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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  The fact that Glasshouse was your slowest seller in the US market saddens and disappoints me. Its one of my favorites and one I periodically re-read. Pity my hardcover is packed up for the move. The Varley links were not...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  Trying again because I think Charlie was kind of busy shortly after I posted it. -- Charlie, Where did you get the idea for the hands of glory? I know they're a myth (way to make house breaker's invisible) but...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  Charlie, Where did you get the idea for the hands of glory? I know they're a myth (way to make house breaker's invisible) but how did you get the idea to make laser guns out of them? And use pigeons...
• Commented on Books I've written
  Sorry, how you take them from concept to execution? And you could use any of your favorites as examples so long as you name them....
• Commented on Books I've written
  Charlie, I have another one. You've frequently shared the world building and assumptions going on to make up the nuts and bolts of the worlds your characters tear around in (and sometimes save, sometimes break). But what about the characters?...
• Commented on Books I've written
  I can testify that its worth it - at least as a hardcopy....
• Commented on Books I've written
  Alright, you (and others) have stated ideas are cheap, the follow through is where the work and money are. How do you deal with the initial idea from your thug of a muse? I mean to get it to the...
• Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
  Sigh. I wish I'd done this last night....
• Commented on New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
  Wow. Its been ages since I read the Bohr Maker. I remember largely enjoying it except for one thing - what the hell happened to communications satellites? Aerostats? Little things like that because IIRC most communications got run through the...
• Commented on No. Words.
  Charlie: Agreed. Fuck cancer. In general, I wish him all the joy he can take in the time he has left and as gentle a passing as he can. The world will be diminished when he dies, but he left...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  Charlie Said: - SI won't experience "anger" or any remote cognate, almost by definition it will have much better models of its environment than a kludgy hack to emulate a bulk hormonal bias on a sparse network of neurons developed...
• Commented on Haunted
  Neuropath I'll re-read it again some day. Just not right now. Early Michael Slade - Headhunter, Ghoul and Cutthroat....
• Commented on Science & Technology, Working Together
  I see your point. But I tend to think mostly of books (habit of thought, sorry) and have peeled away from space opera. As to Weber, from the bit I've read, I wondered how closely he would wind up paralleling...
• Commented on Science & Technology, Working Together
  This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. To me, space opera (and a lesser degree space fantasy) is less a way of exploring a possible future and more of a codified art form in much the same...
• Commented on E Ticket*
  Its hard for me to remember the first SF and Fantasy. I do know that a boxed set of Heinlein's juveniles (Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Citizen of the Galaxy, Starbeast and Tunnel in the Sky), followed by Starship Troopers. Then...
• Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
  Plan on changing my life radically in about 20 years and repeating it every 20 years. At that point, either join the military, or Peace Corps (sorry - haven't decided yet) for a hitch and then go back to school...
• Commented on Status update
  Let's see if this works......