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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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Like, sure, but the darkest these movies got was "What if Starfleet had one bad person in it", while TOS had an episode where Kirk confronted the man responsible for the genocide he witnessed as a child.

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Production designer Sue Chan tells us about creating a truly futuristic-looking world for AppleTV+’s sci-fi series, #Murderbot. filmstories.co.uk/news/murderb...

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Haven't seen this week's Murderbot yet but did just find myself standling alone in the kitchen laughing at the "That's a deep cut!" line from last week for no reason.

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The English "No Kings" protest being "No Tyrants" is so so funny Oh no mustn't imply kings are bad

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gotta be honest, this looks & reads like Interpol are trying to clear up some fairly bleak historic crimes

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"Deep Undercover" is a lot of fun. One of those, go in with low expectations and have much more fun than you expected films.

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"What distress signal? Your circuits are well and truly fried this time, come back here at once!" One year ago today I posted this miniature Star Wars/Alien mashup. All shot practically using real figures, lighting, smoke and miniatures

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Ooh, check this out!

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Fermi's Wake: Graveyard Orbit is a novella made of several interlinked short stories? Of course it's a novella that is actually part of a novel that is several interlinked novellas. And the novel is the second part of a trilogy... www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...

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I wish I could mash into people's heads that themes are not that hard, or even very clever. Our entire worldview is essentially filtered through an infinitely complex game of snap. Pointing at stuff and saying "This is just like other stuff" is a huge part of our entire deal.

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I refuse to live in the era of "RETVRN but for when LLMs were definitely actually good."

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I just feel bad for all the real human creators who called Julie Bindel transphobic only to have their work stolen by Chat GPT.

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Last week I had a chat with Sue Chan, the Production Designer responsible for making the world of @marthawells.com fantastic Murderbot a reality, and... it was a really really good chat! I had fun and she said lots of cool stuff! filmstories.co.uk/news/murderb...

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It is a sweltering day here in Norwich, so my partner and I decided to sneak out to the expensive craft beer shop down the road and get something nice and cold and beer for the evening.

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Just got a lovely endorsement for Fermi's Wake from @flight-elements.bsky.social "It's just as clever and darkly funny as the first, and all the choices matter. Think Telltale Games' Farscape x Community, or Murderbot's meditations on agency and identity against a slightly Rick and Morty cosmology."

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