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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Toward The Night by James Swallow

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Toward The Night by James Swallow

Waterstone's Rose Lane in Canterbury

Waterstone's Rose Lane in Canterbury

My #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds novel TOWARD THE NIGHT is out in paperback this week - I'll be joining fellow author @unamccormack.bsky.social at Waterstones Rose Lane in Canterbuy this Thursday to sign books & talk Trek! Tickets are still available at the link! ๐Ÿ––
www.waterstones.com/events/james...

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The 1st published superhero RPG in history, too!

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IME, most agents don't engage with tie-ins unless the margins are good.

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The Star Trek Battle Manual by Lou Zocchi from 1972, later withdrawn for legal reasons, would become the basis for the long-running Star Fleet Battles tabletop wargame.

The Star Trek Battle Manual by Lou Zocchi from 1972, later withdrawn for legal reasons, would become the basis for the long-running Star Fleet Battles tabletop wargame.

Space Patrol, a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game published by Lou Zocchi's GameScience in 1977, heavily influenced by Star Trek.

Space Patrol, a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game published by Lou Zocchi's GameScience in 1977, heavily influenced by Star Trek.

RIP Lou Zocchi, master of weird dice & creator of the d100 Zocchihedron; also a key figure in #StarTrek games history, writer of the 1st (unlicensed) ST tabletop wargame that evolved into Star Fleet Battles + publisher of Space Patrol, arguably the roleplaying game that set the tone for ST RPGs. ๐Ÿ––

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(At Gatwick Aviation Fair): "Bring me the head of IG-88!"

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THUNDERBIRDS: HIDDEN DANGERS - INTERNATIONAL RESCUES - A Short Story Anthology

THUNDERBIRDS: HIDDEN DANGERS - INTERNATIONAL RESCUES - A Short Story Anthology

New blog: Thunderbirds Are Go! Announcing THUNDERBIRDS: HIDDEN DANGERS - INTERNATIONAL RESCUES, a collection of all-new original short stories from @gerryanderson.bsky.social, edited by myself & Andrew "A.C." Clements, coming later this year! Read more here: jswallow.com/thunderbirds...

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I still have all the GW reissues from this range... ๐Ÿ––

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I've been working on something very cool with the Anderson Entertainment team over the last few months... All will be revealed today!

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I remember the bomber jacket Lucas wears in the novel as described was one owned by Peter Morwood...

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Ian was slightly nonplussed when I told him how surreal reading that story was for me, but generously inscribed my copy 'For the REAL James Swallow!'; raising a๐Ÿบ. 4/4

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Vertumnus includes the story "The Odour of Cocktail Cigarettes", a first contact tale where advanced aliens test humanity to see if we're ready to join the galaxy at large; the POV character recruited to the team solving their puzzles is a science-fiction writer...whose name is James Swallow! 3/4

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Queenmagic, Kingmagic cover

Queenmagic, Kingmagic cover

The Coming of Vertumnus cover

The Coming of Vertumnus cover

Ian Watson's #Warhammer stuff is wild, but my 2 favourites of his are Queenmagic, Kingmagic (a must read for any boardgamer) and his short fiction collection The Coming of Vertumnus (for a weirdly specific reason). 2/4

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A great pity to learn the ineffable Ian Watson, brilliant author & a founding father of #Warhammer fiction, has passed on. I will never forget being on a Warhammer 40,000 panel with him where he *Spake Thusly* for the whole hour, answering all questions in character as Imperator Chosen Scribe. 1/4

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Back atcha.

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I talk to Jay about some book reccs in his newsletter, read more at the link...

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The maps are really neat. I used the Discovery and Leonov (with some modifications) as ships in my Star Frontiers campaign.

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The thing about Kubrick, he was such a perfectionist, he would only film the moon landings on location...

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Well done Pat.

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And so to #Salute53, for some gamery... ๐Ÿซก

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Black t shirt with NASA logo & synthwave style sunrise art.

Black t shirt with NASA logo & synthwave style sunrise art.

Final #MoonShirt of the week: NASA Synthwave Sunrise. Welcome home #Artemis!

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My 2p on covers: I despair of browsing shelves to see title after title that looks near-identical, same compositions, framing, colour palettes, fonts... It's one thing to follow a broad convention/form ("spaceship = SF"), but when everything literally looks like everything else, I lose interest.

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Hard agree to all of this; you could swap out your references to SF/fantasy for any type of crime/thriller genre & this is just as true...

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The glut mentality in publishing (all the similar titles in similar sub-genres with similar-looking covers) seems ultimately self-defeating to me. It drives away readers who don't want the Current Shiny Thing & even people who like whatever "it" is eventually get oversaturated...

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Your comments about TCM + debuts ring true across the board, though!

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Essential reading:

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Karman Line Orbit tshirt from RedHerring

Karman Line Orbit tshirt from RedHerring

Today's #MoonShirt: Karman Line Orbit from RedHerring.

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Thanks for your insights. I wish I could get a similar read on the state-of-play with crime & thrillers too...

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Grey t shirt with blue art of a 1970s Shuttle and red NASA text.

Grey t shirt with blue art of a 1970s Shuttle and red NASA text.

Thursday's #Moonshirt: 70s NASA Shuttle

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You get it.

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