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Never Say Die book cover with an artwork of Death by Madison Lee Martin
Never Say Die back cover
Author Merri Andrew reading
Author Emma Gerts reading
Fantastic anthology launch last night for NEVER SAY DIE at Smith’s Alternative and I had fun reading alongside @merriandrew.bsky.social and Emma Gerts! Thank you everyone who attended and made the night a blast! Great to meet so many of the authors and get my copy signed. Stunning cover 🧵
10.11.2025 23:03
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Yep. Very disappointing.
10.10.2025 10:02
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The End Times of Markusz Zielinski, by Keith Stevenson – a race to the end
Novel
Title: The End Times of Markusz Zielinski
Author: Keith Stevenson
Publisher: self-published @ https://www.keithstevenson.com/books/end-times/
In which the Australian writer and publisher turns from the enjoyable space opera of his Lenticular books to harder science fiction, portraying the mad scramble to save a last outpost of life from a collapsing universe. Once again, Stevenson provides a living culture, enough details of the factions and entities to make the world believable without bogging down in details. Indeed, there’s not much room for minutiae, as the story unfolds apace, the conflict driven by a political agenda of greed, ego and self-interest. The titular Markusz, a mathematician who may just be able to save what’s left if given the chance, has the clever foil of a ‘ghost’ of his dead wife as well as a strong supporting cast to contextualise the science clearly enough to allow the reader to follow along. And then there’s the question of the strange haven deep within the planet itself, and the mysterious connection to the force devouring the universe. It’s a blast.
Review time. Thank you, Jason Nahrung ❤️
10.10.2025 03:51
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The End Times of Markusz Zielinski. Pro-science, pro-hope, pro-humanity. #EndTimesMZ
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09.10.2025 04:21
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Marthe Firmin
Clare Perkins
Mayor of the planet Garia, Firmin has seen her entire society sidelined by the initiation of the Redout Project and her people’s culture and public spaces knocked down and reshaped by an overwhelming torrent of incomers. She’s angry and resentful, but she’s biding her time. There is a disaster coming and her all-consuming focus is in making sure her people, above all the others languishing on Redout, are safest of all.
Kelan Teel
Rhys Ifans
A mediocre scientist – if you listen to Markusz – but at heart and according to Helena (who knows him best of all) – a political animal with all the survival instincts of a rat. Teel has been chief scientist of the CSTO Task Force on the Effect for the last eighteen years (mainly because no-one else wanted a job that seemed doomed to failure), but like any rat, he’s determined to carve out a niche to survive in, no matter where he ends up, and screw anyone else.
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08.10.2025 05:36
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Ernes Fontaneau
John Noble
Patri of one of the oldest Great Paradisan Families, Fontaneau is a dangerous sociopath. Our same casual observer who had such a negative opinion of Markusz Zielinski, would instead by completely drawn in by Fontaneau’s apparent affable and warm demeanour. But our observer would be a fool – and in some degree of danger having let his guard down around this man. According to Sylfe, Fontaneau wouldn’t know a genuine emotion if it bit him. He is cold, calculating and more than a little dead inside. He may convince you a particular course of action is for the greater good, but really everything he does is for the furtherance of himself alone and if you happen to be in the way, well… it’s been nice knowing you.
Hugo Denantes
Paul Giamatti
If Fontaneau is a threat hidden in plain sight, Denantes is just an obvious threat. Youngest son of the Great Paradisan Family of Denantes, he’s lucky to have escaped being disowned, his peccadillos and excesses are so disgusting. Instead, he’s been sent to represent the family business, Fabrika SA, as part of the Redout Project. This is probably a bad thing for everyone involved (and whatever remains of humanity).
Elly Capalian
India Amarteifio
When she was just nine years old, Elly’s parents were killed while peacefully protesting the destruction of significant historical Garian sites as part of the Redout Project redevelopment. She’s tried not to let hatred of incomers overwhelm her, but as a member of the Garian Separatists she’s killed more than a few of them.
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08.10.2025 05:36
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Markusz Zielinski
Tom Hiddleston
A casual observer would opine that Markusz thinks a lot of himself. It’s an observation Markusz would agree with while pointing out that such high self-regard is entirely justified as he is not only a proven (and verified) mathematical genius but was instrumental in developing the only known method of saving the universe. The same observer would also note that Markusz loves his wife Helena deeply. Markusz would again agree. She makes him a better person.
Helena Murchadh
Tuppence Middleton
A brilliant applied mathematician, physicist and engineer, Helena rose quicky through the ranks of the M-Worlds Cooperative Sciences and Technology Organisation to become Chief Engineer for the CSTO Task Force on the Effect. Noted for her significant work in identifying the anisotropic nexus of Effect events, she also works closely with Markusz Zielinski, who she fell in love with, despite his ability to annoy the hell out of everyone else on the Task Force. She was the only one to see his potential and it was their collaboration which laid the foundations for the annulus.
Sylfe Cachand
Clémence Poésy
Sylfe, like her younger sister Yvette, was born through parthenogenesis. Her mother told her at an early age to, ‘respect herself and not be boring’. She’s determined not to be the stereotypical head of a Paradisan company (she heads up SolEng SA, which specialises in stellar engineering for M-Worlds), or a stereotypical anything for that matter. She has a deep understanding of stellar physics, a keen head for business and anyone who crosses her will live to regret it. But other than that, anything goes. The average and normal bores her – in herself as much as in others.
Meet the cast of The End Times of Markusz Zielinski #EndTimesMZ
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08.10.2025 05:33
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Hope is punk rock. #EndTimesMZ
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07.10.2025 04:59
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The coeur de lion stall at Conflux 19 in Canberra.
Day 2 of #conflux19 in Canberra and we are ready to sell more books!
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04.10.2025 23:30
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What if you could save the universe? Markusz Zielinski is trying, but what with being sacked, imprisoned, freed, kidnapped and threatened with death, no-one's making it easy for him.
Trapped in the middle of a factional struggle for dominance on the last planet, it's up to Markusz to save everyone despite themselves. Only problem is, he may be losing his grip on reality.
Cover of The End Times of Markusz Zielinski
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02.10.2025 01:32
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Out today 📚🪐 - The universe may be dying, but it's not the end of the world. Buy direct (with instant download) and keep money in creators' pockets: payhip.com/b/IjFwH
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01.10.2025 01:10
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Six Different Paths To Darkness, Only One Leads To Survival: The Choices Are In Your Hands. - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Six Different Paths To Darkness, Only One Leads to Survival: The Choices are in Your Hands. By Renée S. DeCamillis
Please welcome @reneedecamillis.bsky.social With this extremely moving article on mental health and her new book, with proceeds from sales are being donated to support Maine’s Mobile Crisis
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10.09.2025 08:13
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X6 a novellanthology
Pyrotechnicon by Adam Browne
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10.09.2025 07:20
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Cover of Wayfaring Stranger by Simon Petrie. Alien creatures float in the sky above brown clouds
My review of Wayfaring Stranger by Simon Petrie 🪐📚
Simon Petrie is one of my favourite science fiction authors working in Australia today. A self-described ‘reformed academic’, he has a special interest in planetary and interstellar chemistry, which means his written work often includes
21.08.2025 02:47
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Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards - Reactor
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Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
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19.08.2025 00:43
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*COVER REVEAL*
The final instalment in the Northern Weird Project!
Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements 🧡
A hallucinatory folk horror for those darkening autumn nights. Coming November 2025.
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22.07.2025 07:57
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How I created the cover for my next book. From initial concept to final cover. It did not involve "A💩I"
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22.07.2025 11:05
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Just some of the faces you'll see in The Lenticular Series...
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22.07.2025 01:18
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A copy of Traitor's Run (book 1 in the Lenticular Series space opera) by Keith Stevenson with the words 'Price Drop' (was $4.99 now $2.99) and the quote, 'Space Opera done right. Intelligent, thrilling, with heart.' Trent Jamieson, award-winning author of The Stone Road.
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07.07.2025 01:58
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ARC readers wanted for a wild ride at the end of the universe. The End Times of Markusz Zielinski by Keith Stevenson. Out 1 October, but you can read a review copy now!
What if you could save the universe? Markusz Zielinski is trying, but what with being sacked, imprisoned, freed, kidnapped and threatened with death, no-one’s making it easy for him.
Trapped in the middle of a factional struggle for dominance on the last planet, it’s up to Markusz to save everyone despite themselves. Only problem is, he may be losing his grip on reality.
The 'cast' of End Times includes Tom Hiddleston, Tuppence Middleton, John Noble, Clemence Poesy, Paul Giamatti, Clare Perkins, Charles Dance, India Amarteifio, and Callum Keith Rennie
The universe is dying, but it's not the end of the world. Coming from coeur de lion publishing - www.coeurdelion.com.au
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04.07.2025 01:39
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Book cover X6
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02.07.2025 05:42
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Michelle de Kretser’s 2025 acceptance speech
Michelle de Kretser on silence, fear and speech. stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...
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