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🤔 Is this why @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social don’t respond to queries over here… they’re just on Twitter? Note the format of the mentions below.

I have yet to get any kind of response from them either here or via their contact form, in a week of trying.

🫤
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📘 Started reading the third and final tome in @mikeshackle.bsky.social’s ”The Last War” trilogy - “Until the Last”.

And it is a very thick brick of a book! 😳😮🫣

I have ~2w before a #BookTube live show, so I cannot leave this chonker until December as I had planned 😰

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
👹 “ancient, monster-infested underground ruins”!!! 🤗 There’s that sweet, sweet hook to reel me in on! 🎣

Hey, @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social, I was looking these up and see mention of “The Man With One Name” as a book 0.5. Where could/should I read that first?

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
👨‍✈️ One of my favourite bunch of unlikely crew members was Jezzet, Thanquil and the Black Thorn from “The Ties That Bind” series by @robjhayes.bsky.social.

Lewd, crude, and bad to the bone(r) 🤭 they ultimately did good!

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #AMoRaR 📆
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📺 Ooo, I really liked episode 4 of “Blake’s 7” Series B - “Horizon”!

Lots of stuff going on, a single main plot line involving entire crew, and juicy shots of the Liberator.

Avon: “I’m not stupid. I’m not expendable. And I’m not going.” 😆

Again, zero recollection.

📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🔖 Finishing one book - Eric Brown’s “Helix” - means I need to handover the bookmark to my next pick.

Unfortunately time constraints mean I need to head off-TBR, as there’s an upcoming fixed deadline for a super-chonky tome I’d planned for December! 😳

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
📗 Hey, @solarisbooks.bsky.social, you republished Eric Brown’s “Helix” in 2023. Are you planning on reprinting book two, “Helix Wars”?

Just finished 📕, want to continue, 📗 appears widely OOP.

Should I wait for one matching 2023 edition or buy 2nd hand?

LMK!

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🔖 Finished up reading Eric Brown’s “Helix”.

Had a great time with it (BDO 🙆‍♂️) though there’s a particular fanatical nutter that needed a proper kick up the arse!

Hendry also took a shine to another crew member who reminded him of someone, which was a bit 🥴

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here’s another oddity that I often notice. Threads with exactly 3 posts get the “show full thread” treatment even though there isn’t anything else to display.

Example below where I noticed it again and it offers a neat screenshot opportunity.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🫣 Okay, you made me jump, @planetoflana.bsky.social! 😅

Scenes afterwards though…

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #PlanetOfLana 🪐
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I just looked up the release years for Alanson’s “ExFor” series.

He started in 2016 and they were <300pg at first, so he was pumping out 3 each year.

Then around the current half-way point they abruptly grew to double the size, and are now twice a year, like yourself.

Here’s 📸 crop for scale.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚 Another series that’s heading up into this stratosphere of depth will be @jcmberne.bsky.social “Hybrid Helix” series. 7 books currently published, an 8th coming soon, more on the way after that 🫢 (we’ve talked in the past on the planned length).

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📚💬 I just got to wondering what the long running series - in terms of number of books - that I’m actively working on might be.

I’m 13 books into Craig Alanson’s “Expeditionary Force” series, and I was today years old when I discovered there’s a 19th book coming.

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
These ones are amongst my favourites, by Anna Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📖 I am currently reading “Helix” by Eric Brown - and we have just unlocked what the title means 🤯 so I am now all in 🤗 - but I *need* to get started on an absolute unit of a book with an early December reading deadline attached 😰

Look at that size disparity! 😳

🪐📚💙
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🤔 My first instinct is towards 🪄 because I’m usually a Sorcerer in D&D, but I’m often more of a 🏹 user in video games.

So I’m going to evade the specifics of your challenge and highlight “The Last Ranger” by @jdlrosell.bsky.social this time! 🤓

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #AMoRaR 📆
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📺 Just watched episode 3 from “Blake’s 7” Series B “Weapon” and that was all-round rather bizarre 😳

Clones, a self-proclaimed genius, folks that were ‘marked for death’, and quite a lot of flirting between Servalan and Carnell.

And, of course, yet again zero recollection!

📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
📆 End of the weekend so let’s do a weekly reading update! 😊

My reading pace crashed this week as I’ve been busy with other deadlines and jobs. However, I’m mainly reading Eric Brown’s “Helix” while the other active 📚 I pick up intermittently.

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🧩 One of the puzzle pieces in “Planet of Lana” reminds me of “Thrust” on the #BBCMicro, which I remember as a challenging game.

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
📖 Have now completed all my active pods/book chapters related to “Shadow”, which means I am ready to continue into “Blake’s 7” Series B Episode 03 🤗

I fair enjoy all this extra ‘homework’ surrounding a tellybox show. Really hones in on nuances I missed 👀

📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣ #Podcasts 📻
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📖 Ohhh, I had a few possibilities for today’s category, but I think I’m going to suggest @alankdell.bsky.social’s “The God Sun”, a short story from “The Augment Saga” which I read on my Kindle recently(ish - in July!).

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #AMoRaR 📆
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I have only read “Kings of the Wyld” from that pairing!

🪐📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
☕️ I’d not really encountered “Stroopwafels” before watching a recent biscuit identification episode of #SortedFood channel on YT.

Then I saw @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social demonstrate them too!

So I swooped on a packet to try for myself 🤗

I’m not really a tea drinker, but in the name of science… 😊
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🧩 Very much enjoying the relaxed puzzle platforming of “Planet of Lana”.

I discovered a wrecked spaceship, and one of the portraits on a wall stopped me in my tracks because I thought it was Tali from #MassEffect!

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Post a perfect album.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM