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Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.
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I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
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The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the piracy problem is massively over-rated.
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Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
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