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Andrew Knighton

@aknighton.bsky.social
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Writer of sff + comics. Rearranging words for a living since 2013. he/him Mailing list: eepurl.com/Zviqn Also found at andrewknighton.com

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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 11h
@robertsmalan.bsky.social joins Luna Novella! Those Who Are Left Behind, novella adaptation of his 2018 BFS Award shortlisted graphic novel The Prisoner, illustrated by John Cockshaw, takes us back into the depths of Morningstar Prison, in this psychological horror. @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
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Robert S Malan Joins Luna Novella 2027!
Robert S Malan returns to join the Luna Novella series! Those Who Are Left Behind, the novella adaptation of his 2018 BFS Award shortlisted graphic novel The Prisoner, illustrated by John Cockshaw, ta...
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 11h
Blood In The Bricks is NewCon Press's book of the month for October. Not only did it scoop a BSFA award earlier in the year, it's shortlisted in the British Fantasy Awards Best Anthology category, the winner of which will be announced at Fantasycon next weekend, too. Get yer urban folk horror here!
Advertising graphic for a folk horror anthology, titled Blood in the Bricks. The cover features a man with a rat's head in a seedy alley. The graphic is titled: OCTOBER'S BOOK OF THE MONTH.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13h
China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. buff.ly/ZfRCR1q #ShareGoodNewsToo
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China’s air best on record, delivers $715 billion in health benefits: officials
More than a decade after China launched an aggressive campaign against the choking smog, the country’s air quality has reached its best level on record, with the cleanup generating an estimated 4.8…
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On my stag do. Being the best sort of nerds, the best men organised a treasure hunt, & in a touching detail the rounds are themed (kind of) around my books.
A piece of paper on which is printed:
Bonus Challenge: "Monsters!"
Lena Sturm, Executioner of Monsters, sets you a challenge:
Monsters!
Make a catalogue of the incredulous, the terrifying, the outlandish, the unlikely, and the awesome.
...photos and tales of:
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RJ has all the best writing advice.
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to the weekend and back to a Normal schedule hopefully have your latest Wombling Along time for recharging www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...
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Wombling Along! — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! Well that was a week where I think being rather stressed and far too busy caught up with me that I caught some lurgy. But sometimes some enforced rest does all the magic and this week I g...
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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New article from me. Joanna Russ's The Female Man, and a Christmas Carol. "There Were These Three Ghosts..."
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There were these three ghosts… — Speculative Insight
The week before Eastercon 2026 I sat down to write a conclusion to the talk on Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) that I was planning to give, and I wrote this line: Joanna is being visited by th...
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can a gay lizard alien find love? Or a trans woman astronaut? Wiz Duos Book 4 has some very intimate first contact stories by Stephen Cox and Ellen Mellor. On pre-order: wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover for Wiz Duo 4; art by Roz Clarke.

The image for Marooned Off Ceres shows the head of an astronaut in her helmet gazing up at a turtle.

The image for Top Tips for Loving a Lizard shows a Godzilla-like creature cuddling an ape.
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's the first Friday of the month, so time for some flash fiction. After asking on here for fantasy equivalents of data centres, this evolved from adventure story into fable, which may or may not make sense in its message but felt cathartic to write. andrewknighton.com/downriver-a-...
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Downriver - a fantasy short story
A community's wellbeing is threatened by a sorcerous construction up river from their homes.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 02/10/2026
It is me! Talking to Marco and Tariq at @ukpageone.bsky.social about writing and the vagaries of the publishing industry
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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A cathartic read Hurray for lusty mammoths!
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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 02/10/2026
New review - Cold War spionage meets fantasy, weird cities, is there somebody we can trust?
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's the first Friday of the month, so time for some flash fiction. After asking on here for fantasy equivalents of data centres, this evolved from adventure story into fable, which may or may not make sense in its message but felt cathartic to write. andrewknighton.com/downriver-a-...
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Downriver - a fantasy short story
A community's wellbeing is threatened by a sorcerous construction up river from their homes.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit
an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate
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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 01/10/2026
Wickhills, by @premeemohamed.com (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social) is a brilliant and weird novel, a story that scales from "low fantasy espionage" into "okay, just let the author cook) in the best of the senses. I can't recommend it enough, but here's a review: jamreads.com/reviews/wick... 💙📚
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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite
In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy October! 🎃 Celebrating with a surprise new ghostly flash with @talesfrombetween.bsky.social ! Three steps to sell a haunted house: Chapter One - an income diversification guide for mediums... 👀👻✨️ Enjoyed the 3-paragraph challenge! Read it here: talesfrombetween.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEXT WEEK 👻 We're telling scary stories and going ghost hunting in Blackwells Edinburgh. Feeling brave? Tickets available now: www.ghostsociety.co.uk/haunted-and-...
A graphic sharing the event information. Authors Rhiannon Grist, Lyndsey Croal, Claire Schultz, M K Hardy and Alex Howard are telling scary stories at Blackwells South Bridge in Edinburgh on Wednesday 7th October from 6:30pm.
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's writing is a return to my lovely, ineffective spaceship cleaners, who I've left stuck in a cliffhanger for far too long. My return to the manuscript will not make things any better for them.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026
The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens"
Poster
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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 30/09/2026
you DO all gotta read the spider civilisation books. first one won the Clarke. totally defeated my arachnophobia for as long as I was reading. here's a link: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...
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Children of Time: The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning science fiction novel
Humanity is overrated.The tenth anniversary edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s critically acclaimed Children of Time – an epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of t...
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a great book, a gripping murder mystery set in an alternate Britain that feels like a twisted mirror vision of where we are right now.
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With Fantasycon getting ever-closer, our online content editor @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with this year’s Guests of Honour for a very different sort of interview. Today, it's acclaimed horror author @vlatinalondon.bsky.social. britishfantasysociety.org/meet-our-fan...
The background is like parchment paper, with tentacles creeping in from the top right corner. The text invites you to meet the guests of honour at Fantasycon 2026, with images of interviewer Lauren McMenemy and interviewee/GoH V Castro at the right side.
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Meghan Ellis Brown @meghan0n.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a great opportunity for someone - I love Sunless Sea / Skies, they're masterpieces of the creepy and unsettling.
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Less than two weeks until the launch at FantasyCon, and pre-orders are now live! wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...
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The Executioner’s Blade – Wizard's Tower Press
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's writing is revising. I've been at it long enough that I'm getting itchy to work on a first draft again, where the words flow, but I really want to get this finished first.
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us tomorrow night at 7pm UK time on YouTube and meet the amazing contributors of Collective! youtu.be/Lu2RX8mgfTc?... @dancoxon.bsky.social
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Collective: The Collaborative Art of the Anthology - Launch
YouTube video by Luna Press Publishing
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 27/09/2026
Over on the blog today. The Hour of the Enormous Justice Men. alasdairstuart.com/the-hour-of-...
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The Hour of The Enormous Justice Men - Alasdair Stuart
NCIS is 1,124 episodes and 53 seasons deep. This is the trailer for the latest iteration and it got me thinking. That is Ladies Love Cool James himself as NCIS Agent, Navy SEAL and man whose entire back day workout is carrying his backstory, Sam Hanna. First introduced in NCIS: Los Angeles, now on his […]
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The last panel feels like a philosophy for our times.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It was late spring when a noise echoed down the mountains, like boulders smashing into screeching geese." That's where today's weird ideas have taken me, at least for a start.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Book Birthday to Barbara Stevenson's Scottish Gothic exploration! 🥳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👻 Visit our website to find out more! Amazing illustrations by Holly Stanford and cover image by Fernanda Zamora! @booksfromscotland.bsky.social #ScottishGothic www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...
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The Kirk, the Deil and the Grue Atween | Luna Press Publishing
What defines Scottish Gothic, specifically, what separates it from traditional Gothic fiction yet keeps it in that mould? This book is for all lovers of Gothic fiction; readers, writers and those in...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning Bluesky.
Comics panel: a man and a woman talk
Man: I'M IN CHARGE! WE'RE THE LEGIONNAIRES OF EARTH!
Woman: YOU’RE IN CHARGE?
A MALE?
Man: OF COURSE!
Woman: YOU MEAN EARTH
STILL HAS A PRIMITIVE.
PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY...
RULED BY MEN?
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's writing features a mammoth. Or maybe a giant aquatic snake. Possibly even a dragon. Look, the important part is that there's a big beastie, it's going to trash the dumb stuff people have been building,* & writing your frustrations into fiction remains cheaper than therapy.
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
100% this - Broken Veil is brilliantly unsettling, built around the shiver of uncertainty.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3456 goes a-courtin'
Two bunnies are in a rowboat on a small pond, flanked by leaves overhead. One bunny rows the boat, while the other serenades with a small guitar.
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh this is lovely.
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Robin CM Duncan @robincmduncan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Bob Hoskins used to say "It's good to talk", and it was great fun to talk to Karin about British Fantasy Society Horizons, the society's biannual anthology of fiction, poetry and art. Fiction submissions open now! britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch...
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BFS Horizons – The British Fantasy Society
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28/09/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "pretty sure i'm dead and this is hell"
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's writing includes my next newsletter. Unless other inspiration hits in the next few hours, it'll contain a dark little story about farming that's as close to horror as I go. Which reminds me, I have a newsletter, where you can get stories, recommendations &, well, news: eepurl.com/Zviqn
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a beautiful optimism to any document with the word "final" in its name.
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's writing includes my next newsletter. Unless other inspiration hits in the next few hours, it'll contain a dark little story about farming that's as close to horror as I go. Which reminds me, I have a newsletter, where you can get stories, recommendations &, well, news: eepurl.com/Zviqn
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a thing the Right seem to get that centrists just can't. If you're going to lose the next election (and you are, btw), everything you do is something that the next government has to either leave in place, or spend time getting rid of instead of pursuing their own agenda.
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