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• Charlie Stross commented on Minor hiccup
  Nnnoo, it's more an unwillingness to part with such wonderful settings. The adventures of Yuri Gagarin sailing the endless seas with his trusted crew of Spetsnaz is just too awesome to let go so easily. You know where it came from, right? Yuri Gagarin bore a striking resemblance to the young William Shatner, and his behaviour was a dead-ringer for James T. Kirk (charismatic, impulsive, womanizing, hard-drinking: not in actual fact what you'd want in the captain of a nuclear powered ekranoplan, but I'm giving him credit for being able to grow up a bit if he lived another decade)....
• scott-sanford commented on Minor hiccup
  I had the impression, Cthulu wasn't, like, a bad guy. Just he wakes up and kills us all. In much the same way bulldozers aren't evil. This may be little condolence when one is bearing down on you, your anthill, and every ant you've ever met. There are other entities in the Lovecraft universe that do stoop to torturing souls like small children pulling wings off of flies....
• nelc commented on Minor hiccup
  Oh, struth, I'd totally missed that. I wonder if I want to go back and try to find the clue.......
• decicco.barry commented on Minor hiccup
  "and a friend of the family hinted a while ago they continue to have their fingers up to the wrist in various African pies." Somebody once listed the French interventions in Africa for the past few decades (many!). They had a theory that the Us-assigned role for France was to 'take care of' Africa....
• Gerald Fnord commented on Minor hiccup
  A little while back I thought, 'Charlie will end the series killing Bob off, and I'll know the moment Mo becomes the narrator.' I could easily be wrong about that, and am probably over-influenced by a shift in narrative focus in Macleod's "The Star Fraction"...involving a character known as 'Moh'.......