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Commented on The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain
Maybe the first task is to replace the head bone that is a major barrier with something more accessible. The brain itself is immune to pain, so a heavy duty skull replacement and simple, painless access through the meninges would...
Commented on Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners
Aegis BMD is going to be a hot item if they do decide to go with sub-orbital passenger service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System...
Commented on Ask the Author
Do you put in a lot of research time to include things like "Acoustic Kitty" in your books? I've told you before, but one of the things I love about your stories is stopping to find out all of this...
Commented on On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
If you are worried about your portrayals becoming stale and unappealing to the future, then you are in good company with Verne, Wells, and ummm...Lovecraft. Some still love them, and the stories are great, but the style and the culture...
Commented on An age-old question
If the US is indeed in the decline Charlie mentions,then I couldn't be happier. The only worry is blowback from all of the damage that's been done in the name of "democracy". That being said, some new power must rise,if...
Commented on An age-old question
I believe I'd have a spring cleaning and start a new life. Psychologically, I'm okay with accepting what I have now because it's just part of aging, too late to change. If I were freed of that, I'd be out...
Commented on Beer, Berlin, Sunday 23rd
Wish I could cross the Atlantic and have a Stern Weisse with you....
Commented on Oh dear
Looked at Quarry House, and it seems sufficiently Brutal (with a bit of Art-Deco) for the new home of the Laundry. I've been hoping to find out what happened with Mo. The whole thing with the violin was never really...
Commented on Oh dear
Cameron knows that nothing has fundamentally changed since the last recession. But hey, new Laundry book! Woohoo!...
Commented on Unwelcome reality excursion
Still sort of new here, but I'm going to take a small stab at this. One of the things that brought down the Soviet state was the Mafiya (the Vory). Because of and in spite of the ubiquitous surveillance, a...
Commented on The Curse of Laundry
The whole thing is fairly fixed in time by operating systems and PDAs/tablets/phones anyway, isn't it? I love your stories because I have to go to Wikipedia every few minutes to learn something new, but was never worried if it...
Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
Happy Birthday. I haven't learned a damned thing, so it'll be the Epicurean lines on my stone. "I was not, I was..."...

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Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Unfortunately for proof reading, I really enjoyed your book and raced through it pretty quickly on holiday. I'm afraid I didn't take notes for corrections. The most common issue for me was what I perceived as missing words, rather than misspellings or homonyms. As for structural oddities, SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Aisha's brother believes that the new interns are MI/Corps infiltrators, but that's not mentioned at all at the time of Aisha and Rama's return to Nevermore. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS I didn't mean to offend with my comment....
Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Readers like to score points by snarking at external aspects such as proofreading and editing. Generally authors grit their teeth and endure, but here, it points to one of the theses of my post, which is what women's work cannot be praised unreservedly. It must be diminished in some way. Your post hit a number of popular diminishment points: assumption of bad or no editing, accusation of bad or no proofreading, dismissal of publisher. The fact it was more thoroughly edited and more extensively revised and rewritten than all but a handful of my major-publisher publications, and has fewer errors...
Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
For what it's worth, I have praised your work repeatedly and enthusiastically to friends and family over the last week without mentioning my concerns about copy-editing or editing. I think my first comment here annoyed you, and I think I understand why. I apologise for that comment and for my misunderstandings within it. I absolutely did not intend to denigrate yourself or Book View Cafe and I am sorry that you felt/feel like I did. I will endeavour to be more careful in my expression and will try to spot unconscious bias in my judgements of women authors. I would...
Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
"felt/feel like I did" Meant "like you did"....
Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Thank you. I'm really glad you like the book. In a ms. of almost 150K words, revised multiple times and heavily rewritten three times (the editor is a stone-hearted bitch and I love her and curse her in equal measure), a continuity glitch may happen. Or there may be a loose end that gets tied up in a sequel. :) You missed a bigger one: what happened to the gang at Starsend. But that's definitely a driver for the next book. Along with SPOILER and EXCISED FOR SPOILERIFICITY and REDACTED....

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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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