iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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.

151

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.

020

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

Are you likely to be at the Satellite convention in May?

200

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...

amazon.co.uk

Amazon.co.uk

062

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.

160

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....

030

Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I had it suggested to me I do some kind of talk or something at the shop, but with there being other writers local to the area it made more sense to me to bring in other people, particularly Morgan, since he had recently made a splash with his books. I’d run into him before so it was easy to ask.

110

Reposted by Gary Gibson

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.

0113

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

021

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.

130

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-...

amazon.co.uk

040

Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Would actually make a great Youtube channel as well, although without the budget to actually buy wood, do carpentry and travel very far, could still visit people's book collections (bigger the better) and talk to them about it. I'd watch it.

010

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

Haven't finished it yet, but it's the definition of mindfuck by quantum physics. Deep explorations of the very structure of reality. Really don't know how it's going to end, but so far it's great.

000

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.

160

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?...

youtu.be

Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown

YouTube video by Laurence Mason

140

Reposted by Gary Gibson

Sam @sambeau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

051

Reposted by Gary Gibson

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.

4651261188

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.

050

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.

240

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.

020

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

That actually gave me a headache.

110

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.

040

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

The trick is to never let it out of your sight. Not even for one second.

010

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

It's like climbing up a wall. Not going that specific way again.

110

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

In case anyone's interested, the bike is a custom-built, titanium frame road bike built by a local company called Performer who, I think, also make bikes for Trigon.

110

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

I'm thinking of doing a couple of short multi-day trips next year, but I won't be going that far, or that hard, on each day: based on recent experience, fifty to sixty miles a day is easily achievable, unless there's a lot of climbing involved. And if the way is flat, further yet.

110

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

After that, all I had to do was follow my usual route back south, fuelling myself with onigiri rice snacks and a Coke from a vending machine. The good thing about all this from my perspective is it's given me a sense of how much I can achieve in a single day where cycling is concerned.

110

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

By this point, I'd passed beyond mere fatigue and into some other realm where all that mattered was keeping the wheels turning: my whole world became reduced to a constantly undulating highway that felt like it stretched out forever--at least, until I got to Beitou, to the north of Taipei.

110

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

It was only a mile and a half, but still. After a bit of cursing I managed to turn around, and at least had the wind at my back. I followed the road all the way west, past the lighthouse that marks one of Taiwan's northernmost points, and then south.

100

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

Eventually I hit the coast and mostly turned west. I say 'mostly', because after a brief pit stop at a 7-11, I found myself wondering why the sea was suddenly on my left rather than my right...which is when I realised I was cycling the wrong way.

120

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

I was directed to a small, outdoors dining area on the opposite side of the road, where I found myself surrounded by large soft toys and pink seating. After all that, I pretty much flew up the remaining ascent before the eventual descent.

100

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

So now you know: if you're up that way and fancy a bit of fish, you're sorted. I don't know why, but I seem to come across a lot of fish restaurants in the oddest of places when I'm out cycling.

110

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

I came to this conclusion because the owner excitedly showed me pictures of cooked fish on her phone: she wanted me, I think, to tell everyone I knew about the fish, and that they should go to her restaurant to eat it.

110

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

On the way past a middle-of-nowhere restaurant some time around 11am, a woman yelled out 'coffee', so I stopped and had one along with a Taiwanese egg tart, which are small, yellow pastries. As far as I could tell, though, it was mainly a fish restaurant.

110

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

That's where the climbing got ridiculous. But once I reached Zhongfu Rd, the scenery got pretty spectacular. There's a reason a lot of people like to cycle and hike up there.

110

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

Once out of Taipei, the route took me north-east, past the Palace Museum and along Zhishan Road before heading up Route 28-2 and thereby cutting straight through the mountain range to get to the other side.

110

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

They were all, reader, coming from the other direction: meaning the hill I was ascending was a hill everyone else would much rather descend.

130

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

I spent a lot more time pushing my bike up some of those hills than riding them. I've found one quick clue to whether or not you've bitten off more than you can chew is whether other cyclists are going the same way as you, or if they're all coming from the other direction.

110

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

This time, my route was a loop going completely around the Yangmingshan mountain range in the north of Taiwan. The first 40km took as long as the next 80, because of endless traffic lights en route through Taipei, but mainly because once I hit the mountains, it got very steep, very quickly.

121

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.

1130

Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you mean the route via Keelung, a mixture of both: I got Komoot Premium on a deal, and that shows you the official bike paths - without it highlighted, it's not very clear otherwise. The first time I went to Keelung it was before I got Premium. 2nd time better, but not better enough, I felt.

100

Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I remember. Did try the Keelung route again a week or two back and it was better, but still too much traffic and noise for my taste. This time, I avoided it entirely by taking the route in the picture.

bike route east of Taipei, looping north and then west to Keelung.

100

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.

150

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.

130

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?

340

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

A lot of people apparently hate The Wanderer (or so I've heard) but I have a perverse love for that book. It's gloriously bonkers. Although it's been a good few years since I last read it, I think.

110

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-...

amazon.co.uk

Amazon.co.uk

012

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

There’s usually pretty good accommodation for bicycles on these routes I find, plus, if something really big comes up behind me I sometimes stop if it’s practical to let them pass

010