#stross

However, below the cut, I'm going to put some bullet points for those of you who've read "Rule 34", just to draw your attention to some aspects of the novel that you might otherwise have skidded past.

"There are thirty years' worth of future shock condensed into this one news item."

"Being a self-employed writer is not a lifestyle that suits everyone. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the job entails."

"Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC in Edinburgh, their international relations division in London and KQED's Howard Gelman, we had more than an hour of time to discuss genre, genres and the ties that bind them together for Stross."

"This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached." Hooray! A book to read on my Visor until I get the paper edition!

"The following are some informal projections of possible technology-oriented developments that I made back in late 1999 to early 2000, while I was working on part two of "Accelerando" ("Troubadour"). "

"The text of "Accelerando" will be available for download under a Creative Commons license from this site later this month (June 2005)." Oh, goody!