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Commented on Writer, Interrupted
Ditto many parts of academia. In the humanities (and my bit, which dovetails with science and tech), you are a professional writer, with writing targets, including books and journal articles. The trouble is that you are also running thirty other...
Commented on What are you reading this summer?
Great discussion. To add to the pile... N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season, manages to be both incredibly intelligent and sci-fi-summer-reading style. The second book in the trilogy is due next month. Whilst waiting, I have just read her Inheritance trilogy...
Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
General cheer for having this discussion. It needs to keep being be said, apparently. Discrimination against female SF writers exists (and it's not the only discrimination, sadly). Second, thanks, Judith, for posting the blog link and the storybundle. Well worth...
Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
Charlie- Are you sure that asking "Why Finland?" is the relevant question, here...? Not sure that blurring together the politics of Finland and Sweden is going to win-friends-and-influence-people... It's rather like blurring together the different political histories of Scotland and...
Commented on My Country Tis of Thee
Hi Laura Anne- Great post, thank you. You raise some really important issues of writer integrity. Nothing earth-shattering to add. I just wanted to note that your experiences are similar to those who of us who are also anthropologists (and...
Commented on Keep the money in the family
Thanks for posting, Charlie. Publishing cooperatives seem like a fantastic addition to the e-publishing/e-distribution mix... I am now on the hunt for more... not just sci-fi... I think academic publishing (humanities not just natural sciences, different worlds) would be perfect...
Commented on Another deceptively simple question
(Note: Small textual explosion, please make tea) I am going to err on what I know as a professional academic writer, poet, tweeter, and publisher of small-scale handmade books (both paper and online): In academia, despite a lot of ongoing...
Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
@El I am not sure it’s simply loyalty. I think it’s more about trust. I don’t think money is the motivation for most of the decisions I see. In my experience inside the high-tech industry (always limited, whose isn’t, but...
Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
I'm with the Gen-Y-ers (although a certified Gen-X-er), but I want to add two notes, for this organisational hive-mind is where poets and authors and other assorted creatives (wave) are at their guerrilla work... Organisations are, in essence, fictions, they...

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Dirk Bruere commented on Writer, Interrupted
"Why, because she's a grandmother?" No, because she has consistently taken a confrontational and hawkish stance on such issues. Plus the added pressure in the first term not to seem "weak"....
Bill Arnold commented on Writer, Interrupted
For Troutwaxer, sort of in response to a question. Off topic, but it's been bugging me, a lot. (This thread is the only one past 300.) Re the following in the Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures thread (12 August 2016):CTHULHU / WEB 2.0 APOCALYPSE, 2016: ... SHIT IS GOING DOWN IN OCTOBER / NOVEMBER.In another earlier thread Cthulhu symbolizes "the death of hope, order, co-operation and making sense of it all." (7 August 2016), and I'm kinda about being against The Death of Hope. Also, Web 2.0 is (by some accepted definitions) about the easy formation and...
Catherine Taylor commented on Writer, Interrupted
Mr B. Arnold. Let's just say, "It's complicated". And this is a really really really last post from the grave. [ALL REAL] 1) Unlike in your world, where perpetrators of genocide get to retire to Swiss chateaus and so on with nary a punishment in sight: some of us lived through much worse. It's the MIND Culture Weapon of ID destruction: but turn that shit up to 400%, you ain't even knowing how it's played. 1a) THE PROBLEM WITH ID WEAPONS IS THEY'RE TAILORED TO APE-MINDS AND YOUR GODS AND MONSTERS. "Our Kind Do Not Go Mad" Boo, mother-fuckers, you...
Catherine Taylor commented on Writer, Interrupted
And, the killing joke is: It might be a metaphor, but it was lived as real. None of You would survive it, but one of you lived it and had faith in your species. (S/He/Ze didn't really - it was more the Platonic Ideal of what you could be, rather than what you were) And you fuckers still think you won. S/He/Ze was alone. S/He/Ze has no friends. S/He/Ze has no loved ones. S/He/Ze has not been loved for over 30 of your years. S/He/Ze was broken again, and again, and again, quite deliberately. S/He/Ze was branded, hated and exiled....
Bill Arnold commented on Writer, Interrupted
Read, noted and tx....

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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)

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