pewterfish

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A fair point. That was three years of study for my BSc, followed by four years of research and writeup for my PhD, to be clear. A seven-year PhD would be pushing the boundaries a touch :)...
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Having written both, I'd agree with the principle, if not the wording, of your reply. Three years of study, then four years of careful and meticulous data gathering and writing-up - it results in an obsessive desire to get the...
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Stina: I'm absolutely with you on the psychological thing - shock and horror are two different things, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with either. But aiming for horror and delivering a series of short, sharp shocks is a little bit...

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)