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• Commented on Commercial interlude
  I'm surprised no one has mentioned how the infertile equoids sound like they look exactly like the companions from Mercedes Lackeys Valdemar books. Maybe the books are a subtle plot to favourably predispose youngsters towards them? An excellently disturbing story....
• Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
  The magnetar was offset to their flight path so it's possible that the gamma pulse passed in front of them and they ran into the side of the particle blast following it. The story does mention the ship being hit...
• Commented on Bit Rot
  Minor continuity error for those fixing their own copies: Lilith gets her right arm irradiated but in one place it mentions the left....
• Commented on Another commercial ...
  Congratulations! Sparkly unicorns in the Laundry setting sound scary enough but having Peter Watts involved makes them sound terrifying....
• Commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
  Ooh, mine arrived on Saturday. Yay :)...
• Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
  Oh I realise that. I'm just hoping for a mention such as Lilith or a descendant being in the background somewhere or a passing reference to "the near disaster" (implying they made it) or "the disappearance" (implying they didn't)...
• Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
  Oh, will we find out their fate in Neptune's Brood? Or is that a wait and see?...
• Commented on Bit Rot
  I mentioned this in the main post but a list of typos would be useful to those of us who can fix ePubs ourselves. I don't normally like zombie stories but this one was really entertaining :)...
• Commented on Short Story: Bit Rot
  Thanks for putting this up, it's appreciated. I really like this setting. Also, even if you don't fix any errors, a list is handy for those of us willing and able to fix our own copies (I use Sigil for...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
  It's occurred to me that we might be seeing the effect of overlapping sigmoid curves in computing. So the curve of electromechanical computers giving way to the upcurve of valve computers before the first flattens out and so on for...