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• Charlie Stross commented on Lighting up again
  MSB: Is this an artifact of cutting the original six books (which I haven't read) into three? Or a result of the need to quickly wrap things up, back when the books were first written?. The latter. (I was on a 3 book contract, 100,000 words per book +/- 10% permitted. I couldn't wrap everything up in volume 6 by the time I reached it, and I was too burned-out at the time to go back for another contract -- especially as I was being offered much more money for doing stuff that was more fun by my other publisher.)...
• Nick commented on Lighting up again
  I've just read the revised MP end-to-end and have some significant thoughts about the genetics. I'm not sure if I've spotted a major plot twist or have a major misunderstanding (as you know, 20+ years ago I was actually a geneticist). Would you like me to drop you a long rambling email about it?...
• Charlie Stross commented on Lighting up again
  Potential spoiler: in the third volume, when the Colonel is being given the dog-and-pony tour of the research installation, their explanation of the world-walking mechanism is wrong. Understandably wrong, but it's a first approximation from a very new research program and there's stuff they don't know. (They get it a lot more right by the first book in the new trilogy, which is set 17 years later ...)...
• davharris commented on Lighting up again
  That 17 year gap between the books - must be interesting (challenging?) for you writing Miriam again: in the first books she was a young, ambitious journalist - presumably in the new trilogy she... won't be....
• Charlie Stross commented on Lighting up again
  Indeed not. In fact, while she appears, she's not the central protagonist of this story....