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• Commented on Announcement time!
  I've signed up for the Kickstarter! Hooray! Maybe I'll get to play this at some point. (Starting up TTRPG groups is hard.) Too bad about your odds on Best Series....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  While I imagine that The Regicide Report will be one of the longer Laundry novels; where will A Conventional Boy weigh in on that front? I recall something about it originally being a non-novel....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  I very much hope to have a job by the time this is up for preorder, so I can then do so. I bought LF1E back in the day and many supplements for it (most of those as pdfs). I...
• Commented on Place your bets
  For added lulz she has to be offered her own (the kidnapped princess's) hand in marriage (to the knight) as a reward if she kills the dragon (herself) by the King My proposal: Do a "Prince & the Pauper" situation,...
• Commented on Place your bets
  In fact, if anything makes me give up on hosting a blog with comments, it'll be the tendency of this sort of commenter to drive everyone else away. It's what has kept me as an almost total lurker for the...
• Commented on WTF
  I recently saw someone point out that another explanation for the "people get more conservative as they get older" effect is not that people's views change to be more conservative, but that the conservative parties become more progressive over time,...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  "what happened to all the quiverful true believers" To me, it doesn't even seem like that difficult of a question. In order to survive, these groups would eventually need to be wealthy enough to be completely self-sustaining with a wrecked...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  A rim-shot is the very-short "drum beats then cymbal" riff that is usually played to emphasize a punchline. I think it originated in mid-20th century TV shows, from when humor shows had a band in the studio. I don't know...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  It's a vote of publisher confidence that the New Management is getting a third volume, sight unseen, with only the first in print so far. I imagine that SoS got the go-ahead based on the strength of being a shared...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Charlie, you're one of the few authors whom I pre-order new-release books for. How will the massive publishing supply-line issues I've heard about affect your books? Will pre-ordering obviate those issues?...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  JBS @ 29: So? You gonna' be near Tbilisi ... or Atlanta? Atlanta. I've lived in the same town in northern Florida for the past, um, 26 years. It's a big change for me....
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  (c) the existence of Amazon and ebook channels have churned up the picture for short story collections as a viable medium That's terribly disappointing. Short stories anthologies are one of my favorite parts of science fiction. (d) all those stories...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  Once my imminent move to the middle of Georgia (shudder) and find a locally-owned bookstore, I'll get the novella pre-ordered. Hooray! Unless you say otherwise, I'll assume that the Laundry short story collection also come out in the US. Woo....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  What is it with bleak steppes and wide-open deserts that attracts these things anyway? As I understand it, those places are free of habitation, so there's no danger of the sample hurting anyone or causing damage upon landing. Additionally, it's...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  I can't remember! (This is an overhaul of an FAQ that dates back to 2011.) Totally off the top of my head, but I think it might be that the foe in Pimpf was slain by Angleton at the end...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  BLUE HADES aren't crude tribal/ethnic stereotypes straight out of Lovecraft. (The original rule book is fine, it's the supplements that are dicey.) Thanks for the clarification! I hope to be able to run a Laundry RPG campaign at some point...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  ... working in an ambient-pressure office environment (underground, safe from space radiation) and teleoperating drones and robot bodies on the surface. Imagine a workplace where everyone needs to work an 80 hour week, there are no vacations for the first...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Hi Charlie. While I haven't read every comment here, I didn't see a call to end submissions for a 5e D&D game for you, so I registered to comment. I've been a sporadic lurker for a long time. While I...