Princejvstin

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• Commented on Pushing it back
  Michael Scott Rohan's WINTER OF THE WORLD series comes right to mind....
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Sexual attraction to non-humans is not conserved by evolution unless the non-human is so close to human that they're a compatible branch of our family tree: say, Denisovans or Neanderthals (who interbred with our ancestors). Which you've used yourself in...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  when I read it, I was surprised just how slow travel for Eve really was. But you did do your research and were correct on just how plodding it was....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  uch as the fact that we have a Royal Navy but we a British Army (loyal to Parliament, and not under royal command I had no idea that there was this distinction. HUnh...
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  I am glad that the antivaxers have not gained a lot of traction in the UK. As you outline here, things with Brexit are bad enough....
• Commented on What happens now?
  My view 2020-22, Democrats are nominally in charge, but a determined minority leader (Hello McConn ell) can do a lot of sand in the gears. And he will. 2022...I fear the gerrymandered districts in the US will lead to Republicans...
• Commented on Dead plots
  I thought I had understand what QANON was about...but a guest on a NPR radio program laid it ALL out--and its bugfuck NUTS, even more than I ever imagined. So yeah, Conspiracy theories? DEAD. I think this also kills things...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Frak. Thank you for this precis from the other side of the pond....
• Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
  So much for "The End of History. Again. I no longer think its inconceivable that Trump will seek to stay in the White House by extraordinary means come 2020, even if he loses in a landslide (and given the rabid...
• Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
  As noted above, even with a slanted, gerrymandered field, the Democrats took the House in the U.S, which will be something of a brake or impediment to President Trump....
• Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
  I was born in 1971, my older brother 1964, and I started SF from his book collection. So I accidentally read TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE at age 11, which was, well, not the best idea I had at that age...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  As noted above, a War will make even your worst scenario seem warm and fuzzy....
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  The rise of Trumpism may be the herald of this dark century to come...or if we are, as you say, very very lucky, its warning....
• Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  (kinda inspired by Elderly Cynic and your own work, Mr. Stross) 4f Satoshi Nakamoto is the Eschaton, attempting to use economics as historical lever to ensure their creation...
• Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
  Sorry to hear about the death of Hugh. Damn....
• Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
  I think you have a point here that SF has difficulty reaching its ultimate potential, falling short in the execution by lack of vision, by its difficulty, and just being satisfied with "Enough". And we've always been missing stuff, but...
• Commented on Excuses
  NO worries, Charlie. Do what you got to do to get those words on paper. Has-been? Over the Hill? Such people have not been reading your latest novels. I'm really happy you are doing new and interesting things in the...
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  Katrina led to a permanent displacement of a chunk of the New Orleans population (Some of them, as it so happens, had gone to Houston). http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/08/hurricane_katrina_migration_di.html I expect that will happen to Houston, and that will have strong local economic...
• Commented on Radio silence
  Err Labyrinth Index. Reboot, with Caffeine....
• Commented on Radio silence
  From our chat re: Labyrinth Lord, I definitely am salivating to read it!...
• Commented on Book day!
  Coming to my Kindle in about 9 hours!...
• Commented on Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
  I'm suddenly more thinking of the RPG Diaspora, where the players and GM create a cluster of worlds, with a range of technology. At the high end, there are planets close to the singularity (but not over, because of the...
• Commented on Random excuses
  This is now overdue, and some time in the next few weeks I'll be updating the server here—extremely carefully, though! Here's hoping a bare minimum of things break. And watch the design of that summoning grid. Don't be like Andy!...
• Commented on The End of the British nuclear deterrent?
  Trump piss away the 'special relationship' for a perceived trade relationship gain? Yeah, he'd do that in a heartbeat....
• Commented on I can't keep up
  2017 seems to be, so far, the year of "Who ordered that?"...
• Commented on The dog ate my homework
  No apology necessary. You've gotta eat, after all....
• Commented on Playtime is over
  @Roy I am fairly sure the Filibuster goes the way of the dodo at the start of the next Senate session. Why would McConnell allow it to remain? This IS the Republican's dark chance. And even if he did have...
• Commented on Sometimes I don't know why I bother!
  On the Revolutions Podcast, I first heard about Francisco De Miranda , forerunner to Simon Bolivar in the project of South American Independence from Spain. In his wide ranging life, this guy met and made connections with nearly everyone famous...
• Commented on Reality is broken
  Reality stranger than fiction indeed. No worries on this end, I'm gently and gradually re-consuming the Laundry verse, this time in audio form, trying to pick on the stuff I missed on the first go around....
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  @George (6): I read the Frankopan. Slow going, but I enjoyed it. As for myself, I am continuing the slow Shahnameh (The Persian Epic of Kings) reading project that Tessa Gratton and Kate Elliott have organized. It's an interesting window...