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• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  How about straight-up military sci-fi? It does not need to be jingoistic or militaristic, it can be downright pacifistic; indeed in my opinion the best examples of the genre are exactly that or close to that anyway....
• Commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  I published my fourth novel, Turun valtias (The Lord of Turku). It's urban fantasy, and only out in Finnish. But what the hey, you asked!...
• Commented on Brief commercial interlude
  ... no wait what, Quantum of Nightmares is out (or nearly so?), here I was thinking Invisible Sun was the latest book, which had no DRM. Gaah. My brain, it no work. brb, pre-ordering / buying / whatever it is...
• Commented on Brief commercial interlude
  Thanks, I'd missed that. Guess I was just fortunate to get the US edition then....
• Commented on Brief commercial interlude
  What DRM? I thought Tor sold them without DRM (or at least the shop I bought my epub from didn't have anything of the sort)....
• Commented on What happens now?
  J.R.R Tolkien then?...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  <ı>This is actually fairly accurate literal translation of Russian, as it lacks definite (and IIRC indefinite) articles such as "the" and "a." Yes, but I don't think dialogue should be done like this. You wouldn't want a Chinese character to...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  What is it with the Russian characters dialogue being rendered in broken English even when they're speaking Russian with each other? "Is fucking library. How the fuck we meant to find right book?"...
• Commented on Dead plots
  Isn't this The Battle (1954), by Robert Sheckley?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  they were just unlucky to end up in Leeds not London. Of course they had to turn up in Leeds: the Host travelled across dimensions, not spatially, and their home was in their own version of Yorkshire because the limestone...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  Not an entomologist (or any other type of biologist, either) but I think it's just the position of the wings that makes the bug look dragonfly-ish. The wings look like wasp's wings to me, it's just that they seem to...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  "Laundry Files series in particular is a hell of a lot of fun." I think that Scalzi quote has been somewhat off-tone since the fifth book, at last... (Not that I'm complaining, mind you.)...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
  Yay, this couldn't have come at a better time - I'm just re-reading all the Laundry books in preparation for The Delirium Brief. And I have to say that Nightmare Stacks is still my favourite. A little thing that I...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Another Finnish fan who's all "whut" over this. Never heard of that publisher, and considering I just shipped around a novel manuscript to whoever might be interested ... it probably just means that I don't pay as much attention to...