Empire of AI wins the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction

Omg???????

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Headed off to London for 4 days to learn all about book publishing, meet other writers and bump into an agent or two.

Day 1: Writers Summit
Day 2: Book Fair
Day 3: Indie Author Lab
Day 4: More Book Fair

#booksky

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I have submitted my 4th novel to 10 UK literary agents. The probability of securing an agent is very low; if successful, the prospect of a publishing deal is not at all certain; and, if signed, it will take 1-2 years to publish.

"The game is afoot," Holmes said, rubbing his hands.

#booksky

Trump has ordered government agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tools The move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the US Department of Defense.

Stranger than fiction, or what? Trumps blackmailing an AI company for covert operations reflects one of the events in my latest book Choke currently out being queried with UK literary agents.

#booksky

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Always a good day to consider veering #plantbased

I went vegan 9 years ago and haven’t looked back. #Food #ClimateInfluence

Totally stable currency that is clearly the path to the future of the global economy with no downside AT ALL www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

I know this is about AI but I was thinking of the 'we must keep accepting the role of fossil fuels' crowd as I read this:

“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical slight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “stop trying to think of an alternative.”

Completed the manuscript for my fourth book, Choke, and sent it to my editor.

Elite Australian firefighter Miro Jackson makes a gruesome discovery. Why didn't the farmer's personal AI, his Other, tell them to get out?

The Quantum Realm Trilogy by Robert P. Edwards

Ok, that’s done. Moved from Australia to the UK ‘lock, stock and barrel’ as the natives say.

Now time to sell more books.

Oh, and try to get an agent and publishing deal.

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The world's highest court declares states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with judges finding that states affected by global warming could be eligible for repa...

The recent ICJ ruling on holding nations accountable for climate change is a step in the right direction. I wonder if Vanuatu will now sue Australia for being one of the worst offenders?

#greensky

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The Quantum Realm Trilogy Book Review

Always happy to get a sticker from a book reviewer. Read Book Nerdections editorial review of The Quantum Realm Trilogy here.

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#BookSky #TheQuantumRealmTrilogy #robertpedwards #scifibooks #bookreview

World Energy Supply and Demand - 25 Years Later

25 years of "progress" on World Electricity Demand and Supply

Upper-middle-income demand per capita UP 300% from 1,416 kWh to 4,739 kWh in 2024

Low-income DOWN 39%

PROVIDED BY FOSSIL FUELS
WORLD
99 - 64%
24 - 59%

US 71 to 58 (-13%)
EU 51 to 32 (-19%)
CHINA 83 to 62 (-21%)
RUSSIA 67 to 64 (-3%)

In a world of rising seas and rising AI, human evolution takes an unexpected turn.

The Quantum Realm is a science fiction thriller set in a plausible future where technology outpaces evolution and the environment is collapsing.

Get into the series today from $2.99

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A map of northern north america overlaid with the Environment Canada weather warnings for June 6 at 2:30pm MDT. There's a patch of southwestern BC from Vancouver Island to the Okanagan interior coloured grey. A huge stretch of the provinces is coloured red through northern BC, northern Alberta, Northern Saskatchewan, Northern and central-eastern Manitoba, Western Ontario, and north-central Quebec with serious air quality warnings. Parts of northern BC, northern Alberta, northern Ontario, southern Ontario including Toronto and Ottawa, southern Quebec including Montreal, and the Atlantic Provinces (New Brunswick and Labrador in particular) are coloured grey with air quality warnings. A small patch of Nova Scotia in the south-east of Canada on the Atlantic ocean is coloured yellow with a severe thunderstorm watch. All these air quality warnings are due to wildfire smoke.

So... every single weather warning on this map except the grey in the southwest corner of BC (early season +30C heat) and the yellow in Nova Scotia in the south east on the map (severe storm watch) is about wildfire smoke.

#CdnPoli #CdnWx #Wildfire

With the first day of Australian winter coming in a couple of weeks, Autumn makes a brief appearance. Temperature records just keep getting smashed in the lucky country. #greensky

A little oversold (like X/Twitter). The key point is that anyone who has their own website domain can change their Bluesky handle and be verified by simply adding a DNS entry. Neat.

Who told you that you have to finish every book you start?

The Quantum Realm Series Barnes & Noble eBook collection.

EASTER SPECIAL EBOOK GIVEAWAY

Get stuck into an exciting science fiction thriller for FREE this Easter.

Enter promo code BNPBLUESKY at checkout on BARNES & NOBLE for FREE eBook versions in the Quantum Realm series.

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If you haven't noticed before, the Spotify algo has confirmation bias--it keeps playing you the same artists over and over. For me it was Fleetwood Mac although I've never liked them. I recently worked out how you can tell it to never play a specific artist ever again. Small wins.

Here's the promo for my book series launch. From climate scientists and WHO officials to resistance fighters and AI entities themselves, this epic trilogy examines how humanity might adapt when our technology outpaces evolution and our planet can no longer sustain us. robertpedwards.com
#booksky

The secret joys of schadenfreude It gives us gleeful moments of guilty pleasure. But finding fun in the misfortunes of others is also an emotion that plays a crucial part in binding society together

Schadenfreude, or the joy at others misfortune, reflects the absurdity of our attempts to appear in control in a world forever slipping out of our grasp. It testifies to our need to not feel alone in our failures, to seek the consolations of being part of a community of the failed. Do you need it?

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We had some Polish relatives visit a few weeks back. I served my signature Spagbol made with meat-free mince and didn't tell them. They loved it (and they're Polish - who's national dish is sausage). The product was cheaper than real beef, too. IMO the challenge is 90% psychological.

Have not eaten beef lamb or pork for over a year now, and cut down on dairy. Being mostly vegan most of the time has been much easier than I thought it would. Meat-free products are growing. In developed nations (that do the most harm ecologically) the solutions are out there.

Fourth Law of Sustainability: Live in Smaller Spaces

The cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance. We don't know how to use energy. It is about the waste of human energy as much as it is about the waste of fossil fuel energy.

#greensky

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The Climate Changed ... So Must We. So the backdrop is climate change but the themes are AI and human consciousness related. I enjoy thrillers, too, so that's the style. It's professionally edited by the way unlike some self-pub stuff.

robertpedwards.com THE CLIMATE CHANGED SO MUST WE

After 2 years, the books are finally out. Thought-provoking science fiction thrillers that balance hard science with deeply human stories. Promotional pricing starts at $0.99 for Book 1 and $7.99 for the Box Set. Please visit my website to find out more. robertpedwards.com/the-quantum-...

What does spending a long time in space do to the human body? Prolonged periods in orbit can alter an astronaut's body in some surprising ways, changing their muscles, brains and even their gut bacteria.

It's good news the stranded astronauts are getting rescued by SpaceX. However, are humans designed for Space? After all, it took a million years for us to adapt to life on Earth.

Is a SpaceX Mars shot even feasible? Or belongs in the realm of science fiction and fantasy?

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