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Will Wiles

@willwiles.bsky.social
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Author of several novels. "The Dead Man's Empire" is out now (Angry Robot). And so is the short story collection "The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt). Writes about architecture for @apollo-magazine.com. He/him.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 20h
Reject AI RETVRN to green bubble wrap
A deliciously shonky body horror visual effect in "The Ark in Space" (1975)
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BTW if you enjoy the podcast and fancy leaving a nice review somewhere it’d really help, because it’s not on a network x
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Postmodern pranks and outrageous fantasy art: the new Monstrosities Mon Amour with Will Wiles is half an hour of cheery excess podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will Wiles
Podcast Episode · Monstrosities Mon Amour · 23 September · 29min
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had a lot of fun talking about Onyx House, jewel of Mile End, with John for Monstrosity Mon Amour. And also about the rippling muscles and chainmail bikinis of Boris Vallejo.
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 26/09/2026
‘One building is architecture but two buildings is townscape,’ wrote Gordon Cullen in his influential 1960s guide to urban planning. @willwiles.bsky.social praises Cullen’s humane approach to design and the immensely skilful drawings in which he conveyed that vision.
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What today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionary
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Numerous delights here
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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is predictably wonderful. And bonus points to @willwiles.bsky.social for the Chris Achilleos shout out
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Selfie
A view across a gap between buildings, looking onto a wall of large windows, in which my tiny reflection can be seen
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@mattfromlondon.bsky.social Hello Matt! Did you know that you're my 2000th follower? I'm glad this milestone has coincided with reuniting with an old friend!
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The latest Monstrosities Mon Amour is out, with novelist @willwiles.bsky.social choosing the bonkers postmodern extravaganza of Onyx House in Mile End, and the no less outrageous fantasy art of Boris Vallejo johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...
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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will Wiles
#21 John Grindrod and novelist Will Wiles explore the postmodern outrageousness of Onyx House in Mile End and the kitschy, fleshy fantasy art of Boris Vallejo
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was fun
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 20/09/2026
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic paranoia and fears about the future, writes Will Wiles.
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What to do when you’re stuck at home
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Akin to writing fiction, for some of us
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Evergreen, sadly
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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm just SOOOOOO excited to have Chromatic Architecture reviewed by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in the @theobserveruk.bsky.social today 💥❤️ I do hope that the book will in some small way help bring more sensuous and delightful qualities back into our urban environments.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm not interested in a folding iPhone but I would like a phone I can scrumple into a ball
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Posting again because each and every one of these is just utterly perfect.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BUFFO (1982)
 Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" X 22" 

Reading a novel by M. John Harrison always leaves me with the feeling that I've experienced some vivid, chaotic dream full of important but indecipherable symbols and images. 1/3
A man wearing the skull of a horse with antlers clasps the long tube of a telescope tightly to him. One sleeve of his tattered white garments is rolled up past the elbow. Ridges of veins are raised in the tense grips of his hands. Red orbs fill the sockets of the skull while green ribbon twists around the bone until loosely draping over antlers. Filaments sprout, oddly feathery, from the curling rack. On the dingy shelves behind, a small assortment of hardbound books lean with more stacked haphazardly on the long shelf below. Charts tacked to the wall curl with age. Points of light, more like street lamps than stars, gleam in the cracked glass of a many-paned window.
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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gogmagog by @jeffnoon.bsky.social and Steve Beard is a finalist for the Prix Utopiales. This makes me very happy. I love Gogmagog and Ludluda very much and was befuddled when they appeared on no UK award lists. locusmag.com/2026/09/2026...
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2026 Prix Utopiales Finalists - Locus
The shortlist for the2026 Prix Utopiales(honoring the best SF published in France) has been announced. Heureux comme jamais,Guillaume Chamanadjian (Aux forges de Vulcain) Spectres, Thomas Gunzig (Au...
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 09/09/2026
Ah. Super. A nuclear missile system running on Blue Peter homebrew. FanTASTIC.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NATIONALISE SOHO
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In the new @apollo-magazine.com, I look at the lasting influence of Gordon Cullen's "Townscape", and its beguiling illustrations: apollo-magazine.com/gordon-culle...
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What today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionary
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A building I really disliked when it was new and have come to love.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Come for the lovely evocation of a wonderful exhibition, stay for the unlikely supporting cast
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of the few permitted late Edo Japan specialists in Western writings came across the Dutch word for “freedom” & spent the rest of his life unable to get the concept out of his head and lived in mortal fear that he’d blab it out in front of the wrong official at the wrong time.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Went to see Whistler at Tate Britain, which is marvellous. "Completeness is a reason for ceasing to exist."
Whistler's painting "Nocturne: Blue and Gold", of St Mark's Square, Venice
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A Personal Anthology always takes the summer off... but this year has been quiet all round. It will be starting up again in September, and I'm keen to round up potential contributors. Get in touch if you're a fan of short stories and would like to share your favourites! apersonalanthology.com
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A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What's fantastic about the Reform footage is that these people behave the exact spiv twat way that you'd expect. They absolutely are the posh crooks they appear to be.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The opposite of the "scream test" - who in the workplace falls mysteriously silent?
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I remember a piece about ten years ago about women having to tutor their boyfriends on bottom wiping technique so I'm glad we're making progress
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ah yes, "the Civilising of the North", that's what they called it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harryin...
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Harrying of the North - Wikipedia
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What that needs is a lick of gold leaf, it'll come up smashing
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hubba hubba
A somewhat Rubenesque pear on my kitchen table
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ooh we’ve got video now? Laputa/Castle in the Sky/whichever you prefer fan art. The first Miyazaki movie I saw and still probably my fave
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wikipedia: "Another newly discovered Australian animal – a species of air-breathing land snail, Crikey steveirwini, was named after [Steve] Irwin in 2009." CRIKEY STEVEIRWINI
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pandemic anxieties, economic anxieties, I didn't even have room for climate anxieties - no wonder no one can leave the house
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Selfie
A phone photo of the shadow of the Jubilee bridge cast on the muddy waters of the Thames at high tide. A solitary person can be seen in the shadow: it's me, taking the photo
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A generation traumatised by the aftermath of the Bulger case is traumatising its children.
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/08/2026
Films like ‘The Last House’ and ‘The End of Oak Street’ are just some of the recent releases to explore what happens when home stops being a safe place. Will Wiles considers these and other survival-mode scenarios, from the serious to the silly.
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What to do when you’re stuck at home
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An amazing story. You go in for a bit of simple rubbernecking and what you find is layer after layer of weirdness.
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/08/2026
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles.
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What to do when you’re stuck at home
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles
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garin | comms open @garin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Still open for commissions and looking for work
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Prince Charles Cinema vows to go 'all the way' to stay open as court battle looms
Ben Freedman, the cinema’s owner, told The Standard that the legal process has been ‘very long’ and frustrating’
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
F-shaped blurbs, seducing chatbots, nicking quotes off GoodReads and paying BookTokers: in today's Guardian I investigated the book world's tricks of the trade.
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How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade
From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/08/2026
Films like The Last House and The End of Oak Street are just some of the recent releases to explore what happens when home stops being a safe place. @willwiles.bsky.social considers these and other survival-mode scenarios, from the serious to the silly.
apollo-magazine.com
What to do when you’re stuck at home
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For @apollo-magazine.com, I wrote about "The Last House", "The End of Oak Street" and the "what if home, but bad" micro-genre apollo-magazine.com/end-of-oak-s...
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What to do when you’re stuck at home
A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces or the menace of dinosaurs points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future, writes Will Wiles
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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
*taps the sign*
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