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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3h

21st century update for "Wages of Fear/Sorcerer".

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4h

Christ, this ZiR motion has really brought the Left anti-semites out in force on Bluesky, hasn't it! I mean, the Greens lost most of their Gravitas Lucasensis ages ago, but this really is some scumbag shit.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Idea for a current affairs show "Placards into Policy", in which protesters are approached and invited into a studio to explain what they are actually saying - "So your placard there says >some chanty bollocks< What actual policy measures do you want to see enacted?" Experts then cross-examine.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Strong Ghostwire: Tokyo associations - pretty sure I faced a whole horde of these guys down on that square...... Epic Combat!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently reading the perfect antidote to the grotesque moron-level approach to Zionism in Brighton today. An elegantly turned volume whose basic backbeat "Look, it's fucking complicated, alright!" Because it is.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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T R Napper @trnapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well this is three shades of awesome. Pop culture behemoth CBR just dropped their top 5 list of 'essential' cyberpunk books. Four are much as you'd expect (Do Androids Dream, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and Altered Carbon), & one you wouldn't. My debut, 36 Streets. www.cbr.com/must-read-cy...

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5 Essential Cyberpunk Books To Read If You're New To The Genre

The cyberpunk genre is beloved by many readers, and there are some books that are must-read stories for those who are new to the genre.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, digital version dropped *on my actual birthday* - what was I *supposed* to do? Ignore it and get on with my life or something? C'mon - be serious!

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Matt Adcock @cleric20.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First ever @hostsintheshell.bsky.social 2 parter!! And we saved it for our most honoured guest yet - Mr ‘Altered Carbon’ Richard K Morgan !! Should you meet and interview your heroes? Y E S ! ! hostsintheshell.buzzsprout.com/1930485/epis...

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gotta say that U2 have a lot of credit with me. Once had to drive a borrowed car towing a trailer with a high end jetski on it from Madrid to Barcelona overnight and the CD changer had jammed with only one CD (⬇️) playing the whole night. Sun came up over the Med that AM, I was still enjoying it.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...." It's like ninety years ago, absolutely *nothing* was learned.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Never liked Sheeran's music. Never like the excruciating celeb walk-ons in movies and TV. Never formed an opinion of his character other than "seems alright." He's fucked up this Macklemore debacle astonishingly fully. But still - the tide of instant vitriolic hate and contempt for him on here???

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gotta love how you protest about migrants by dressing up as one of those guys from back when those you consider *your* people travelled a couple thousand miles en masse to someone else's country to rape, pillage and despoil everything in sight. 🙄

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have long believed that there should be mandatory ten year sentencing for anyone who assaults an emergency worker - paramedics, hospital staff, firemen, you name it - in the course of their duties. You can obviously put these guys on the same list.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow, it's almost like *leaving* the EU was a FUCKING MORONIC CHOICE, isn't it. Did you hear that, all you FUCKING MORONS who voted for it?

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Written by a genius - and that's just the introduction........😈

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This needs called out specifically in Parliament. Cunt needs a public shaming before the whole House. Invite the woman and her family to the chamber and demand a full apology for them.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just scribbled my signature on a very important document that's been over a year and a half in gestation...... Exciting stuff inbound..... (which I cannot currently talk about, natch, but Watch This Space.....)

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No notes. (TL;DR - academy award nominated writer shits the bed to keep in with Trump cabal) Well one note - this article clearly predates the episode where we discover that America's real enemies are not China, Iran or Russia but Ukraine and the EU. FFS, Sheridan. Get a fucking grip.

alexlemay.substack.com

An open letter to Taylor Sheridan on his obscene portrayal of Ukraine in Season 3 of “Lioness”

Season 3 doesn’t just misrepresent Ukraine. It recycles the corruption myths and geopolitical talking points Russia wants Americans to believe.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Quite how any ex-Stasi officers are walking around openly with their kneecaps still intact after '89 is a mystery to me. Think I would have cheerfully taken a baseball bat to every single one.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11/09/2026

Almost 3,000 drones light up the night sky in lower Manhattan to honor the lives lost during the September 11th attacks.

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two things about Star Trek that are strong in my memory - 1) I loved that show as a kid. 2) Even as a kid, I hated the obligatory 2 minute comic relief scene at the end of each episode, complete with sprightly "comic" incidental music, just to underline THIS IS FUNNY, GUYS! IT ALL WORKED OUT FINE!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Have you ever really, I mean *really*, thought about your feet man? I mean really *looked* at them,? Like, 'til they look right *back* at you, man?

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting hard to ignore the sneaking suspicion that people actually *like* fascism. They just don't like to admit it at dinner parties.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When people tell you who they are etc.......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Voice of the fucking Shires, is it? You imagine it disembodied, moaning over hill and dale weeping and gnashing "not English, not English, my England", vomiting bile over lonely travellers by night. Also know in local legend as "the Daj" "You be home by dark, kids - or the Daj will get you."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I guess there may some thin comfort in seeing phenomena like Trump & Farage as a sign we have moved on, a kind of inoculation against fascism, a weakened dose where last century it took a whole world war and gargantuan slaughter. Maybe our body politic is a more resilient organism this time around.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DAMN!!! Whole black comic campus streaming show right there for the taking.....

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Christ, the fake book club/authorial fluffing scam industry is really scraping the barrel these days. Can't even be bothered to get name and book title right 3/10 - must try harder!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fascinating to see the same patterns playing out everywhere. Same brutalism, same rhetoric - "They're not from here; ergo they're dangerous, or stealing our resources, or both"

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Progress? Hey, FUCK Progress! God wanted us to have Progress, he'd have handed it to us right off the bat!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Austin Psychfest 2013 (father to recently arrived 1 year old) Missed at one fell swoop - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Black Angels The Black Ryder The Raveonettes The Warlocks Tinariwen plus god knows what else.........

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Motorhead Richard Thompson John Otway Mari Boine Persson The The P J Harvey Alabama 3 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Dandy Warhols The Black Angels

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Richly deserved! Best US cop show since Mare of Easttown. Emmy Rossum is an acting force of nature.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Largely unmoved by all the GTA 6 stuff. But then I was never really able to get onboard with the franchise. Watched my wife play San Andreas back in the day with great professional interest, but no pressing desire to play myself. Ditto IV. Just something missing from the mix. Ducked V altogether.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Still remember taking my first publisher's advance cheque up to the IR office in Kilmarnock to ask what I needed to do about registering it (I was still employed on salary at Strathclyde uni at the time). Woman behind the counter looked like she was going to pass out in disbelief.......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Captain, we have a Cat. 1 containment issue......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Entebbe raid (July 1976). Some sense of the scandal around Jeremy Thorpe the same year, but didn’t really get what was going on, just remember his face on TV a lot - he didn’t look happy & it was clear to my 10 year old brain that he was in trouble with the teachers for something.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Damn, Silo has an absolutely stellar cast! And a really dull premise. "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, its 5 yr mission to seek out - wait, no they're not! These are the tales of the guys in the Star Fleet shipyard logistics division who never left Earth to go anywhere at all." 🙁

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