Lexie

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Did it hurt to write?...
Commented on A serious question
I don't see why keeping the arrangement in place during the transformation is a major concern. Given that the CM is a shirtsleeve environment throughout the mission, one presumes the necessary adjustments could be made afterward, discounting for the moment...
Commented on A serious question
Re: penises, I don't know that I see why it'd be a problem. Both sorts have urethras, and catheter tubes are typically flexible, so assuming a continuous transformation from one sort to the other, it seems like it might at...
Commented on A serious question
1: Zero, thanks to a complex and costly but ultimately workable pharmaceutical regimen developed in secret by NASA's Paperclip scientists and some of CIA's wilder elements to a plan originally established in a joint Ahnenerbe-RWO cryptid research project stemming from...
Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
Such was his claim in letters and Expanded Universe; I’d be unsurprised to learn that a man of his time and amour propre chose such a claim over a potentially less savory truth where the difference made no odds, but...

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)