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• Commented on The myth of heroism
  Add me in as another one who's worried for Bob and Mo. As for Supergods -- Morrison is the best writer of superhero comics of the last twenty years or so, and one of the two or three best writers...
• Commented on A nation of slaves
  Being paid money is only better than not being paid money if the payment of money doesn't also entail destroying your physical and mental health. And you are forgetting travel time, mandatory overtime, and the fact that 65 is lower...
• Commented on A nation of slaves
  Andrei, a few points from a "Brit": Firstly, it's nothing to do with our "entrenched aristocracy", which in practice is no more entrenched than that of any other country. There are a lot of other factors, mostly cultural, that make...
• Commented on Baboon Fart Odyssey
  Your comment about what "any serious self-publishing scheme" could afford shows a real misunderstanding of the problem. Yes, copy-editors work relatively cheap, but what you're still talking about is a transfer of money away from the author. Given that most...
• Commented on Blatant Advertising
  To open an acsm file, you need Adobe Digital Editions, a piece of software which is freely downloadable for Windows and OS X, though not for other operating systems ( https://www.adobe.com/products/digital-editions.html ). An acsm file isn't the book itself, but...
• Commented on Blatant Advertising
  Just checked. The Kobo version has underlining too....
• Commented on Blatant Advertising
  Bought. Also, the Kobo link works for the UK too....
• Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
  For those complaining about LaTeX being hard to use, I use LyX ( http://lyx.org ) to write my books in, and it's absolutely beautiful to use. It's a simple, very user-friendly word processor that uses LaTeX as its document format....
• Commented on What have we learned?
  I think a lot of people have learned what those of us with fringe opinions already knew -- that you should never trust the government, any government. Unfortunately, they've only learned that by making the mistake of trusting them......
• Commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  We might actually be closer to a basic income in the UK than most people think. The Universal Credit system being brought in at the moment, flawed as it is, is about 90% of the way there in terms of...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
  I think that is an entirely too optimistic assessment. I suspect the phrase "post-Code Nightmare Green world" may be an oxymoron......
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  "I'm told "Glasshouse" is my slowest-selling SF novel in the US market" Which just shows that the customer is usually wrong. Glasshouse is possibly the best thing you've ever written. Maybe it's slow-selling because it isn't part of a series?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  And just to take this back on topic, I just want to say how much I'm enjoying this series of posts....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  I took that as OGH saying that Casino Royale was "Bond" in the same way that the Rathbone films were "Holmes" -- which is to say, not very. (And after all, Niven wasn't the only Bond in that film...)...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Add me to the list of those very interested in the effects of anti-hypertensives on writing, given that my first novel is coming out this year and that I've just been diagnosed with the kind of low-grade hypertension where they're...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  I agree with this -- or at least, while not my favourite, it's definitely the best and most rewarding of them. I think if any of your books stand a chance, that one does. The main reason it might not,...
• Commented on The jet lag game
  Melatonin is available in the UK -- I've been taking it for years, ordered from biovea dot net......