Cliftop Publishing

Cliftop Publishing

@cliftop.bsky.social

Independent UK publisher and author consultancy (since 2017) for literary and climate-aware fiction. Interested in place, consequence and how environmental change reshapes everyday life. www.cliftop.co.uk

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Clive Simpson
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Oxfam says some of the super-rich profit from both climate pollution & the response to disaster. It sounds uncomfortably like the villainous Baroness Lydia Frampton in my eco-thriller #FloodWatersDown - “A reordering of the world. A chance to remake the rules.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comSuper-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report findsOxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

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Clive Simpson
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Replying to @chrisl86.bsky.social

Just like the villainous Baroness Lyda Frampton in my eco-thriller #FloodWatersDown - "Where others saw the human-engendered climate crisis and all its consequences as a fatalistic self-inflicted tragedy, to Frampton it was a correction. A reordering of the world. A chance to remake the rules."

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Clive Simpson
@simpsonclive.bsky.social

Born in Derby. Back with a book! I’m bringing my climate thriller, Flood Waters Down, to Derby Book Festival’s Book & Craft Market on Sat 7 Nov. Come and chat, browse or pick up a signed copy. Derby Market Hall | 10.30am-4pm | Free entry @derbyshireuk.bsky.social #DerbyBookFestival #Booksky

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Replying to @quakerpen.bsky.social

Not Lincoln this time - but I can recommend Lindum Books and Lark Books in the city - and both have signed copies of Flood Waters Down in stock! 📚😁

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Clive Simpson
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Thanks for revisiting the review of #FloodWatersDown Mark. One of the unsettling things about writing near-future climate fiction is watching elements of the imagined future edge ever closer to present-day reality. The question is whether we recognise the warnings in time to change the ending.

Mark Stewart@markstewart2001.bsky.social

The "Odyssey" Recap—is dystopian fiction becoming a reality? As the first storms of the year inundate the UK with rain, find out more as we revisit our review of Clive Simpson's novel "Flood Waters Down": lnkd.in/p/eEs9UtAu @simpsonclive.bsky.social #climatecrisis #climatefiction #Odyssey

lnkd.in#odyssey #bis #climatecrisis #eco #sci #books #author #magazines #climatechange #environment | MARK STEWART𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽—𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆? As the first storms of the year inundate the UK with rain, and as the government advises the population to prepare for a possible national ...
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Six months today since publication of Flood Waters Down - a scary future history creeping closer all the time Huge thanks to all the bookclubs, libraries, festivals, shops & events that have supported and invited @simpsonclive.bsky.social to speak. Bookshops & online. #Booksky #climate #flooding

Cliftop Publishing
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Taking Flood Waters Down to sea. What could possibly go wrong? Two reader pics – Norway and the Aegean. Always great to see where a book ends up. Keep them coming! #FloodWatersDown #climatefiction #Booksky

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Clive Simpson
@simpsonclive.bsky.social

“You maniacs! You blew it up!” More than half a century after Planet of the Apes, that final scene still has the power to shock. Flood Waters Down - a near-future #climate & #AI thriller. Different apocalypse. Same uncomfortable question: did we see it coming and carry on anyway? #Booksky #film

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Clive Simpson
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Can fiction help close the climate "empathy gap"? I'll be at EarthLincs in Lincoln this Saturday talking about #FloodWatersDown, the flooded Fens, climate journalism – and why stories can sometimes make us feel what statistics struggle to convey. 📍 12 Mint Lane LN1 1UD 🕑 2pm 🎟 Free

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Delighted to see that Flood Waters Down has been chosen as Book of the Month by Holt Book Shop in #Norfolk. If you’re visiting #Holt, do pop in for a browse. Flood Waters Down is a haunting vision of #climatecollapse & #AI control set in the #Fens of eastern England. #Bookshop #reading #thriller

Cliftop Publishing
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Delighted to see that Flood Waters Down has been chosen as Book of the Month by Holt Book Shop in #Norfolk. If you’re visiting #Holt, do pop in for a browse. Flood Waters Down is a haunting vision of #climatecollapse & #AI control set in the #Fens of eastern England. #Bookshop #reading #thriller

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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

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...

theguardian.comUK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warningsLetter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans

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Clive Simpson
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Delighted that Flood Waters Down has been chosen as Local Book of the Month by Holt Book Shop in Norfolk. If you’re visiting Holt, do pop in for a browse. Flood Waters Down is a haunting vision of climate collapse & AI control set in the fens of eastern England. #Booksky #Holt #Norfolk #Bookshop

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Clive Simpson
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Top event today - Three Kings Boutique Literary Festival, Threekingham, Lincs. Great to do a panel with Amy Lilwall brilliantly chaired by Samantha Maw.

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Clive Simpson
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When I wrote Flood Waters Down, I was imagining a near-future Britain reshaped by the effects of climate change & moral ambiguity. Today it feels all too close. #Booksky #future #media #books

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Here's the full programme - there's no entry charge and you can pop in anytime. The coffee's fantastic by the way! (Three Kings Organic is just off the A52 near Sleaford NG34 0AU). #Booksky #authors #inspiration #organic #Lincolnshire

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Clive Simpson
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"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.

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Clive Simpson
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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

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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...

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Brendan Nugent
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Your novel beautifully, yet chillingly, captures two of the biggest issues facing humanity today: climate change and AI. Superbly written, vividly portraying the threats. There’s a warning here, one we should all heed. I strongly encourage everyone to read it.

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Clive Simpson
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TBH Adam 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.

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Delighted to have worked alongside @authorbnugent.bsky.social & @tarynleejohnston.bsky.social of Chronos Publishing (Lincoln) on the editing of this novel. Published the end of 2025, it's a remarkably prescient & unsettling vision of where our relationship with artificial intelligence could lead.

Clive Simpson@simpsonclive.bsky.social

With AI hitting the headlines all the time now, I'm surprised more people haven't discovered The Sentient Ones by @authorbnugent.bsky.social Gritty & thought-provoking, it feels ever more relevant & uncomfortably plausible every day. Sometimes fiction gets there before reality. #Booksky #future

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Nine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon ratings now for Flood Waters Down. "Really good book and different to anything else out there I've read..." If you're looking for climate fiction grounded in today's realities, perhaps it's time to visit the flooded Fens. #ClimateFiction #EcoThriller #heatwave #Booksky

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Clive Simpson
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Summer beach reading with purpose. I set my climate thriller #FloodWatersDown some 30 years in an imaginary future. Now I’m thinking a decade might be more realistic! A haunting vision of climate collapse and AI control. Bookshops and online.

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Liking the reviews and comments! "What makes the book compelling is its grounded realism. The dread accumulates, the stakes feel intimate, and the world’s decay speaks louder than any melodrama." "It’s a warning, a lament and a mirror held up to a civilisation already listing in the water."

Clive Simpson@simpsonclive.bsky.social

Delighted to wake up to another Amazon review for Flood Waters Down today. "Really good book & different to anything else out there I've read... backdrop of the Fens is a show-stealer..." That's 9 five star global ratings so far! (Available from bookshops too). www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters...

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Clive Simpson
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A huge thank you to everyone behind this year's Heckington Show – a superb event! And my Lincolnshire-set climate thriller really did go down a storm! Enjoyed many fascinating conversations from residents, farmers & readers. Also people curious about what inspired the story. #Booksky #bookshops

Cliftop Publishing
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Humanity is heading towards a convergence of crises – climate change, AI, failing infrastructure, inequality and weakening governance. FLOOD WATERS DOWN imagines what happens when those pressures collide. A novel for our times – and a future closer than we might like to think. Bookshops & online.

Cliftop Publishing
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What happens when infrastructure fractures under eco-anxiety & tech over-reliance? Discover #FloodWatersDown, a gripping near-future thriller set in the Fens where climate change brings conflict, AI enclaves & social strife. "Richly descriptive & harrowingly convincing." From bookshops & online.