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Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
What was the switch in TL2 that led to removable phone batteries being standard? In our timeline, upscale teens would all have iPhones with non removable batteries....
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Halfway through and it's feeling much too short....
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Will there be Audible editions of Empire Games?...
Commented on What are you reading this summer?
Just started listening to Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. I figured an alt-history novel where Charles Lindbergh was elected president in 1940 was unfortunately timely. Mixes the politics with Roths details of growing up in the 40s, including a...
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Did you plot these explosions when you outlined the trilogy? Or are these opportunistic blasts? And I do hope that by "blow-up" you mean a Krypton-style core explosion, not merely scouring the surface.......
Commented on Rinse, Drain, Spin ... more Laundry!
Any need to have read all the previous books? I'm quite behind in the series. Also: When Tor sells a book for $1.99, does Amazon take the 70% cut it does on KDP for books under $2.99? Or is that...
Commented on Deeply annoying realization ...
Is there a backstory for the world-building in Missile Gap, or is it simply godlike powers of godlike beings with a subtle nod to Ringworld?...
Commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
If I may ask: Why do Laundry titles pull you into 5k/day writing jags more than do your other books?...
Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
I processed the epub with Kindlegen to make a properly formatted mobi file and uploaded it to my dropbox....
Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
What would be a good first Culture book? Any other work you would recommend for a newcomer?...
Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
Nor do I have the ... level of naive belief in the posthuman project ... to go back and do the job again How much did you believe in it when you wrote Accelarando? (I hesitate to ask the...
Commented on Press release
Do you expect the trilogy to be published annually for three years, or will there be a shorter gap? Or do you expect to intermix them with future installments in Laundry or Rule 34?...
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When you say you can't tell us the titles, does that mean you are contractually sworn to secret? That you have working titles that you hope to improve? Or all that you have for now is a big BOOK ONE...
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What's the planned release schedule for the trilogy? All at once? Once every six months? Once every other year, interspersed with Laundry?...

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Till W* commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
Late to the party, but ... Great ending for a great series, I really enoyed "Invisible Sun". I second/third the comments about the German parts - some of the scenary description (like the colour of police cars) can be explained by timeline differences, but the German soundbites should really be corrected, they are distraction to native speakers. The book I read after "Invisible Sun" was Tchaikovskys Doors of Eden, quite interesting to see the different approaches to paratime in both books....
Ronald commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
Hi Mr Stross, I just read your book, Empire Games, about a week ago. I really enjoyed the book. But there is something I want to ask. There is a chapter in the book where Rita jaunted into a Commonwealth railyard and took a lot of data via recording. Afterwards, Colonel Smith and other governments officials analyzed the data and concluded that the Commonwealth's industrial set-up was such that a highly-efficient manufacturing set-up, where the workers live in public housing blocks and are ferried over to the factories (if I remember correctly, the factory in the book was manufacturing tanks)....
theheadofabroom commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
My guess would be that it's about the fact that most women work too in the Commonwealth, and it's not necessary that a cohabitating could would work nearby....
JohnS commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
Ronald @ 780: Hi Mr Stross, "I just read your book, Empire Games, about a week ago." I really enjoyed the book. But there is something I want to ask. There is a chapter in the book where Rita jaunted into a Commonwealth railyard and took a lot of data via recording. Afterwards, Colonel Smith and other governments officials analyzed the data and concluded that the Commonwealth's industrial set-up was such that a highly-efficient manufacturing set-up, where the workers live in public housing blocks and are ferried over to the factories (if I remember correctly, the factory in the book...
DuncanE commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
Actual 15TB SSDs are a thing now in the corporate IT space. Also as an ex-technical writer I'm pretty sure you meant to say TB and not Tb, although even TB and GB are falling out of use now amongst IT specialists in favour of the more useful TiB (Tebibyte) and GiB (Gibibyte) - the difference being the use of base 2 rather than base 10 (1TB = 10^12, 1TiB = 2^40). Honestly when we dealt in KB and MB the differences were small enough it rarely mattered, but they get bigger as we move to GB/GiB, TB/TiB and PB/PiB....

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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)

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