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Chris Farnell is behind you right now

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social

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Writer of Fermi's Progress (& Wake), the Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Handbook, the Doctor Who Jokebook, words for Spire: The City Must Fall, Film Stories, Den of Geek, the Radio Times and quoted on Barbenheimer's Wikipedia page. https://chrisfarnell.com

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · Jun 3

“The Fermi is the fastest ship, and the deadliest weapon in the universe. We only need it to be one of those things.”
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My homepage: chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
Scarlet Ferret: scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...

The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Progress: Dyson's Fear, Descartesmageddon, Planet of the Apiaries and The Phone Job.

The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Wake: D & Deception, For the Trees, Graveyard Orbit and Overview Effect.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 2h

RRD discord for customer! Friendly discord in hole many friends and discussions in hole Good for ttrpg players Very safe Trust social media girl get in dark hole

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A photo of a cement wall with a suspicious looking black hole in it. It has many red spray painted arrows painting to it with DISCORD in here! (and wine) sprayed in black next to the hole.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1h

It's so nice to see the new social media manager is someone who truly *gets* the brand.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 5h

(Of course, a few years later Fermi's Wake started up, and things got significantly worse...)

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Fermi's Wake 1. D & Deception (Fermi's Progress Book 5)

Fermi's Wake 1. D & Deception (Fermi's Progress Book 5) eBook : Farnell, Chris: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 5h

Fun fact! Today is four years to the day since Fermi's Progress concluded with "The Phone Job".

After blowing up three isolated worlds, the Fermi encountered its first interstellar civilisation - and it was a telesales scam.

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Fermi's Progress: The Phone Job by Chris Farnell - Scarlet Ferret

The Greater Galactic Commercial Network's time-warping communication system spans the cosmos. It's the Fermi's first hint of finding a trans-stellar civilisation. It offers them hope. It might even of...

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 17h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 6h

Reminds me of my brief career as a qualified medical professional (when I was in the delivery room with my partner while she gave birth).

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 6h

I don't like this. There's only two ways to deliver this stamp. One: Watching over my shoulder as I type out every word (Fuck no).
Alternatively, you have some kind of (human or tech delivered) algorithmic system to evaluation text and judge how "human" it is. (No bad implications there AT ALL.)

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 9h

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 6h

I have (FINALLY) got round to reading through your F4 run beyond Vol 1 and I'm really really enjoying it. Proper silly-yet-very-sciencey science fiction tales. The Villains are all "that dickhead demon from all the Thought Experiments". Exactly the sort of stuff I wish there was loads more of.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 7h

The idea as I understand it is you don't know if you're the real you or the you that was simulated to see if you helped in making the basilisk, so you could still end up in the Tech Bro's Pascal's Wager.
But that still doesn't solve the problem that the AI has no incentive to torture you - it exists

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 9h

Sliding doors are the way of the future.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 9h

100%

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 9h

There is totally for realz a self-consistent canon (if you squint) and everything is in it except that comic plotline where they killed Ace, Dimensions in Time and that Big Finish adventure where Shakespeare died as Richard II.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 10h

Finally, ages after other people started getting theirs our main shipment of mags made it through customs, cheers Brexit! The gift that keeps on giving

Anyway, here’s some low effort marketing for an incredibly high effort magazine, buy a copy today, you get a cool magazine & we get to make more

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 10h

Obviously there's the baseline anger that comes from encountering a moral vacuum.

But also, what the fuck are these people's PRs doing? Is this the strategy? The Ignorant Dumbass strategy? Is this an actual play or these people genuinely letting their dipshit clients blithely dance into minefields?

Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 13h

Keira Knightley cares so little about trans people that she couldn't even be bothered to prep an answer about working w/ Rowling & just seemed very angry to be asked. And no, I don't believe that she didn't know. Come on. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: The video of her response to this was so much worse than the transcript

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 10h

Better.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 10h

I sure am getting bored of seeing that photo of "Marilyn Monroe's revenant being made to ride a Game of the Thrones dragon" that everybody hates.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 10h

It has to be not at all useful.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 20h

This is already on my TBR list and I wrote a Lower Decks book if that's worth a peek?

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry to hear this.

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

Rupert Murdoch confirmed alive at 94

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

Apple TV+ hasn't rebranded, it's just had a merger with Apple TV-

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

You're just biased because Jill Stein is your actual girlfriend and you love her and want to marry her and have lots of little green babies called Putin.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on who was reading it before you bought it. I doubt Tim Onion made his InfoWars bid with the intent of retaining readership.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

At least, not to make money from selling newspapers.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

I don't believe anybody buys a newspaper to make money.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

It'll cost you maybe £30 to buy the full Fermi's Progress and Fermi's Wake sets. But I think we can agree that given just how much cash you're going to *easily* scam me out of, that seems like a fair price to pay, right?

scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...

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Fermi's Progress by Chris Farnell - Scarlet Ferret Books

The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light-spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

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