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Commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
A day after reading your comments, I searched the site of Juliet E. McKenna to see if the rural fantasy The Green's Man Heir would have a sequel, and I found this post on her blog : http://www.julietemckenna.com/?p=3033 I quote...
Commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
If I remember well, the reason for the title of the third Chanur was a joke between Cherryh and her editor, and this is the one without Chanur in the title : The Kif Strike Back....
Commented on Happy Halloween!
My only fear with the Laundry Files is that Bob(by) leaves the shower and discovers that was a nightmare. On a more serious note, the entity called Bob Howard could also try godhood. I didn't have the time to finish...
Commented on A taste of nightmares to come
two thoughts : First time we hear of the Dm in the series, but explicable inworld : a) our first narrator was unreliable b) he didn't think of him as important c) he don't intervene in all missions. Dr Schwartz...
Commented on A game of consequences
I am perhaps a first-time poster, but a long time reader of your blogs and books. Concerning this post in particular, and the comments in general, I have the impression that an habitat is supposed to adopt american norms and...

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MSB commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
Scott Sanford wrote: It's hard to overstate the level of incompetence in Trump's circle of lackeys... 'First class leaders recruit first class people; second class leaders recruit third class people.'...
JohnS commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
Scott Sanford @ 499: "With Trump & co it's always bigotry all the time. Just turn Occam's razor on its head and "never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice."" Fair enough. But I bet if you spent two years repeating "no collusion" and injecting the phrase whenever it was not grossly irrelevant, you would remember it long enough to not respond to hypothetical questions about foreign collusion with "I'd be a fool not to." Well, I didn't say they are not incompetent, just that bigotry is their primary motivation. Sometimes their bigotry is not sufficient to...
Greg Tingey commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
You've forgotten to add Greed & malice to the mix ... and they are definitely there ......
Owen Blacker commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
Regency-setting dragon shifter hentai romance with talking starships Do I detect a fan of Aliette de Bodard? 😄...
Bellinghman commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
I just checked her profile, and top of the list I was shown of people she follows was Charlie. (Amusingly my wife was down at #3 - but it is promoting people I engage with to the top) de Bodard is damned good. I was blown away by the Blood and Obsidian Obsidian and Blood trilogy, by the way it got inside the heads of people in a culture that is totally alien, and she's on my buy-on-sight list....

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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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