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Commented on PSA: The Delirium Brief
Ooh so excited and in time for my birthday too this preorder is the best timing ever!...
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Eric commented on
PSA: The Delirium Brief
It seems a good guess from the end that, contrary to Bob's and everyone else's assumptions, the BBC didn't get a ward and inside info, a specific host did because of his ties to Schiller(-not-the-Weimar-poet) etc....
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Troutwaxer commented on
PSA: The Delirium Brief
...the BBC didn't get a ward and inside info, a specific host did because of his ties to Schiller. You're quite possibly right about that specific issue. On the other hand, I can't believe that OGH isn't thinking about what's been happening with (for example) the NSA's collection of zero-days and how what used to be sooper-sekrit tech has made its way to the street, which "finds its own uses for things." If we don't see a story which involves this issue soon, I may have to commit fan-fic....
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Greg Tingey commented on
PSA: The Delirium Brief
In any other situation sight of of Five Eyes leaking like a sieve would be hugely entertaining. REALLY? You have obviously not thought that through, if at all. So there's a 5-eyes major failure & leak & the islamists get a major, possibly nuke, attack in on a European city. Or Putin decides to occupy the Baltics, because our intel is compromised. Or, or, or .... NOT nice. Intel is also very useful in preventing wars, in case you had forgotten....
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whitroth commented on
PSA: The Delirium Brief
Charlie, I got the Atrocity Archives - I didn't seem to have h/c, so bought it for my Nook. Two things: first, on page 26 of that, it reads "four bureaucratic values", instead of "for bureaucratic values". Later, when Bob and Mo are about to go to the Netherlands, the night before, he tells her they've got to be at the door at 07:00, but the next chapter begins with his alarm ringing at 08:00. And if Bob's unreliable... it could be a combination of his attraction to/love of Mo, and the extremely serious internal changes he goes through, from...
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Charlie Stross commented on
PSA: The Delirium Brief
Nope, not gonna get fixed, ever. At least, not unless Ace revert the rights to me and I republish the book myself. As publishers outsource typesetting, fixing this sort of trivial error requires raising a work order for an outside bureau and spending several hundred dollars, not to mention the in-house time. As the book has been in print in paperback for a decade at this point and most of its sales are past, it's vanishingly unlikely that this will be considered commercially worthwhile (unless someone makes a movie or TV series of it and it's worth fixing trivia at...
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