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Signing tomorrow

I'll be signing books at Pandemonium Books in Central Square, Cambridge (that's Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, not Cambridge, UK) tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7pm.

Posted by Charlie Stross on February 18, 2008 11:44 PM |

Comments

1:

Say, um, if I bring a stack of hardcovers I already own -- would that be offensive? I mean, I don;t think I will either way but I was always curious how writers would take to that.

Posted by: cl | February 19, 2008 1:01 AM

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Say, um, if I bring a stack of hardcovers I already own -- would that be offensive? I mean, I don;t think I will either way but I was always curious how writers would take to that.

Posted by: cl | February 19, 2008 1:01 AM

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Awesome, time to dig up my copy of Missile Gap. Also I think I karmically owe you some large number of beers for putting latter day Levellers in a SF book.

Posted by: Itamar Shtull-Trauring | February 19, 2008 3:19 AM

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Cool, I'll have to stop by. The shuttle between Harvard Medical School (in Boston) where I work and Harvard in Cambridge stops right by there, which is where I get off. Not that anyone asked.

- Jon

Posted by: Jon H | February 19, 2008 4:09 AM

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cl: I have no problem signing books of mine you bought anywhere; the owners of Pandemonium may have a different opinion, but I'm sure they'll be gracious (especially if you buy something or other while you're in their store).

Posted by: Charlie Stross | February 19, 2008 4:40 AM

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Nor is it Cambridge, Ontario :-) How many Cambridges are there, anyway?!

Posted by: Axel Eble | February 19, 2008 8:35 AM

7:

You seen this? :P

Posted by: Jacob | February 19, 2008 10:21 AM

8:

Charlie, you're 550'ing my e-mail as spam.

Anyway, two things; recalling the High Frontier thread, I note that Edgar Dijkstra touched on the question of institutional longevity. (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1175.html)

Looks like it's the universities you'll need to watch. Also, I'd like your opinion on the new version of my blog, at yorksranter.wordpress.com.

Posted by: Alex | February 19, 2008 1:00 PM

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Alex: I've moved to mail-scanning.com for email and am having some teething troubles with the spam filter's paranoia being set too high. I'm also in the US with sporadic routing to the admin interface. When I get through I'll whitelist you. Meanwhile, the email contact form will get through to me.

Posted by: Charlie Stross | February 19, 2008 2:44 PM

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Alex: you're whitelisted now (the spam filtering server is a bit paranoid).

Posted by: Charlie Stross | February 19, 2008 3:11 PM

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Pandemonium's been having some more of its on-again off-again financial trouble recently, so I encourage everyone to buy lots of stuff while you're there!

Posted by: Grant Gould | February 19, 2008 5:05 PM

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My e-mail got spammed as well - I've posted it to the previous discussion, as a way of getting through - what happend, I know not, since you got photos of the Fluff-Factory (aka Hexadecimal the CAT) not too long since....

Posted by: G. Tingey | February 19, 2008 5:44 PM

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Axel @ 6

There is also the town of Cambridge (famous for horse-breeding) in New Zealand. It's even on a more impressive river (the Waikato) than the Cam.

Posted by: Errol | February 19, 2008 8:08 PM

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CL @ 5: Some writers ask that those with bundles wait till the end. Having stood behind some fans with what appears to be the writer's entire corpus, I can only agree.

Posted by: Mike | February 19, 2008 9:09 PM

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Ok, now I need to trek out to Cambridge tonight. Had I checked yesterday, I could have brought books with me to work, but I didn't and now I get to traipse all over creation. Hey - an excuse to go to an area I really like (Central Sq), probably find food while I'm there, AND get a book [or books] signed by an author whose work I greatly enjoy (and which seems to keep me relatively sane).

I'm remembering that I haven't been to Pandemonium since they were in Harvard Sq - so I'm going in search of reading material, as I always need it.

Posted by: Ben Wolfe | February 19, 2008 9:30 PM

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Re #8 and institutional longevity--Henry Kolm, inventor of maglev, rail guns, co-inventor of mass drivers, involved in the development various medical technologies based on magnetics, etc. etc. etc. (the world would be a different, worse, place without him), walked away from a tenured senior research position at MIT... his website discusses it, he blames Benjamin Lax for the destruction of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory (the two of them did NOT appreciate one another). It had been the foremost magnetic research facility in the world and again, all sorts of things got invented/developed there, but....
http://www.henrykolm.com/MIT_Magnet.htm

Posted by: Paula Lieberman | February 19, 2008 11:20 PM

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Thanks for a very enjoyable reading, Q&A, and signing!

Posted by: JD | February 20, 2008 4:43 AM

18:

Naturally, I am the sort of guy who misses stuff like signings. But, I did just get a superb non-seqitur piece of bacn from Amazon:

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Thank you, Doctor Amazon. The check is in the post. Now where did I put my glasses?

Posted by: Dai Phillips | February 21, 2008 2:03 AM

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Of *course* you're in town when I'm in California.

Drat.

Hope the trip went well. :-)

Posted by: Ari B. | February 26, 2008 2:09 PM