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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We tried our best to find a home for it, but it's the most complex and ambitious thing I've written, warts and all--little wonder it didn't land anywhere. The world owes me nothing, and I have negative interest in releasing it, or anything I write, myself. Anyway, looking forward to the new release!

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you for the extremely kind words. Deeply appreciated. I've written a few things since 2016, including a psychotically researched passion project fantasy secret history, but getting them into the world is the issue. Best of luck with the new release! May it bring joy to you and us all.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I haven't heard anything in a long time--thanks for prodding me to get in touch with MWP. Before the plagiarism came to light, she'd made fantastic sketches for The Coldest War. Obvs MWP couldn't risk using them. Thank you for the interest. I really appreciate it. I'll lyk if I hear anything solid.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hey, thanks for this! I needed it. Much appreciated.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Will do! And I know it's extremely unlikely, but if you somehow find yourself in New Mexico...

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

That's very kind of you. Thank you for picking up the Milkweed books.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I realized too late we should have been repeating the questions for you. Sorry 😕 The Wild Cards baloney isn't a good introduction to my work. The Mechanical or Something More Than Night are usually where I point folks.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'd respectfully suggest there's no easy way to do it. Only different hard ways. Waiting until I finished grad school to start a writing career meant I was (and still am) far behind most of my peers 🙂

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I had hoped to get to hear more about you and your work. You were very patient! I'm fascinated and can't wait to dive in. I'm sorry you couldn't be here in person but I understand the impossible situation ☹️

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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The first novel in @itregillis.bsky.social’s Alchemy Wars series is also on sale this month in the UK! THE MECHANICAL, only 99p… • Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... • Kindle: www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanical-B... Published by @orbitbooks.bsky.social

Graphic for the 99p eBook sale for Ian Tregillis’s superb THE MECHANICAL. eReader with the cover on the screen, and 99p sticker — it says “on Kindle” but the sale is also over on Kobo. The background is a white-wood tabletop.

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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The eBook edition of BITTER SEEDS, the first book in @itregillis.bsky.social’s highly-acclaimed Milkweed series, is only 99p this month in the UK! • Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... • Kindle: www.amazon.co.uk/Bitter-Seeds...

Graphic for the 99p BITTER SEEDS eBook sale. Image of an ereader, with the book’s cover on the screen, on a worn wooden tabletop.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I was just thinking about you! It's been far too long! I hope all is well in your corner of the world, friend!

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I don't know offhand if there are publications beyond his thesis, so this might not fit what you're looking for, but the actor Peter Weller (ROBOCOP, BUCKAROO BONZAI) has a Ph.D. in art history.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thank you so very much! You've brightened my day immeasurably. Thank you for picking up my book in the first place. I'm happy you enjoyed it.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I didn't do it for the attention & frankly don't want it. I very naively thought it'd be a cute little thing that almost nobody saw or cared about. I shun the spotlight, but also hate seeing some of the more unkind speculation about GRRM this has spurred in some corners. He did warn me.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Meh, the world doesn't owe me anything. Also I'm not a journalist of any stripe, so I don't know the standard practices-- only that a few others did get in touch (not all). But thank you very much for the kind words about the Clakkers books. Much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed them. 🙏

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've always enjoyed @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social's great work at AT & Gizmodo and I know I'll continue to do so! Still, I wish the venue drawing the most attention to our paper had contacted the 1st/corresponding author, as some others did. A 5-minute convo might've been helpful. tinyurl.com/5xz3phaa

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George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper

“I couldn’t help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon.”…

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Given literally everything else happening in the world right now, I naively thought this kooky physics paper I wrote would be a cute little thing noticed by just a handful of people. In retrospect, I suppose the embargoed press release should have tipped me off. pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

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Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe

Editor's Note: Looking for a new way to engage your students' imagination, encourage their exploration and curiosity around open-ended physics research question

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I empathize, deeply! I'm usually gone 6:30a to ~6:45p and it drains me. But I rarely do it 5 days in a row, usually only 4. And sometimes I can WFH "thanks" to the legacy of covid.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I call those days "weekdays" and I hate them.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/12/2024

You're telling me that Margo Martindale and Wayne Knight were once partners on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Aw, thanks! Btw I hope you didn't feel disappointed all those years ago with the tuckerization you very generously paid for in support of a ZNB kickstarter. I decided to make you a luthier even though you did not list it among your interests.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Such an amazing book! This is also the point where I am obligated to second-hand namedrop that my mom knew Bob Dylan when he was Bob Zimmerman in high school.

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Julie Benson @juliebenson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨Settings->Siri->Apps->(pick an app)->UNCHECK LEARN FROM THIS APP🚫.🚨 Congratulations, now A.I. won't be learning from your apps without your permission on your iPhone. Took me a bit with a gazillion apps, but easy to do.

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a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .

ALT: a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The best cybertruck description I've read is that it looks like a can of energy drink became sentient, watched Starship Troopers, understood none of the subtext, and then set out to design a vehicle that a 7th-grade boy would want to draw on his notebooks alongside ninja throwing stars and shit.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I mean, it's not exactly a lost masterpiece or anything, lol. But I will say I poured myself into it (knowing full well it was sort of a futile effort).

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

While I'm at it, I'll add that it featured the most diverse cast of characters in any my novels, incl. one of my favorites I've ever written. I also personally felt it contained some of my best writing craft to date.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A fantastical secret history spanning millennia, adding a magical undercurrent to historical events within living memory w/o contradicting any facts. VERY deeply researched, to the extent I gave new information to historians. My most complex & ambitious work. Also my agent's most rejected novel.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I wrote a book that the world will never see, featuring a Babylonian Semiramis

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The most I hope for is a few hours of moderately entertaining diversion

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Well, gosh. You've made my week.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Aww, thanks! Hope you enjoy it.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Not wizards but in my novel Something More Than Night the laws of physics are a Mantle of Ontological Consistency that arises when the spheres of influence of multiple angels, each with a preferred definition of realty, overlap. The Big Bang happened when the Voice of God forced them into proximity.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Well, gosh-- that is illustrious company. Thank you! I find it difficult (damn near impossible, tbh) to revisit those books and that world. Partially for the usual writerly reasons, knowing I'm better now than I was back then. But mostly because fuck Nazis.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's a dubious honor. But thank you for the kind words about Milkweed!

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Since you liked the Rosicrucian easter eggs, you might get a kick out of hearing that the working title of the second book was "The Rosy Cross." 😀

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

I feel so profoundly honored to have written something that was so meaningful to you at such a difficult time. Readers like you are what give the books depth and meaning and value--not me! I crossed my fingers the story would find an audience, wherever those readers might be.

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Grim Aeonaut @grim-aeonaut.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

I have thought for days about how to post about the fact that one of the authors who saved me from madness followed me, and I can't figure out a cool way to do it. @itregillis.bsky.social is amazing and his Alchemy Wars trilogy gave me light when I lived in darkness. I can never thank you enough.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Thank *you* for this. Sincerely. The greatest compliment an author can receive is when a reader holds their work in a special, meaningful place. I'm touched beyond words that the Clakkers books have such an honor. I'm sincerely grateful that my work finds readers like you. May there be more light.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Help avoiding a lawsuit, or help with the suit?

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

In my case the contract language scared me off from using an epigraph that I'd written some of the text around. It was clear that I'd be on my own dealing with the TS Eliot estate.

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Ian Tregillis @itregillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I seem to recall language in my contracts that thoroughly laid all responsibility for securing rights at the author's feet, and which also very clearly indemnified the publisher. I don't know the author, book, or publisher in this case, but could it be a case of publisherial "not our problem "?

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