Simon Spanton
@simonguy.bsky.social
"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.
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.
Compass Rose is a Flower class.
Ages since I read HMS Ulysses - a fine novel. Streets ahead of MacLean's other books, I think.
Ages since I read HMS Ulysses - a fine novel. Streets ahead of MacLean's other books, I think.
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Compass Rose is a Flower class.
Ages since I read HMS Ulysses - a fine novel. Streets ahead of MacLean's other books, I think.
Ages since I read HMS Ulysses - a fine novel. Streets ahead of MacLean's other books, I think.
It's a great book. As if Steve Earle had written a Texas coming of age novel with lycanthropes.
Jones is a member of the Blackfoot tribe and mixes native American mythology and folklore into contemporary horror to excellent effect.
Jones is a member of the Blackfoot tribe and mixes native American mythology and folklore into contemporary horror to excellent effect.
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's a great book. As if Steve Earle had written a Texas coming of age novel with lycanthropes.
Jones is a member of the Blackfoot tribe and mixes native American mythology and folklore into contemporary horror to excellent effect.
Jones is a member of the Blackfoot tribe and mixes native American mythology and folklore into contemporary horror to excellent effect.
There are weredogs in this, if I remember correctly.
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There are weredogs in this, if I remember correctly.
It very much felt that even in London drivers gave you space and leeway when you were a learner (possibly out of fear of what you might do). This was thirty plus years ago, mind...
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It very much felt that even in London drivers gave you space and leeway when you were a learner (possibly out of fear of what you might do). This was thirty plus years ago, mind...
Had ten lessons in Suffolk when I was 18 and then ten more lessons and a test in London when I was 28 having not driven in the meantime. It was fine. Going round Hyde Park Corner on my first of the second ten lessons was an experience... (I passed first time.)
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Had ten lessons in Suffolk when I was 18 and then ten more lessons and a test in London when I was 28 having not driven in the meantime. It was fine. Going round Hyde Park Corner on my first of the second ten lessons was an experience... (I passed first time.)
One of my very favourite writers. And Lolly Willowes has my favourite last paragraph of any and all other books I've read.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of my very favourite writers. And Lolly Willowes has my favourite last paragraph of any and all other books I've read.
Your guess is as good as mine.
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Your guess is as good as mine.
From kindertransport to this.
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
From kindertransport to this.