Kirk would. Picard wouldn’t. Sisco would be running the ship from the desk in his ready room, but Kira would. Janeway, maybe, if she was covering an off shift. Archer would, with Porthos laying on top of him. Burnham, unlikely. Pike probably. Freeman, no. Dal R'El, constantly.

I think that, especially since Jim Baen died, they draw most of their new writers from Baen’s Bar itself. An echo chamber, but apparently still a profitable one.

If I saw it when I was wandering through a store, I’d get it just for the novelty factor. Too cool a tool not to have.

It’s a flashback episode in a bad YA dystopian series, showing the main characters how things fell apart.

I never used the 3D features, but the ease of zooming in and out and adding things like arrows and text make it useful.

Maybe. I think it’s more likely that she gets shanked by someone who realizes she used to be ISB. Or she goes for a walk after lights out.

I had read some of your books and liked them. People who write for a living tend to either post interesting things or only post when they have something new coming out. Either way, it’s worthwhile to follow them.

I knew in my late teens that I while I was interested in sex I wasn’t interested in actually having sex. Couldn’t see the point in a relationship that wasn’t built around sex either. I think I missed out there.

Unfortunately this was in the ‘80s so I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe myself.

Loved this book, if only for the concept of “underraising” a government where none had existed before.

An owl would be good. Or maybe a library lion.

I never interact with spammers, of course, but I’m sure if I ever replied he’d try to convince me we needed one.

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On the Turning Away