Barbara James
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Commented on Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
Thanks for the response, I am staying overnight in Edinburgh, my train leaves at 14:28. I hope I can catch a signed copy tomorrow :-)...
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Commented on Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
Looking forward to reading this, it’s going to jump to the top of the TBR as soon as I get a copy. I have escaped the wilds of rural Aberdeenshire for the day and am en route to Edinburgh, I...
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Pigeon commented on
Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
Gaaah.... at last my copy is FINALLY supposed to be on its way, but fuck me what a saga it was just to get to that point. Go to Waterstones... they don't have it. Useless buggers. They had one copy of Dark State and one copy of Atrocity Archive, and that was it for anything by Charlie. Go to WH Smiths... they don't have it. Useless buggers. They don't have any of Charlie's books at all. But they do have a big rack of Amazon gift cards, to encourage people who can't find what they want to order it from...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
I discover that if you can guess someone's Amazon password that's all you need to pinch their account. Only if they don't use 2FA rather than (weak) username/password security. Their default 2FA mechanism is a text message to an already-confirmed-to-be-yours mobile phone number but they also support authenticator apps. Only somewhere in the sequence of clicks that follows on the way to the checkout, the bloody weasel bastard remote system signs me up to fucking Amazon Prime. The first three months are free, IIRC, which means free next-day home delivery. I'd wait for the book to arrive before you cancel...
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Moz commented on
Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
The chair thing: at some point Miriam had it explained to her that she would be physically carrying stuff through as a courier. And she was told why, and there was some emphasis on the carrying part. Later she was greatly inconvenienced by the need to lift/carry people etc. It just seemed weird that at no point did she ever think "you know, somehow the chair I was sitting on came through with me. What's up with that?"...
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Moz commented on
Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
For me it just breaks the "Miriam is really smart and comes up with good ideas" thing. I enjoy thinking about this stuff, she apparently does too. She's all logic and problem solving and collect the facts. Like Sherlock Holmes not noticing that the chair isn't in the room any more... if the author mentions that you'd better believe it's important later. I mean, it sort of is, but in a minor side note that doesn't affect the storyline....
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peteratjet commented on
Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
Finally ordered my copy from Waterstones. Paperback only. Pshah. Collect from the bijoux local shop in Didcot. For some reason Amazon wouldn't deliver the hardback to the local autoshelf system at the rail station, only the softback, so screw them. How big is the hardback? Is it leaking toxic fumes? Weird....
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