A figure points at a bookshelf in the shape of a Christmas tree which is decorated with lights and has a star on top and says: "It combines the festive jollity of a regular Christmas tree with the clear message that I'd like every one of my gifts to be a book."
A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!
Christmas Ballet ✂️❄️
Great interview with two-time Clarke Award winner Geoff Ryman in the latest SFX Magazine which landed with me today! #weekendgeeking
Yours if you want ‘em…
Huge spider currently parked outside our front door. If I go missing, this is Suspect No1!
(Kinda cute though)
One of my publishers has just launched an exciting new sci fi / fantasy digital-only publishing division which has a really fair deal and accepts submissions from both agented and unagented writers.
If you’re unagented and we’re mutuals, hmu if you want an intro. And please RT!
Oh how cute. Someone tried old school plagiarism instead of generating their plagiarism.
Banned.
Clarke Award logo refresh for 2024 and beyond 🤩
This is a closeup of one portion of the painting 'The Witches' Cove' where a circle of cats stands on hind legs, holding hands and dancing in a circle. One ginger cat sits in corner playing music for them on some kind of flute or recorder thing.
Cats dancing in the Witches' Cove! 16th century. www.artnet.com/artists/jan-...
girls pointing at cat eating spaghetti meme, only they're all zombies girl says 'I buried you in a Cemetary' and the cat replies 'Sematary'.
all time best version of this meme
🦇Happy Halloween 🧟♀️
I take it for granted that medical AI will help us engineer better healthcare outcomes, but when it comes to the laboratory of the creative arts I’m with @tomgauld.bsky.social
Also spotted at the V&A (but not the Chanel exhibition obvs)…
At the Chanel exhibition, V&A London.
Weekend reading.
Hoping to find out if the angle between two walls really does have a happy ending…
This is the event I'm doing Thursday night in London at Trafalgar Sq @waterstones.bsky.social with the brilliant Laura Jean McKay and Ned Beauman - both winners of the Arthur C Clarke Award. Please come by! Ticket info below:
Irrational? this seems entirely sensible to me…
“Tom’s in the water. Shark’s in the water. Our shark… Farewell and adieu etc etc”
You wait ages for a Clarke Award winner event, then you get three awesome authors all on one night!
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/laura...
Good news, everyone!
Delighted that THE CORAL BONES, shortlisted for the Clarke Award 2023, has been acquired by Jo Fletcher Books!
New print edition coming early 2024 and ebook version available now: amzn.to/48KPX9A
Covers of three books, each showing young women : The Murders of Molly Southbourne The Survival of Molly Southbourne The Legacy of Molly Southbourne
For all your Halloween needs, accept no substitutes.
What do you do when every time you bleed, you grow a double that wants to murder you? How do you live?
Molly Southbourne knows.
3 novellas.
Get 'em while you can.
Hospital of the Future, our major MedTech showcase at New Scientist Live, is taking shape.
14 demo stands across cutting-edge surgical robotics, 3D printing, smart imaging, virtual reality and more!
A great write up of this year’s Ada Lovelace Day Live event (this Tues 10th Oct) on Stylist 👇
Leake St street art
Live footage of me after my first day back at work after a beautiful holiday in Florence…
Footage of me being dragged back to work after a lovely holiday in Florence!
Award-winning author @laurenbeukes.bsky.social is joining me for a chat about how research a book, including deep listening, how to set up interviews, and ethics. Plus how her ADHD diagnosis changed her life and what it was to see Shining Girls adapted for TV. 23 Oct, 19:00 BST, free.
Cafe table art
Florence sunset
Perseus with the head of Medusa
