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Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
Got my copy today (US version, from Amazon). Interestingly, it is bound upside down. Valuable mistake? Significant clue? Boringly common bindery error? It doesn't glow in the dark or anything....
Commented on A man walks into a bar
Yes, I ran the Equoid life-cycle past Peter Watts for comment. Adding Peter Watts to a Stross idea is more or less like squirting extra kerosene on a BBQ. Explosions may result and onlookers may be singed. One thing about...
Commented on Commercial interlude
Really well-done and "ick"-inducing. I like how you give Lovecraft a reason other than his own ... umm ... innate quirks for fearing fish, tentacles, vaginas, etc. I note that on the one hand Bob talks about his job including...

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decicco.barry commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
" YMMV, but depending upon the leadership, it might actually be better if some of the people running the eventual war effort are the PMCs (or at least the PMC's leadership). Focused on the mission (human societal survival as something other than buffet items for Elder Gods) first, and everything else (political correctness, societal "norming", etc, etc) is such a distant second you need the Hubble to find it." Well, reality's mileage has been shown to vary. cconsider Blackwater in Iraq. Their primary goal was to make money, and the side effects were of no concern whatsoever (except that they...
Greg. Tingey commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
Did corporatism really die with fascism? I'm not so sure, especially when you see the size of the corrupt deals being done for $BigBusiness in Washington & Brussels ( & other places) Carefully NOT looking at U Eco ... Fascism is difficult to pin down But It is usually restricted to internal politics, Musso being the exception. WHat it is about is strict control. It's often tied to right-wing religious tendencies (Spain is the poster-boy here & the RC church in Nazi Germany) it is often very very ultra-macho, with the vile Coe's crawling to J A Samaranch still vomitingly...
val commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
on the subject of continuity strangenesses, I have a spoilery one. What's the most appropriate way to let you know?...
val commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
actually wait, I figured out a non-spoilery way to tell you. you can just grep for for the string "both on his person and at his home". The part of the string in asterisks conflicts with statements made approximately eight and nine paragraphs back vis a vis the accessibility of items on the person of the person referenced above. Or perhaps it is an in-world error in the report that is being cited by the narrator. I'm also wondering how we know about the coat, given what is said above, but that is more fungible....
not.torp commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
Thanks for the link to Transreal - one signed copy ordered!...

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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.
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