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• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  Do you expect the trilogy to be published annually for three years, or will there be a shorter gap? No idea. I don't think Tor know, either, at this stage....
• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  The garage -- who are gearbox/clutch specialists -- have removed the gearbox and are stripping it down today/tomorrow to figure out what broke. (They established that the problem was internal to the gearbox last Friday.) I'm just hoping the cost of the repair is less than the value of the car, at this stage ......
• paws4thot commented on Press release
  A failed DMF is pretty obvious once you've got the gearbox out, which is pretty much essential to both a clutch change and a gearbox strip....
• katsoocam commented on Press release
  Having spent a happy five days rereading the Laundry Books - with a first read of The Apocalypse Codex, which I'd been saving for my hols - to finish, I have to confess I am most excited about the 5th volume of the Laundry Files. I have spent some time collating a complete set of the Merchant Princes, but haven't eaten them yet. Ahh work, that pesky time suck that gets in between me and my 'to read' heap. Well, heaps. Well, book shelf. Well...book shelves...but please note Mr Stross...however crammed it gets...there is always room for a new work...
• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  Post-mortem verdict: the sixth gear disintegrated at speed. The gearbox would be repairable, if Volvo sold the parts separately. They don't: they only sell entire gearboxes. Luckily $GARAGE located a Volvo that had been written off in a crash and arranged a transplant organ. They replaced the clutch (with a new one) at the same time. Total cost including labour and tax was about half the price of a new gearbox from Volvo, but still mildly eye-watering -- it's the most expensive auto repair I've ever paid for....