tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post7960897565060714189..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: A Few Post-Brexit Links and ThoughtsLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-53214751929092251912016-06-25T10:37:47.718-07:002016-06-25T10:37:47.718-07:00I'm not so sure about that. See the latest abo...I'm not so sure about that. See the latest about certain requirements concerning Scotland and Northern Ireland - Stross's blog has a post about this.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-47675292696620039662016-06-24T21:12:07.602-07:002016-06-24T21:12:07.602-07:00One of the many side-effects of the Brexit will be...One of the many side-effects of the Brexit will be Scotland leaving the Union and Northern Ireland being re-integrated in to its Southern part. Wales, ? Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-12875804882779365242016-06-24T15:43:32.128-07:002016-06-24T15:43:32.128-07:00I've liked everything of his that I have read,...I've liked everything of his that I have read, or better. The two Halting States books (Scotland, future dystopia) are excellent and I'm sorry there won't be a third. These might be good to start with. They are very smart and tightly plotted.<br /><br />I've read the second of the Saturn's Children books without having read the first (groan).<br /><br />His current ongoing series:<br /><br />The Merchant Princes, where a doctor-turned-science-reporter stumbles into an alternate time line where several Mafia-like families are the bosses of a low-tech feudal society. She turns out to be a long-lost heiress. Complications ensue, political, economic, and romantic. <br /><br />The Laundry Files, a sort of espionage-cum-spy-fiction-cum-Lovecraft series, actually sort of indescribable but a whole lot of fun. I read the first couple, thought them okay, then last I picked up the next in the series and tore through everything that had been published to date. <br /><br />I love the Laundry Files, which come with a heavy dose of pastiche in the early books.<br /><br />I have read one of his other books BUT I CAN NEVER REMEMBER WHICH ONE, even though I SAW it the other day.<br /><br />Pro tip: Stross will be at Borderlands Books in SF next month for an event related to the publication of the next Laundry Files book. <br />Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-27346549515168980252016-06-24T15:00:09.454-07:002016-06-24T15:00:09.454-07:00Thanks for that link to Charles Stross's blog....Thanks for that link to Charles Stross's blog. It made me want to read some of his sci-fi fiction. Do you have a recommendation for a starter book/series?Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com