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• Gerald Fnord commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Does the Bond, as a 'Twenty-First Century Bond', have 'a neatly-trimmed beard and moustache' as described when we first see him after R.M.B. calls for him on Skarro, or is he 'clean-shaven' as implied he is as an anonymous white man in a suit when he's observing Wendy and Del's second encounter? In the States, at least, the two descriptions are contradictory, though of course he could have got the neat facial hair trimmed-off…though it is characteristic of (at least) the movie Bond's awfulness at spying that he eschews all disguise short of full yellow-face. (See:a wonderful Venture Brothers flashback...
• Damian commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Well some Bond actors go the neatly trimmed beard, especially once they reach a certain age: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierce_Brosnan_at_the_2005_Toronto_Film_Festival.jpg I agree it isn't something you'd really expect in character....
• Ewan commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Ha. I use Penrose as the example of 'uninformed and implausible theories' when I teach neural bases of consciousness :)....
• Gerald Fnord commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  0.) Some of the confusion over what was happening to Imp's mother vs what we think we know from books in the previous series may simply stem from Imp's father's being wrong about what was happening to her. It's not like this was a familiar situation or that he was that accomplished a sorceror. 1.) So my guess: the 'sliver of [Rupert's] soul' Eve feels in her is literally there, and it's enough for the soul-locks (a term introduced with this book?) for her to take command of the people an instruments slaved to or authenticated by it....
• Elderly Cynic commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Tipler's "The Physics of Immortality" makes Penrose's theories look like mainstream science. It's not just up the spout and round the bend, but round a couple of bends beyond that....