My wife had gone into TK Maxx & I was loitering for a while next to this bin when I first had the idea for the Immeasurable Heaven sometime in 2018. I always make time for a bit of loitering now - you never know when you’ll come up with something that drains your lifeforce, vampire-like, for years
Two notebooks filled, so time to turn the sod on this fantasy novel & begin the actual typing of it.
Always some false starts at this stage as I try to work out where to enter the story, then of course I need to stop and take essential photos of my laptop, and by then the day’s pretty much over
Delighted to find both Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus shortlist this year, amongst some amazing company!
So this is a thing if you're free later today. No trouble if you're busy. We've all got a lot on our plates these days.
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Home to some excellent book post - the House on Utopia Way by the brilliant and multiglottal (although that sounds like a medical condition) @stefmowords.bsky.social
Poster-style illustration showing eight different alien species against a white background. The title of the game and the name of each one can also be seen.
Poster style color illustration of An Antidote for Strychnine, a song by The Mountain Goats. It's composed of several panels displaying different images based on the song: lab rats, chemicals, fish bones... Green and blue tones predominate, but the band's name and the song title are written in yellow.
Illustration representing Summer Eternal's structure with the visual metaphor of a factory, accompanied by texts explaining it.
Comic page, showing some sort of control room inside a dome.
Hi! I'm Lur Noise; illustrator, concept/2D artist and comic creator.
I like drawing machines, architecture and critters, and have worked for people such as Deconstructeam, The Mountain Goats and Summer Eternal ~*
#PortfolioDay
Had some statements for books of mine that have earned out (the dream!) so I think it's worth reminding people: if you love an author, seek out her backlist. Ask bookshops to order them if you can. Bookshops these days often won't have older titles, because of space limitations & returns policies🧵
Having so much fun writing my first ever fantasy novel. This is the one project I’ve been putting off for years, tinkering with notes but always thinking I needed to wait for the right time to begin in earnest. But bugger it - now’s as good a time as any to lose yourself in something you love doing
These interactive sessions with Tom have been some of my favourite ITR streams ever. Hope you can join us on Saturday!
Ca-caw! We're back #InsideTheRookery this Saturday for the 4th (and final?) Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop with feathered friend @tomtoner.bsky.social aka @caspargeon.bsky.social !
This time...the plot thickens!
Saturday 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT
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A photograph of a page of pencil sketches of four heads. Left to right and top to bottom: a light skinned person wearing glasses. Their hair is shaved on the sides but long on top. They have a foster and are glancing to the right, and they're labelled "David Cartwright"; a bald, light skinned man with a goatee, smiling slightly and handing to the right, labelled "Charlie Stross"; a light skinned person with short dark hair and a delicate bone structure, labelled "Everina Maxwell"; a light skinned person with fluffy short dark hair and visible stubble, smiling and looking to the right, labelled "Tom Toner". There is a note in the top left corner in block capitals that says "Space opera", and a note above the sketch of Charlie Stross that says "it had to have a mass crucifixion of burning Mr blobbys," in a pseudo-cursive hand.
Another #eastercon panel sketch! This time we're talking Space Opera.
Go on a SF spree as we all look to the stars ❤️❤️
I’ll be moderating ‘Go and Tell the Bees’ at Eastercon this afternoon, so come along if you want to know about… er, bees? I’m not actually sure what it means, but there’s a chance we’ll find out at 3pm in the Salisbury-Wellington room
Nominated for the Philip K. Dick award!
THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, @caspargeon.bsky.social 's reality-bending SciFi that reads like a fable from another galaxy, and features an entirely non-human cast!
“Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social
Buy geni.us/immeasurable
Looking through a stack of notebooks from about 2015, when I was working on my second Amaranthine book - have a cheeky spaceship
I recommend the baffled-looking Romans in Cirencester museum
Promo for the event, which calls across the stars, as ancient as a signal from a civilisation light years away, all to say: IT'S TONIGHT! STARK HOLBORN CASPAR GEON Doors 6:30pm, Tuesday 10th March Star of Kings, near Kings Cross, London Free! (Donations welcome)
TONIGHT! Two amazing, inventive, out there, genre expanding and right now awards nominated books, introduced by their authors: Caspar Geon and Stark Holborn
Head to Star of Kings, near Kings Cross London, 6:30pm, free!
Limited time deal on Amazon for the Immeasurable Heaven
Apparently there’s a limited time deal on Amazon for the Immeasurable Heaven paperback - you can hang out in another galaxy with a completely alien cast of characters for £6.54 until March 16th
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Promo for the event, which says: AWARDS SEASON SCIENCE-FICTION BSFA NOMINATED STARK HOLBORN PHILIP K DICK AWARD NOMINATED CASPAR GEON 6:30pm, Tuesday 10th March Star of Kings, near Kings Cross, London Free! (Donations welcome)
It's awards season in UK science fiction - come and meet BSFA nominee @starkholborn.bsky.social and Philip K Dick nominee @caspargeon.bsky.social - readings, chat, Q&A
Free! srfcmar2026.eventbrite.com
Staggered into the excellent @pgwells.bsky.social today in Winchester to spoil another fresh copy of the Immeasurable Heaven. Really lovely bookshop in a beautiful city.
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A paperback copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN on multicoloured fabric with crystal stars and planets.
Next week, 25th Feb 6:30pm, you can see @tomtoner.bsky.social / @caspargeon.bsky.social - Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN - at Waterstones Worcester's SFF Author panel exploring Character Creation!
Click on the link below to book your ticket!
https://bit.ly/4qQH9Hh
Just ruined a few copies of Immeasurable Heaven down at Forbidden Planet London today
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I’ve never done an eligibility post before because my books aren’t well known, but this little monster’s been unexpectedly nominated for a couple of awards now (& took a huge amount of work to bring to life) so any votes for upcoming stuff would be very much appreciated 🍻
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I'm teaching at this!
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
Come on down to Waterstones Worcester on the 25th of Feb, where I’ll be discussing some extremely bookish bookery with @starkholborn.bsky.social, @thomasdlee.bsky.social and Stephen Aryan
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The Solaris Books on the BSFA Shortlist: Best novel: Anderson Versus Death, Anna Smith Spark The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson An Unbreakable World, Ren Hutchings Ragwort, Sam K. Horton The Unkillable Princess, Taran Hunt The Fourth Consort, Edward Ashton The Immeasurable Heaven, Caspar Geon Best Cover: The Door on the Sea (Sam Gretton) The Immeasurable Heaven (Sam Gretton) The Salt Oracle (Sam Gretton) Saint Death's Herald (Kate Forrester) Ragwort (Veronica Park)
We are DELIGHTED to see many Solaris titles on the BSFA Longlist!
Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!
And here’s the form if you fancied voting for anything on the list:
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Amazing article, 2 thoughts
1) absolute cosmic horror fuel (as per Ethan’s note)
2) they gave it to mice. Did the mice see mouse-sized people or even tinier mice?
Wonderful to be on the BSFA longlist for the Immeasurable Heaven, and to see that its brilliantly psychedelic cover by Sam Gretton is on there too. Thanks @bsfa.bsky.social !
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