"Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children." - Bob in Charles Stross' story "Antibodies"
#quotes #Charles #Stross

#Stross's "Slow AI" as a theory of the corporation puts in an appearance at #BradDelong's blog today.. (A neater formulation of #BrewsterKahle's "1st generation AI").

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from-the-archives-a-return

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism?

Dan Davies's book "The Unaccountability Machine" comes out in its U.S. edition today. So let me hoist the scattered, disorganized, self-indulgent and too-long review I wrote of it last year. I...

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
'Baseball court' - the merchant wars p115 (hardback) #stross #american-english #typo

@gabe @isotopp
Es gibt durchaus noch ein paar andere SF&Fantasy Autor*innen, die auch Serien schreiben/schrieben, deren Bücher auch einzeln Sinn machen.

Beispiele, die mir auf Anhieb einfallen:

Louis McMasters Bujold: Die Vorkosigan Saga

Jasper FForde: Friday Next Serie

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover

Charles Stross: Laundry Files

#Bujold #Fforde #ZimmerBradley #Stross

You like d&d? And mermaids? I gotchya.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/396249

PWYW can mean free or it can mean a couple of dollars. I don't really mind. :) It's got unicorns (from Beagle to Stross) big tree people and tiny murder sprites and tinkerbells as well. I write other stuff too. 😀 Some really good stuff. 😀

#dnd #Mermay #Unicorn #Equoid #Stross #PeterSBeagle #Ents #Brownies #Faeries #TTRPG #A5e #LevelUpA5e @dnd @ttrpg

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Huh. #Lichen (🇩🇪 »Flechte«) was one of those #English words i knew from reading, but didn’t know it was pronounst /ˈlaɪ.kən/.
Only, in the Annihilation Score audiobook: »The alley /ˈmɛə.ɹi/ ducked into is slimy with /ˈlɪ.tʃən/
«.
What. So that is allowed. Chiefly British, according to sources.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lichen
#pronunciation #lichen
#ospalhReads #ospalhListensTo
#AnnihilationScore #Stross #LaundryFiles
lichen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Wiktionary
#TIL that Londoners, maybe most British, know what »the fourth plinth« is.
#ospalhReads
#AnnihilationScore #Stross #LaundryFiles #fourthPlinth
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross - book review - Themself

This is the 10th of the 40 books I got for my birthday. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and got through it faster than I expected. The review below contains spoilers (below the cut). This is a relatively hard SF book that explores ideas around a post-human robot civilisation with themes of slavery, corruption and what it is that makes tick. The plot that does this is like a corkscrew and at times it takes surprising directions. [DN: link to Charlie’s blog post here. ] The key characters in the story are robots (although they mostly avoid that as a term, seeing it as a strong pejorative). They come in lineages sharing a common template personality which is then modified by their experiences. All of the main characters are humanoid generalists and so are of the people in a mask […]

Themself
I ges Charlie Stross either is bad at hiding his big reveals, or he is hinting by waving a fence post as we say in German.
When vampires can turn into bats in other novels, why not old PHANG sindrom sufferer into cats in the Laundry Files?
#OspalhReads #stross #laundryFiles #rhesusChart