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Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
...back from work. This time I might spell some words correctly. 5) On racism. I should have done more to close down racist opinions. I didn't because I wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt, didn't want to...
Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
1) Don't worry about promoting your book. I for one will be working my way through all of your work in time. Just bought myself come comfort reading and a sympathy chat from my local feminist co-operative. 2) Don't blame...
Commented on All that is old is new again (heavy politics dance remix)
Theresa May next leader? Not a chance. The next leader will need powerful backers. Powerful backers will need their investment protected. That means backing a man who could have believably put his prick in a dead pig's mouth. How else...
Commented on How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
If I ever write a book I want the blurb to read "I bailed about 30 pages in due to general disgust." -- Charles Stross As for crime fiction by an author who has also done SF, read Per Wahloo....
Commented on Chilling Effects
My first thought on reading this was Joan Slonczevski. My copy of The Wall Around Eden is gathering dust due to my difficulty in finding anyone I know who wants to read hard SF by a female writer. First comment...
Commented on Bad puppies, no awards
I discovered your blog some time ago - an excellent response to George Osboure on full employment - and one of my first thoughts was "This guy can really write, suddenly I have books to read!" I read Rule 34,...
Commented on Second childhood?
My nomination for awesome SF/F webcomic is Curvy http://www.c.urvy.org. Warning, contains Oglaf levels of kinky sex....
Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
Hi Charlie. I'm a 6 month lurker and this is my first post. I've just read below the idiot line on the Telegraph's article and assume you must be in receipt of a considerable amount of hate mail right now....

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CharlesW commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
Facts: He has an E grade for 2 A levels. He started a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after disagreeing with his tutors about the curriculum. I don't see how you can describe that as anything other than a poor education record for the current leader of the opposition....
Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
TLDR: I had myself driven from the hospital direct to the polling station to vote "Leave". As I have said before, if the EU Parliament were a real parliament instead of a rubber stamp for the unelected Commission (the only body that can make EU law) I would have voted Remain. Prognosis? A welcome fall in the £ which is long overdue, Theresa May as PM (as I said here months ago) and nothing much happens for years. How to fix the EU? Give the Commission's powers to the EU Parliament...
Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
Corbyn's problem is that he was not ruthless enough early on. He should have cleaned out the Blairite traitors the moment the first one reached for a knife to stab him in the back....
JulesLt commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
411 I'll bite. Because I'm not attached to the notion of Westminster sovereignty. We have had universal suffrage for less than 100 years, and it's been less than 100 years since Westminster had tanks and howitzers on the streets of Glasgow, less than 200 since Peterloo and John Frost Square, 30 since Orgreave, and what's happened in our former mining and steel towns has been every bit as bad as the EU treatment of Greece. Secondly - because we are heading towards a world where larger agreements that nation state level are required - ie climate change or sea pollution...
Alon commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
That is quite likely to be a folk etymology. Rosten's work has been called ‘at best casual and eclectic’ by the people who actually work in this sort of stuff (for starters, the usual word for ‘circle’ in Yiddish is קרײַז krayz). The OED finds an origin in the surname suffix -ki more likely, even if it's quite noncommital about it....

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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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