Brendan Nugent
@authorbnugent.bsky.social
Indie author based in the north-west of England. Enthralling and challenging Sci-fi, Speculative and Climate Fiction. Intriguing debut novel #TheSentientOnes out now, online and in all good bookstores. Website: www.authorbrendannugent.co.uk
Humanity is sleepwalking into an ASI dominated world. It’s all laid bare in Brendan Nugent’s troubling future history The Sentient Ones.
Brendan Nugent@authorbnugent.bsky.social · 3d agoASI is becoming a headline topic, and the public is only now encountering concepts that shaped my writing years ago. Fiction edging closer to reality — especially in The Sentient Ones and Thanatos Ascendancy. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #ThanatosAscendancy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ASI is becoming a headline topic, and the public is only now encountering concepts that shaped my writing years ago. Fiction edging closer to reality — especially in The Sentient Ones and Thanatos Ascendancy. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #ThanatosAscendancy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warnings
Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans
theguardian.com
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, has called on the government to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI systems, warning that losing control of them could be “catastrophic” for humanity. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes bmmagazine.co.uk/ai/hinton-su...
Hinton calls for UK ban on superintelligent AI as MPs table bill
Geoffrey Hinton urges a ban on superintelligent AI as the UK Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill from Labour MP Alex Sobel is tabled in parliament.
bmmagazine.co.uk
Experts are now openly discussing the idea that an artificial superintelligence could one day be seen as a god. A possibility I explored in The Sentient Ones, and more deeply in Thanatos Ascendancy. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #ThanatosAscendancy josiahakinloye.medium.com/the-last-god...
The Last God: Artificial Super-Intelligence and the End of Divine Meaning?
Imagine a final god that doesn’t descend from the heavens, but rises from the works of our own hands. Picture a deity forged in silicon or…
josiahakinloye.medium.com
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 or Amazon now: www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters... #climatecrisis
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Singularity: a future where humans and AI merge. My upcoming sequel to The Sentient Ones, called Thanatos Ascendancy, doesn’t just explore that possibility; it asks what humanity becomes when the line between creator and creation finally blurs. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #artificialintelligence
In The Sentient Ones, robots become UN peacekeepers in the 2060s. At the rate things are moving, they might arrive long before that. #TheSentientOnes #artificialintelligence #Booksky #bookshops #writers #authors www.cbsnews.com/news/china-h...
Humanoid robot soldiers likely only 5-10 years away, one developer behind China's robotics boom tells CBS News
A Chinese robotics developer tells CBS News humanoids won't turn against humans as they're just machines: "It all depends on who controls them."
cbsnews.com
In Under Elm Forest, William’s journey takes him from Staffordshire to the ranks of the Chindits, fighting the Japanese in the harsh Burmese jungle during WW2. #Booksky #bookshops #writers #authors #historysky
Jim’s path in Under Elm Forest leads him from Staffordshire to the ranks of Orde Wingate’s Gideon Force — battling to free Ethiopia from Italian control in the early years of WW2. #Booksky #bookshops #writers #authors #historysky
Climate change, AI and dystopian futures. There should be plenty for @amylilwall.bsky.social & @simpsonclive.bsky.social to talk about next weekend as they kick-off Threekingham's Boutique Literary Festival. Lots of other authors to meet & chat to as well - all in the lovely Three Kings Organic.
Official projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future warming #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange www.newscientist.com/article/2585...
World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest | New Scientist
Official projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future warming
newscientist.com
Sequel to The Sentient Ones coming soon: Thanatos Ascendancy, a gripping sci‑fi epic where a reawakened ASI rewrites reality, myth collides with technology, and humanity’s fate rests on one impossible choice. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange #artificialintelligence
The perfect reply to climate change deniers in the UK who keep writing on social media, "It’s called summer!" #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange
What happens next? FLOOD WATERS DOWN - out now. A climate thriller about rising waters, extreme heat, inequality, AI – and what happens when the systems we rely on begin to fail. Bookshops & online: www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters... #heatwave #drought #climatecrisis #climatethriller #Booksky
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
amazon.co.uk
"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.
Most politicians just don't seem to have a clue what to do. It's just too big. It's a kind of 'reverse denial' manifesting itself as the inability to act. #climatecrisis #heatwave #flooding #Booksky
Cliftop Publishing@cliftop.bsky.social · last mo."It was barely nine o’clock in the morning & already the outside temperature was edging towards thirty degrees centigrade as the sun climbed into a cloudless sky of menacing blue..." Flood Waters Down - this year's must-read climate thriller! #heatwave #books www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...
We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost
In our first edition, iPolitics caught up with David Suzuki, noted environmentalist and longtime host of 'The Nature of Things' on CBC. At 89-years-old, Suzuki remains a fierce advocate for global cli...
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"It was barely nine o’clock in the morning & already the outside temperature was edging towards thirty degrees centigrade as the sun climbed into a cloudless sky of menacing blue..." Flood Waters Down - this year's must-read climate thriller! #heatwave #books www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Flood Waters Down : Simpson, Clive A: Amazon.co.uk: Books
amazon.co.uk
I asked a local man in his 80's, “Have you ever seen it here in a similar state?” “No. Never,” he said. #Booksky #TheSentientOnes #climatechange euobserver.com/231566/want-...
Want to see the climate crisis? Go to the banks of the dried-up Danube
With the river too shallow for freight, a nuclear plant almost offline and big firms ordered to curb power use, Hungary’s heatwave is rippling straight into citizens’ jobs, bills and fears of blackout...
euobserver.com
Available to pre-order now: www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Elm-Fo...
Very appreciative of the reviews so far for my debut novel Flood Waters Down, among them this one from @authorbnugent.bsky.social on @centralbylines.co.uk Lots of lovely comments on the writing and compelling story-line from readers too. It's much more than just a climate thriller!
Cliftop Publishing@cliftop.bsky.social · last mo.Available from all good bookstores from 29th October 2026. #Booksky #UnderElmForest