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Will Greatwich

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Fantasy writer from down under. HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING now available: books2read.com/houseoftherainking Reviews of vintage SFF: paperback-picnic.ghost.io.

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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Made a little graphic to show what's in my novel. Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them. However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book. All Objects' significance is guaranteed.
The cover of my novel House of the Rain King. It shows a monastery surrounded by floodwaters and birds. Around the cover are little arrows pointing to words that say "Feather Cloaks" "A bloody spearhead" "The pinion-stone" "sacred books" "a skeletal hand" and "a bag of cockle shells"
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera... or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the... Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
Promotional graphic showing the book HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING, with a cover featuring a monastery surrounded by flowing water, with birds circling overhead.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
RAIN IN THE DESERT, the free prequel to my novel, is now available. The mercenaries of Sparrow Company are trapped in the desert, bound by honour to serve a cruel master. But when a rain cloud appears in the distance, their luck might be about to change... Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/
Book cover "Rain in the Desert" by Will Greatwich. A silhouette of a sparrow leaps into the air against a background of desert dunes and falling rain. In the foreground, a series of swords are thrust haphazardly into the sand.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Dying Earth covers thru the ages
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. Goofy fantasy art of a guy pointing a sword at a... portal? It looks like Van Gogh's Starry Night with tentacles coming off itThis cover is lush and dark, depicting a woman (?) riding a horse through a mysterious jungleThis is the oldest cover. A woman in a very revealing diaphanous gown stands before a group of grotty hooded cultists. The price of the book is 25cThis one is grotesque and fungal but also washed out and ephemeral. It depicts a weird alien landscape with a fleshy zebra-thing in the foreground. The style evokes pastoral scenes or perhaps Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My fantasy novel HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is now available for preorder! It's got: 🔔 scheming monks 🗡️ deadbeat mercenaries 🌊 floodwaters 🦘 Australian landscapes 🦜 birds. so many birds Sounds interesting? Get it here: books2read.com/houseofthera...
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I can finally show off the cover of my novel! HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood. It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR
Book cover "HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING". A stylised flat colour illustration depicting a medieval monastery surrounded by floodwaters, with birds circling overhead.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
look at what they took from you
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Watched YES, MADAM (1985) last night. Absolutely insane fight scenes and amazing outfits for Yeoh and Rothrock. Adding this to the canon of "live action movies where people act like Looney Tunes characters", alongside Lemonade Joe and Hundreds of Beavers
2x 80s action movie women in cool outfits ready to fight a bunch of guys with swords
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
time to read some real literature
It's a book called Modelland by Tyra Banks. Yes, that Tyra Banks. The art is just a creepy eye with enormous yellow eyeshadow.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cover of "The Werewolf Principle" by Clifford Simak. Depicts a robot wolf howling before a full moon
Another cover of same book. This one is more abstract, with a fleshy pyramid, a human body in x-ray, and a wolf whose face is melting3rd cover. "Het weerwolfprincipe". A very freaky Max Ernst looking artwork featuring horribly distorted figures and a wolf with a door in its flank4th cover. This one's more Cubist, depicting a wolf made of many triangles, with a human face hidden in the wolf's body
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
le Wankh
Jack Vance - cycle de Tschai - le Wankh - book cover depicting a big pudgy alien pushing its way threateningly through an airlock.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
look at these three beauties
Three paperback novels in Michael Moorcock's "Corum trilogy". They have lovely psychedelic artwork depicting wrathful demonic gods
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Why does every Vietnamese book cover look fucking awesome?
3 vietnamese novels with great cover art
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
love this footnote in Moby-Dick where Melville absolutely rips into dugongs
I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#3: Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant novels. Specifically, I admired the way Dickinson depicts third-gender people in a way that's grounded in their own fictional culture. Lethe's experience of gender fluidity in "Another Tide" is strongly influenced by this.
Cover of "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson, depicting a woman's face shattering like a mask.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#2: The rockpools on the Mornington Peninsula. Peering into seaweed-choked pools, looking at bright red crabs and sea anemones, I imagined this stony landscape stretching on for hundreds of miles. This became the setting of "Another Tide".
Rockpools and weathered stones on a beach, encrusted with kelp and other sea flora.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
3 inspirations for my novelette "Another Tide": #1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic.
Cover illustration for "The Book of the New Sun" depicting a masked man in a black cloak.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
my favourite scenes from King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
King Kong stomps on a giant octopus. Kong is played by a man in a latex and fur suit, while the octopus is a puppet.In the foreground, Godzilla scales the slope of Mount Fuji. Behind him, against an overcast sky, King Kong is flying in dangling by wires from a cluster of huge yellow balloons.A seaside town is swamped by a great wave. Look closer and you see that the town is a tiny scale model and the wave is perhaps two feet high.A glowing iceberg crumbles and Godzilla emerges from within. The texture of the ice is something like crumbling dry clay; Godzilla himself has a head of dark green latex.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
New acquisitions: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) by Doris Lessing; and Gloriana (1978) by Michael Moorcock
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Now reading: The Birthgrave (1975) by Tanith Lee
gaudy 70s book cover depicting a half-naked woman between two burning braziers
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
cover of "Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art" by Michael Camille
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
Cover of "Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art" by Michael Camille
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
currently reading
cover of Ivan Turgenev's "Sketches from a Hunter's Album"
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Trying to start a new household tradition of watching a classic cartoon short before the feature presentation. Tonight: Hell's Bells (1929) followed by The Wild Bunch (1969)
black and white cartoon of a devil dancing in hellfilm still of a cowboy firing a huge gun turret while spattered with blood
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
at this airbnb one of the books they used to 'style' the room is "The Atlas of Haematology", which contains nothing but page after page of beautiful terrifying photos of blood
a glossy hardback book containing blue and purple abstract-seeming microscope images of blood
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
cursed image spotted on melbourne tram this morning
heavily scratched photo of a night (?) scene. A person tied to a telephone pole with duct tape, hanging above the ground, their fingers splayed in a mystical gesture. The section of the image showing the person's head has been scraped away.
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
this is some real pieter breugel landscape with the fall of icarus shit
detail of the above image depicting a boy in the rollercoaster pointing in terror at his impending doom
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
doing a where's wally jigsaw with the missus and just noticed that it depicts the very moment of a rollercoaster crash that will kill, conservatively, two dozen people
Detail from a jigsaw puzzle depicting (in cartoon style) two rollercoaster cars about to crash into each other head on
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Just finished reading this. Absolutely bone-crunching descriptions of hell & demons interspersed with a lot of tedious blather
Cover of "Nifft the Lean" by Michael Shea
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Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
here's m'dog
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