Think I can announce that my story "It's Always Your Choice" is in the British #ScienceFiction Association magazine Fission.
It's about a world where there's a quick easy way to go when it's your time, relevant with Assisted Dying Bill and my mum passing last week.and surprised me by what it said...!
#sffh
Happy one of 1.72 #Fridaythe13th-s this year. Unlucky? I'm up and about, working on shownotes, and drinking hot tea and eating spicy pakora for breakfast on what is going to be a pleasant day, so nah. Black cats, bats, and rats to all #CRRRRS #SFFH pod listeners.
Does anyone here have a report or thread on the Nebula Awards winners? They were announced on Saturday, but I don't see a list anywhere yet.
Mark lives near Thurstrop Wood, which has an abandoned scrapyard on its periphery. Nobody seems to want to talk about it.
Phengaris emerges from its festering cosmic chrysalis in just 9 days time!
#indie #indiehorror #amreading #cosmichorror #ecohorror #SFFH
Available for pre-order here: tinyurl.com/srf42nuu
581 #Andor
Listen: https://archive.org/download/roymathurspodcast/2025-05-15-captain-roys-rusty-rocket-radio-show.mp3
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Listen, then tell me what you thought and may the Force be with you.
#CRRRRS #SFFH #UK #Podcast 580 #DoctorWho: #TheStoryandtheEngine
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#HighlanderIITheQuickening, #Andor*
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*I made an embarrassing mistake. The last episode of #Andor was not 9. The last three (10, 11, 12) will be released later today. In an extra pod, I will discuss the actual finale, then I can feel a teensy bit less awkward. However, I still stand behind this review.
#CRRRRS: #SFFH (inc. #NewWho; #LuckyDay + #Andor taping tonight): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/id550323008
WIZARD #DoctorWho (#ClassicDoctorWho only): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/id1781322439
WIZARD #HammerHouseofHorror: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/id1781321776
In the continued awful paucity of feedback, I'll have to skulk anonymously around the fandom, see what's brewing and talk about that instead. I'll probably be talking about something you said, so... #sffh #uk #doctorwho
If you're into #ClassicDoctorWho, be sure to catch up on my last Who-only pod (https://mastodon.social/@roymathur/114410095570968338) because I'm taping a new #CRRRRS #podcast multi-topic #SFFH episode around midnight. First, I'm going to squeeze in watching the #TheElectricstate before finalising my shownotes. NB the next will also contain a #review of #DoctorWho: #TheWell.
NEW EPISODE: Jim goes a rare direction, negative, with today's review of the 2025 movie Wolf Man. Come see what's the issue(s). #MovieReview #Horror #SFFH #WolfMan https://youtu.be/5l7F76_bKtU
Greetings Earthlings!
Upcoming in the next few days on #CRRRRS #SFFH #Geek #Whovian #UK #Podcast
#Review-s:
#TheTrialofaTimeLord
#Ash
#Mickey17
#Andor
#DoctorWho: #TheWell
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I'm taping a #CRRRRS #podcast about #DoctorWho: #Lux, #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld, etc. tonight. Any thoughts on either and anything #SFFH-related welcome. #HappyEaster! Subscribe at: https://roymathur.com/podcast.html
I'm in... although, I think I may be entering more competitions than I can manage.
Ah well...
#Writer #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
#BritishFantasySociety #WritingCompetition
#Fantasy #SciFi #SFFH
https://britishfantasysociety.org/bfs-short-story-competition-opens-for-entries/
NEW EPISODE: Managed to croak one out - voice is not up to full form today, but I really wanted to re-engage. Hope you enjoy this movie review. #Nosferatu #MovieReview #horror #SFFH https://youtu.be/GBhBbbXZdl8
I enjoyed revisiting Michael Moorcock's End of time setting, in Legends from the end of time, which is an omnibus of five novellas exploring minor characters from the earlier series. The funniest was the one that dumps Elric in the middle of the lunacy, but they're all very entertaining.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d5412218-0568-4ae0-b987-e18a81655473
For a client
If a book pitched itself as a 'spooky Victorian murder mystery', the lead figure is a sceptic, but during the book it becomes obvious there is something paranormal going on...
(assume well done)
#bookstodon #spooky #murder #mystery #thriller #specfic #SFFH #paranormal #books #bookstodon #reading #amreading
So. Feels weird just throwing this out there, butβ¦
If a sprawling & challenging literary high fantasy novel sounds like your thing, my book may be your thing:
Every Friday, I meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Today we're in France to chat with Geoff Holder, a writer who covers the breadth of SFFH as well as non-fiction - just look at his 30+ books on the Scottish paranormal!
https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-geoff-holder/
#writersofmastodon #paranormal #sffh #speculativefiction #nonfiction
Enjoy #VengeanceonVaros (https://mastodon.social/@roymathur/114048557292509141) as I'm #revisit-ing #TheMarkoftheRani very soon.
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Itβs out now! π« My first published short story is featured in OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS along with many other fabulous & fantastical tales from authors of #fantasy, #scifi & #horror π«
My story, βGrey,β features an uncanny encounter in a spaceport, a meeting with an oddly familiar stranger, and a man haunted by the path not takenβ¦
#anthology #shortfiction #shortstory #sff #sffh @starsandsabers
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