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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:15:48 JST Charlie Stross

   #PennedPossibilities Is your antagonist/villain one to be loyal in relationships, or are they likely to quickly move from one bond to another?

   (Talking about a work-in-progress): he's an SFnal remix of an actual no-shit real person, Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch_Lincoln

   (Rationalwiki's entry is more entertaining than wikipedia's, and is quite accurate.)

   I had difficulty making him plausible in a space opera! Because like many other narcissistic psychopaths he was larger than life.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:24:20 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Owen Blacker

     @owenblacker You'll have to wait a while: novel needs another re-write, and meanwhile there's another ahead of it in the work queue that actually has a deadline attached.

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     Owen Blacker (owenblacker@dataare.cool)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:24:21 JST Owen Blacker

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     @cstross he sounds fascinating; I can't wait to read your remix of him

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 23:10:58 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Owen Blacker

     @owenblacker I've been working on it, on and off, since December 2014. Not helped by changing US publisher, both my parents dying, COVID19, and it being pushed out of the way by TWO trilogies coming through in the meantime.

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     Owen Blacker (owenblacker@dataare.cool)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 23:11:00 JST Owen Blacker

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     @cstross I assumed it would be a while; you've talked about publishing timelines though that I know nothing would be quick anyway.

     Oh wow, that's, erm, quite something! 😱

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 23:59:12 JST Charlie Stross

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     • titaniumbiscuit

     @titaniumbiscuit As a friend of mine put it, if Ignaz Trebitsh-Lincoln hadn't been poisoned by the Japanese high command in 1943 he'd have popped up again in Cairo in 1947 and declared himself the Mufti of Jerusalem.

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     titaniumbiscuit (titaniumbiscuit@nerdculture.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 23:59:14 JST titaniumbiscuit

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     @cstross Holy Moly, what a thoroughly interesting dickhead...