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Commented on SF For Nothing, Stories For Free
Taylor Varga is not good and I feel obliged to give it an anti-recommendation. It does some things well, but handling of conflict/escalation/resolution isn't one of them. Pacing isn't either. Both these are in stark contrast to Worm itself, which...
Commented on Paging Agent 007
By the way: for Peter Thiel, his exit strategy is "retire to New Zealand and watch the nuclear war from a distance". His expedited and secret citizenship application, successfully made five years ago, made the (national) news and had politicians...
Commented on Second childhood?
Charlie: you should check out Dresden Codak. It has excellent art, good writing, and transhumanist themes. It varies between telling longer story arcs, and story-on-a-page shorter comics. The current storyline is called Dark Science, and I'd recommend you start there....

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)