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   Kit Bashir (unixbigot@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:14:51 JST Kit Bashir

   • Charlie Stross

   Rereading @cstross ‘s teenaged _Rule_34_ as a “beach novel”. I reckon you could tweak a few names and publish this today as a prescient vision of post-{brexit,trump,genAI} dystopia. maybe sprinkle on some cryptocurrency.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:14:51 JST Charlie Stross

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     @Unixbigot "teenaged"?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:20:40 JST Charlie Stross

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     @Unixbigot I wrote it in 2009? Pub date trails actual writing date, and if you go by the pub date in the paperback that's a year later!

     (I thought you were implying I was a teenager when I wrote it, which would be something completely different.)

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     Kit Bashir (unixbigot@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:20:41 JST Kit Bashir

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross well i started to write “15 year old novel” then realized it isn’t, quite, by the 2011 pub date. How about we just both pretend i wrote “timeless classic”?

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     Kit Bashir (unixbigot@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:34:54 JST Kit Bashir

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     • Feòrag

     @cstross oh yeah, so if I’d stuck with “15yo” that would have been accurate (the trade paperback I have says ©2011). (Hey is that a cameo from @feorag as the Beer Nerd in the home brew shop?)

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:34:54 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Feòrag

     @Unixbigot @feorag Yup, that's a cameo! There are a couple of Edinburgh locals in the book, too, including the late John Hein ("the Gnome").