I think that, especially since Jim Baen died, they draw most of their new writers from Baen’s Bar itself. An echo chamber, but apparently still a profitable one.

If I saw it when I was wandering through a store, I’d get it just for the novelty factor. Too cool a tool not to have.

It’s a flashback episode in a bad YA dystopian series, showing the main characters how things fell apart.

I never used the 3D features, but the ease of zooming in and out and adding things like arrows and text make it useful.

Maybe. I think it’s more likely that she gets shanked by someone who realizes she used to be ISB. Or she goes for a walk after lights out.

I had read some of your books and liked them. People who write for a living tend to either post interesting things or only post when they have something new coming out. Either way, it’s worthwhile to follow them.

I knew in my late teens that I while I was interested in sex I wasn’t interested in actually having sex. Couldn’t see the point in a relationship that wasn’t built around sex either. I think I missed out there.

Unfortunately this was in the ‘80s so I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe myself.

Loved this book, if only for the concept of “underraising” a government where none had existed before.

An owl would be good. Or maybe a library lion.

I never interact with spammers, of course, but I’m sure if I ever replied he’d try to convince me we needed one.

david bowie’s death

On the Turning Away

I think he looks at Sulla as a role model.