Work in Progress/Open Thread

By Charlie Stross

Yes, I know the layout looks hinky right now. Bear with us, please ...

Meanwhile.

Why is Frank Zappa dead and Donald Rumsfeld in the Pentagon? Feel free to discuss.

6 Comments

Feòrag | June 17, 2006 22:01

It should look at lot less hinky now. You owe me beer.

Martha Olijnyk in Toronto | June 19, 2006 06:23

All right - Work in Progress Dept. -

how long should I wait before reading the last chapter of the latest "Family" book? I sneaked a peek at the very end ... I think I can hang on for another three months, tops.

I've gotten to really like the main character, and I thought you got the US intelligence processes exactly, right. (shudder)

How did you create the language her kin use? Minor variations of Old Norse?

Martha Olijnyk | June 19, 2006 06:25

All right - Work in Progress Dept. -

how long should I wait before reading the last chapter of the latest "Family" book? I sneaked a peek at the very end ... I think I can hang on for another three months, tops.

I've gotten to really like the main character, and I thought you got the US intelligence processes exactly, right. (shudder)

How did you create the language her kin use?

Martin McCallion | June 19, 2006 10:35

Just a point of information about the new blog. The "Site Index" link at the top is messed up, reading:

http://www.antipope.org/www.antipope.org/charlie/index.html

And this comment box is very small.

Dave Bell | June 19, 2006 10:48

I think you need to make the division between each comment+name a little clearer. Yes, you can see that the names follow the comments, when you're at the start or the end, but, as I've found elsenet, it's a little too easy to misattribute something in the middle of a longer comment-thread.

Charlie Stross | June 19, 2006 11:56

Martha: the Merchant Princes books are being published at 12 month intervals, now. (I should be handing in a final draft of #4 in a couple of months, fo publication in March 2007.)

Others: expect some tweaking to page templates over the next few days ...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)