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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This wonderful list of Corgi SF from the back of my copy of ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's five years today since publication day for Panda's book! you can still get it - www.amazon.co.uk/Panda-Cat-Dr...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

today's video is about 'Land of Oz', an anthology edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI5W...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Starting on my robot reading side quest! Look at this smashing edition of Asimov!

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bookmarks with charms hand made by Jilly Paddock for pandasbooksandrecords

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've been working on a project where i've written letters to all kinds of people in my past. Here's an example of what i've been up to. It's a letter to my first literary editor, back in the mid 1990s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2X9...

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A letter to my first editor

YouTube video by The Cosy / Cozy Bookish Show with Paul Magrs

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's a one-day writing workshop via Zoom run by my brilliant friend, Mike Heath. It says it's for playwrights, but would apparently benefit writers of fiction, too. link below! writeforthestage.co.uk/product/1-da...

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One-Day Workshop: Your Play Starts Here - WriteForTheStage

A one-day online writing workshop designed to furnish you with all the starting points you need for a brand new piece of dramatic/comedic writing.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

today's youtube video is about my accidental readathon of Point Horror - Nightmare Hall books from the 1990s - www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TV...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

3. Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door Susan Hill, The Woman in Black Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House. Richard Matheson, Hell House. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca Stephen King, The Shining Michelle Paver, Wakenhyrst

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1. After asking around... here's my list of haunted house books. Again - not definitive, and i haven't even read them all. Just some i'd recommend, others that friends have recommended - and some that intrigue me.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The last book list-gathering went well, so i thought i'd try another. Ok - novels with haunted houses at their heart. I'll start us with 'The Haunting of Hill House'. Let's compile a top ten - any genre, any era, classic or pulp. Off you go!

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

4. also: Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘Klara and the Sun’ Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Justice’ Peter Brown, ‘The Wild Robot’ Sierra Greer, ‘Annie Bot’ Glenn Dixon, ‘The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances’

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

3. here's the titles: Isaac Asimov, ‘I, Robot’ A.C Clarke, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Robert Heinlein, ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ Philip K. Dick, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2. Hope they'll be of use and interest to people! I'm definitely going to have a dig into them, to see if the issues people are currently discussing about AI have already been sorted out... (The next list to compile is, of course, the most pertinent movies... but that's a list for another day.)

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1. I put the question out there and i got answers! After a bit of mulling over these are the ten titles that appeal to me most. Now here's my list of ten novels about Artificial Intelligence that appeal to me most - some old, some new - some i've read, some i haven't, some i hadn't heard of yet.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These three lovely fellas came visiting and shopping at pandasbooksandrecords today - meeting the ACTUAL Panda and lamenting to me that Iris and Panda haven’t appeared in a Big finish story for years and years! @bigfinish.bsky.social

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

today's youtube video is about how you have to set limitations on your storytelling to create tension. You can't ACTUALLY go anywhere in time and space. I'm still talking about this business of how you write a Dr Who (or any other sf) story! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLL...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Science Fiction pals! I want to build a reading list of *fiction* that warns us of the dangers of AI. I can't help feeling that SF fans have known for a long time what happens when you muck around with this stuff. So - go! A list of, say, six fictional works about AI to mull over this autumn.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The new edition of the Hobbit with Tove Jansson drawings is really lovely and in stock at @pandasbooksandrecords

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my youtube video today - is about how i think the grandiose thinking of show-runners has ruined tv sf, just as the techno=bros are trying to ruin the world...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gju-...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

today's youtube video is a reading update - with stuff about Dr Who books and homemade bookmarks i've been sent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=peYF...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

today's youtube video is about reading a mind-spinning novel by Maggie O'Farrell and then moving onto James Goss' splendis reinterpretation of Douglas Adams www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zr4...

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I spent the whole day reading and it was bliss!

YouTube video by The Cosy / Cozy Bookish Show with Paul Magrs

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2) and it’s heaven to meet Tom’s Doctor, Romana and K9 all over again. My original and default Tardis team. In this era of no Dr Who on telly for the foreseeable I think the Fourth Doctor will just be my current Doctor for a while again.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In the shop today I’m thoroughly enjoying ‘Doctor Who and the Krikkit Men’, a novel I somehow missed out on when it was published in 2018. James Goss developed it from a script treatment left by Douglas Adam’s -

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i've enjoyed seeing people's posts about what Star Trek has meant to them all their lives. To me it's always been about books. So I'm thanking authors such as Diane Duane, Vonda N. McIntyre, Melinda Snodgrass, A.C Crispin, Peter David, David Gerrold, James Blish and Alan Dean Foster.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

today's youtube video is me thinking about Florence Knapp's 'The Names' and whether i really liked it or not... (my members section is meanwhile about Maggie O'Farrell) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsjE...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's youtube video is about twenty years of Brenda and Effie - and showing you the shelves of my books i've recently put together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgBf...

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it's a very special bookish anniversary...!

YouTube video by The Cosy / Cozy Bookish Show with Paul Magrs

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

any bookshop can order them from Snowbooks or Gardners! (thanks!)

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

5. Those readers and these characters are still very dear to my heart. In a time when i don't even know if i'll publish anything ever again - it's good to remember Brenda. I just wish they could have been pushed a bit further into the mainstream. I just know that more people would have loved them.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

4. or at other events with horror and scifi writers (some people can be quite amazingly rude!) but it was readers who always responded most strongly and warmly to Brenda and Effie. Especially women readers and gay men, who understood just what the series was all about.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

3. Twenty years ago i was told (again and again by so-called genre experts and marketing and publishing people ) that you couldn't mix comedy with horror, or high camp and Gothic classics, or cosy mysteries and spooky goings on. Some people were very dismissive - to my face, at my own launch party!

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2. Headline published six books in the series and they've been reprinted in recent years by Snow Books (but they can be tricky to get hold of - so you need to ask or order them in from your bookseller!) It's a series I'm very proud of.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1. Goodness..! it's exactly TWENTY YEARS since 'Never the Bride' was published by Headline. In some ways it's my most popular book, and Brenda and Effie and The Brenda and Effie Mysteries are the things that i get asked about the most.

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this book has been published by Titan Books just this week. Edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane, it features a whole bunch of writers riffing on images and characters from the Oz books. It features a story i'm very proud of - one of my only publications this year..! titanbooks.com/73028-land-o...

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

today's youtube video isabout reading Will Maclean and Dolly Parton - and thinking about new books coming out this autumn and winter. Any recommendations or ho tips from any of you about new books in any genre..? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3e...

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Spooky Will MaClean and Dolly and autumn reading to come

YouTube video by The Cosy / Cozy Bookish Show with Paul Magrs

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i've had a few good reading experiences with brand new novels lately and i'm wondering what's coming out in, say, the next six months that i might enjoy? Any genre, really. Some of you know my tastes through things i've written or things i talk about on youtube. Any recommendations?

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Almost at the end of the mind boggling Solace House by Will Maclean

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Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today's youtube video is all about the brilliant books i read this august. From patti smith and virginia evans to anthony kavanagh, will maclean and matt cain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2VQ...

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