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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 11h

I have been laughing at this all evening 🤣

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 18h

Magnificent bike ride on the Greenway this morning. Some beautiful moments in between the showers.

A rainbow arches through a cloudy sky alongside a tarmacadam greenway.

A tarmacadam greenway recedes into the distance beneath trees on either side. A blue sky is also visible.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 18h

Speed limits are posted in %*&£& per :L}{~*?.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 19h

The past is another country. We have its space-time coordinates. We only need to build the craft to take us there.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

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The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 14/10/2026

The SoA: We're going to do the stupidest, worst thing in publishing today. Faber: Get an LLM to hold my cowardice beer.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'd be fascinated to put the Wachowskis in charge and see what they came up with!

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Introduce yourself with seven modern #StarTrek episodes that you love: 'Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad' (DIS) 'Wej Duj' (LDS) 'Calypso' (STX) 'Those Old Scientists' (SNW) 'The Bounty' (PIC) 'All the World's a Stage' (PRO) 'Series Acclimation Mil' (STA)

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The best Voyager episode never made.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's a really good way of describing that!

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Ickletayto @ickletayto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The best thing I ever learned about Yeats is that he yeeted Aleister Crowley down a flight of stairs.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I read it in Settling the World: Selected Stories (2020), but I believe it is also in his collection You Should Come With Me Now (2017). As I say, there's clear overlap between the story and stretches of the novel, but that just seems weirdly... fitting? 😀

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I read this 2017 M. John Harrison story this afternoon to get a bit more background on the iGhetti and The End of Everything. Interesting to see the bits of worldbuilding that he ultimately incorporated into the novel. Plus the story itself is pleasingly unsettling.

Angled snapshot of an opening page of a story titled 'The Crisis' by M. John Harrison. Visible text reads:

You sit over a one-bar electric fire in a rented room. As soon as you feel recovered from the commute you'll boil some potatoes on the gas ring, then, three minutes before they're done, drop an egg into the same water. You can hear the family downstairs laughing at something...

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How analysing "The Female Man" via "A Christmas Carol" might show different aspects of the former... Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It was a magnificently autumnal morning out there today. Plus I'm getting *very* close to reaching my cycling target for the year! (Sure I intend to go beyond it, but reaching it will be nice!)

A tarmacadam greenway recedes into the distance beneath trees and on either side and arching overhead. A fence is also running along the left hand side.

There are some golden fallen leaves on the ground on either side of the track.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh I for sure am! It's one of those satire that's close to the truth things.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If Ukraine takes out enough Russian data centers then I guarantee‡ people complaining online about not just The Last Jedi but <checks notes> Starfleet Academy, detached nacelles, She Hulk, Black elves, Captain Marvel, & more will also drop significantly. ‡Less a guarantee than a *very* strong vibe.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't think this is necessarily a surprise to any of us 😞 but good to have it confirmed.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Played the Star Trek version of Settlers of Catan for the first time today. It was a lot of fun 😀

A board game showing various hexagonal tiles representing Planets and many multicoloured player tokens representing starships and starbases. Various cards are scattered around on the table.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

John McGahern, A Writing Life: Biography of literary giant who understood the human condition Frank Shovlin provides an authoritative insight into a private man who was dedicated to his craft www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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John McGahern, A Writing Life: Biography of literary giant who understood the human condition

Frank Shovlin provides an authoritative insight into a reclusive figure who was dedicated to his craft

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Congratulations to all this year's winners 🥳

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A haunting read. Probably the best novel yet written about the contemporary British polycrisis.

Cover of the novel The End of Everything by M. John Harrison. Cover is blue-tinfed and shows a stylistised beach with a single human figure.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's probably an ADHD thing, but there's something *deeply* upsetting about being forced to engage with completely unnecessary and byzantine institutional software platforms when just sending a PDF is *right there* (and is going to end up being the solution anyway).

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good luck to all those departing for/travelling to/arriving at Fantasycon today! I hope everyone has a fantastic time 😀

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IT'S ME. Returning to my beloved Luna Press, who first opened the door to publishing for me. This book is one I am so proud of, guys, it's strange & hopeful & sad, and I'm so glad it gets to live 🖤

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

COVER REVEAL! This is the cover of the Fermi's Progress Christmas Special - **A VERY FERMI CHRISTMAS**! It is the work of the amazing @chrisfenoglio.bsky.social, the artist behind @ryannorth.ca's Star Trek: Lower Decks comics! Preorder it from @scarletferret.com: scarletferret.com/books/a-very...

The cover of A Very Fermi Christmas - a side on view of the Fermi flying upwards, the wake of its Alcubierre drive obliterating the planet below. The spacewarping wake of the ship resembles a Christmas tree, and the planets and stars behind the wake look like tinsel and baubles.

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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Out today! Join some of the best editors in the business as we demystify the arcane process of anthology curation. Or join us at the official launch at Fantasycon this Saturday!

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Deepest condolences on your loss.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's Spooky Season, which means it's time for Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble ... with writing a horror story in a subgenre that's new to you? The award-finalist series SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES is here to help you write Folk, Supernatural, Fungal & all types in between! linktr.ee/specficforne... #writing

The image is a still showing the three witches from the film Hocus Pocus as old ‘hags’ standing over a bubbling cauldron. Over each face is a cover from the Spec Fic for Newbies series, one red (volume 1), one blue (volume 2), and one green (volume 3).

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I hope it goes back to normal again." This is it. I've found it. I've found the message we should engrave onto the obsidian monument that will be all that's left when the aliens get here.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An interesting example of looking at things differently...

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope you'll enjoy it when it lands on your planet!

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Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My ol' buddy Pádraig Baggott's short film "Peat" will be on RTÉ 2 at 11:35 tonight, after First Dates Ireland. Check it out!

The poster for "Peat," featuring two women standing in a box, examining a tall, bald, broad-shouldered figure in a nondescript yellow wrapping, standing with its back to us.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly, this (major spoiler included) does more to sell me on watching the film than any of the trailers/publicity.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 05/10/2026

I should probably mention I have a book launch 4pm on Saturday at Fantasycon! These Broken Little Worlds will be getting its official ribbon-cutting alongside many others with books this year from NewCon Press. Let me deface a book for you. emfaulds.com/news/fantasy...

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Fantasycon 2026 programme participation

Spaceships & Feelings

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A genuinely *magnificent* morning out there on the Greenway today 😀

A tarmacadam greenway recedes into the distance beneath trees on either side and arching overhead. A blue sky is also visible.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm delighted you think so 😀 It's certainly proving to be *tons* of fun to research and write 😀

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something I mentioned during my @octocon.bsky.social panel yesterday is my current project for @lunapress.bsky.social titled *Space Opera: The First Hundred Years*, scheduled for release in 2028! Here's the press release with the full details: www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/introdu... 🚀

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Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning Womble! I'm reading this issue of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social from last year which is so good that I've subscribed!

a dark magazine cover with a swirly sparkly pattern like star footprints in purples and reds.

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