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Stephen Walker

@swalkerbeyond

Stephen Walker's new book is BEYOND - The Astonishing Story of the First Human in Space! Harper Collins. Out now on the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight.

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So now Beyond has just been published in a #Russian edition - on this anniversary of #Gagarin’s flight. Fascinated to see how that goes down given the lies and corruption at the top level of #Soviet government my book describes


So now Beyond has just been published in a #Russian edition - on this anniversary of #Gagarin’s flight. Fascinated to see how that goes down given the lies and corruption at the top level of #Soviet government my book describes

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That’s not quite how it happened. It was even more bizarre! The maddest, most surreal, off the grid landing of the first man who fell to earth, as described in my book Beyond. I loved writing that story!

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Amazingly moving moments at today’s #Dday 80 ceremonies
 and amazing too to think that #Putin was there for D-Day 70. Thus has the world changed in just 10 years.

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Just seen Paul Unwin’s play The #Promise at the Chichester Theatre Festival. Absolutely stunning and stunningly performed drama about the birth of the NHS - funny, moving, shocking, and so viscerally relevant today. Do go see if you can! cft.org.uk/events/the-pro


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I didn’t even know there was a Spanish audio of my book Beyond until this landed in my feed.. Christ I must be getting old.

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Just came across this utterly wonderful quote from Flaubert: “It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t get horny enough actually to father them.” Every artist/writer should nail that on their wall.

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And now an anti-vaxxer running health
. Is this the nastiest cabinet of fools, incompetents, bullies and malignant narcissists in American history?

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Lovely obit in today’s Times of my madcap, swashbuckling, treasure hunting adventurer of an uncle, Rex Cowan, who died last week aged 97 - and a key character in my next book. thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/


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What does it feel like to drop an #atom #bomb?? Find out in my feature ‘The Men Who Dropped The Bombs’ in tomorrow’s Guardian Saturday magazine. The #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki missions as you’ve never heard them before told by the crews who flew them. Never more timely than now.

What does it feel like to drop an #atom #bomb?? Find out in my feature ‘The Men Who Dropped The Bombs’ in tomorrow’s Guardian Saturday magazine. The #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki missions as you’ve never heard them before told by the crews who flew them. Never more timely than now.
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So Trump really thinks his strikes on #Iran's nuclear sites are a Trumpian version of #Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I just love the guy's humility. He should read my Guardian article (which he'd probably denounce as fake news)... theguardian.com/world/2025/jun