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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 20/09/2026

That’ll be @lukejerram.bsky.social’s Gaia, if I’m not mistaken… (Tom, meet Luke. Via Tom)

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 20/09/2026

Well that is a cliffhanger. Also, it’s not me. Although I’d be happy to advise.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/09/2026

the first two are astonishingly good - and thankyou for shouting about them. (You then got me excited for book 3, which we don't get in the UK until December..)

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 17/09/2026

Beautiful! (right - need to order your book now..)

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 16/09/2026

Not a thing. Except that it’s apparently not out until October. In the UK anyway. US mileage may vary.

Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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We have some big and exciting news! 📣 We've secured over £8.5m to continue supporting UK artists working with immersive technologies until 2030. Further details, including funding opportunities, will be shared in the New Year. Read the announcement: immersivearts.uk/news/8-5m-second-phase-funding/

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 07/09/2026

I don't think we had cameras back then.. (ZX81. In 1981. God, I'm old)

Wikipedia's photograph of a Sinclair ZX81

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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Something incredibly calming about watching this...

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Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Who’s joining us in Llandudno this September? 🥳 From Wed 9- Fri 11 Sept The Big Thing is bringing more than 70 workshops, performances and networking events to North Wales, all inspired by this year's theme, Play's the Thing. immersivearts.uk/events/the-big-thing

A group of diverse individuals standing in a room, each holding a smartphone and engaged in conversation.

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Thanks Pete! (most of that book will make its way into the final 'thing'. it did get my thoughts into order too!)

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that should be tattooed on the eyelids of every immersive designer.. (maybe not tattooed)

It’s set now (whenever now actually is), and there’s a book, and a narrator and a single reader. And your phone. It includes Operation Crested Ice, 23 minutes of April 26th 1986, the end of the world, and I made a trailer for it a year ago, to get my thoughts in order. tomabba.studio/shop/none-of...

A blank page with a single line of text: None of this happened the way you thought it would.

A collaged cover of a book. The only text implores ‘open the book’.

Double page spread with a collaged image on the left, and reversed text on the right.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026

(does not admit that he's been working on an immersive 'sequel/continuation' to Mountains of Madness for three and a half years)

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ok. Not disappointed. :)

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026

I'm watching this feed, and am very excited. I feel the weight of crushing disappoinment looming in about 5 minutes though

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026

Noted without comment.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coming in eight days. Sign up for the free page and newsletter here www.patreon.com/cw/DavidBarn... Books! Comics! Interviews! My favourite shops! Nepo Corner! Tales from the Longbox! Random but entertaining shit!

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 23/08/2026

No words. At least, no words that are fit for broadcast.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 23/08/2026

Brief foray on Vinted. Someone tell @benpester.bsky.social that his secret is out…

A copy of Ben Pester’s novel The Expansion Project, categorised as non-fiction.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 22/08/2026

Goodnight Hookland. Goodnight Arthur. They’re very real, you know.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 22/08/2026

Thanks Adam. Back to it then (had put 3 down, largely out of ‘there are only so many hours in life’, but that adroit commentary has me back in..).

Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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How I Spent My Summer Holidays, or, My Complete Failure to Write an Actual Sodding Review of China Miéville’s New Novel THE ROUSE (with thanks to Rob, Roger, Deb and Cameron - and China)

bostonreview.net

Revenance Event

China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026

59 minutes! (that's the length of a UWE meeting, and more fruitful)

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026

I realise it's a stupid thing, but it irritates me so much. Low level snark every few days.

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026

it's more joyful when your employer has set it to every 3 days...

Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/08/2026

(I can recommend making homemade pasta as a non-alcoholic alternative)

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 17/08/2026

if it's any comfort, then Nora's (3½) most serious comeback is '_and you are NOT invited to my party_' whenever she's done with us.