Finally read @cstross ‘s #HaltingState. Recommended, thought felt like it was written for me personally, and about 2,000 similarly aged nerds.
Maps ar fun.
“‘Imagine you were a time-traveller from (…) 1984, and you stepped out of your TARDIS right here, outside, uh, West Port Books.’”
Why did Stross mention the police call box shaped TARDIS at that point? Probably nothing. Just that Dr Who was a popular British TV series.
#ospalhreads #HaltingState #Stross
“Kingdom of #Fife
Hmm. I ges that bit in Charles #Stross’s #HaltingState doesn’t mean too much.
So the story plays in that not-to-distant future, and it has an independent Scotland.
So, another independent state on Great Britain (the iland) is plausible.
But, no, that’s just the name people use for that bit north of Edinburgh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife
#ospalhreads

Finally, sometimes I dislike CSS. It can be such a pain to work out why it's not causing an epub to display the way you think it should. Even after converting one into an ODF and then re-converting it to epub, it still wouldn't display right. Finally realised several of the styles were overriding the margins so paragraphs weren't spacing properly, amongst other things.

Sorted out now, cleared out all the spurious CSS, stylesheet is back to basics, and I can finally read #HaltingState