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
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Greetings and good morning it’s the Friday farm rush hour with our forever friends
'Build in limitations because magic can be plot-breaking' 🔮
We caught up with bestselling fantasy author Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social to discuss what first sparked her love for the fantasy genre, how she incorporates magic into her worldbuilding and our Writing Fantasy course.
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
An imaginary view of a harbor with vintage sailing craft and a massive stone arch
Safe Harbor
Watercolor - 22x15 inches.
#art @bsky.art
First Mage On The Moon by Cameron Johnston. Against a twilight blue background, a rusty magical rocketship readies for launch, with engineering diagrams off to the side.
Happy Launch Day to me!
First Mage On The Moon is out today.
Delighted to find both Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus shortlist this year, amongst some amazing company!
Attention Reading nerds! This looks great, and I shall definitely be there.
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.
www.reddit.com/r/TheCaptive...
Actually I can’t remember if you’ve told me about this, or if I’ve made it up in my head.
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
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
Greetings and good morning it’s the Friday farm rush with our birds included and of course potato the cat
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.
Legend says that the Hilton Birmingham Metropole was designed by King Minos as a baffling maze to imprison his monstrous son but the Minotaur moved out after waiting an hour to get served at the bar.
Congratulations!
Framed citation "A Special Citation of Excellence: UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES.
Friends, am delighted to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social 's 'Uncertain Sons and Other Stories' has received a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Congratulations, Thomas!
A tiled compilation of book covers for Solaris SciFi to read on your way to the moon! MICKEY7, ANTIMATTER BLUES, MAL GOES TO WAR, THE FOURTH CONSORT, AFTER THE FALL by Edward Ashton THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon LADY EVE'S LAST CON by Rebecca Fraimow THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING by Jon McGoran SINOPTICON edited by XUETING NI THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE HUMAN SON by Adrian J. Miller REDSIGHT by Meredith Mooring NINEFOX GAMBIT, RAVEN STRATAGEM, REVENANT GUN, MOONSTOM, STARSTRIKE by Yoon Ha Lee THE IMMORTALITY THIEF and THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS by Taran Hunt UNDER THE FORTUNATE STARS and AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel THE MISHEARD WORLD, SKYWARD INN and THREE EIGHT ONE by Aliya Whiteley THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN, THE QUANTUM GARDEN, THE QUANTUM WAR, THE HOUSE OF STYX, THE HOUSE OF SAINTS by Derek Kunsken THE CALCULATING STARS, THE RELENTESS MOON, THE FATED SKY, THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY, THE SPARE MAN by
As the world has come over all SciFi with the #ArtemisII mission, we thought you might be interested in a selection of Solaris SF Books to read on the way to the moon!
From Adrian Tchaikovsky 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas, to Mary Robinette Kowal 's LADY ASTRONAUT novels & more! 👇
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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
Locus is of great benefit to both new and established writers. That’s as true now as it was prior to the Internet. It’s still a non-profit. Help it keep helping.
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
I really enjoy every stage of the writing process (even the bits I think I don’t like always turn out, like an adventure, to have been fun in retrospect). I’m addicted to it - you’d have to be, considering how little money I make - so the point of using AI to make a ‘book’ escapes me completely
if you are using AI to 'write', you are only proving that you can't do what I do, and you have no intention of learning how to, either.
And worse, you are fundamentally missing the point of writing, art, and creativity.
10/10 no notes
tonight in Waterstones, Manchester Deansgate i have the great pleasure to be interviewing @aptshadow.bsky.social for the launch of his 4th book in the Children of Time series, Children of Strife. if you’re around, please join us for the chat at 6:30pm. it’s going to be fun!
Looking through a stack of notebooks from about 2015, when I was working on my second Amaranthine book - have a cheeky spaceship
