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Anne Althouse, in the process of explaining how you can tell she is not a libertarian, makes this comment: There are many problems that, for me, provoke only this thought: If it were my job to solve this problem, I would work on it, and, in this process working on it, anything I have to …

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Well, looky here! The paperback version of Lost in Translation is already showing up on Amazon, with a release date of October 3, 2006…just in time for my appearance at VCon 31 in Vancouver. Cool!

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Not much blogging today; I had to get a presentation ready for tomorrow, then drive to Saskatoon for the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been writing a history of sorts for them, called A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 years of engineering and geoscience …

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All you gotta do is build a better lunar lander.

The view through the control room window in the Access Communications TV studio, just moments before the start of Net.talk, the phone-in show about computers that I host each week. More photos here.

That’s how the opening to Nineteen Eighty-Four read before George Orwell edited it. Clive Davis posts an image of a bit of the manuscript. Good writing depends on good rewriting just as much as good movies depend on good film editing.

Brief opening scene of Translator on a deep-space freighter. Not from his point of view, from Captain’s. They detect something, just briefly, flashing past before they or their systems can react. And then the Translator tries to seize the bridge… Yes, today I was brainstorming my other possible next novel, a sequel to Lost in …

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First it was tractor beams. Now it’s cloaking devices. (Via Technovelgy.com.)

Probably not this one.

They’re amazing. Warning: I struggled to download them. Probably a lot of traffic, even though there are multiple sites hosting them.