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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

ISBN's sorted, paperback and hardback proofs approved, checked, and uploaded, Kindle edition uploaded and proofed...I think with any luck that's everything ready for the release of Echogenesis 3, Echoterminus, this coming Wednesday 18th.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have a new rule that wherever I see this crop up, it immediately gets reposted. Still incredible. Best with headphones.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

And while I'm here, should probably mention book 3 in the Echogenesis series is done, dusted and ready for publication on March 18. Ebook is all prepped for Kindle in all territories, with paperback and hardback to follow close behind. Preorder link: www.amazon.co.uk/Echoterminus...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Popping in on one of my rare visits to social media these days to say I'll be visiting Glasgow in the second half of May for, errr...the first time in over a decade. There's a con on around then and I may be at that, and if I know you IRL and you fancy catching up, that would be great.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Cover art for Parsec #15, including my story, Night Like the Devil's Wing. The cover is by Ben Baldwin, who also worked on several of my books. There are also stories by, among others, Lavie Tidhar, Liz Williams, Priya Sharma and David Gullen. pspublishing.co.uk/parsec-79-c....

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James Geary @jamesmgeary.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Xenopraxis is a great continuation of @garygibsonsf.bsky.social's Echogenesis, and I absolutely devoured it. Just like the first book, it has plenty of action, peril, and lots more revealed about the colonisation mission, the indigenous Cents, and the planet itself. Highly recommend this series.

The cover for Gary Gibson's book, "Xenopraxis", showing a craft rocketing off a cliff edge towards the sky with a vast landscape stretching below the cliff of forests and rivers with the sun setting on the horizon with a flock birds flying towards it.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Heard there was a trend for posting first pages of novels on Bsky so figured why not: except this isn't the first page, exactly; it's the first page of an individual novella from a collection called Butterfly Box and other Stories. Link: mybook.to/ButterflyBox

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Heard someone talk about it being hard to get traction for their new book. I often pick up books after seeing a review on social media, so if you like a book and think other people would too, then, you know, tell us. In my own case, i just started 'High' by Adam Roberts, a 120 page ebook novella.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Been flattened by flu since the New Year, but seeing Europa Deep finally broke 1500 ratings/reviews on Amazon makes up for it while I'm hard at work on Echogenesis Books Two and Three. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Can never think what the hell to say that remotely connects with my writing day job (zero probs posting about cycling), so maybe I'll talk about what I've been reading: Observer by Nancy Kress, in collab with Robert Lanza, a leading medical physicist. The glittering diamond-tipped blade of hard sf.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Came across this nearly half a decade late, but it's still worth it. Stellar work. youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs?...

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Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown

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Sam @sambeau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Scare your health CEO with this one, simple trick: send them some Monopoly money.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Well, there’s a story.

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Very occasionally I’ll get a reviewer comment about one of my books (hard sf/space opera) having a touch of ‘woo’. I’m guessing none of them have read up on what quantum physics has to say about human consciousness, or about the nature of reality being a construct formed through consensus.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Funny thing is, he said my Scottish accent 'wasn't quite as strong' as his friends. Funny, because back in Scotland I was occasionally accused of sounding 'insufficiently Scottish' to the point I'd be asked if I was English. ENGLISH. "Yurr no' frae aroond here", etc.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Chatted with an American English teacher here in Taiwan and he mentioned a former work acquaintance from Scotland who had to receive special phonics lessons before he could even attempt to speak Chinese without a heavy accent that left everyone baffled. The struggle is real, people.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Should hit 50k on the first draft on the second of Echogenesis's two sequels later today. Now thinking I'll have complete first drafts of both books sometime late January. Hope I'm not overestimating my abilities by thinking I can edit an estimated likely total of 200,000 words by August.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Monday, I headed out on the bike a little after dawn, and got back home half an hour before sunset, making it not only the longest bike ride I've ever gone on, but also the hardest at 120km total distance. Add in 4,000ft/1,100 metres of climbing, and you've got a long, hard day in the saddle.

photos from a bike trip around Yangmingshan in the north of Taiwan.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Cycled to the N/E coast of Taiwan today: 6am start, then east to Fulong and north to Longdon, before turning west to Keelung for the train home-then snapped my bike's front derailleur 5 minutes after disembarking and had to take it on the subway instead. 100km ride, 4,000 ft total ascent.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I remember seeing this bellend on the UK news and the thought of him being in charge of anything more serious than a puppet show is less than edifying.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There's cozy romance, cozy mystery, and more recently, cozy fantasy. ...does that mean there's such a thing as cozy weird fiction?

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Forgot to mention my most recent book Europa Deep is a 99p Kindle Monthly Deal on Amazon UK until the end of this month. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When not writing, I go cycling in Taiwan. usually post about this on FB, but figured why not on Bluesky too? So here's a pic of the north-east coast of Taiwan on a very rainy, very blustery day. Meant to be a sixty mile ride, but cut it short at forty when the rain got too much.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just added a shitload of sf-related starter packs. If I just followed you and you're wondering who the fuck I am: Scottish sf writer, some hard sf/space opera/whatever books out from Pan MacMillan, and a bunch of others through small presses and my own imprint, Brain in a Jar. Lives in Taiwan.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Publishing industry challenge: evolve past your absolutely bonkers privileged 1950s white author model and pay writers a living wage. Make every title a lead title, only acquire what you can market and support, remove barriers to BIPOC authors, and dismantle the top 1%.

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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Still think this man is an absolute legend.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Butterfly Box and Other Stories, my new collection of short fiction and novellas, is out now. Get it here in ebook, paperback and hardback: mybook.to/ButterflyBox More details can be found on my blog: whitescreenofdespair.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-... Please share this post if you like my stuff.

Cover of Butterfly Box and Other Stories by Gary Gibson

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Got my proofs of the physical editions of Butterfly Box through - paperback and hardback - and they look great. I’ll have more details, plus buy links for all three formats, including ebook, sometime on Friday or Saturday.

Four photos of the hardback and paperback editions of Butterfly Box and Other Stories, by GaryGibson, published 15 Nov 2024

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

And so I arise from my long social media slumber to tell my few remaining followers that I have forthcoming a new book, Butterfly Box and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction, much of it previously published in various magazines. Ebook, paperback and hardback, pub. Nov 15, links to follow.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Not remotely surprised to see Handmaid's Tale is currently at No 2 on the US Amazon store. No 3 is On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. And No 1? 'Melania', by Melania Trump.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 10/11/2024

I kept waiting for my publisher to post about it or, I don't know, arrange for any interviews or podcasts or guest posts or anything, and haha NOPE. No marketing! No publicity! I had to go out and beg for my own blurbs! It is a secret book! ... At least the Womble reviewed it!

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The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man's Wife by Premee Mohamed — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Absinthe Books Published – Out Now Price – £18 hardback £2.99 ebook via https://pspublishing.co.uk/the-rider-the-ride-the-rich-mans-wife-ebook-by-premee-mohamed-6383-p.asp Lucas is...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Europa Deep's now got 900 reviews & ratings. Most sales are in UK rather than US, whereas Echogenesis' sales were much more evenly split. Not sure why, but why one country goes for a thing and another doesn't is one of the great mysteries of marketing. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

New on my blog: things I've learned about building a sustainable writing career - advice for formerly traditionally-published authors. whitescreenofdespair.blogspot.com/2024/03/surv...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Up to 700 ratings and reviews now for Europa Deep, and it's still on sale in the UK until the end of the month (and Echogenesis will also be on sale in a couple of days). Onwards and upwards, as they say. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Interestingly - to me, anyway - now that Poor Things is a film, it means that at least one of Alasdair Gray's books is now available as an audiobook.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Nice to see that Europa Deep is a Kindle Monthly Deal on Amazon UK: just 99p until April. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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James Geary @jamesmgeary.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Europa Deep by @garygibsonsf.bsky.social is a thrilling sci-fi novel full of subterfuge, action, and mystery. The exploration of Europa and its lifeforms were definitely selling points, too, and Gary's books never fail to deliver. Highly recommend!

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Europa Deep's still on sale in the UK, and is also now on sale on Amazon US with, so far, 450 reviews and ratings. Nice! It's going out in another promotional newsletter later today, and the sale will continue for the next several days. Get it while it's cheap. www.amazon.com/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Heads-up that Europa Deep is in a Kindle promotion in the UK for 99p. It's also going out in a Bookbub newsletter tomorrow, and from Sunday it'll be 99 cents in the US store (and going out in another newsletter). If you're thinking of getting it, now is the time. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

More from the 'well, that's nice' department: Europa Deep now has over 400 reviews and ratings on Amazon. Mostly from the UK, but with very few from the US. Echogenesis is still the only book of mine that ever really took off on both sides of the Atlantic. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Fun with magnets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rn5...

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Petition to honor Michael Shannon every Jan. 6

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

(checks calendar) Oh shit, I suppose that means I have to sit down and write a book now, don't I

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

350 reviews and ratings now for Europa Deep. www.amazon.co.uk/Europa-Deep-...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Must have been an easy choice for the BBC to film Conan Doyle's Lot 249 for television since, presumably, no other horror stories better deserving of adaptation have been written in the intervening hundred and thirty years.

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

As Xmas presents go, a very positive review for my 2022 novel Proxy in Publisher’s Weekly is pretty nice: “…a relentless cyberpunk adventure…(an) ambitious thrill ride.” www.publishersweekly.com/978986067703o

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Proxy by Gary Gibson

Gibson (Echogenesis) delivers a relentless cyberpunk adventure in which the very future of humanity is at stake. In the second h...

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Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Well, that's nice: Europa Deep got selected for something called the Kindle 2023 Top Releases Deal, meaning it'll be on sale sometime in January.

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