Tom Toner

‘Among the most significant works of SF released in recent years’-Tor.com ‘I haven’t seen worldbuilding of this breadth & scale since Iain M Banks’ Culture series’-Heradas.com ‘Vast, exotic & mind boggling’-Roaring Bookworm ‘An unceasing display of wonders’-Locus

Heading over to Comicon for today’s event with @garthnix.bsky.social and @qntm.org and the Elizabeth line has blown my mind - last time I came out this way it didn’t exist, and it took a couple of days & some complex haggling with a creature under a bridge to cross London

Reminded today of this all-timer from the early days of The Internet

Very nice new review, thanks @mythaxis.bsky.social ! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Think I’ve just missed the Solaris bus*, but I’ll also be heading up to Fcon tomorrow for a couple of panels, looking forward to seeing everyone 🍻 *if it’s anything like the Vengabus, I can hopefully rejoin it in a wide range of cities

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

The full programme for this year's Fantasycon is now available! Join us in Glasgow next month for 3 days of talks, workshops, live podcasts, panel discussions, readings, and more - plus, of course, to find out who's won the British Fantasy Awards! Head to: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

Found my first notebook with the vague ideas for the Immeasurable Heaven - to give an idea of how long these books can sometimes take, notes begin September 2018, book published July 2025 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

Hone your memoir writing skills in an inspiring and supportive environment! You’ll join a group of 15 writers for weekly Zoom teaching and workshopping from award-winning author Claire Lynch. Apply by 21 Sept:

Really nice day at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social

I think I’m on this panel at comicon on Friday too - come on down/up/along/under to Birmingham for some good Worldbuilding chat @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Looking forward to chatting with the Science Fiction Bookclub tonight at 8.30pm (and possibly again on the 17th!)

2016-11-27 --- ENCELADUS UNCROPPED (Enhanced) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/PGX8i2

Pretty much one year exactly since the Immeasurable Heaven came out, so it’s lovely to be able to compile a few nice things readers have been saying over on Goodreads. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Random dump of beasties from my sketchbook @solarisbooks.bsky.social

A museum that existed before classical Greece or Rome, displaying artifacts as old to them as Roman artificats are to us...

This is wonderful - when I wrote the Immeasurable Heaven (set in a giant ring of connected galaxies) I never thought they’d actually find one about 6.9 billion light years away @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.sciencealert.com/impossible-s...

If you missed our latest Worldbuilding workshop, do check it out. We fleshed out the culture of one of our species pretty thoroughly, exploring their language and religion, and how this would feed into our ongoing plot. @tomtoner.bsky.social will return after the summer for the next installment!

Ca-caw! We'll be back with @caspargeon.bsky.social tomorrow for another Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop! We'll be fleshing out the biologies, cultures and histories of our alien races; and we need your ideas, the wackier the better! 7pm UK/2pm ET/11am PT www.youtube.com/live/HrhQq6_...

I’ll be teaching my regular Extremely Extreme Worldbuilding Workshop tomorrow with my feathered friends at @rookeryp.bsky.social - all welcome to drop in and shout things at me

Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...

Getting close to this year's Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, am looking forward to it. I'm giving a talk - 'Sea Monsters Past and Present' (on claimed connections between fossil animals and modern monsters) - on Friday June 12th. It's a ticketed event, book here www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/event/talk-s...

Nice review from the excellent Ramsrambles over on yonder TikTok :) @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Lovely review just in from Howler13reads over on that there instagram @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Took the trusty old notebook into the woods for a few days - didn’t get much written, but did meet a fox who likes bread

Lovely tribute to Ian Watson on this Warhammer site.

My wife had gone into TK Maxx & I was loitering for a while next to this bin when I first had the idea for the Immeasurable Heaven sometime in 2018. I always make time for a bit of loitering now - you never know when you’ll come up with something that drains your lifeforce, vampire-like, for years

Two notebooks filled, so time to turn the sod on this fantasy novel & begin the actual typing of it. Always some false starts at this stage as I try to work out where to enter the story, then of course I need to stop and take essential photos of my laptop, and by then the day’s pretty much over

Delighted to find both Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus shortlist this year, amongst some amazing company!

So this is a thing if you're free later today. No trouble if you're busy. We've all got a lot on our plates these days. www.reddit.com/r/TheCaptive...

Home to some excellent book post - the House on Utopia Way by the brilliant and multiglottal (although that sounds like a medical condition) @stefmowords.bsky.social

Hi! I'm Lur Noise; illustrator, concept/2D artist and comic creator. I like drawing machines, architecture and critters, and have worked for people such as Deconstructeam, The Mountain Goats and Summer Eternal ~* #PortfolioDay

Had some statements for books of mine that have earned out (the dream!) so I think it's worth reminding people: if you love an author, seek out her backlist. Ask bookshops to order them if you can. Bookshops these days often won't have older titles, because of space limitations & returns policies🧵

Having so much fun writing my first ever fantasy novel. This is the one project I’ve been putting off for years, tinkering with notes but always thinking I needed to wait for the right time to begin in earnest. But bugger it - now’s as good a time as any to lose yourself in something you love doing

These interactive sessions with Tom have been some of my favourite ITR streams ever. Hope you can join us on Saturday!

Ca-caw! We're back #InsideTheRookery this Saturday for the 4th (and final?) Extreme Wildcard Worldbuilding Workshop with feathered friend @tomtoner.bsky.social aka @caspargeon.bsky.social ! This time...the plot thickens! Saturday 7pm UK / 2pm ET / 11am PT www.youtube.com/live/JTV7BmX...

Another #eastercon panel sketch! This time we're talking Space Opera.

Go on a SF spree as we all look to the stars ❤️❤️

I’ll be moderating ‘Go and Tell the Bees’ at Eastercon this afternoon, so come along if you want to know about… er, bees? I’m not actually sure what it means, but there’s a chance we’ll find out at 3pm in the Salisbury-Wellington room

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick award! THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, @caspargeon.bsky.social 's reality-bending SciFi that reads like a fable from another galaxy, and features an entirely non-human cast! “Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social Buy geni.us/immeasurable

Looking through a stack of notebooks from about 2015, when I was working on my second Amaranthine book - have a cheeky spaceship

I recommend the baffled-looking Romans in Cirencester museum

TONIGHT! Two amazing, inventive, out there, genre expanding and right now awards nominated books, introduced by their authors: Caspar Geon and Stark Holborn Head to Star of Kings, near Kings Cross London, 6:30pm, free!

Apparently there’s a limited time deal on Amazon for the Immeasurable Heaven paperback - you can hang out in another galaxy with a completely alien cast of characters for £6.54 until March 16th @solarisbooks.bsky.social