Craig Russell

@cmrussell.uk

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Writes optimistic, apocalyptic, humanistic sci-fi. NEVER EVEN - A Short Paradox Tale - out now! http://cmrussell.uk/links

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Output from Claude GenAI: Line 141:** "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, it was time to return to the shore." — "It was time to return to the shore" is slightly detached from her perspective. She's been the active decision-maker throughout. Consider: "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, she decided to return to the shore." Or: "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, she turned the raft towards the shore."
A book: The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
A notification on my phone "1000 days since you quit smoking"
Age-dependency ratio, including UN projections The age dependency ratio is the sum of the young population (under age 15) and elderly population (age 65 and over) relative to the working-age population (ages 15 to 64). Data are shown as the number of dependents per 100 working-age population. Projections to 2100 are based on the UN's medium population scenario.
Me and the dog up Mam Tor
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Lost in the Taiga - Vasily Peskov
A crap mask
Three drawings of an action scene
A ceiling
My dog wearing headphones
Books
Me holding a big mushroom
A cake 45 x 45 =2025
Erased outline of Banksy’s mural on the wall of the High Court
Just read NEVER EVEN a short paradox tale, written by Craig Russell. I enjoyed this book and particularly liked the concept of the reader being given a choice of starting at either page 3 or 13 with a flip of a coin. Well done Craig I look forward to reading your next novel. 👍
Principles of human evolution
To Be a Cat by Matt Haig
"Well written and thoroughly enjoyable"
Brilliant
What an interesting concept for a book. Start from heads or tails, you choose. To say it was short and sweet does not give this imaginative tale enough credit. Well written and thoroughly enjoyable, can't wait to read the authors next book.
Page 215, Shattered Britain - More in Common
War of the Worlds (2025)
KDP dashboard showing 10 sales
Writing progress chart for my book AGELESS, annotated with with things I had going on at the time
A dead dear skull
Never Even: A Short Paradox Tale
Never Even - A Short Paradox Tale
A cartoon drawing of a crying ogre holding a copy of Ulysses saying “Everyone Call Ogre StupID and it TRuE. Ogre barely even Literate! Ogre finally finished reading ULYSSES, but Ogre Only Can identify surface level themes like Religion and Nationalism and Can't Comprehend deeper ideas like the "Remorse of Conscience" that make James Joyce's novel a Modernist Classic! Ogre so dumb, it make Ogre sad! At this rate, Ogre will never understand Finnegans Wake!”
Twitter Screenshot: Rana Dasgupta @byranadasgupta "Edited manuscript went to publishers today. Going to bed."
Screen shot of error in BlueSky age verification
NEVER EVEN by C.M. Russell
NEVER EVEN - A Short Paradox Tale
A book - Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark
Screenshot of KDP console showing my book, Never Even, in review pending publication
Chart showing Europe population by age group from Our World in Data
Chart showing UK population by age group from Our World in Data
A puppy’s open mouth showing new and old teeth sprouting in different directions
The BBC was invited on a test drive of XPeng's Mona Max, which has just gone on sale in China for around $20,000. For this price you get self-driving capability, voice activation, lie-flat beds, film and music streaming. Young Chinese graduates, we're told, see all these as standard features for a first car purchase.
A book, Never Even, with bookmark and sticker
Marc Andreessen says pumping the brakes on AI development is “a form of murder”
A small toilet, decorated with magazine pages stuck all over the walls and ceiling
Weather forecast for the next week showing highs of 24 and lows of -1
A book with a feather, a fossil and a WW2 bullet casing. The book is called Never Even: A Short Paradox Tale
An ice lolly, with 4 triangular sides
A picture of my garden. The sunlight on the tree and the shape of the hammock suggest a circle
Today’s Strands from NYT
BBC article showing White House tariff formula
Chart “How do people spend their time?” From Our World In Data
A plastic phone stand from an Xmas cracker
Chart showing UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to the lowest level since 1872
Manuscript Statistics Total Progress: 50507/80000 words (63%) Daily Progress: 1334/1000 words (133%) Characters: 284245 Words: 50507 Lines: 5611 Paragraphs: 3329 Pages: 168
A lovely tree, Martinshaw Woods, Leicester
Technofeudalism - Yanis Varoufakis
Screenshot from Uber showing ride cost of £8.90
Three second hand books: The worlds mythology in colour Women draw 1984 Post-war polish poetry
Hallway, black doors with stained glass windows, black staircase, checkered floor tiles and grey walls