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Commented on The sudden eruption of news
that is certainly also my understanding. A lot of Brits seem to not want to acknowledge it....
Commented on Policy change: future US visits
Our only hope is an amendment requiring a second referendum on the terms offered ( I think ) As I've said before on here, this is not possible by the EU rules. Once you (not you, personally, obviously) pull the...
Commented on Policy change: future US visits
Hmmm nope, as far as I can tell and as far as I have followed the discussions here in Germany regarding this, there is NO option to not exit as soon as the Article 50 has been triggered. EITHER you...
Commented on Empire Games
a note regarding different versions in continental EU: AFAICT both UK as well as US publishing houses can legally sell to Germany. bigriver.de usually has both versions of any English language title they carry, they just don't always make it...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Rhesus Chart
re the Milkweed Triptych: I liked books 1 and 2 quite a lot, book 3 was almost unreadable for me. I read it to the end because I wanted to know how the story finishes but .. the way the...

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)