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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Evening, Womble. I am reading "A Quest for Orion", which I first read decades ago and had completely forgotten the title of until about three weeks ago when I saw a copy on ebay. It's a YA novel set in a post invasion UK and is much stranger than I remember.

Photo of the cover of A Quest for Orion by Rosemary Harris, which shows doorway shaped artwork of a ruined city through the fallen walls of a house, with a glowing Excalibur esque sword in the foreground and what seems to be an arrowhead shaped craft in the dark sky above, under Orion, the winter constellation. The whole image is surrounded by barbed wire.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sad to report that my amazing cat (Mister) Marlowe has died at the grand age of 21. She shouted at the world, a lot.

A photograph of a shorthair tortoiseshell cat, staring at the camera from atop her plinth of adoration

A photographic Portrait of the Marlowe As A Young Cat seated on top of a freezer cabinet in a brick-walled garage, jaws wide, teeth visible, shouting at the world, as she was very fond of doing.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter V.

Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, in a still from the movie Dracula/Horror of Dracula (1958). Van Helsing is using two candlesticks to form a cross.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Afternoon Womble, just finished Paul McAuley's Loss Protocol which I apparently enjoyed more than you :) Now onto Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King & Bilquis Evely, who did the excellent Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

Photo of the cover of Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley - cover is pale blue with white writing at the top for the title, the letters have a falling sand or dust effect at the lower edge, and there is solid black writing at the bottom for author name, between the two is large picture of a sepia toned moth of some kind that seems to be trailing dust from the edge of its wings

Photo of the cover of the Helen of Wyndhorn graphic novel. Title in ornate yellow letters at the top, names of the creative team at the bottom: Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Matheus Lopes, Clayton Cowles. The cover art image is the main character, Helen, red haired, sitting on a raised piece of grassy ground, holding her knees, beside a leather travel bag. She's wearing 1930s style clothing; shoes with spats, a brown check skirt, yellow short sleeved blouse. Roots in stylised animal forms are emerging from the earth around her but she's staring directly at the observer. In the background, a large country mansion, and beyond that the impression of a vast sword hilt and in the clouds the face of an older gentleman with flowing pale hair peering down.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I bought this Spanish (which I cannot read) edition of 'Citizen of the Galaxy' just for the cover.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It looks like the beach front /collapsing city from Inception, which to be fair would explain a lot.

Limbo City of skyscrapers collapsing into the sea from the movie Inception

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Selling another random thing from the house of too much stuff Big Country at the BBC CD/DVD box set www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25730287...

Photo of the cover of the Big Country at the BBC cd/dvd box set, showing an illustration of the BBC HQ building with the statue on the front replaced with a stylised image of Stuart Adamson with guitar

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Selling more random things from the house of too much stuff Fallout RPG core rulebook & GM Toolkit www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25729861...

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Time to sell off a few more things I no longer require... Ghost of a Tale PS4 collectors edition www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257281920586

cover of PS4 collectors edition of Ghost of a Tale, showing a mouse bard with a lantern and a lute

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

No cheating, reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s)

Photograph of face of domestic short hair tortoiseshell cat, aged 21

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Probably these. But a half hour from now and I'd probably think of something else :D

Poster for the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Afternoon Womble. Just started reading Pagans by James Alistair Henry, which is a murder thriller thing set in an alternate 2023 where England avoided the Norman invasion of 1066 and is made of up an uneasy alliance of Saxon, Celt etc tribes. Setting not quite gelling yet but the writing is good.

Pagans by James Alistair Henry, Waterstones edition hardcover with red Celtic style knotwork columns on a red background, the red title outlined in black, and two red figures in a black tear/blood drop in the centre of the cover

Map from the front pages of Pagans, showing the Kingdom of England broken into various tribal areas e.g. Greater Mercia, South Western Tribal lands etc. Scotland and Ireland are similarly labelled with indications of the altered background of this setting.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Afternoon Womble :D Just started Rob Schrab's "Scud the Disposable Assassin: The Whole Shebang" collection - assassin robot discovers he'll explode if he kills his target so decides to do something else with his life... (planned to re-read Men At Arms, but I only found my copy after starting this)

photograph of the cover of Rob Schrab's Scud the Disposable Assassin collection from Image comics. The Whole Shebang - beginning - middle - end.
The main image on the cover is Scud, a mostly yellow with red sleeves humanscape robot brandishing two automatic pistols. His left eye is a black circle, his right eye is a larger white circle with a black outline.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Hey Womble! Busy day so just posting this now. About to start reading The Weapon Shops of Isher by AE van Vogt. Which I have been meaning to get around to for probably decades at this point 0.o

Photo of New English Library paperback edition of The Weapon Shops of Isher by A E van Vogt showing a desert scene, some strange rocket type weapons and a capitol building in the distance.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Afternoon, Womble! Today I am reading Future's Edge by @garethlpowell.bsky.social It's not actually out until the end of the month but arrived very early and I couldn't resist starting it. So far: great setting, interesting characters, fantastic action scenes. Highly recommended to everyone :D

Photograph of the cover of the paperback edition of Future's Edge, a science fiction novel by Gareth L Powell. The cover is mostly yellow, showing a dark figure foregrounded against a ruined cityscape.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In fact I just found the image I immediately thought of (whilst i was ignoring the whole 'actual lightning bolt' aspect of the card)

Photograph of British Lightning jet aircraft flying at steep up angle with tiny fields and houses below.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Morning Womble! Today I will be mostly reading: Blake's 7 Production Diary Series A.... and then I will get back to reading Alan Moore's The Great When, a novel about a mysterious Other London.

Photograph of the hardcover book Blake's 7 Production Diary Series A; the cover includes the title and an image of a model of the Liberator spacecraft from the show

Photograph of a hardcover copy of the novel The Great When, written by Alan Moore. The dust jacket has been removed to show the blue binding and gold coloured title/author text on the spine, and also there are some silhouettes of birds (mostly corvids) flying about an impression of a Londonesque landscape on the front cover.

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Search ur camera roll for shark (Exploris, January 2020)

Photograph of some kind of shark in an aquarium at the Exploris centre in Northern Ireland, January 2020

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Having been playing a bit of Starfield lately, and discovered the perfect shop (for me anyway).

Screenshot of a store in the Starfield game with a sign that says Sinclair's Books

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

A tortoiseshell butterfly earlier today...

Photo of small tortoiseshell butterfly resting on some leaves

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Evening Womble. Currently having a quick re-read of The Light and Darkness War before I move onto something else.

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