A Short History of the Future: 42 modern twists on retro themes from time travel to multiverses, via aliens, pocket spaceships, teleportation mishaps, dinosaurs, and space pirates! #ScienceFiction #ShortStories @northodoxpress https://t.co/OiQmfsEkPZ Read it? Please review it!

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Trump's desperate attempts to white-wash history and remove references to anything he disagrees with has to be a double-edged sword. The president sets a precedent: how fragile history is. How long, in this brave new world, will HIS legacy last?

"Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" - worthy of 1984's #MinistryofTruth? But really, you couldn't make this dystopian, authoritarian shit up, and making shit up is pretty much my chosen profession. https://t.co/RG59mpJzJ9 #MakeOrwellFictionAgain

I should really boast about being on this longlist (under my wedded name) before it becomes a shortlist! Anyway, congrats and good vibes to @LiamJHogan and all my fellow longlistees, as well as to judge Vanessa Onwuemezi on her excellent taste in fiction …

Ukraine should accept a UN-led government, as long as Russia do the same...

And they'll do it for as heinous a crime as vocally disagreeing with their international policy. (AKA "creating a ruckus.") Is this not dystopian enough for you yet?

If you're a visitor to the US, you have NO rights that the current government won't remove as they see fit, be it green card, permanent residency, work or student visa, whatever, and then treat you as WORSE than a criminal (criminals have rights) as long as they like.

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It's a national disgrace and scandal. And the damage is already done to our rivers and our lakes and our coastlines.

Aided and abetted by a government that never put the safeguards in place, on both environment and debt financing, and only now demanding proper measurement of releases. The water companies will be fined, their customers will end up paying.

"Water companies released raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a record 3.61 million hours last year" This, apparently, is what happens when private companies with an absolute monopoly run UK infrastructure into the ground by priotising share holders.

We haven't even had 3 full months this year, and we already have 4 books out! 🔪 A House For Monsters 🚀 The Disruptors 🤖 A Short History of the Future 👽 The Triton Run Have you picked any up yet? All these and more available here: https://t.co/Qs8UFgtW4K

I'm semi convinced Twitter (sorry! X!) has employed an AI to create fake adverts selling things that look vaguely bitcoin or tech-bro, PURELY to get people to sign up for their service that removes those - and other - adverts. AITC? (Am I The Cynic?)

@northodoxpress @liarsleague @BSFA @BritFantasySoc @ShrewslibraryUK @StokeyLitFest @locusmag @bookanista (WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T GOT YOURS YET? For pete's sake, people... It's at Am*zon, @waterstones, you can order it from your fave local bookshop, or buy direct: https://t.co/OiQmfsEkPZ) P.s. For the avoidance of doubt, I WILL take cookies as well as stars...

So what I, Marvin the Martian, and, um, a Dalek really want to know on this glorious spring afternoon, is: How many cookies - Sorry! STARS - How many STARS are you going to give my @northodoxpress #ScienceFiction short story collection, A Short History of the Future?

If you export your waste, you have no control over it, and it shouldn't count as YOUR green initiative. If you export your waste, you're likely exploiting a cheaper workforce for a dangerous and unhealthy task. It would be greener to burn tires ourselves. https://t.co/66ZWvQAQ3G

#RISKandREWARD at @ThePhoenix_W1 on Tue 8th April - winning #shortstories announced, feat. fugitive lovers, train heists, 30s jewel thieves & Lego PLUS #flashfiction from host @LiamJHogan Hogan's new collection A Short History of the Future! £5 tix here: https://t.co/OfST7RoIQS

Delighted to be on this 14 author longlist, with my short story "A Game of Musical Souls"!