MattF

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• Commented on Pushing it back
  I’ve often thought that dinosaurs had an industrial civilization. 65 million years is a very long time....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  I’ve been reading QC for the past month or so. As noted above, there’s a huge cast of characters, but you can use the Google- thing when it gets confusing. The humans seem all oddly similar to me, but the...
• Commented on COVID-19
  But I wonder about vaccines... bear in mind that viruses mutate as they propagate, so there's no guarantee a vaccine that works now will continue to work 12 months from now....
• Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
  I just read 'The Thief' by Megan Whalen Turner and, um,... it's an interesting case for this particular genre breakdown....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  It seems that a lot of new/changed characters have been successfully introduced, and that's a good thing-- there's a real risk of killing off too many of the original crew. I'm not too happy with the Senior Auditor fading into...
• Commented on Test Case
  The critical question, to me, is 'Would a pedestrian be dead if the car had been driven by a normal, licensed, human driver?' My guess is 'no', but IRL, I don't know....
• Commented on A plaintive request
  And.. speaking of the new (and excellent) Laundry Files novel... Y'know that picture of Pence eating at Chili's that's been circulating? It's been noticed that Pence's daughter doesn't seem to have a reflection in the mirror behind them. Uh oh....
• Commented on A plaintive request
  There's a new Laundry Files novel!...