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Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
Personally, as a middle aged white guy with a kid, I wouldn't mind a heinlein-esque juvie from you. Maybe the Incan warrior princess? ;)...
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What is "The Other Blog..."? I don't remember you referencing it before. I assume it's run by someone horrible like VD?...
Commented on Annihilation Score round-up
Overall, quite enjoyed it. Lots of hooks for future novels, glad she's rid of it. But. Bob, wtf. "I really need to talk to someone about applied containment theory. When I get time"?!?! Yes, I get it, but damn it,...
Commented on Spoiler Thread
Yeah, the first chapter and the last couple pages were really quite dark and a downer. A friend who just finished it basically asked where your sense of whimsy went. I said "CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN". Overall, loved it. Given the...
Commented on One week to go to THE RHESUS CHART
Thanks, sir. I seem to recall that last time it was an option, so if it was this time, I wanted to Do The Right Thing and give my money to the right folks. Appreciate the answer....
Commented on One week to go to THE RHESUS CHART
Charlie, is there going to be a DRM-free ebook option this time around? If so, any recommendations or suggestions as to ebook stores? On Apocalypse Codex, despite the whole "DRM-free" version, I had to fight with Amazon to get a...

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Nojay commented on Dread of Heinleinism
I know that cartographers would sometimes introduce odd errors like non-existent streets to "watermark" their maps -- the London A to Z has a couple of such deliberate errata, now well-known. The GI Joe toy had/has a deliberately defective thumbnail on one hand for the same reason of copyright. However introducing deliberate errors into tables of logarithms and trig functions is, well, introducing errors which is a Bad Thing. Any errors that exist in older books of log tables were probably accidental. Most volumes of log tables were produced long before copyright was a legal and enforceable concept. The copier...
Troutwaxer commented on Dread of Heinleinism
Maybe humans need a "Museum" like the Moties. I'd build one if I had the money....
JohnS commented on Dread of Heinleinism
Only needs two more comments for this thread to become ironic ... well one more now....
Troutwaxer commented on Dread of Heinleinism
You're quite correct. I'll be happy for my post to reflect "The Number of the Beast." We should all stop now....
MSB commented on Dread of Heinleinism
We should all stop now. "Stop" in the sense of "cease to exist" or—more to the point—"go to hell"? ;-) No, I don't think we should do that now. Thus I'm taking a step above and beyond an arbitrary number that only had a particular meaning in a specific context roughly 1930 years ago—and nobody today is even certain what that particular meaning was, although there are some reasonable hypotheses. I should note, however, that the context—a scathing critique of imperialism—is indeed no less relevant today than it was back then. It is even related to the discussion in this...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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