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• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  Thanks Charlie, I know the SCP foundation universe. I just didn't know about the Antimemetics Division. Which, of course, makes perfect sense....
• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  Reading some qntm stories now, I didn't know him before this blog post. I'm hooked. Also, the whole antimemetics setting shows... interesting similarities with the Laundryverse (most notably "everybody knows vampires don't exist" and elven warfare, but also adult equoids,...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Posting form Italy here. We think our government is even more idiotic than yours. And we are fully aware your government managed to collapse in 45 days and has just established a new record about that. And we are also...
• Commented on Yokai Land Q&A
  I'm quite sure I already said several times I love your writing style, but I feel the urge to say it again....
• Commented on Coming soon: Escape from Yokai Land!
  Back on topic: In "The Delirium Brief", first chapter, page number... tends to change with font size and ebook reader. Anyway, Bob mentions "the incursion at Puroland that I was sent to help deal with". Will this become a continuity...
• Commented on Coming soon: Escape from Yokai Land!
  Coming out here: I had been reading your books as a pirate, by looking for them on the interwebbytubes™. Then, some years ago, I acknowledged I actually like them so much that I bought all of them as ebooks. And...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  Couple of tales from Italy: The switch from landlines to VOIP has been going on for a while, mostly without even telling customers about it; but this is perfectly fine, because customers don't actually care about it, and most often...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  I'll just add this comment to the current discussion, and then I'll back off because I really don't want to get involved: I'd really like to be able (or for people in general to be able) to talk about Israeli...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  So many questions, so little answers......
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  How far are you going to dwelve in the depths of paradoxes? How many time has history been rewritten? By whom? How much can Forecasting Ops understand about this before being forced to self-unestablish? How and how much is actually...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  I found the description of what happened to Imp and Eve's mother GENUINELY DISTURBING, although it was to be expected since we all know what GPM was up to (even before they escalated to TDB levels). It's different when you...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  Charlie, just logging in to remind you (amongst all this crazyness) that you still didn't publish a crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index. You asked me to remind you about this on another thread, so I'm just complying, no pressure...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Never read "Palimpsest" until now. Now I did. I understand (for varying definitions of "understand") you much better....
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  OTOH: Charles, what about the crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index? I thought I already did one? If not, well, remind me next week. (Right now, am writing.) Reminding. But please do it only if it would not interrupt...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend anyone? Where does exactly a "quantum system" ends? If I observe you observing a cat in a box, who exactly is collapsing the wave function? The concept of "observer" is totally tricky......
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Charles, Opticians Dentistry England/Wales only GP appointments, hospital visits, ambulances, surgery, hospital stays ... nope, no co-pays This we take for granted. Here in Italy too. And I think that's good, but who am I to say this? :-/ In...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  OTOH: Charles, what about the crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index? It has been out for a while now, and the next book in the series (for variable definition of "next book in the series") is out now. Time for...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Guys (and girls if any), please don't forget about a basic thing that anyone tends to ignore. This planet is several billions years old. Our species is several hundreds millennia old. And yet, we only know anything at all about...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Safari under Big Sur still behaves in an interesting fashion with sign ins here Same thing with Edge on Windows, being logged in or not seems to be quite random....
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  If "Case Nightmare Green" is what happens when "the stars come into alignment", doesn't that suggest that someday they will again go out of alignment? If so, they must have come into & gone out of alignment previously and...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  "Overtime" Which marks, on a totally unrelated note, the first appearence of Forecasting Ops and their ability to retroactively unestablish themselves if their existence would lead to a terrible outcome. And then somewhat exist again after the terrible outcome...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  there is some rather fucked-up shit in the background: the universe of the Laundry Files is constantly retconning itself. As the comment immediately before clearly demonstrates ;) See also Forecasting Ops and their not-so-stable existential status. Hope to get...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Let me retcon this Never underestimade the Sacred Retcon Power ;) Anyway, that part was deeply scary and unsettling. Much more than some already-infested generic thugs hunting Persephone or Bob. The whole point of my comment was kudos for...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Quoting: She blinked at him. “You mean, they literally planted something in her? Like what, one of the lesser daemones?” “Yes, exactly that. You can see it in her mouth when she eats—she’s avoiding the dentist, did you know that?”...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Eve's mother hasn't had communion with the tongue-eating thing, she's very much a member of the outer congregation. Hence the gradual brain rot. I'm sorry? She actually HAD that thing in her mouth! And quite for a while, according...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  And then, of course, there is the giant elephant in the room, the story about magic having actually existed in the past and then having disappeared some centuries ago for unexplained reasons, only to make its comeback now; and the...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  What I found truly horrifying in this book was what happened to their mother; we already know how Schiller's church operated and their way to make converts, but we always seen only the end result (possessed fanatics) until now, not...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  I'm not a native English speaker but I'm generally good at it; however, I really can't really decypher the title of the book: what does it exactly mean? There are at leat two ways to read it: - (someone) dead...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  As hard as I searched, I haven't been able to find prior mention of bite marks? I noticed that, too....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  Not admitting defeat and lots of fanatics followers (with guns). Hope this goes down well, but it really doesn't look good......