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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 · 2h
The prices in Caravan can be criminal
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 20h
Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings
Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 21h
Original to the last
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) Says 'Very Good'
Alt: M. Gustave in Grand Budapest Hotel (Ralph Fiennes) Says 'Very Good'
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Remember, we must separate the art from the artist
Two large bins, one for general waste, the other for paper recycling
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yep indeed
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I happened to reread this the other day while ploughing through (& recycling) a heap of old LRBs, and yes it is very good
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me too. A gratuitous act of self-harm, for zero benefit.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the new @apollo-magazine.com I salute Denys Lasdun's National Theatre on its 50th birthday: apollo-magazine.com/national-the...
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How Denys Lasdun made the National Theatre a palace for the people
As it celebrates its half century, the brutalist landmark on London’s South Bank still provokes and delights, writes Will Wiles
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
99p? You simply cannot go wrong. A wonderful book and perhaps the most consequential SF novel of the year.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite right, but isn't it deeply embarrassing for the party that this statement has to be made? I'm embarrassed. It's a debacle.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm glad you've said this because it has bothered me for years
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is there water on Rutland
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Musk colonists terrorised by the corsairs of Space Watford
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Deimos, the smaller moon, is smaller than every traditional county apart from Rutland
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mars's moon Phobos has a surface area almost exactly the same as the area of Hertfordshire
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They're still very common here, in fact I think I hear one now
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I agree!
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Edward Woodward at the end of Wicker Man being confronted by (2nd image) a two-prong Europlug
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This could have been written in 1700
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My fine feathered friend
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Photo of the cockatoo soft toy that sits by my desk (a gift from my agent when "Plume" was published)
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Indeed!
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I enjoy all of these
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, I have never enjoyed the 21st century version of the show (Robots of Death is Tom Baker)
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Robots of Death" has a Terrazza sofa by Ubald Klug in it! No idea how that came about, presumably it came out of a props warehouse
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No Fantasycon for me this year, I'm afraid - much as I was excited about a trip to Glasgow, a city I adore, the sums didn't add up. Next year, I hope.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One huge advantage about an Amazon description being full of inaccurate information and apparently impossible to change is it clearly marks out exactly where some of this remarkable machine insight is coming from. "I particular enjoyed" - not in the book, try again
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tax the 1s. The 0s are on the house.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Slickness is a curse, the bane of atmosphere
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reject AI RETVRN to green bubble wrap
A deliciously shonky body horror visual effect in "The Ark in Space" (1975)
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Allusions to turn-of-the-century American literature have no place in the Alien/Predator franchise, Adam
The USCSS "Nostromo" as it appears (with cargo) in the film "Alien"
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think I fall into this category!
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Samwise to Frodo: You Have to Fight It
Alt: Samwise to Frodo: You Have to Fight It
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(WG Sebald influence intensifies)
Screenshot of the prompt saying "this post was marked as being written in German" under Kirkdale's post.
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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'll open the bidding at Ben Whishaw
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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
It sounded very convincing when Tony Montana said it
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First you get the second novel, then you get the flat. then you get the women
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Scarface: Tony Montana Laughing on Phone
Alt: Tony Montana laughing on the phone in "Scarface"
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wonder if any SFF authors who follow me have considered this? I'm sure Jonathan would like to hear you bsky.app/profile/jona...
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Numerous delights here
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👀
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear that!
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are clearly more than two possibilities.
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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
Thank you Owen!
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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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