Kimberly Unger

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• Clive Feather commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  @559 How did you get the fourth? I was part of the original CovBoost trial in the UK. It turned out that the one I got at the dose I got (Valneva half dose) didn't work well enough, so I was told to go and get something else (Pfizer, as it turns out) as well....
• Elderly Cynic commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Ah! Thanks....
• Graham commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Even at the north end though, the promenade (and trams) don't really go up over the "cliffs" though. What happens is that the promenade keeps going horizontally, and the beach just falls away further because the sand has eroded. The Fylde coast has one of the most extreme tidal ranges in the UK, and some of the most extreme storm swells which need a big safety margin on top of that, so if the beach has buggered off then it's a long way down....
• Charlie Stross commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Maybe they ran short of UK copies? Unlikely. The law on book ownership (specifically the first sale doctrine, which doesn't apply to ebooks) means it is legal for a consumer such as yourself to order a foreign edition not licensed for general sale in your own country as a personal import -- once you've paid for it, you already own it as a physical product and can have it sent through the mail. Amazon relies on this legal point to sell US and other foreign paper editions in the UK (and vice versa). So you may have accidentally ordered the...
• Dave Lester commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Charlie, Is this intended to be the spoiler thread for Quantum of Nightmares? (I think it isn't, so I'm not posting queries/comments here. Without spoiling anything for anyone, I enjoyed this book very much.)...