New Video! My recap of February's science fiction reading. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup
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New Video! My recap of February's science fiction reading. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup
youtu.be/eYxe8Nqi7g8
The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
RELEASED TOMORROW!
A traumatised bounty hunter. A betrayed pirate queen. An ambitious politician. Can they somehow work together to save the human race? Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social and available through all good booksellers.
New Video! An overview of The Culture, the setting for some of my favourite science fiction books. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #spaceopera #theculture
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Cover for Planet of the Apes. Three men rowing a dingy superimposed on the head of an ape.
Cover for Garden on the Moon. A collage cover with a flower, earth, spaceman, and mythical being.
Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, film stills, 1968; R, uncredited, 1966
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1987 Battletech art by Doug Shuler
New Video! I chat to @hutchinsondave.bsky.social author of the Fractured Europe series, and most recently of The Essence which I read and very much enjoyed last month. Check it out 👀! 📚🪐🩵 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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And if this 👇👇👇 isn't enough Ken for you, here's a chat we had a couple of years back.
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Cover for The Genocides. An alien device incinerates people. Others flee inside of the stem pf a huge plant. There's a burning city in the background.
Cover for Camp Concentration. The shattered pieces of a man's face against barb wire.
Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Richard Powers, 1965; R, uncredited, 1973
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Repeat viewing of the berserk artwork of Chris Foss and John Blanche for Battlefleet Gothic, Warhammer 40K (1997 Foss, 1999 Blanche)
Jitterbug hits shelves 4 weeks today, and it’s going to take you on one heck of an adventure!
Preorder from your favourite retailer.
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Cilia Flores, who was captured by the U.S. with her husband, Venezuela’s longtime authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, is one of the country’s most powerful political figures. She helped consolidate his rule while controlling the judiciary and amassing wealth through corruption, experts say.
By some distance my most viewed video of 2025 and indeed ever. Not sure why this one specifically, but it tickled the all-powerful algorithm for some reason. 🤷♂️💙🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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ICYMI, some gratuitous book haul joy. Love a good haul, me. 🪐💙📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting #bookhaul
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Cover for Icehenge. The titular monoliths on Pluto with various shapes below them.
Cover for The Game and the Ground. Various youths stand around a mansion in a state of decay
Short Book Reviews: Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge (1984) and Peter Vansittart's The Game and the Ground (1956) sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/12/22/s...
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There's still time, but the survey will close late tomorrow, so get your thinking cap on and get your top 10 science fiction books in, and your top 5 science fiction book series too. 📚🪐💙
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Cover for No Room For Man. In classic Powers style, it's a surreal collection of shapes with vaguely human form.
Cover for Way of the Pilgrim. Man and woman stand above a city. In the middle of the city is a huge building with large statues next to it.
Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Richard Powers, 1963; R, John Berkey, 1987
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"On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out there on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw."
JITTERBUG by Gareth L. Powell. Coming 3rd March 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social, available to preorder now.
Links: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
Promotional art for ‘The Battle of Galactica’ at Universal Studios (1979)
One from earlier this summer looking at my full collection of 25 Venture SF books, all space adventure, all published in the mid to late 80s. Check it out! 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookcollecting
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Thumbnail for a video, Best Time Travel Sci-fi
Bit later on, I'll be looking at some fantastic timey-wimey books. 5.15pm UK time! 🪐📚
Who will you save? By Gareth LPowell.
Out today from @titanbooks.bsky.social: 32 stories from the past 20 years, and one question: who will YOU save?
Special Effects master Brian Johnson working on Alien (1979), Space 1999 (1975), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Dragonslayer (1981)
Shelf full o' scifibooks.
Shelf 45 in my science fiction library. This one is mainly short story collections, one anthology, and a few novels too. #shelfie #scifibooks #sciencefiction
Other Spaces, Other Times by Robert Silverberg.
This is heading my way, a writing memoir/bio from Mr Silvertongue himself. Should be interesting. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
Cover for Dreamsnake. Woman's face is covered with snakes. Only her cheeks, nose, and mouth are visible.
Cover for Fireflood and Other Stories. Winged blue humanoid alien flies above an armadillo creature. There's a massive volcano in the distance.
Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, George Underwood, 1979; R, Charles Shields, 1979
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Awooga 🚨, awooga,🚨 lucky dip, get 5 signed hardbacks for £4 (+shippihg) at Newcon Press. They're having a proper clear out. There's a fantasy and a horror equivalent and a mixed genre option too. Get some!
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Haul from NewCon Press sale.
Results of a recent splurge on the NewCon Press special offers page. 3 novellas, 3 short story collections/anthologies and one novel. Splendid. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #bookhaul
ICYMI earlier, I have a book out today!
Desperate times, desperate measures. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
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So, you have a story but you're having trouble getting started? Here are my 5 top tips.
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