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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have no idea whether Terry Pratchett ever read Russell Hoban's novel Kleinzeit (from 1974), but you could at least make a case that they were talking to a similar muse where Death was concerned.

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Behemoth & Leviathan, LP 🎃 @harkov311.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Slip Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker" into their library and watch the chaos ensue

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Three years old today. A double album inspired by the late Russell Hoban's science fiction novel of the same name.

Distrokid promo card: wordsSHIFTminds 'Fremder', three years old on 26/09/2026. CBR (Chris Bell Records), distributed by Distrokid.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will rave like a fool about Russell Hoban's FREMDER.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm hearing a lot about this in the book world, and my husband is hearing a lot about this in the theatre world. If you care about the arts, please put pressure on your local MP as this really needs to change.

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The Right Runcible Howard Batey @howardbatey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Like a 'Turtle Diary'/'Riddley Walker' cross-over @russellhoban.bsky.social

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We love that Turtle Diary made @jacquiwine.bsky.social's list for #SpinsterSeptember! With a beautiful mini-review of the book. "... as Hoban’s narrative unfolds, their lives become inextricably entwined, setting up the premise for this marvellous story. An unexpected gem tinged with sadness."

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Spinsters in literature – some recommendations for #SpinsterSeptember

If you follow Nora (Pear Jelly) on Bluesky or Instagram, you’ll know that she’s been gearing up to host #SpinsterSeptember, a brilliant reading event showcasing books featuring spinsters, from the …

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Loving this book! 🐢✊🏼

From Turtle Diary by Russel Hoban: “Two of the turtles at the Aquarium are green turtles, a large one and a small one. The sign said: "The Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, is the source of turtle soup.. I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London that's a lot of soup walking about.”

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Vanish Gold Pro Turbo stain remover contains "a unique accelerator system." 🤔 As the late, great Russell Hoban once wrote: "What chance has a man got against a system?”

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i had forgotten just how funny, strange, and beautiful 'riddley walker' is, what a masterpiece.

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Amy Bradstreet @onbradstreetfarm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wouldn’t expect anything less from a 10-year old whose name sounds like something Russell Hoban wrote.

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SundaySentence But more and more I think that madness is the world’s natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded. Russell Hoban Turtle diary

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nice to see Turtle Diary included (and thoughtfully discussed) on this list!

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Graeme Wend-Walker @kleinzeit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A footnote to saudade: Two of those we recently lost had key roles in bringing Russell Hoban stories to the screen: Tim Curry narrates the delightfully melancholic Marzipan Pig, and John Irvin directed Hoban's underrated novel, Turtle Diary. @russellhoban.bsky.social @mcfarland.bsky.social

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psychometrics, qu'est-ce que c'est? @owenmtthomas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What can cultural responses to nuclear warfare tell us about how to handle upcoming climate and AI crises? I dwell on that question here, with chief reference to Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, mon Amour. owenthomas.no/theoslodispa...

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Could probably come up with many with more thought, but: I was startled at how Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death anticipated some of where the culture was headed. Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary is thoughtful about dealing with feeling directionless.

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Our heartfelt respects to Tim Curry, who did such a wonderful job of narrating this animated version of Russ's book The Marzipan Pig.

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An excellent point. It's clear from Russ's books that he was well acquainted with many kinds of terror, but the Terror of Trends was one he never paid attention to.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A Mouse and His Child, by Russell Hoban. It absolutely blew my kid mind, and I still think about it to this day. I think it influenced the kinds of books I write, too.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BADGER PARENTS: girl. it is bedtime. FRANCES (captivated by brief glimpses into the Grown-Up World of what parents do after kids go to bed, like eat cake while watching TV): I have fifty-seven excuses. I will now unload them one at a time and make you shoot down each of them. it will take 4 hours

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Bedtime For Frances” and it is not close. that badger is such a relatable little shit and I adore her. she is never not causing drama. she hates bedtime and not getting the most attention and her tantrums are so extreme but her parents love her anyway. the most realistically exhausting small child

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 22/08/2026

Just reread Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (far too long after my first reading of it). A really fantastic book.

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Liberty Hardy @libertyhardy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Frances did not eat her egg. She sang a little song to it. She sang the song very softly: I do not like the way you slide, I do not like your soft inside, I do not like you lots of ways, And I could do for many days Without eggs.” —Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

Lillian Hoban's illustration of a little badger in a pink dress eating breakfast, from Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

John Irvin, who famously went straight from the Harold Pinter adaptation TURTLE DIARY (1985), with Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson ("a fine film which movingly charts the sufferings of those who endure loneliness in silence") to.... RAW DEAL (1986) with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

7. TURTLE DIARY - Russell Hoban Getting in touch with your sensitive side through crime

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Graeme Wend-Walker @kleinzeit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

70 years ago today, Sports Illustrated's Second Anniversary issue featured a science fiction story about a boxer from the moon, written and illustrated by one of their star contributors, Russell Hoban. It was his first published fiction. @russellhoban.bsky.social @mcfarland.bsky.social

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Turtle Diary was a beautiful book with many astonishing lines. I will reread it.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

a chap has just walked in and so far looked at The End of Everything and a Russell Hoban. ONE OF US

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Soonchild! Russ's storytelling and Alexis Deacon's artwork are an unbeatable combination.

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our love for The Mouse and His Child is self-winding

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Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

By Russell Hoban.

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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pilgermann is one of those books that gets better every time you reread it. It almost feels like the book keeps generating amazing sentences that weren't there the previous time you read it.

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. I read it as slowly as possible over the course of three years to make the experience go on longer. For the same reason, I’m still making my way through Moby Dick.

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Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Re-reading RIDDLEY WALKER the same way I read it the first time: out loud to myself in the worst "guy who has seen one Guy Ritchie movie" British accent you've ever heard

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Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Russell Hoban: insanely underrated. This and PILGERMANN alone should put him on the ol' literary mount rushmore

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Who’s that?” said the pig. It was a mouse. She was nibbling at him. “You’re sweet,” she said. “There was a time when I was sweet,” said the pig, “but I have known such—” “Sweetness, sweetness, sweetness,” murmured the mouse ...

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you can hold on to the terror you can hold on to the world

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For the Turtle Diary fans ... Neaera and William would approve. 🐢

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Turtle Diary is a great summer read. (Or any other season, for that matter.)

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Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As card-carrying members of the Russell Hoban cult, we fully endorse this position. Also: this is a lovely and very thoughtful essay. It's nice to see both Fremder and The Bat Tattoo getting some attention!

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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Related question: are there any writers you own so many books by that they get a dedicated row of your bookshelf all to themselves? I have two: Ursula K. Le Guin and Russell Hoban.

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've bought numerous copies of this, in various editions, given them away to friends and family, encouraged readers who were intimidated by its first page to persevere and have treasured various other editions — a masterpiece.

'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban (expanded edition).

'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban (Jonathan Cape, first edition).

'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban (a US paperback edition).

'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban (the Picador paperback edition was the one I first read, the one I was recommended, the one I most often gifted).

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 27/07/2026

Listen I don’t recommend Riddley Walker to just anyone but you’re asking for a brain rewiring so: it is not like anything else, it is (for me) a weirdly spiritual experience that takes place in a world that’s forgotten the concept of god, at first blush it seems impossible to read but it’s not

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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 26/07/2026

My god, if you do nothing else in my life, please give me Alfonso Cuarón’s RIDDLEY WALKER.

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