for a reason. Let's discuss this thrilling tale of space warfare, which focuses more on suffering and survival than on tactics and strategy...
Warfare and Survival: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh - Reactor
A science fiction classic about the true costs and consequences of war.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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peat.bsky.social
Super excited to finally share this with everyone.

Even more excited to hopefully share the book me and Fab are working on down the line, but one step at a time.
kiagency.bsky.social Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social · 18h
It is announcement season at Ki - we are thrilled to welcome @peat.bsky.social and his epic fantasy murder mystery to the agency. Peat is represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social

Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/peat-lo...
A black and white image of a man with long hair and sunglasses overlaid with the Ki logo and a banner that says “New Client: Peat Long”
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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shonak.bsky.social
As should I… 😂

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want
Text reads: Chapter One. Mairead. 28th July 1745 The end was in sight. The old man’s rasping breath hitched in his chest, stuttering in time with the flickering light coming from the hearth. Mairead dropped her knitting into the basket at her side and leaned forward, placing her warm hand atop his cold, frail one. He coughed and sighed, his breathing once more settling into an unsteady rhythm, and Mairead squeezed his fingers before letting go and sitting back again. Old Callum’s wasted body barely made a hump beneath the blankets and plaids piled atop the bed.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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georgesreads.bsky.social
“May I be frank with you? This is hard. @catrionaward.bsky.social’s writing is slippery and elusive and entirely unreasonably hard to describe. It’s like trying to bottle fog. It refuses to sit still enough for a neat summary and I fear I’ve made a pig’s ear of trying…”

But try I do. Full review:
Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for lon ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.

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SPFBO Champions: By Blood, by Salt by J.L. Odom
Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
into every generation, a 007 is born, one agent in all the world, a Chosen Bond. He alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness
twbarber.bsky.social T. W. Barber @twbarber.bsky.social · 17h
"James Bond" isn't a person, it's a title. Every generation, a spy at MI6 proves themselves good enough to take on the mantle of 007. That explains why he looks different and has a slightly different personality every so often. Or you could just say he's a TimeLord and be done with it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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krisvm.bsky.social
Mirror, Mirror on my screen, is this the best Trek episode you've ever seen?
Schedule 15/11 (BST):
17:00: Marine Boy: Rustlers of the Deep
17:25: Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror
18:10: Dad's Army: The Big Parade
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November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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garethlpowell.bsky.social
The opening page of my forthcoming novel, JITTERBUG. If you want to read more, you'll have to preorder the book from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good booksellers. Links here: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
PROLOGUE JUSTICE BROWN Come sit here by me, Copernicus. Listen to your grandmother. I want to tell you a story. I want to tell you how it all began... It was a hot night in South London, back on Earth. This was many years ago, when your father was just a baby. It was the kind of night you have all the windows open, and it doesn't make a lick of difference, except you can hear the traffic and the sirens in the streets nine floors below. I'd just got the baby down when Leon called and told me to come up to the roof. "Why the hell am I coming up to the roof?" I asked him. He laughed, but I could hear he was scared. "It's Saturn, Justice." "What about Saturn?" "It's started." "But Malcolm-" 'Bring Malcolm. This is historic." "I only just got him to sleep."
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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fantasybooknerd.bsky.social
New Review: Morning Folks! Today’s review is The Black Lord by Colin Hinckley. It’s a weird fiction tale that uses both folk and cosmic horror to create a tale that held my attention

www.fantasybooknerd.com/2025/11/book...
BOOK REVIEW | THE BLACK LORD | COLIN HINCKLEY
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Protagonists don't have to be likable, but you need to keep readers from rejecting them completely. James Davis Nicoll offers five strategies for building a story around deeply problematic main characters...
Five Ways to Build a Story Around an Unlikeable Protagonist - Reactor
Thoughts on hateable, problematic, and morally bankrupt characters.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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wsbookclub.bsky.social
I read The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. It's hard to put into words what made this book such a treasure, but I tried.

#bookblogger #booksky #TheEverlasting #bookreview
Book Review: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian se…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
runalongwomble.bsky.social
A really smart and unsettling tale
yrioona.bsky.social trill symbiont @yrioona.bsky.social · 20h
As "AI" slop becomes more and more inescapable, I think about this wonderful, funny, creepy story by @thomasha.bsky.social every day:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_11_23/

(btw Thomas Ha if you read this I rly want to know if it's "muhb" or "moob")
The Mub by Thomas Ha
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
runalongwomble.bsky.social
Do a Doctor Who - ignore it. Fandom while hating contradictions actually will then enjoy decades of making their own headcanons
willardfoxton.bsky.social Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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shonak.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be on @maryrobinettekowal.com’s blog today to talk about My Favourite Bit of Daughters of Nicnevin! maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...
My Favorite Bit: Shona Kinsella talks about DAUGHTERS OF NICNEVIN
Shona Kinsella is joining us today to talk about her novel, Daughters of Nicnevin. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 174…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

Walking a Wounded Land opens with…
A page from a paperback book, it reads: Andrew Knighton Walking a Wounded Land Chapter One To my left is the sea, endlessly in motion, a vast expanse in which my magic has no power. The sea holds no memories, no paths I can walk.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
Hard to imagine a better articulation of how fannish brain has broken Hollywood. How is Bond back after dying in the last movie? Because he’s a fictional character and we’re not done telling stories about him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Audio Review: Star Trek: Khan
Star Trek Khan is a nine episode audio drama directed by Fred Greenhalgh and written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Nicholas Meyer.
@princejvstin.com has our review
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/audi...
Audio Review: Star Trek: Khan
Star Trek Khan is a nine episode audio drama directed by Fred Greenhalgh and written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Ni...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
The Anderida special edition of the Terrible Worlds : Revolutions book, cover and interior art by Ian McQue, truly a thing of beauty.
miguelpeck.bsky.social Miguel Peck @miguelpeck.bsky.social · 1d
I think this is now the most beautiful book I own. Yes, it’s Adrian’s text (as good as ever) and Anderida did amazing work here, from typography to binding, etc. but my lord, Ian McQue’s art goes f-ing hard.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM