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ROOM Space Journal @roomspacejournal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ROOM Space Journal at IAC 2026 in Antalya, Turkiye. asgardia.space/en/news/ROOM... #iac2026 #iafastro #Asgardia

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Russia. Iran. Afghanistan. None of them have planned something so barbaric as Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump.

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

Encouraging to see some great new 5* reviews on Amazon for Flood Waters Down, including this one. "Simpson writes a fluid, gripping narrative which closes the empathy gap around climate change and makes the possibility of apocalyptic flooding all too real." www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is a thrilling and portentous, omen-laden read.

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Six months today since publication of Flood Waters Down - a scary future history creeping closer all the time Huge thanks to all the bookclubs, libraries, festivals, shops & events that have supported and invited @simpsonclive.bsky.social to speak. Bookshops & online. #Booksky #climate #flooding

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fantastic, I'd have loved to have met Ameca the robot. Although, I'd try my best not to look it in the eyes 👀 👁 😬

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

I'm back from an interesting few days at #IAC2026 in Antalya, Turkiye, representing ROOM Space Journal. Always a good space event & met a lot of interesting people, including Ameca - a humanoid robot who could hold a decent conversation in multiple languages. Scary, piercing eyes though!

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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 · 24/08/2026

True — people have been guessing timelines for years. But having just been in China and seeing the pace of development firsthand, I can absolutely understand why engineers are now confident about that 5–10 year window. The scale, investment, and real‑world testing happening there is on another level

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Brendan Nugent @authorbnugent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Probably not. They'd more than likely rip your laundry apart and smash all your dishes 😄

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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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