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George Sandison

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Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him. AGENCY out now shorturl.at/iqPUx

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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 6h
See, I'm a pro-EU kinda guy, but WTF are these masks? Terrorise friends and family by looking like an enamel demon that crawled through a little girl's sticker book! Hoping mainstream media outlets will replace your eyes with the infinite darkness of an uncaring void? We got you!
Two pro-EU people celebrating Burnham's comments on the EU in today's news (assuming the pic was taken today!) by wearing creepy AF masks decorated with the European Flag. Photo taken from The Guardian.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 10h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 11h
I'm a little bit proud to report two books I edited are on the shortlist for the Aldiss Award - CITY OF ALL SEASONS by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social & Aliya Whiteley, and THE GRIMOIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION by @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social. Two super good, and very different, books!
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I only read the transcript, didn’t see the speech itself, but the shock of it genuinely choked me up in places. If even a fraction of this comes through, just the sheer hope of it. The idea that he’s there to try and better a country, that things can be terrifyingly difficult but we do them anyway.
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Indie Horror Chapter @indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👻 HAPPY RELEASE DAY 👻 The Show Goes On: Strange Stories of Ramsey Campbell. Edited by Jeremy Dyson. A chilling new collection, spanning @ramseycampbell.bsky.social’s career, The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson hand-picks his favourite tales by one of Britain’s greatest living horror writers.
The Show Goes On: Strange Stories of Ramsey Campbell. Edited by Jeremy Dyson (Tge League of Gentlemen)
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Delighted to hear stuff like this from a PM; some context on how it needs to be said precisely, while in public office.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. So manye hues of greene. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After 2.5 days of going through spreadsheets, I can now confirm, beyond ambiguity, that the Anthropic claims sheet is a hot mess.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People of the federated states - this book is a legit banger, I fully endorse you getting on it.
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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Engines Beneath, U.S. -- My upside-down folk-horror-but-in-a-housing-estate novella is now available in the US thanks to the good folk at @influxpress.bsky.social. It's a very handsome book that would look lovely in your absolutely giant American bookshelves.
Cover for Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (lots of gears and cogs under some nodesript houses. One of the cogs is a big old eyeball. It looks great. Luke Bird did the cover and I'm very chuffed with it.) The book is on a table in a New York park.
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pseudotooth is a completely unique take on coming of age portal fantasy, and while I get “why it wasn’t huge,” I did feel like it should have been huge.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fantastic Planet is on Prime UK, and man what a trip. A fever dream world, the stepping stone from the Codex Seraphinanus to Scavengers Reign in exploring an alien ecology. An avalanche of wild imagery.
A screenshot from Fantastic Planet (1973) showing a Draag council. 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=ext_shr_lnkA screenshot from Fantastic Planet (1973) showing a weird pig thing that just munched on a newly hatched creature. 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=ext_shr_lnkA screenshot from Fantastic Planet (1973) showing a humans in an alien factory. 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=ext_shr_lnkA screenshot from Fantastic Planet (1973) showing two rockets landing near giant headless statues. 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me grabbing the lapels of the YouGov guy with the clipboard: I FULLY TRANSCEND REALITY, YOU PIECE OF SHIT.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Simultaneously common sense (young readers place themselves in things more) and totally wild. The older people get the more likely they are not to imagine anything at all? Do retirees experience fiction as an all-encompassing reality while reading? What the hell is that, and how do I get some?
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those who haven't had the pleasure, an evening in the company of @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is a very good evening.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You know how some weeks are lovely, and some just want to kick you in the nuts repeatedly? Well this week has revitalised my interest in codpieces.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Desire and identity are inseparable...the capacity for genuine desire is not innate but developed, and it develops only when a child is free to follow impulses that arise from within." Why I try to spend less time online. Be the dad you want to see in your kid. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m a psychoanalyst. Social media is damaging children’s inner lives in ways we don’t fully understand | Robin Kirman
Discussion has focused on behavioral outcomes. But Meta’s settlement shines a light on damage to young people’s emerging desires and identities
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trusting the reader to be smarter than you is a core principle of all good world building. Building space into the world for ambiguity and mystery is essential for good writing. I honestly don’t think abandoning these principles can produce anything with wonder about it.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking forward to hearing Piddington's symbolic proposals for healthcare, defence, energy, water purification, agriculture, trade agreements, fuel, roadway maintenance, digital infrastructure, waste collection etc Possibly the most facile & naive bit of posturing I've ever seen from The Poshlands.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 10/09/2026
I’m unclear on why tech guys are surprised that more and more normal folks think they’re ontologically evil
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Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 10/09/2026
Positive tipping points can still help repair the planet, @EarthshotPrize and @UniofExeter study finds Positive tipping points with the potential to trigger rapid positive, self-propelling planetary repair by 2030 are still possible www.forbes.com/sites/jamie...
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Positive Tipping Points Can Still Help Repair The Planet, Study Finds
The report highlights more than 50 key ‘solution areas’, with the potential to trigger rapid and transformative change to repair the planet within the next five years.
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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey. If a small press wants to give you a digital-only, royalty-based multibook deal for books that haven't yet been written, run. Lots of small presses use this royalty structure because they have no assets, and this allows them to offload nearly all risk to you.
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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 09/09/2026
We're excited to see what Nebula, Locus, and British Fantasy Award winner @pdjeliclark.bsky.social comes up with for us! He's the author of A MASTER OF DJINN, RING SHOUT, THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS, and the Dead Djinn Universe stories. 🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! bit.ly/LS-NM-26
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Anthropic Class Action settlement details have just caught up with me, so picking through that now. Spot checking a few lines of the conflicted claims section and... it's not without imperfections... TITAN AUTHORS, PAST AND PRESENT, WITH CONCERNS - Please contact me directly so we can fix it!
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Anthropic settlement claim notice really is a bit of a mess, isn't it?
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you’d like a signed copy of the final Sandman Slim novel, IN THE DEVIL WIND, you can order it from the link below. If you’d like signed copies of any of my other books, scroll down the page or email samantha@riverstonebooks.com shop.riverstonebookstore.com/book/9780063...
the cover of in the devil wind
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QuiteBrief @quitebrief.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Cyberpunk - Bad MFs - Corporate malfeasance - Violence - Identity - Upgrading your sound system Try: @trnapper.bsky.social's The Escher Man nappertime.com/my-books/ A troubled hard boiled street samurai's memory loss has him asking questions that just lead to more trouble
Cover of T.R. Napper's The Escher Man
A futuristic, wet,city street with towering buildings is lit in  blue and pink neon.
A figure in a trenchcoat and boots is walking away from the viewer.
What looks like a few neurons drawn in lightning cross the cover, with one lighting up the head of the figure.
Title text reads
The
Escher
Man
"An incisive and self-assured
voice in near-future fiction. One
of those writers with an effortless
grasp of the highs and lows 
of human nature."
Adrian Tchaikovsky,
Author of Children of Time
T. R. Napper
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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wondering what I've been working on? Well the news is out! Meet TOKAMAK, our first person, surreal, limbic narrative horror game set on the Glasgow Subway... (Oh and give Box of Greebles a follow while you're at it!)
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Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today's mini-interview for the BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU #anthology ( @titanbooks.bsky.social 9/22) with author TAIYO FUJII . Link: www.jonathanmaberry.com/lp-book-big-... Scroll down for the OTHER interviews. #kaiju #bigbadbookofkaiju #giantmonsters #scifibooks #scifimonsters @henryherz.bsky.social
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes you are, babe, and don’t you ever forget it.
A Sexy Shrimp (Thor amboinensis) looking extremely sexy.
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
From @starkholborn.bsky.social, lots of lovely SFF peoples on this list! go.bsky.app/FvJuYVv
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bit of a roller coaster afternoon. On the upside, Coyote vs Acme did everything I hoped it would. On the downside, cosplay paramilitary wannabes miraculously dodging all arrests should have had the commitment to the bit to finish their walk back in the sea.
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Illumicrate ✨ @illumicrate.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
📣 Illumicrate Scam PSA We've been made aware of someone impersonating Illumicrate reaching out and offering to include authors in a summer event series and/or a feature in our subscription in exchange for a fee. This is NOT us, and it is a scam. (cont.)
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1/ While everyone, me included, is having a laugh at the fraudsters being caught in a fraud, lets talk about poll faking. The machine that just got caught working for Reform is the same one that has been manufacturing public opinion about trans people for a decade. 🧵
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026
Hi! Anthropic Q&A re:rights reversion and publisher claims. This is not legal advice; I can't give you legal advice. What I can do is tell you what I would do under certain circumstances.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A brace of absolute belters here, read back-to-back. The Solnit in particular is outstanding.
Paperback editions of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers and A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can confirm the Scottish Highlands are still freaking gorgeous.
Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, including the Three Sisters covered in fog.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On a train to Glasgow with some American lads chatting about camping in Penrith by the chat. And one of them just revealed he doesn’t have a tent. Cue many prognostications of death, in many soggy forms!
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’ve had the godawful song from the Pepto-Bismol ad stuck in my head for 24 hours now. Contemplating extreme measures to purge it…
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Khan Noonien Singh with Ceti Eel Device
Alt: Khan Noonien Singh with Ceti Eel Device
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Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Morality is at the heart of INCARNATE. We're in the fake it til you make it era where "cheating is a form of problem solving." This excellent piece by @adamgrant.bsky.social examines how current moral connundrum www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
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Opinion | The Only Way to Stop Students From Cheating (Gift Article)
Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.
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Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey guys, I have a book coming out in Sept, a month absolutely crowded with horror releases, and I could really use your support. Please like, comment, repost and all the good things. Thank you
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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WIN 1 OF 3 BUNDLES OF 10 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD BOOKS! We’ve teamed up with the British Library for a huge Halloween giveaway. Please re-post – the more entries, the more promos we can run! Enter here: tinyurl.com/GW-W3ird UK only. Ends 31 Oct. Good luck!
Promotional graphic for a book giveaway set against a purple background. Large bold text in the centre reads "WIN TEN TALES OF THE WEIRD BOOKS", with "WIN" and "BOOKS" in white, "TEN" in neon green, and "TALES OF THE WEIRD" in yellow.

Ten paperbacks from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection frame the text, displayed in two rows of five with colourful illustrated covers:

Top row: Circles of Stone (blue), Cornish Horrors (teal), Into the London Fog (yellow), The Platform Edge (pink), and Summoned to the Séance (orange).

Bottom row: Spectral Sounds (purple), Phantoms of Kernow (cyan), Return of the Ancients (yellow), Medusa (green), and Eerie East Anglia (teal).
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Solar farms usually need large stretches of open land. India found another place to put them: directly above water that was already flowing through irrigation canals.The idea took shape in Gujarat. #ActOnClimate #Renewables #ClimateActionNow #solarpower
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Will LEZ for children.
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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What, exactly, does 'beyond excited' mean? Asking for an industry.
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