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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 5h

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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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 7h

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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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 & online. www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“You maniacs! You blew it up!” More than half a century after Planet of the Apes, that final scene still has the power to shock. Flood Waters Down - a near-future #climate & #AI thriller. Different apocalypse. Same uncomfortable question: did we see it coming and carry on anyway? #Booksky #film

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can fiction help close the climate "empathy gap"? I'll be at EarthLincs in Lincoln this Saturday talking about #FloodWatersDown, the flooded Fens, climate journalism – and why stories can sometimes make us feel what statistics struggle to convey. 📍 12 Mint Lane LN1 1UD 🕑 2pm 🎟 Free

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Delighted that Flood Waters Down has been chosen as Local 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 climate collapse & AI control set in the fens of eastern England. #Booksky #Holt #Norfolk #Bookshop

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Here's a preview of the new cover of ROOM Space Journal which will be out next week.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Top event today - Three Kings Boutique Literary Festival, Threekingham, Lincs. Great to do a panel with Amy Lilwall brilliantly chaired by Samantha Maw.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This kind of article is verging on the unhinged, yet it is being fed to millions of readers as establishment fodder. So many conflated arguments, disingenuous slurs and wilful distortions – all apparently designed to turn the reality of climate change into another front in the culture wars.

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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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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Love this cover for the latest issue of The Spectator (US and international edition)! And I'm looking forward to reading the article by David Whitehouse. Frankly though, a human mission to Mars is probably still in the realms of a TinTin adventure. Isn't it?

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Really looking forward to it too!

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Enjoyed a few days on the Norfolk coast near Cromer. Lots of good photo opps including this one of local fishermen returning to Overstrand beach with their boat and catch of North Sea lobster. #photography #landscape #norfolk

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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 · 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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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Beach boats in the evening light, Cromer, Norfolk.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Summer beach reading with purpose. I set my climate thriller #FloodWatersDown some 30 years in an imaginary future. Now I’m thinking a decade might be more realistic! A haunting vision of climate collapse and AI control. Bookshops and online.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A huge thank you to everyone behind this year's Heckington Show – a superb event! And my Lincolnshire-set climate thriller really did go down a storm! Enjoyed many fascinating conversations from residents, farmers & readers. Also people curious about what inspired the story. #Booksky #bookshops

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Heading to the Heckington Show this weekend? I'll be there with Flood Waters Down – my Lincolnshire climate thriller set in the flooded Fens. Do come & say hello in the marketplace marquee if you're visiting! Signed copies & bookish chats! #HeckingtonShow #Lincolnshire #ClimateFiction #author

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The drains of Lincolnshire (466). The Vernatts Drain (cut by hand in the 1630s) runs straight as a die for seven miles from Pode Hole through Spalding to the River Welland near Surfleet Seas End where its waters join the Rivers Welland & Glen to head out to the North Sea.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The drains of Lincolnshire (585). Anderby Main Drain just before sluice and tunnel, then out onto the big beach and into the North Sea.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The line between speculative fiction and reality is blurring. My debut novel #FloodWatersDown takes readers into the flooded Fens of eastern England - a page-turning near-future world grappling with climate devastation, AI enclaves and social divide. Out now. #ClimateRealism #Booksky #ClimateCrisis

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I couldn't agree more. As a journalist reporting on climate science, I've come to believe we need both evidence & imagination. Science explains the risks. Fiction helps us experience the kind of world that might be coming. It's one of the reasons I wrote a climate thriller #FloodWatersDown.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A lovely day at @newarkbookfestival.bsky.social literature village in the historic marketplace. Lots of interest in my highly topical climate novel #FloodWatersDown - thank you to everyone who stopped by.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Every novel starts somewhere... (Pic based on an original photo by the author from a shop window display in Manitou Springs, Colorado). #Booksky #Author #Writing #Photography

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Borrowed the image below from Lincs Libraries post on X... Looking forward to it - and ironically, given the story is set against a background of climate collapse, it's going to be another sweltering day. Perfect timing! 😄 #libraries #Spalding #author #Lincolnshire #Booksky

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Flood Waters Down is an exciting, near-future thriller in a world undone by climate collapse & AI and the choices people make when old certainties disappear. Order through any UK bookshop supplied by Gardners or online - in both paperback & ebook. #ClimateFiction #EcoThriller #BookRecommendations

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Lovely indie bookshop in Norwich. Sadly, not interested in stocking #FloodWatersDown despite it being set in eastern UK with super topical #ClimateChange & #AI themes. Thankfully a friend in the city ordered a copy from #Waterstones just down the road. Every new author has a story... #BookSky

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thanks to all who stopped by to chat about #FloodWatersDown at The Fictionary Faire, Stockport, on Sunday. Brilliant joint author session too exploring big issues of #AI & #climatechange in fiction with writer of #TheSentientOnes @authorbnugent.bsky.social #Booksky #LiteraryFestival #Authors

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Great initiative from Three Kings Organic at Threekingham, Lincs. Very pleased to be part of their Literary Weekend in August along with a host of other authors. Such a brilliant food venue too!

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A pleasure to give my first author talk for #FloodWatersDown to The Brass Windmill book club in Helpringham this afternoon. It was wonderful to meet so many enthusiastic readers & there were some excellent questions during the discussion afterwards. It was a great afternoon! #heatwave #Booksky

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Back in #Spalding this Saturday along with a host of local artists & creatives at #Springfields for the #lincolnshiremakers market. Pick up a signed copy of Flood Waters Down - my new climate thriller set in a flooded future version of the South Lincolnshire Fens. #BookSky #ClimateFiction #author

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

An interesting question… my answer in the shape of the recently published Flood Waters Down.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'll be at the Lincolnshire Flood Resilience Roadshow in Sleaford today. Lots of informative stands to browse and interesting talks at various times. Pop along anytime between 2pm and 7pm.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Nose to tail - nice flypast yesterday.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yes ‪@carolecadwalla.bsky.social‬ I agree - the BBC Question Time panel of experts seems unbalanced. A wild card author like Brendan Nugent (The Sentient Ones) would offer a different and valuable perspective.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Poppies in the garden looking resplendent in the morning sunlight. All self-seeded.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Like sci-fi, climate fiction works best when it’s just believable enough to challenge normality & make you uncomfortable. Flood Waters Down & The Sentient Ones explore futures that feel unsettlingly close - shaped by climate, tech & choice. How close is too close? #scifi #clifi #booksky #books

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

With temps set to soar in UK this weekend there's no better Bank Holiday read than my new climate thriller 'Flood Waters Down'. A story of survival, resistance & moral reckoning, described as "richly descriptive, deftly complex & harrowingly convincing." Available from bookshops or online.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

One of the pleasures of publishing a first novel is discovering how other people describe it. Huge thanks to my brilliant editor Vanessa Anderson @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social for this wonderful post about Flood Waters Down. “Climate fiction with teeth, tension and meaningful layers…” #Booksky

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Great to meet up again with space entrepreneur Rick Tumlinson @rocketrick.bsky.social in Lisbon today at the European Space Economy Summit - he has an article in the current issue of ROOM Space Journal based on his new book Why Space?

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Modern sci-fi… a scary glimpse of the future…

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Arrived in Lisbon by train this evening from the Algarve, ready for the European Space Economy Summit which starts tomorrow. A genuinely lovely surprise before departing the Luz Beach Apartments - finding this notice on the bookshelf in reception. Thanks so much Claire and Bethany!

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's always a pleasure to visit Lindum Books at the top of Steep Hill in Lincoln. This time it was extra special as I was able to sign copies of my newly published novel #FloodWatersDown #bookshop #author #climatefiction #flooding

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Echoes many of the themes in my just published novel #FloodWatersDown mostly set in the near future landscapes of eastern England.

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Clive Simpson @simpsonclive.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Very much agree and it’s one of the reasons I’ve written a climate novel.

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