Anna Erhard - Picnic at the Seaside (Official) YouTube video by Anna Erhard

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Day 21
⛱️ Found at the beach
👩🏻‍🎤 Anna Erhard
🎵 Picnic at the Seaside (2022)
💿 Campsite

a picture of yoda from star wars with the words `` get lit , we must '' . ALT: a picture of yoda from star wars with the words `` get lit , we must '' .

As we have #StarWarsDay (May 4) and #TowelDay (May 25) coming up, is someone making a #scifi #MusicChallenge for next month?
I mean someone other than me of course, because I'm rubbish at social media.

English Teacher - The World’s Biggest Paving Slab | Later... with Jools Holland YouTube video by BBC Music

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Day 20
🏗️ Something hard to lift
👩🏽‍🎤 English Teacher
🎵 The World's Biggest Paving Slab (2024)
💿 This Could Be Texas

Middlesbrough Comic Con - 10 May 2026 at Middlesbrough Leisure Centre

Cymera Festival, Edinburgh, 6 & 7 June 2026

Newcastle Comic Con, 26 July at Sport Central, Newcastle.

Literary Escape Festival, 22 August, Newcastle Racecourse

Book signing events for the next few months lined up with @cymerafestival.co.uk, Creed Conventions and Literary Escape.

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BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

100 Records YouTube video by Gramme - Topic

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Day 19
🎤 Found in a Music Shop
👩🏻‍🎤 Gramme
🎵 100 Records (2022)
💿 Listen to the Girl

#pretendpanel
I do have a WW2 alternate history kicking around that I might get around to doing something with one day, although even that is more 'what if WW2 never happened'.

I guess there are just other things I'd rather write about.

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Betty Boo - Let Me Take You There YouTube video by SindeeLoohoo

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Day 18
🍦 A messy food
👩🏻‍🎤 Betty Boo
🎵 Let Me Take You There (1992)
💿 GRRR! It's Betty Boo

...It's so hot 'cause my ice cream's melting...

(Just an excuse for a total guilty pleasure really!)

#pretendpanel
Not as much as it used to. As a kid I read Battle and Battle Action Force comics every week until it disappeared, and a lot of non-fiction about the Royal Air Force until much later, but it rarely shows up in my reading these days.
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Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Official Music Video) YouTube video by The Ramones

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Day 17
📺 An appliance
👨🏻‍🎤 Ramones
🎵 Blitzkrieg Bop (1976)
💿 Ramones

I might be bending the rules with this one, but if you live in the UK in the 21st century, this is the electrical appliance anthem, am I right?

Kate Nash - Foundations YouTube video by KateNashVEVO

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Day 16
🍋 A hated fruit or vegetable
👩‍🎤 Kate Nash
🎵 Foundations (2007)
💿 Made of Bricks

'He said you must eat so many lemons
Because you are so bitter...'

I have no Topic for today's #WIPSnips, but by a curious coincidence I was re-reading this chapter from Bit#2 yesterday, which has a Marathon in it.

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808 State - In Yer Face (Official Video) YouTube video by Abstructure

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Day 15
🦶 Body part (not heart or eyes)
👨🏻‍🎤 808 State
🎵 In Yer Face (1991)
💿 ex:el

Those early 90s visuals tho! Also, accidental crossover with #JacktheHouse, which I'm not officially playing.

SPRINTS - LITERARY MIND (OFFICIAL VIDEO) YouTube video by SPRINTS

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Day 14
📖 Something you read
👩‍🎤 SPRINTS
🎵 Literary Mind (2022)
💿 Letter to Self

'From the confines of a page in the vastness of a book'

Throwing Muses - Dirty Water {1992} YouTube video by Worried Tunes 2

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Day 13
💩 It makes you dirty
👩‍🎤 Throwing Muses
🎵 Dirty Water (1992)
💿 Red Heaven

Subject of the infamous 2004 copyright case after DJ Miss Peppa Pig used a sample on her single 'Jumping in Muddy Puddles'. Miss Pig was forced to sign a reality TV deal to cover costs.

IDLES Rock Out To Hey Duggee's 'Stick Song' | CBeebies YouTube video by CBeebies

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Day 12
🫟 Something sticky
👨🏻‍🎤 IDLES x Hey Duggee
🎵 Stick Song! (2024)
📺 Hey Duggee

Yes I'm back in the CBeebies soundtrack, and not even sorry - this is awesome!

#pretendpanel

My first book was a retelling of the Old Testament account of Abraham as a space opera (Countless as the Stars), and my most recent is a look at the religious themes in Red Dwarf compared to the Bible (Where Do All the Calculators Go?).

So there's that.

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I feel I have done enough research now to confidently confirm that Cadbury's Orange Mini Eggs are now peak chocolate.

#EasterEgg #Chocolate

Digital Rust - Bobble YouTube video by DigitalRustMusic

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Day 11
🎀 An accessory for hair
🧑‍🎤 Digital Rust
🎵 Bobble (2011)
💿 Loophole EP

Major flashback to the time I took my kids into Claire's accessories and it turned out to be a portal to a dark realm ruled by robot overlords.

#pretendpanel

Well, as a Christian, possibly not as big a place as it should!

But seriously, I like to read sci-fi stories which also explore faith and religion, by Christians about Christianity (or an analogue), or by anyone just using scifi to look at the themes.

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Queenadreena - Medicine Jar (Official Music Video - Band Version) YouTube video by Philly Peroxide

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Day 10
🫙 It has a lid
👩🏻‍🎤 Queenadreena
🎵 Medicine Jar (2005)
💿 The Butcher and the Butterfly

Bit of a change of pace here...

That's a bold claim, but completely plausible. And if it isn't your actual tag line, it should be.

#SFFChat Outro

Thanks for asking!

And following on from Q4, I actually did write the (arguably) next best thing: 'Where Do All The Calculators Go? - the Gospel According to Red Dwarf'.
books2read.com/u/49VPy8

#SFFChat Q4

I have long been interested in the intersection of science fiction and faith, and the book I would love to write (but never will) is 'Who is this God person anyway? - The Gospel According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'.

Well I did do it for fun back then, so it wasn't the actual gaming as much as me completely having forgotten how to play that had the yikes effect...

#SFFChat Q3

I do enjoy a bit of 'realistic' sci-fi here and there, Stephen Baxter's NASA trilogy being one (well, three) that has stuck with me for that reason.

#SFFChat Q2

Well, I'd be lying if I said researching all those old games for The Ambivalence Chronicles was 100% a chore....

Although, very satisfying to find this 1987 OS map (nowhere near Kettering or Corby) a few years ago, for geographical research for a novel set in the area in 1988.

#SFFChat Q1

A bit of both. I'll get the big picture research done beforehand, but specific details I'll either look up en route or note for later while I'm getting the first draft down.

Being a car geek as well, I do need to know the exact shade of yellow a character's XR3 might have been in 1988.

#SFFChat intro:

Hello, I'm Steve, sci-fi and GameLit author. I prefer narrative non-fiction, like Vulcan 607 by Rowland White.

Björk : Hyperballad - Live 1995 (Later.. with Jools Holland) YouTube video by Björk's Joyous Tunes

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Day 9
🛏️ Found under a bed
👩🏻‍🎤 Björk
🎵 Hyperballad (1996)
💿 Post

'...car parts, bottles and cutlery...'