Paul McAuley
@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Beyond the Burn Line
Incoming (12th Feb 2026): Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
Latest novel: Beyond the Burn Line
Incoming (12th Feb 2026): Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
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[also, while we're on the topic of older SF that is unexpectedly on-the-nose, yesterday finished a re-read of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Cowboy Angels, about an America that semi-colonizes alternative versions of itself, including a former Nazi US once run by a "Dear Leader" with three idiot sons.]
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
[also, while we're on the topic of older SF that is unexpectedly on-the-nose, yesterday finished a re-read of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Cowboy Angels, about an America that semi-colonizes alternative versions of itself, including a former Nazi US once run by a "Dear Leader" with three idiot sons.]
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(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
I have done all the virtual tours and I really wish I hadn't.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have done all the virtual tours and I really wish I hadn't.
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Udo Kier's Criterion Closet picks.
Udo Kier’s Closet Picks
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November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Udo Kier's Criterion Closet picks.
By the shelter in the corner of the Sports Ground.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
By the shelter in the corner of the Sports Ground.