Octocon guest Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow have finished their online collaboration Unwirer a short story for ReVisions, an alternate science fiction history anthology to be published by DAW. At the moment it clocks in at 11,000 words so the boys are going to have to edit it somewhat. What's interesting about this is that while other authors, like William Gibson, have said that 'blogging interferes with the storytelling process, Doctorow and Stross have leveraged it. Stross is listed as guest for Phoenix Con in September in Dublin and I think I feel a programming idea coming on.
"Listen." Roscoe stood up, and Marcel tensed -- but rather than move towards him, Roscoe turned to the pizza box. "Get the *Wall Street Journal* on our side and we have some credibility. A crack in the wall. Legitimacy. Do you know what that means, kid? You can't buy it. But run another fat pipe into town and we have a idle capacity, upstream dealers who want to know what the hell we're pissing around with, another fiber or laser link to lose to cop-induced backhoe fade, and about fifty percent higher probability of the whole network getting kicked over because the mundanes will rat us out to the FCC over their TV reception. Do you want that?" He picked another cooling pizza slice out of the box. "Do you really want that?"
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The launch of Spirit, the first of Nasa's pair of probes to Mars has been postponed for another 24 hours due to bad weather at the launch site at Cape Canaveral. This is the second time the launch has had to be deferred. The next launch window occurs tomorrow (Tuesday) at 18:58:47 Irish Summer Time.
