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• ndgmtlcd commented on Incidentally ...
  Yes! And I wish they could take the next step and make a science fiction calendar with monthly pics like these....
• technovelgist commented on Incidentally ...
  Since Charlie hasn't had time to blog yet, you'll have to be satisfied with this. Immortal ConFusion was fun, and Charlie did a great job reading two lengthy excerpts from upcoming books, one of them a Laundry novel. It was a treat listening to him read in a rather small room; if you get a chance to hear him, you should. Except for one coughing attack that would have stopped most of us, he was fine. We really appreciated him soldiering on. [Note to Charlie's publisher: the fen are not happy about the fact that a Laundry novel is being...
• GoCaptain commented on Incidentally ...
  You know, I saw the book, the Poul Anderson Flandry stories, in a public library. My thought was a) I couldn't possibly take this out b) if the contents reflected the cover I couldn't be bothered anyway. So I'm all in favour of the campaign. But for me these covers serve as a useful warding away device. As I said to a local second hand book owner about my choice of books, "Does it have a spaceship on the cover?"...
• GoCaptain commented on Incidentally ...
  That should be 'book shop owner'...
• Bellinghman commented on Incidentally ...
  I've been musing on just how this could happen, and I think it could be caused by a single bit error. If there's an array of glyphs to use, and the elements of that table are 32-bit pointers, then if you flip bit 2 in the pointer that addresses the start of the table, you'll be picking up the glyph one along from the one you should have done. Everything else stays the same, including the font metrics, which accounts for the displayed 'h' characters (should have been 'i') tending to overrun their neighbours....