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• Charlie Stross commented on Rule 34: The SPOILER thread
  I will cop to playing lots of games with the orthodox structure of the crime novel, to make the point that it's not about the individual detective any more. (You want closure, where the detective gets his man? Go re-read Conan Doyle.) Admittedly Liz does prevent one particular killer from nailing his next couple of victims, but the killer in that particular case is a puppet for an agency which may not be responsible, in any conventional sense. (As for the assistance in the earlier scenes, this is referred to in passing, briefly, in the ops room scenes.) For added...
• Charlie Stross commented on Rule 34: The SPOILER thread
  Yes, let's make sure the Tories are kept from reading the book, please. We don't want them getting any ideas. Too late -- they're big on libertarian paternalism. Luckily the tools at their disposal are too primitive to make something like ATHENA, and their ideological predisposition is to use the heavy hand of the law to deliver their nudges....
• Moderator Alan commented on Rule 34: The SPOILER thread
  It's all too easy to confuse 'practice' (the noun) with 'practise' (the verb). It must be one of the harder tests for an automated spell-checker....
• Moderator Alan commented on Rule 34: The SPOILER thread
  I'm amused by your putting the 's' form first for the licen[cs]e pair!...
• Moderator Alan commented on Rule 34: The SPOILER thread
  Ah no, Marilee - I think Anonymous is commenting on a continuity error in the text....