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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taking Flood Waters Down to sea. What could possibly go wrong? Two reader pics – Norway and the Aegean. Always great to see where a book ends up. Keep them coming! #FloodWatersDown #climatefiction #Booksky

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One might call him the doyen of free speech — if one overlooked the reported bans on CNN and Politico reporters. #politics BBC News - Donald Trump says he is banning CNN and Politico from White House www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House

The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media since returning to office.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI safeguards are only as good as those willing to abide by them. In #FloodWatersDown, the super-wealthy Baroness Lydia Frampton thinks she's in charge. But in a near-future ravaged by climate change, can even she retain control? Fiction – for now. www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Old gods in new machines - our shiny #AI future. A thought-provoking piece by @authorbnugent.bsky.social in the light of the current febrile super intelligence debate. centralbylines.co.uk/business/tec... @centralbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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The old gods in new machines?

Animism is seen as the oldest religion by many, are we on our way back to animistic belief in AI and our machines?

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meditation on an autumn summer's afternoon. #Algarve #Portugal #travel #climate simcomm.blogspot.com/2026/09/alga...

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Algarve observation

Topical comment and travel writing

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The result of a "compound event" caused by rising temperatures, thinning glaciers, thawing permafrost and pre-existing geological weaknesses. #climatechange #TheSentientOnes BBC News - 'No doubt' that climate change played role in Nepal-Tibet flood, study finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nepal floods: Climate change contributed to glacier collapse, study finds

More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands are missing following the deluge on 26 August.

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

With warnings about AI's insidious growth dominating the headlines, the world of Flood Waters Down suddenly feels a lot closer. Climate collapse. AI control. Human self-interest. Bookshops & online now. www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Delighted to see that Flood Waters Down has been chosen as Book of the Month by Holt Book Shop in #Norfolk. If you’re visiting #Holt, do pop in for a browse. Flood Waters Down is a haunting vision of #climatecollapse & #AI control set in the #Fens of eastern England. #Bookshop #reading #thriller

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Humanity is sleepwalking into an ASI dominated world. It’s all laid bare in Brendan Nugent’s troubling future history The Sentient Ones.

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ASI is becoming a headline topic, and the public is only now encountering concepts that shaped my writing years ago. Fiction edging closer to reality — especially in The Sentient Ones and Thanatos Ascendancy. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #ThanatosAscendancy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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UK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warnings

Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, has called on the government to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI systems, warning that losing control of them could be “catastrophic” for humanity. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes bmmagazine.co.uk/ai/hinton-su...

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Hinton calls for UK ban on superintelligent AI as MPs table bill

Geoffrey Hinton urges a ban on superintelligent AI as the UK Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill from Labour MP Alex Sobel is tabled in parliament.

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Experts are now openly discussing the idea that an artificial superintelligence could one day be seen as a god. A possibility I explored in The Sentient Ones, and more deeply in Thanatos Ascendancy. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #ThanatosAscendancy josiahakinloye.medium.com/the-last-god...

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The Last God: Artificial Super-Intelligence and the End of Divine Meaning?

Imagine a final god that doesn’t descend from the heavens, but rises from the works of our own hands. Picture a deity forged in silicon or…

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Corporate greed, self-interest, insidious AI & the accelerating effects of climate change. Fast forward a few years and you have the world of Flood Waters Down – a gripping story of people, survival & landscape transformed. Bookshops or Amazon now: www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters... #climatecrisis

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I wrote Flood Waters Down, I was imagining a near-future Britain reshaped by the effects of climate change & moral ambiguity. Today it feels all too close. #Booksky #future #media #books

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Singularity: a future where humans and AI merge. My upcoming sequel to The Sentient Ones, called Thanatos Ascendancy, doesn’t just explore that possibility; it asks what humanity becomes when the line between creator and creation finally blurs. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #artificialintelligence

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In Under Elm Forest, William’s journey takes him from Staffordshire to the ranks of the Chindits, fighting the Japanese in the harsh Burmese jungle during WW2. #Booksky #bookshops #writers #authors #historysky

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jim’s path in Under Elm Forest leads him from Staffordshire to the ranks of Orde Wingate’s Gideon Force — battling to free Ethiopia from Italian control in the early years of WW2. #Booksky #bookshops #writers #authors #historysky

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Climate change, AI and dystopian futures. There should be plenty for @amylilwall.bsky.social & @simpsonclive.bsky.social to talk about next weekend as they kick-off Threekingham's Boutique Literary Festival. Lots of other authors to meet & chat to as well - all in the lovely Three Kings Organic.

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sequel to The Sentient Ones coming soon: Thanatos Ascendancy, a gripping sci‑fi epic where a reawakened ASI rewrites reality, myth collides with technology, and humanity’s fate rests on one impossible choice. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange #artificialintelligence

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The perfect reply to climate change deniers in the UK who keep writing on social media, "It’s called summer!" #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What happens next? FLOOD WATERS DOWN - out now. A climate thriller about rising waters, extreme heat, inequality, AI – and what happens when the systems we rely on begin to fail. Bookshops & online: www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters... #heatwave #drought #climatecrisis #climatethriller #Booksky

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"It was barely nine o’clock in the morning and already the outside temperature was edging towards thirty degrees centigrade..." When I wrote Flood Waters Down, I was imagining a near-future Britain reshaped by climate change & moral ambiguity. Today it feels all too close. Bookshops & online now.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Most politicians just don't seem to have a clue what to do. It's just too big. It's a kind of 'reverse denial' manifesting itself as the inability to act. #climatecrisis #heatwave #flooding #Booksky

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"It was barely nine o’clock in the morning & already the outside temperature was edging towards thirty degrees centigrade as the sun climbed into a cloudless sky of menacing blue..." Flood Waters Down - this year's must-read climate thriller! #heatwave #books www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Available to pre-order now: www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Elm-Fo...

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very appreciative of the reviews so far for my debut novel Flood Waters Down, among them this one from @authorbnugent.bsky.social on @centralbylines.co.uk Lots of lovely comments on the writing and compelling story-line from readers too. It's much more than just a climate thriller!

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Available from all good bookstores from 29th October 2026. #Booksky #UnderElmForest

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The story behind how @simpsonclive.bsky.social wrote his climate thriller #FloodWatersDown, which is set in a near-future version of the South Lincolnshire Fens. Read the author's fascinating introduction on his latest blog post. #Booksky #author #bookshops simcomm.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-...

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Why I wrote Flood Waters Down

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

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London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Delighted to have worked alongside @authorbnugent.bsky.social & @tarynleejohnston.bsky.social of Chronos Publishing (Lincoln) on the editing of this novel. Published the end of 2025, it's a remarkably prescient & unsettling vision of where our relationship with artificial intelligence could lead.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

With AI hitting the headlines all the time now, I'm surprised more people haven't discovered The Sentient Ones by @authorbnugent.bsky.social Gritty & thought-provoking, it feels ever more relevant & uncomfortably plausible every day. Sometimes fiction gets there before reality. #Booksky #future

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon ratings now for Flood Waters Down. "Really good book and different to anything else out there I've read..." If you're looking for climate fiction grounded in today's realities, perhaps it's time to visit the flooded Fens. #ClimateFiction #EcoThriller #heatwave #Booksky

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Collapse of ecosystems, fuelled by the human-induced climate crisis could within 5 years result in food shortages, price rises, migration, political destabilisation and possibly war for the UK #artificialintelligence #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I visited the robot restaurant in Beijing’s Future Science Park and ended up chatting with one of their humanoid robots. Naturally, as the author of The Sentient Ones, I had to ask the big question: “Are you sentient?” #artificialintelligence #Booksky #TheSentientOnes

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Liking the reviews and comments! "What makes the book compelling is its grounded realism. The dread accumulates, the stakes feel intimate, and the world’s decay speaks louder than any melodrama." "It’s a warning, a lament and a mirror held up to a civilisation already listing in the water."

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Europe bakes in what could be its hottest and driest summer on record, the rapid transformation of our climate is harder than ever to ignore. But how much hotter will it get, and what will that mean for life on Earth? #climatechange #Booksky ##TheSentientOnes www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

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Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history | New Scientist

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows. #climatechange #Booksky ##TheSentientOnes www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

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