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frothing of Holywood
watched Channel 4's Dispatches about airports because that sort of thing appeals to my inner anorak. (hell, I'm a regular reader of airlinequality. I mst have counted a least thirty instancs of people saying 'in terms of'. I loathe 'in terms of'. It's the laziest, most thoughtless quasi-business cliche and all it shows is that you don't know how to open a sentence properly, or what objects and events can be divided into terms (a schoolteacher said 'in terms of hot weather' which had me shouting at the screen). I declare jihad against this odious, indolent language-worm. Join me. We shall be happy.
Delivered a Cyberabad story to Lou Anders for Fast Forward 2: An Eligible Boy. Only took me a year to write because I got the main characters wrong. That's the benefit of perspective. Now, a Brasyl story for Pete Crowther, then the final Cyberabad novella, in the meantime proceeding with The Dervish House and attempting to make telly programmes.
A little late, but congratulations to flisters on the Nebula Final Ballot. Well done and good luck.
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