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

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 · 12h

So sorry to hear this.

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 12h

Rupert Murdoch confirmed alive at 94

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 13h

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

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

At least, not to make money from selling newspapers.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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...

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD

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.

scarletferret.com

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

Been seeing a few of these scams lately, and if you are a scam artist, I just want to help you out.
More than most, writers are attuned to spotting bullshit LLM content. If you really want to take us in, buying copies of our books so that you can speak naturally about them will really take us in.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 17h

Had a fantastically effusive message from "Dinah Arnold Literary" who use a gmail address and do not otherwise seem to exist, praising a recent book in quite extraordinarily purple prose and setting out a detailed "campaign strategy" to market it. Assume AI generated, but it's

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 16h

The correct order to watch the Tron movies is:

Start with Tron and Tron Legacy.

Then watch the prequels, Hackers and Sneakers.

Then watch the side stories Wreck It Ralph and Free Guy.

And finish with the epic conclusion of Matrix and Matrix Resurrection.

a man in a futuristic helmet says nice

Alt: a man in a futuristic helmet says nice

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

Literally just got another.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

I've had this same scam. The oddly accurate but clearly AI written book description, the gmail address, the wild promises. Claimed to be from a book club that google revealed *did* exist, so alerted them to it as well.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

Not who has enough obviously-enormous-yet-unspoken daddy issues.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

So we're all looking at @stefmowords.bsky.social, right?

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 17h

And what did autocorrect change it to?

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 17h

For the record, my dad's been dead for 9 years.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 17h

Dad used to moan about how I hadn't grown out of Doctor Who. I now get paid to write about it, so when I visit him I wear Dalek socks.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I say "the main thing" because I'm scrolling past all the stuff about the rapidly accelerated climate change timeline because it makes me very, very scared.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

What I really want is for a movie to cast Gary Oldman as Hitler, and another to cast him as Joseph Stalin to finally complete the The Darkest Hour/Oppenheimer WW2 cinematic universe.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

Instead of posting your Book Takes, why don't you Take My Books (And Pay Me Money For Them)?

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD

scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...

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.

scarletferret.com

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah I'm actually with you on this one.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

*nodding* Ian McEwan.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

The main thing I'm taking from bsky today is that there has never been a more guy-you-made-up-to-be-mad-at than whoever it is you specifically you are arguing against in Literary Discourse.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 19h

Publishing should adopt a dead man's boots approach. If you want to publish a book, you must first find and destroy every single copy of another book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

This post is the second time you've turned up in my feed this morning so I honestly assumed [x] was liking Oasis.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

This is why I could never invent Roadrunner & Wiley Coyote. These rules definitely exist for the Fermi and I have gone out of my way to break every single one of them. In fact I'm literally in the middle of breaking a new one right now.