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Tom Hunter

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Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award book prize / Comms & Marketing / Mostly a personal account (mostly). 📚 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkeaward

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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I second this motion
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet Team Murderbot! Our designer @tinymaster.bsky.social is another multidisciplinary master, of design and illustration, across books, games, magazines, movie campaigns, even beer labels! For Disney, the BBC, the Environment Agency… and us! #Murderbot www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Corporate support for women in STEM has shrunk & we're nowhere near equity. How we get back on track is the question at the heart of my new report, but I need your help to finish it off. Please donate or share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-finish-m…
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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Across the UK, there are places where people have stepped back and let nature take the lead, giving wildlife and habitats the chance to recover.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey Team 🐺 Join us for a night of eco-writing and hopeful futures with E.J. Swift, winner of the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Cal Flyn, winner of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Weds 11 Nov Waterstones, Gower Street, London Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/wolve...
Book covers of When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift and The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn.
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The omnibus of my award-winning Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy AND my first novel, Silversands, are available in brand new e-book editions from Open Road Media. Paperback copies will follow in January. You can buy and read the ebooks now at: openroadmedia.com/contributor/...
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh yes!
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026
I love this picture of Macfadyen as Smiley. (It’s pretty much the first one I’ve seen, by the way - we’re all in this together!) www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Matthew Macfadyen and Charlie Hunnam revealed in first-look images from Legacy Of Spies
Filming has wrapped on the highly anticipated espionage thriller, which will launch exclusively on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another amazing cover from Joe Wilson for the final main volume in the Tyrant Philosophers series.
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was lucky enough to be Mike's editor for a while and if there is a writer more in control of every nuance of their writing, more able to illustrate how we negotiate the surreal and bewildering tangle of how we live in the world then I want to read them. An amazing writer, an amazing career.
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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I reviewed Miéville’s extraordinary, intimidating novel The Rouse here:
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Decolonizing the Dead | Los Angeles Review of Books
China Miéville’s first solo novel in over a decade is part Lovecraft, part le Carré—and quintessentially weird.
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Treated myself to a day off today, and went to see the 40th anniversary re-release of Transformers: The Movie It was…
Autobot leader Optimus Prime giving a thumbs up
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Iberian wolves return naturally to the Greater Côa Valley as part of its rewilding and restoration. Fully story: www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/the-ret... #whentherearewolvesagain #sharegoodnewstoo Team 🐺
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is absolute perfection.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman’s Aff His Nut By Robert Florence
BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT

Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody's ma and da dies And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws." And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin and everybody else.
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our title reveals to China +100 begin today, join us in celebrating Sinophone creativity during ESEA Heritage Month, as we count down to publication day @commapress.bsky.social , which happens around the wonderful time of Mid-Autumn Festival! 1/ #books #sff #chinese commapress.co.uk/books/china-...
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China + 100 | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Lu Hang, Zhou Dedong, Ling Chen , Dan Shi , He Zun and others
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Current read: EXTREMOPHIL by Ian Green. My kind of eco #biopunk. All character voice & cool science. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧬🔥🔥🔥🔥
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I got to see this film a few weeks ago and it is ace. I was a medium-sized fan of 2000AD as a youth, my daughter had never heard of it, and we both absolutely loved it. Catch it if you can. whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/a...
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Rogue Trooper | BFI London Film Festival 2026
Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission.
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Halloween is the peak of spooky season, and at QUAD - Derby we'll be hosting three days of talks and interviews to celebrate with ALL HALLOWS HAUNTS! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events-works... #halloween #horror #horrorfiction #writing #writers #authors
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All Hallows Haunts
Presents
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They are especially good, because I did not go looking for them, they were just there when I needed them! Note: I did not take ALL the conkers. I made sure leave plenty for other people/creatures too
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that anyone scrolling social media right now would rather be hunting for conkers!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘the hardest part has been convincing people in their community not to “slash and burn,” or illegally clear the land by burning it… a cheap and effective way to clear land for crops such as oil palm. That, and breaking down the village patriarchy.’ #peatlandrestoration
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The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Recommended: Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy, at the estorickcollection.com Worth it for the iconic I + Cat self-portrait alone + stay for the mix of avant-garde and modernist commercial works. P.S. the Estorick café also does most excellent cake! 🍰
Avant-garde self-portrait photo I+Cat by Wanda Wulz. Black & white photo of the artist with exposure of her cat superimposed over her face
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No idea, sorry. I jus went for a walk and there were conkers and it cheered me to see them
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No, YOU’RE the one getting all excited about conkers! 😍
A pile of conkers
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A half-formed take: Yes, you can write a story with AI now. But I don’t want to read it, not your story anyway. If I want an AI story I’ll have it write one that’s more for me. When I read a book it’s because it’s new, and I couldn’t have created it. AI books are for an audience of one.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2015 Clarke Award winner Emily St John Mandel interviewed on her new novel, Exit Party
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Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
Her hit novel Station Eleven seemed to predict the pandemic, now the novelist is tackling the future of the US. She talks about chance, world-building and experiencing a ‘tiny bit’ of clairvoyance
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Future ambassador from a new supercontinent, you are really spoiling us..." www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
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Scientists Modeled Earth’s Next Supercontinent. One Version Could Wipe Out Nearly All Land Life
In 200 million years, there will be no borders–and possibly no humans.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just a week to go! Derby's annual horror, fantasy and sci-fi event returns for a twelfth time on the 19th September, and we've got a stack of panels, interviews, workshops and more incoming... www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #writing #writers #authors #fiction #genrefiction #Derby #Derbyshire
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Edge-Lit 12
Edge-Lit makes it a dozen with its return in 2026, once again serving up a wide array of interviews, talks, workshops and more for lovers of genre fiction.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m reading an advance copy of this atm and it’s amazing.
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two words* for you, my son: 'War' and 'Hammer'. *And, because this is BlueSky, do please take this as it's meant and kindly refrain from explaining to me the importance of maths and science, and indeed, the importance and art and culture. Thank you very much.
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also did a Q&A for @theconversation.com here with a Betteridge's Law headline: theconversation.com/could-ai-rea...
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Could AI really kill off humanity within the decade? Expert Q&A
It’s not the first time AI researchers and companies have issued such warnings.
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s non-fiction so think it’s not a Spoiler to say plenty of Frankenstein in this book!
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our fascination with artificial life began long before computers — or even electricity — existed…
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‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’ — why humanity has always had a complicated relationship with AI
The authors of Myth-Made Machines explain how ancient myths and science fiction shaped our hopes and fears about today’s AI.
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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy book birthday to us! The latest anthology of writing craft essays edited by Richard V. Hirst and myself is out today from Dead Ink! Writing the Real focuses on creative non-fiction. Out now wherever you buy books - or direct from Dead Ink below: deadinkbooks.com/products/wri...
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On pre-order, Sophia McDougall's hilarious Mars Evacuees is back in the UK at last. Your kids will love this. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall.

The image is of four teenagers in space suits set against an image of Mars and a robot goldfish.

Original art by Andy Potts, cover design by Ben Baldwin
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic news!
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OK, yesterday I Did The Thing, today I Announce The Thing. I have moved Ymestyn, my practice program for Welsh leaners, to a new platform and am launching a brand new module for Canolradd 1/1&2 learners to help you fully learn the grammar and vocab. Sign up here: ymestyn.cymru/register/ind...
A pile of books next to the text: 

New! Conquer Canolradd! Practice your Welsh with games, quizzes, reading and listening!
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some scams are easier to spot than others. That said, we get these semi-regularly and they are only getting more focused and custom-tailored, so be careful writers! And, no, we didn’t reply, but it was super-tempting.
Text from a scam email message which reads:  

Hi Arthur C. Clarke,

I recently came across 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 25th Anniversary Edition, and wanted to reach out.

I’ve been connecting with authors whose books are available to readers but may not be reaching as many new audiences as they could.

I’m curious how has your experience been with book visibility and reaching new readers? And have you considered exploring new ways to promote your book or expand its reach to additional platforms?

I’d genuinely be interested in hearing your thoughts and experience.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 04/09/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: The process of resolving disagreements between claimants in the Anthropic copyright settlement has begun, and there are...problems. A look at what's been reported to me, and advice on what to do. Whew. It's been a busy couple of days. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...
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Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I...
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Welcome to Team 🐺
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Lewys Tapscott-Nott @itsjustmelewys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@2000ad.bsky.social @manmademoon.bsky.social this is a massive step forward if we get the BFI's support the sooner we'll get the film out through word of mouth. #2000AD #ScoFiSKY
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Agree re work print, and fan of Alien 3 generally despite its (many well documented) flaws. But if you crave something even more terrifying than the alien, just check out any of the threads still trying to retcon how that Facehugger got onboard in the first place. Spoiler: studio, not Company
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Writers beware!
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🍾 Happy book publication day to Dave and Kelly! A fascinating odyssey through mankind’s enduring fascination with machine intelligence from myth to modern day. 🤖 Buy now & support indie bookshops 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9798...
Copy of book ‘Myth-Making Machines’ with toy robots, Autobot Cliffjumper and Lego Terminator Endoskeleton
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Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Even more convinced now the answer to pretty much anything in life is either ‘read more’ or ‘go for a walk’
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