Tolstoy with the best creative advice ever written down

It's the 30th of June, and in the words of that great philosopher Jon Bon Jovi, woooooohhh we're halfway there! So here are my favourite 6 books of the 61 I have read this year so far. Have you read them? What did you think? #BookTwitter THOMAS R. WEAVER Catherine Chidgey Bobby Palmer

So, this happened

We're thrilled to reveal this season’s picks for the #Radio2BookClub 📚✨ Huge congratulations to the authors Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Aisling Rawle, R. F. Kuang, Connor Hutchinson, Damian Barr, Dur e Aziz Amna & THOMAS R. WEAVER 🎉 🔍 Full article🔗l8r.it/ptlV BBC Sounds

POV: My book, set “in the future” in 2050 when it’s now closer than Y2K

A subject very close to my heart from fellow Transworld Books author Michael Cordy, who also wrote the fantastic The Miracle Strain (later retitled The Messiah Code) all the way back in 1997. His new one looks fantastic and the wonderful folks at PRH have even sent me an ARC 🙌

London Underground right now

It was great to discuss the impact of techn and AI on crime writing with the brilliant Ajay Chowdhury on Front Row last night (we are about 42 mins in) and there is a shout out for Harrogate Festivals Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Festival which starts tomorrow! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I read a lot of science fiction as a kid, so it's kind of a shock that the most prescient novel from my youth was in Harry Potter when a girl gets into infinite text chat with a magic diary that pretends to be a perfect safe boyfriend while it actually sucks out her life force.

The SCP Foundation unintentionally creating cognitohazard for LLMs and it causes a techbro to have cyberpsychosis is the most SCP thing that ever happened

There’s a guy on Instagram who started posting about his journey to getting legally euthanised in the Netherlands, so he started a “last supper project” where he goes to his followers’ homes to have supper with them before he dies. The date for him to be euthanised was 30 July.

War of the Worlds, in the style of Cloverfield meets Modern Family S6E16 ("Connection Lost")? Count me excited.

Exciting bookmail today! I am so excited to read #ArtificialWisdom by THOMAS R. WEAVER and after a shameless plea the lovely Elizabeth (libcreads on insta) sent me a copy she had. I cannot wait to dive in, think it’s going to be brilliant and raise some interesting thoughts.

“Like nothing else I’ve read before” is literally the nicest thing to hear 🙏🙏

New kind of NFT just dropped

A wet bulb event is when humidity reaches 100% and the temperature reaches 35°C (or 95°F). In such conditions, sweat is unable to evaporate, leading the body to overheat and eventually causing death. Multiple wet bulb events are projected to occur in China by 2050.