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• Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
  Every time I read that opening sentence I think it's a quote from the first book, Freya trying to line up her trip to Jupiter....
• Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
  the OpenWorm project thinks they have "a full simulation of the nervous system of C. Elegans", anyway. How could they know they have the neurons simulated to sufficient detail?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  The other alternative is to ignore the parts of the continuity that are inconvenient, for example Niven threw out the original FTL drive from World of Ptavvs in later Known Space novels. If you do it after there's already some...
• Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
  There are two lessons I predict won't be learned: 1. Fighting the last war is a fool's game. The TSA security regime is the Maginot line. Instead of trying to deal with this by finding and prosecuting the people actually...
• Commented on New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
  Greetings, and I must say I vastly enjoyed reading your books. I don't suppose you're going to be filling in the blanks between the fall of the Commonwealth and the arrival of the Bursters? No?...
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  I gave up on reader a couple of years ago, because all I was using it for was to post to Buzz. I kind of hoped they'd clone the Reader bookmarklet to let me post to Google Plus, but instead...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  "software agents designed to anticipate their needs and interact with other objects in their environment to get them what they need. E.g. plants that can summon a watering can when they get dessicated, footballs that can warn self-driving cars not...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  I gotta agree on Brunner. I've been pretty much able to read _all_ the credible near-future SF that I've been aware of since Shockwave Rider and Stand on Zanzibar made me aware of them in the '70s. I do occasionally...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  Seems to me that popular Science Fiction has often been pretty conservative, in the sense of being strongly rooted in the past and following known working formulas rather than the political sense (political conservatism and technological progressivism seem to mix...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  The thing about this particular meme is that reading up on it made the creepy singularitarian villains in "Iron Sunrise" about a thousand times more believable. The ReMastered seemed just too simplistic, but when you have people talking (apparently seriously)...