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  • Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
    1) Oglaf. 2) Steel Home I think....
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    It's not "proof of work", it's "proof of being on Mars" no?...
  • Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
    First comment, Jubal Harshaw was the Heinlein expy in SiaSL....
  • Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
    I still love "Have Spacesuit will Travel" but I picked it up again lately... and Cliff's father is basically a precursor to Jubal Harshaw and his hippy secret agent libertarianism is kind of jarring on re-reading....
  • Commented on Unsustainable Interstellar Civilization, Hotspot Colonies, and Dwarf Culture
    We know how to build warped space, using a rotating frame of reference instead of mass. Centripetal force. Spinning habitats. This is old-school "Space habitats for Man" stuff. Radiation. The solution is mass. A bunch of water is an easy...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Re: "We'd spend our days enjoying luxury and entertainment, getting in petty squabbles, and competing in all kinds of games and status stuff in a hierarchy." Like Iain Banks' Culture? Particularly visible in Player of Games....
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Check Greg Egan's web page for some shorter works. For novels I would recommend Diaspora and Schild's Ladder....
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Permutation City's "dust theory" is not really compelling, and Egan doesn't really take it seriously, but something similar falls out of the infinite universe multiverse theory the same way Boltzmann Brains do. If something can exist then it must exist...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Well, there's always this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/6958191.stm...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Meanwhile in Northern Ireland... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-northern-ireland-referendum-irish-unity-sinn-fein-second-scottish-independence-indyref2-a7628591.html How about a Celtic union?...
  • Commented on The internet of decay
    Ransomware made Flesh Pretty sure Greg Egan already wrote that one....
  • Commented on What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster?
    There's DEFINITELY a market for video/movie production in zero G. Like, OK GO did a video in "zero g": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co...
  • Commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
    The Uber/CNN merger was already predicted by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash....
  • Commented on Administrative note
    I'm sure you have backups as well as mirrored drives....
  • Commented on Constitutional crisis ahoy!
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills...
  • Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
    *Welcome to the Free City Of Leicester-we voted remain. There is European History on our side. That would make a wonderful satirical SF novel, a future Britain split into "EU" and "non-EU" enclaves, with distinct laws and internal borders...
  • Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
    I guess that's what happens when you're actually an honest politician....
  • Commented on Rise Of The Trollbot
    Greg Egan's Permutation City had spam-bots using increasingly sophisticated targeted AIs pretending to be your friends, and you'd have a filter-bot pretending to be you to try and detect the spam-bots before passing your actual friends on to you. That...
  • Commented on Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
    My problem with the direction that Apple is going, and why I prefer a "security fleapit" like Android, is that I do not see my phone as a credit card, I don't want access to my money dependent on a...
  • Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
    How about the Slippery Jim stories?...
  • Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
    How about Walter Jon William's "Drake Maijstral" stories?...
  • Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
    Pride and Prejudice and Pseudopods?...
  • Commented on Defining space opera
    Pluto is a lot more interesting now than it has been since it was discovered. Also the outer moons. It's not the swamps of Venus, but it's got potential....
  • Commented on Defining space opera
    Have you read the kind-of-a-sequel to Vacuum Flowers, "Stations of the Tide"?...
  • Commented on Defining space opera
    Queendom: I would definitely agree, the first book was optimistic and expansive, the latter books had the feel of an orbital version of "The Postman"....
  • Commented on Defining space opera
    Damn, I was going to use the Quantum Thief trilogy as an example of an in-system space opera. You stole my point. Bollocks. OK. I think the original Ophiuchi Hotline series counts (though the reboot less so). How about Vacuum...
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    I guess I'm one of the three. I'm not sure about the Culture being an existential threat to the changers. I got the impression that the changers becoming extinct was a side effect of them picking the wrong side in...
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    The "primitives on the planet, sophisticates in space" thing was nicely lampshaded in Stations of the Tide....
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    ISTR that C. J. Cherryh has had spaceships running into problems with plumbing and waste-water....
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    There's no end of problems with Aurora. ^^...
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