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• Commented on Book day!
  Ordered. and very much looking forward to reading it....
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  Shorts: nearly finished the Gardner Dozois edited Best SF 32nd Annual collection because the 33rd collection is sitting there staring at me. Favourite so far is "Entanglement" by Vandana Singh, a future climate change story that isn't a grim meathook...
• Commented on Burnout, creativity, and the tyranny of production schedules
  There are nine and sixty ways of misquoting tribal lays, And every single one of them is right! sorry To Charlie & Elizabeth, I wish you the best for getting to a happier space....
• Commented on Long range forecast
  Is it time for a re-read of Bruce Sterling's "Distraction" & "Heavy Weather"?...
• Commented on Not-so-Invisible Ninjas
  Very late to the party but I recently read & thoroughly enjoyed "Archangel", Marguerite Reed's debut novel. It's SF with a bunch of different elements (older female protagonist, ecology, MilSF, genetic engineering, an Earth colony that actually has diverse colonists...
• Commented on Bad puppies, no awards
  Given the Strange Attractor has done its work, I don't know if anyone is still interested but... "Quality is not a selection factor for the Hugos unlike a juried award or other method of selecting a winner." I wish to...
• Commented on Bad puppies, no awards
  Yay for E pluribus Hugo passing! But it still means that the ~500 Rabid voters this year get another go at bloc-voting the Hugo nominations next year. So it's not over yet....
• Commented on Bad puppies, no awards
  I wish to acknowledge Annie Bellet, Marko Kloos, Matthew David Surridge, John O’Neill (https://www.blackgate.com/), and Edmund R. Schubert (editor of Intergalactic Medicine Show) who withdrew their nominations. Brandon Kempner (Chaos Horizon) puts the total number of Rabid voters at a...
• Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  Fixed. Someone got to Tanith Lee before me, but you are now both listed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_science_fiction_writers. It only needed the addition of the correct category tag to your entry. BTW, been a fan of your writing for years, especially the Detective...
• Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
  So, early in the story there is a reference to the embedding of RFID & DNA tagging to track high denomination banknotes. Given it's the Laundry universe, have you considered the potential for sympathetic magic shenanigans with DNA tagging of...
• Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
  Is this related to Yog's Law? But instead of "Money flows toward the writer", "Sadism flows toward the reader"?...
• Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
  "Aren't unreliable narrators fun?" They certainly provide an convenient explanation for inconsistencies. (Though the obsessive in me much prefers a narrative to be wholly internally consistent.)...
• Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
  Found it. This time round using "orthogonal" as a search term did the trick. "I just want a party to vote for whose three guiding principles are (a) maximize individual liberty, (b) minimize the Gini coefficient, and (c) protect the...
• Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
  AMA: Not long ago in a somewhat political discussion, you laid out what you thought a good government should be, which included giving high priority to aims that, while not mutually exclusive, are hard to balance. I've been trying to...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
  "(Having finished the first draft of one novel I am now desperately fighting off the urge to try my hand at an I-can't-believe-it's-not-the-Culture novel. Because I have way too many books of my own to write without also trying to...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
  I am often confused....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
  Not to mention that OGH is more a gardener than an architect. It was much easier to hold all the detail in when there were only one or two books in the setting. I was quite pleased with myself for...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
  BTW, I appreciate these Crib Sheet posts; it's depressing sometimes the number of Easter eggs I miss....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
  Re: comments #8 & #9: Given the title for this blog post is "Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart", surely we can dispense with spoiler warnings or redactions for The Rhesus Chart?...
• Commented on Second childhood?
  I'm a fan of Chew by John Layman & Rob Guillory. THE CONCEPT. "Tony Chu is a cop with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  ...it comes back to: What is the Hugo? Is the Hugo a tradition from a particular convention? Or is the Hugo the most prestigious award in world science fiction? Yes is the answer. It is both: a tradition of a...
• Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
  Does this qualify as a bit of crowd-sourced research for the next novel?...
• Commented on On the road again!
  You win the internet....
• Commented on CMAP: Short stories, what are they good for?
  Apropos the topic, I look at the year's best anthologies as a good place to find new writers. They work well as samplers. The first two Charles Stross stories I encountered were "Antibodies" & "A Colder War" in Gardner Dozois'...
• Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
  Happy Birthday Charlie! I'm getting older & grayer myself, and are currently visiting the parental units who are further along the process and thinking more of mortality. Your guidelines for living are close to mine & seem wise (the two...
• Commented on The morning after
  Good luck Scotland! I mean that sincerely. Regardless of the result, this is not the last of it; I expect the consequences to play out over the coming years. Meanwhile, I have cast my vote early (the official election day...
• Commented on Apology
  Adrian Howard inspired this: "Braided Worlds"?...
• Commented on Apology
  You might have to suck it up & include "Merchant Princes" in the description if you don't want to lose a potential pool of readers. How about "Merchant Princes: 20 years later"? It would signal that some time has passed...