George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 6hSee, 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! 020
Reposted by George SandisonFailbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 10hWe'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 331405919
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 11hI'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! 091
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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. 040
Reposted by George SandisonIndie 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. 1218
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Delighted to hear stuff like this from a PM; some context on how it needs to be said precisely, while in public office. 130
Reposted by George SandisonElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate. 630797
Reposted by George SandisonKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026So 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! 191388196
Reposted by George SandisonChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Peacehammer 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. 932283
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026After 2.5 days of going through spreadsheets, I can now confirm, beyond ambiguity, that the Anthropic claims sheet is a hot mess. 010
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People of the federated states - this book is a legit banger, I fully endorse you getting on it. 010
Reposted by George SandisonMalcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Engines 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. 184
Reposted by George SandisonBriar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Pseudotooth 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. 285
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fantastic 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. 161
Reposted by George SandisonVerity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me grabbing the lapels of the YouGov guy with the clipboard: I FULLY TRANSCEND REALITY, YOU PIECE OF SHIT. 112
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Simultaneously 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? 100
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026For those who haven't had the pleasure, an evening in the company of @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is a very good evening. 030
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You 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. 230
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...theguardian.comI’m a psychoanalyst. Social media is damaging children’s inner lives in ways we don’t fully understand | Robin KirmanDiscussion has focused on behavioral outcomes. But Meta’s settlement shines a light on damage to young people’s emerging desires and identities 000
Reposted by George Sandisonhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Trusting 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. 13010
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Looking 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. 120
Reposted by George SandisonJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 10/09/2026I’m unclear on why tech guys are surprised that more and more normal folks think they’re ontologically evilvice.comPalmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the GameThe 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. 822753
Reposted by George SandisonECIU @eciu.net · 10/09/2026Positive 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...forbes.comPositive Tipping Points Can Still Help Repair The Planet, Study FindsThe 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. 086
Reposted by George SandisonAlex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hey. 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. 3322124
Reposted by George SandisonLightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 09/09/2026We'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 1125
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The 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! 172
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Anthropic settlement claim notice really is a bit of a mess, isn't it? 000
Reposted by George SandisonRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If 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... 03012
Reposted by George SandisonQuiteBrief @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 1112
Reposted by George SandisonStark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Wondering 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!) 1218
Reposted by George SandisonJonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today'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 163
Reposted by George SandisonLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Yes you are, babe, and don’t you ever forget it. 020
Reposted by George SandisonDanie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026From @starkholborn.bsky.social, lots of lovely SFF peoples on this list! go.bsky.app/FvJuYVv 02114
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Bit 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. 050
Reposted by George SandisonIllumicrate ✨ @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.) 1126
Reposted by George SandisonAida @aidap.bsky.social · 04/09/20261/ 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. 🧵 29954
Reposted by George SandisonCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026Hi! 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. 3264141
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A brace of absolute belters here, read back-to-back. The Solnit in particular is outstanding. 010
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Can confirm the Scottish Highlands are still freaking gorgeous. 020
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026On 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! 120
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’ve had the godawful song from the Pepto-Bismol ad stuck in my head for 24 hours now. Contemplating extreme measures to purge it…static.klipy.comKhan Noonien Singh with Ceti Eel DeviceAlt: Khan Noonien Singh with Ceti Eel Device 120
Reposted by George SandisonAlma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Morality 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...nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 032
Reposted by George SandisonAlma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hey 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 44716
Reposted by George SandisonGeneral Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026WIN 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! 35547
Reposted by George Sandisonalexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Solar 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 19452411492
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/08/2026What, exactly, does 'beyond excited' mean? Asking for an industry. 750