"If the narrative feels a little disjointed, it's because these were originally written as separate stories and I didn't have the energy and enthusiasm to take the entire thing (all 145,000 words of it!) apart and re-write from scratch as an integrated whole."
I've often felt that my absolute favourite books of yours (Accelerando and The Atrocity Archive) have in common that they have slightly different structures to your other (also excellent) novel-length work: Accelerando is a story cycle, Atrocity Archive was (I believe) a serial to begin with? I often wonder whether that difference suits you.
I think Accelerando would actually suffer from being more integrated. The joy of it is in the jump cuts, and in having to assimilate the world so quickly. (There is nobody better than you at burst-transmission exposition of big SF ideas.) I wonder if having to work within the constraints of episodes that have the shape of short stories - whether in the cycle or serial mode - is playing to your strengths.
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