I just finished reading Cory Doctorow's latest book Walkaway. I really enjoyed it. I think it's his best yet. The ideas in it come thick and fast, as they do in all his books, but this one has the most hope and the most desperation. It also has the most believable characters ( Read more... )

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Elon Musk recently gave a fascinating talk on how to go to mars and maintain a self-sustaining civilisation there.

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Yay!!!! After many months of trying to get my Wacom graphics tablet working with this damn computer I have finally done it!

First task now: to paint a cover for my novel Insurance(Crossposted from http://miriam-e.dreamwidth.org/330926.html at my Dreamwidth account. Number of ( Read more... )

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Been a while since I blogged here. I should do so more often ( Read more... )

I've written a new short story. It's only about three and a half pages long, so... very short story. I enjoyed writing it -- a fun idea, I think ( Read more... )

This November I decided to write a story I'd mapped out in a fair bit of detail some time back about a young woman who is aspie (has Asperger's syndrome -- that is, she's a high-functioning autistic). She believes she is a deductive genius like the fictional Sherlock Holmes, but, although she is extremely perceptive, she's not as smart as she ( Read more... )

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