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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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Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
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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 · 12h

"There, there," a fellow soldier says, patting my shoulder as I weep over the body. "It could have happened to anyone."

"Thanks," I sniff. "That's... quite cliche. Say, do you know a recipe for apple pie in haiku form?"

My hand is already reaching for the fallen gun.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 12h

Me in the Terminator resistance camp, crying and covered in blood as I struggle to apply pressure to a fallen comrade's gaping shotgun blast.

"I'm sorry! I honestly thought you were AI! Your replies were just really generic and I had to be sure!"

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 14h

Always bums me out how these portals are supposed to bring in supplicants from more diverse backgrounds but by *sheer chance* the Gifts of Perdition always go to some guy who just happens to have a pentagram-shaped birthmark and be an unholy virgin birth that came about under a Cursed Goat Moon.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 14h

our submissions portal will open again at the first blood moon of the next psychic harvest

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 14h

thanks to everyone who responded to our Eternal Debasement submissions call! our chained priests are currently sorting through mountains of flesh totems, bloody bone mechanisms, and some of the most abject vows I've ever read. winners will be announced in late Nov, absorptions will begin early 2026

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 14h

Autumnal and spooky. Definitely.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 17h

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 18h

We all think we're Statler & Waldorf
But we're not
We're a whole website full of Fozzie Bears

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

I stand by my take, but this is a valid objection.
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Laurence Phillips @hardyroach.bsky.social · 18h

counterpoint: much like bisexuality, bisexual extravaganzas do not need to be gender balanced

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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

My "The Mummy" take still aligns with Rajita's in Graveyard Orbit.
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“What’s the Mummy?” Applejack asked.
“A true classic of the horror genre,” Samson boomed. The phone’s translation added particular swagger to its delivery of his words. “Not Boris Karloff’s most celebrated work, but I still think some of his finest.”
“She’s not talking about the Karloff one Sam,” the translation of Connor
said. “It’ll be the nineties bisexual extravaganza.”
Rajita raised a finger. “First,” she said, “a film starring one woman and four dudes with different haircuts is not a ‘bisexual extravaganza’. Secondly, this is the 2017 Tom Cruise version.”
“What’s a 2017 Tom Cruise?” Applejack asked patiently.
“You’re shitting us,” Connor said.
“Humankind is best remembered not just for its artistic successes, but for the vaunting ambition of its greatest failures,” Rajita insisted.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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

You know you're a 90s kid if a Tory government took away your school milk, and a Labour government are going to take away your child's SEN transport provision.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 21h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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

Remember how in the 60s sci-fi always had this joke that people would eat "Food pills" which were the entire meal condensed into a tiny pill, with the joke being that obviously nobody would actually want or enjoy that?

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 23h

I got the Gloss Book Club.

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

Ooh, I think I got that one!

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

Least Thatcher only took away kids' milk. Labour's taking away their SEN transport provision.

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

Or they're working for Labour.

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

12 years ago?
Wonder what those kids are up to now....

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1d

This story from 12 years ago just popped into my head. For no reason.

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Shoot protesters exam question for Eton boys

Eton College asked boys to imagine they were the Prime Minister justifying the shooting dead of 25 protesters by the Army, it emerged last night. Candidates for the school’s most prestigious

www.thetimes.com

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · Aug 23

is this an AI image, guys?

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

They use AI though so fuck 'em.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1d

But I absolutely cannot understand Badenoch specifically being a fan, because she's not a One Nation Tory, she's a fascist freak.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1d

I can understand a certain type of Tory being a Pratchett fan -- your Ted Heath or Ken Clarke old-school One Nation distrust the Nanny State pull yourself up by your bootstraps nation of shopkeepers and laws type. There's an element of that small-C conservatism throughout his work.

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