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• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  will you please excuse me for the obvious question, but ... Why should you save an apple that is rotten to the core ? there are a lot of appleseeds evrywhere on the planet. I don't want to go rural/ecologist/sustainable/etc......
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  I wish I hadn't read your blog tonight... And of course I wish nobody had ever to write such an announcement . Iain Banks is dead. Long live the Culture! (I'm only a reader, never met him, and it still...
• Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
  well, this is not really grand guignol as you espect it, but one of my deepest fear is to disappear... when I was a student and went to my first real job, I had to ask the secretary of the...
• Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
  f*** ! I believed you, it took me 18 posts to understand. I hate you ! I will steal your next book for revenge... grrrr! and next year, when the picture is released, is a hit and you got no...
• Commented on Mitochondrial Singularity
  welcome back, joan. It's a pleasure to read you, and you will be happy (I think) to know I order your "high frontier"in my bookshop today. It may be a little out of the current talk, but have you ever...
• Commented on Dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century
  watergate ? and so what ; there are still politicians, republicans and a state in the US. Scandal is nothing of being afraid of. It will burst, there will be people flushed down ... and the institution will continue its...
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Hi, Stina ! It's been nearly 300 comments on your post about Women in Sf and fantasy and how many did really comment about women ? Don't you feel strange about the fact that we talked about history, historical accuracy,...
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  maybe it is a little off topic and a personnal horse but when you say "I associate Fantasy--even Urban Fantasy--with the past." my first eaction is "well, that's the problem"... let me explain (then you say if it is really...
• Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
  Not being an english native reader I've got other problems : sometimes Ijust can't read the book ! For example : I thank you a lot for putting "rapture of the nerds" online so I didn't have to buy it...
• Commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  Hey ! you forgot that "DEATH SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS". And I didn't log in for 3 days and just found that my former post made you write a whole text, I could be some kind of muse ... http://www.oglaf.com/blank-page/...
• Commented on The Importance of Being Geek
  >>Fantasy as a genre doesn't have a monopoly on rubbish. SF contains a lot of rubbish too. In fact, every genre has crappy writers and crappy stories. I'm perfectly aware of that and the bigger the genre, the most the...
• Commented on The Importance of Being Geek
  Back in the eighties, D&D wasn't translated into french. So I mostly learnt english with the player's manual (and Pink Floyd the Wall, but that's another story...). ion high school I could speak about light horses and elves, but not...
• Commented on Zoom-Zoom
  >>>how would you use an electric car (such as a Tesla Model S or similar) in a book nowadays without it looking too much as a product placement? please, don't talk abut "product placement" it's just brainwashing advertisement (I did't...
• Commented on In case you were wondering ...
  Have you ever thought of selling your books in 2 kinds ? Like the "director's cut" for pictures ? 1 could be sold by the publisher and you'd keep the copyright for the second one and publish it yourself or...