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• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next <em>September</em> ...
  "Jury Service" was online on scifi.com, but they shitcanned their fiction website a year or two ago; I believe the Wayback Machine still has it. "Appeals Court" I'm not so sure about. We will be releasing the novel-length version as a free download on publication day, if you can bear to wait ......
• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next <em>September</em> ...
  The first two parts have indeed changed significantly....
• drkimpton commented on Coming next <em>September</em> ...
  You mention that the collaboration has spewed out neither a Stross nor Doctorow novel made something dislodge in the sub and fall into the conscious. What you describe sounds like "The Third Mind" a book I remember reading, (though alot of the content has fallen through the filters), which describes a collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Luckily, the Wikister regurgitates: The significance of "The Third Mind" is that it is a shared consciousness that can only be reached by two (or more) people together-- they access a place that neither could reach alone. Person A and Person...
• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next <em>September</em> ...
  Interestingly makes me mentally wander toward the idea of what Burroughs could have done with the cut-up technique collaborating with an AI? There is no such thing as an AI. (Yet.) So speculating on an AI's collaborative writing style is a bit spurious. Mind you, here is a book written by a computer....
• drkimpton commented on Coming next <em>September</em> ...
  Not to mention Burroughs (non)state of mind...