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• Commented on The language of alienation
  Nevermind, I found it: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1enjew/what_sentence_would_sound_like_gibberish_10_years/...
• Commented on The language of alienation
  Which reddit thread was this? I'm looking for it, but I can't seem to find it......
• Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
  > "what this country needs is a short, victorious war" Well, they certainly failed there! From what I understand, the russo-japanese war hasn't officially ended yet; it's just been on hold indefinitely since the turn of the (last) century....
• Commented on Books I've written
  I'm very much in favor of the 'anti-spoiler' idea, particularly with regard to elements of culture. Glasshouse is a particularly good example: I didn't know that it was slang for 'military prison' until long after I read it (and this...
• Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
  The Dark Side of Oz is actually a still-classified part of the now defunct MK-ULTRA system, with a generational release. The first generation has been (fairly grossly) programmed to merely subliminally brainwash their children and grandchildren, who (if they watch...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  How much would someone have to pay you to get you to record your own readings for your audiobooks? (When I read your books -- particularly Accelerando & the Laundry books -- they sound vaguely angry, but I've heard you...
• Commented on Obituaries
  Is it just me, or is it self-contradictory for someone who claims not to believe in society to try to shift focus towards the trade of socially constructed items (money, financial devices... all things that would cease to exist in...
• Commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  You lucked out. The US Neptune's Brood cover is a lot nicer than the US Saturn's Children cover, and the re-release Laundry covers look (to me) much prettier than the original US release Laundry covers. I have a soft spot...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  There's always the Grinders, but they go pretty far in the opposite direction (jumping onto not-ready-for-prime-time body hacks). For instance, the big thing in the grinder community right now is implanting magnets into your fingertips as a kind of cheap,...
• Commented on Press release
  The Merchant Dauphins? The Merchant Royalty-In-Exile? Anastasia With An Extra Serving Of Capitalism?...
• Commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  This may be an unpopular view here, but I felt like Mo was one of the least developed of Charlie's female characters. She's powerful and dangerous, sure, but I always felt like she was more sketched than filled in (unlike...
• Commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  Regarding what is "off limits": It's pretty hard to come up with something that won't be offensive to somebody. (Hell, it's hard to come up with a gift for a secret santa arrangement that is unlikely to offend somebody.) It's...
• Commented on The Importance of Being Geek
  My comment has nothing to do with gender (I am a white male in the middle class with poor social skills, and so I would not like to in any way indicate that I have a nuanced understanding of gender...
• Commented on E Ticket*
  Another fan of (the other series named) The Avengers! It's so rare. (It's OK. Grant Morrison is one of us, too.) I realize this is a bit off-topic, but did it bother you when they replaced Mrs Peel with Tara...
• Commented on Science & Technology, Working Together
  If your fantasy plots and devices are internally consistent, you are already pretty close to science fiction. Congratulations! In fact, you may in that case be closer to the ideal of good science fiction than much published science fiction (especially...
• Commented on Always Look on the Bright Side of... SF
  In defense of cyberpunk: we are living in a very cyberpunk world right now, and only the flashy surface elements are obviously different. Bad/lazy cyberpunk duplicates only the flashy surface elements (and under this heading, I will -- somewhat controversially...