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  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
    Is that true? Where do I find further info on that? Sounds like a hoot....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
    I'm looking forward to seeing a Lovecraftian take on Vampires. I'm a sucker for the horror classics and love it when someone does soemthing fresh with them. A horror trope can not be overdone in my opinion, all it needs...
  • Commented on Deeply annoying realization ...
    Considering the readership of this blog, I thought I would throw out a discussion that I have been having at work. I’m not a writer, and this is not me trying to generate a sci-fi world, it just comes from...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Saturn's Children
    I would argue that if the robots in Saturns Children emulated human consciousness, then humanity did not die out. As a species, our best chance for longevity is to ensure our collective consciousness outlives us, and machine intelligence would be...
  • Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
    Having said that, we are hardwired to view threat. The amygdala, an old portion of our brain, causes us to seek out and remember threat. In the modern world there are lots of complex, low level threats, ones that aren't...
  • Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
    If you want to get a good idea about how deluded a large portion of the British public are, just look at the comments section of any news article on Yahoo news. I sometimes go there just to get angry,...
  • Commented on A Bad Dream
    If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would imagine some sort of ruling cabal manipulating us into thinking we had a choice in who rules us. I'm not however, I just think its a combination of the demands of power...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
    I know this is the wrong thread, but was Rev. Schiller based on Ted Haggard, an American Evangelical preacher at the New Life Church in Colorado Spring, Colorado. He was on a program presented by Richard Dawkins and seemed like...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
    I wonder if its disturbing for the writer that we are dsicussing his potential death and replacement....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
    Not sure anyone could replace you for the Laundry Files. Ben Aaronovitch or Paul Cornel could maybe capture the humour, but not the scientific aspects. It wouldn't be the same anyhow. Perhaps you could leave notes with Cubicle 7 so...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
    It's strange how attached we readers can get to a series. I remember when Stephen King had his encounter with a van, it must have been awful for his family I'm sure, but as I didn't know him personally, my...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
    So the Laundry Files was nearly shelved? I'm glad it wasn't, its one of my favourite series, I really need to see how Case Nightmare Green pans out....
  • Commented on Another commercial ...
    And that's the problem with being a scientific pedant about entertainment shows I suppose. It wouldn't be quite as entertaining as if it was an empty ship run by an AI transmitting information back to earth. Robots wouldn't get into...
  • Commented on Another commercial ...
    I heard somewhere that genre, as in sci-fi/fantasy/horror etc was all a result of commercial publishing and is just a way to market their books and find an audience. Ray Bradbury said that despite being viewed as a sci-fi author,...
  • Commented on Another commercial ...
    Most Sci-fi is fantasy. The fact Star Wars has space ships and lasers makes it no more scientific than LOTR, and don't get me started on Star Trek; 300 people to run a space ship when they have AI so...
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