Michael Leal

Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Re Palace of Westminster I was working there in timber restoration until recently, and I can categorically tell you it is fucked. The roof has weeds up to waist level (not exaggerating, looks like they only keep them under control...
Commented on Creative writing challenge!
Reminds me of a similar game, Fantasy cocaine bust: You nominate the other player three public figures stopped by the police with £50,000 of cocaine in their car, and they have to produce the plausible narrative that led up to...

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)