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We already know Cassie & Alex are a thing; Alex refers to them as 'us' when he talks to the readers in Nightmare Stacks, and Delirium Brief has other characters describe them as boyfriend and girlfriend, say that they're in...
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I'm curious, why was Cassie reluctant to make Alex her second? My first thought was that she feared this would make her more expendable to Continuity Operations by having another person between her and an uncontrolled Host. My second thought...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
Something that got me wondering: What's up with the Host's lances? It's mentioned that swords are akin to bayonets for them (and I imagine they might be used in duels, self defence, keeping slaves in line, etc), but there's several...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
The Empire seem to have had both peers and 'barbarians' to contend with. The first All-Highest purged the Spies & Liars out of a belief that 'the Eastern devils' had infiltrated them and obviously the other Alfar were strong enough...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
Ah, fair enough. Funny coincidence then, or perhaps any pair of names would have thrown up a potential inspiration. I thought I was so smart, too :p Thank you for your response....
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
I have a question about our most recent protagonists. I looked around a bit, but couldn't see if anyone else had asked: Are they named after either Alex Cassie or Cassie Alexander? On the one hand, forger who helped organise...

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Nojay commented on Happy Halloween!
Since we were going on about the battle of Fallujah, I was actually referring to the DU ammunition for the A-10's GAU-8 30mm gun and the M242 Bushmaster 25mm gun mounted on the USMC's LAV-25 and the US Army's M-2 Bradley. DU rounds for both guns are an option, not the only form of ammunition available. The loadouts for a given mission will vary -- going up against medium-skinned armour in open-field operations one might load DU rounds or a mix. In an urban situation where the opposition is unlikely to be using armour then the wise armourer will select...
JohnS commented on Happy Halloween!
My copy from the library finally became available. I'm about 1/3 of the way through (Janice just told Derek to get a UBER?), so I'm still avoiding most spoilers. But I am wondering if there's anything to reconcile how Jonquil survived? If memory serves, she was killed by the Spetsnaz near the end of The Fuller Memorandum. Just "YES" or "NO" will suffice for now. I expect to find out for myself in the next couple of days, but that's the one thing nagging me so far in the first third of the book....
Robert van der Heide commented on Happy Halloween!
I liked the Dungeonmaster. I hope we see more of his backstory, perhaps in shorter works....
allexan commented on Happy Halloween!
Started to read, and that jab about miner apps spamming unholy prayers really caught my attention. Inspired by that, I was chatting with my friend about implications of Russians renaming all their airports simultaneously by suggestion from Orthodox Church, and then we somehow turned to abundance of "battle royal" multiplayer games nowadays, and whether they can count as mass sacrifices or not. I do not hope, that you include any of that into your setting later, and post this simply for lulz, but doesn't it fit?...
JohnS commented on Happy Halloween!
Enjoyed it overall, although I'm kind of pissed about Reverend Pete. I think he deserved better....

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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?
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