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"Neal Asher who’s just a f—ing idea factory." - Tim Miller, Director of Deadpool & Terminator Dark Fate. Science fiction Author #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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The Chinese should just say it's part of their religion to eat bats. They'd be forgiven and Tesco would open a produce section for them.
And on a more serious note. A woman, with say endometrial cancer, might have been unable to get an appointment because of this narcissistic time waster.
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Apparently it's okay to sling the most vile abuse at someone just so long as they are not in a designated 'victim' group.
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No. More to do with dictatorial little empire builders acquiring and building up an army, while at the same time finding someone else to blame for their failings. Seem familiar?
State of the BBC. They're not even pretending any more. twitter.com/darrengrimes_/
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Was this archaeology I wonder? Were they looking for the collective backbone of the Cambridge Police?
Photos from the signing yesterday. Plenty of signed copies can be obtained online, shipping worldwide can be worked out: forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?tag=a
Ah what the hell. I can always delete this later if I've been premature. Here's the US cover of book 3 of Rise of the Jain: The Human.
Thanks, but there's plenty of toilet paper in the shops now.
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We journalist are working to keep you informed. Start the day by reading a paper - for as little as 50p. #buyapaper
This black and white one is one of my favourite cartoons and has been around for a long time, but now another one is doing the rounds. Whoever the hell decided to plagiarise the first to come up with the shite anodyne version two needs to be fed to the Larson cows.
You mean 'US taxpayers' who have nothing to do with slavery and haven't had anything to do with it for generations.
Well that one's out of the bag and I don't have to keep my gob shut anymore. 🤣
If you put a 'but' after 'I believe in free speech', you don't believe in free speech.
So now we know for sure. The billionaire owners of Twitter, Facebook and Amazon have a great deal of power, and they have no reservations about using it to suppress competition, and basically anyone who doesn't buy into their hypocritical politics.
Funny, isn't it, this comparing numbers of deaths by country. Greece is doing well, apparently but, just doing some reading . . . 10.7 million people in Greece, while 9 million packed into London. Repeat these words after me: population density. . .
Just joined the power cut club. Power off for 3.5 hours. Of course I look across to the mountains opposite and all the turbines are motionless, because it's too fucking windy for them. Technology of the future, eh? Wankers.
Content warning for all new followers: if you are a whiny, politically correct, puritanical wanker, probably best not to follow me. Of course, if you are such a person you're probably actively seeking something to be offended about. Either way: fuck off.
A Disney reboot of Alien? FFS! Just do something new! I'm guessing I have a thousand or so books on my shelves - years of superb SF. Every one of those books could be made into an excellent movie, or movies, or TV series. But no, doing that would be far too adventurous.
Who out of the SFF readers here, remembers the book or books they read, as a child, that put them on the road to perdition and SFF addiction? What book or books were they? Pictures please!
NASA Warns Of 2 Asteroids Intersecting Earth’s Orbit Next Week
*sigh* Coronavirus is like so much nowadays, whereby the hysterical reaction and the attempts to mitigate the 'problem', end up being more damaging than the thing itself.
Okay, I've watched two episodes of this and have no problems with it at all - enjoying it immensely in fact.
People are panic buying, or at least, the media says so. Toilet rolls are an item, though I wasn't aware COVID-19 caused the shits. It's all very silly. Most people in the UK could live off their own fat for months, and have months' worth of calories in their kitchen cupboards.
Okay, celebrating my venture into filmland. Well, it's not my first one since I guess advising on a Terminator film counts (along with a flight to Hollywood etc), but it's my stuff, not someone else's.
Here we go: The Human.
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COVER REVEAL! We're delighted to show you the cover for THE HUMAN by @nealasher, the action-packed conclusion to the Rise of the Jain trilogy. Read an excerpt of book one, THE SOLDIER, here: buff.ly/2O3tRs6 #riseofthejain #prador #SFF
Absolutely gobsmackingly wonderful. Thank you I sat down to watch a few episodes at about 6 or 7 last night, and didn't go to bed till 3.45 in the morning. Even then it took me more than an hour to wind down enough for sleep. #TheExpanse
Arctic Summer Sea Ice Stopped Declining a Decade Ago – But Scientists Have Hidden It – The Daily Sceptic
The EU and the BBC . . . both remind me of when I tore up the wooden floor of an old shed - watching all the rats scurrying about in panic on being exposed to the light.
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Uhuh. But his aim was to get us out of the EU, which he has damned near achieved, not perpetually playing the race card while troughing with other MPs.
Heh, nice to be 'famous'. At the bank here I made enquiries about a new bank card. It's still a problem because of the legal tangle here about the death of my wife. But the need to prove my source of income and identity was satisfied when I said, 'Google me'. All smiles, then.
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I wonder if that means they feel certain it will be sold to Musk, and they will thereby profit.
I'm writing a story set in a near future of permanent lockdown and I may have to put it aside. It's depressing. I need to write something uplifting about alien biomechs eating people alive.
Oh dear, a large part of the River Thames has frozen over for the first time in 60 years. Makes one wonder about the minimal sunspot activity some keep pointing to. It must be hugely disappointing to the global warming catastrophists. I feel for them. 🤣
Bye bye women's competitive sports.
Feeling rather chuffed here. As mentioned before I recently got a story taken by Azimovs. Now (contract yet to be signed) Analogue have taken a story. Quite a long one too - novella I think.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile publishing all these novellas I've written over the Winter on Kindle? Short reads, lowest price I can set the them at. What do you think?
Well that's all cool. Two of my stories in Love, Death & Robots: Mason's Rats and Bad Travelling. The first has a script done by himself, while the second is directed by David Fincher.
Corporate virtue-signalling. There are a lot of them, all scared and thinking that by bending a knee the mob will ignore them.
Yay! I've checked in for my flight to Crete and got my ticket. Previously the cancellation would have come long before now so, I hope, I am actually going to get there in two weeks. About bloody time. My suitcase is still on my sofa, where it's been for over three months.
Ooh, look what just appeared on Amazon:
The Human (Rise of the Jain) amazon.co.uk/dp/1509862447/ amazon.co.uk/dp/1509862447/
Increasingly looking like I'll be staying here on Crete this winter. I just bought various seeds for winter planting. And every time I look at more of the UK lockdown bollocks my inclination to return there diminishes.
I just heard a prediction of a cold summer on Crete because of global warming. This comes after serious cold this winter with part of the Thames freezing over and ice skating in Holland. The cognitive dissonance is astounding. My only response now is to point and laugh.
I've seen people saying Twitter is the worst or FB is the worst. I don't think either statement is true. Your perception of each site is entirely dependent on who you follow and who you let follow you. What do you think?
Interesting development. No internet in the house here on Crete has given me my reading mojo back. Gladiator by Simon Scarrow, and Nexus by Ramez Naam. I'm now starting on some huge brick called Crusade. All books that have been sitting unread in the house for 5 to 6 years.
There are some wierd and wacky people out there. The protection from a mask is pretty marginal, so why the fuck would you wear one driving round in a car?
Pissed off with these 'we value your privacy' and 'accept cookies' or otherwise notices. Bog off. I don't care. I want to press the button and read the article and I don't want your bullshit in my way.
Yes, yes and yes.
Watching Snow in the Desert in my favourite bar, while seeing the positive comments on it, has been very gratifying. But I don't rest on my laurels. Tomorrow I edit a book that may be called The Weaponized, or Integrated Soldiers, because this is how you do it: you don't stop.
Wow. Perfect illustration of the rank stupidity of the panic buyers.
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I’ve been trying to steer clear of posting photos of empty shelves but I’ve just been into my local Sainsbury’s for the basics and this amused me.... and also reinforced my belief that we have a lot of stupid people in this country - literally the only beer left in store.
Okay, followed a load of people back. Let’s see what bullshit turns up in my DMs. 😂
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Cultural appropriation is supposedly bad, but gender appropriation is apparently fine, for reasons.
Ignoring is the critical step here. One must remember that tweets have a life that makes 'yesterday's newspapers; today's chip papers' seem like Methuselah.
"There isn't enough advertising money around to fund ITV, Channel 4, Sky and the BBC as well, and there won't be enough people willing to pay subscriptions."
Exactly. Because they're shite.
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John Simpson claims Government is readying 'major attack' on BBC mol.im/a/7883921 @MailOnline
Guess what happens tomorrow. . .
The Human (Rise of the Jain) amazon.co.uk/dp/1509862447/
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So true. I find myself watching older and older stuff just to escape the MESSAGE.
I have aveered away from writing a book in danger of giving your wrists RSI, but with the responses to my question about preferred length of read, perhaps time to reconsider. Maybe a megalithic brick of a book - some big sprawling polity story that keeps you nailed to the chair?
Very satisfying having a bonfire of unfollowers, rather like cleaning house and binning all that old crap you kept around for no particular reason.
I had some company in the shower yesterday morning. Not exactly what I was hoping for. 🤣
A week ago I faced a blank page. Now I'm 14,000 words into a story about two countries at war with WWII tech, with a far future human in the mix pretending to be a 'relict digger'. He dug up something resembling the picture below. Things are getting interesting.
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Hmm, sitting watching the waves, while sipping a beer, generates an excellent zen-like state. Good I've got some notepaper here with me. Thinking about Cormac, Mr Crane and Arach. . . 😳
I started a new story set in the Polity, with a guy faking his own death. . . World building is necessary and often incorporates present reality. The character encounters worried police and a misbehaving riot drone, and now this story transitions into a Quiet War setting. . .
So, anyway, the final book of the Rise of the Jain trilogy is called The Human.
Just one shopping trip is enough confirm the 'social distancing' I do anyway. Who wants to socialise with the hysterical, stupid, selfish tossers who've cleared those shelves?
Reminder to all: the short story 'Snow in the Desert' now appearing on Netflix in season 2 of Love, Death and Robots, can be found here in The Gabble:
nealasher.co.uk/book/the-gabbl
It has to be said, on Brexit . . . If we do end up staying in the EU whose legislation is merely rubber-stamped in the UK, then there really is not need for the House of Commons or the House of Lords - a total of 1450 parasites should be kicked out.
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I suspect a lot of rushing about tidying up the mess before the new sheriff arrives in town.