I’m just decompressing after one hellaciously frenetic hour answering questions, along with Mssrs. Vinge and Stross, on XFire. The way it worked was, attendees asked questions in one chatroom; XFire staff selected some to paste in a separate room; we authors selected the ones we wanted to answer from that room, and posted said answers in a third<\/i> room. Plus there was a separate room for “unofficial chatter”. The questions were flying thickly enough in the high-graded zone that I never once got a chance to look in on Unofficial Chatter or The Raw Question Room (Charlie did \u2014 just once \u2014 and caught sight of a question about whether we supported gay marriage, which sadly never got high-graded.) So I grabbed everything in all four before logging off, to glance at later.<\/p>\n
Man, there were a lot of questions directed at me that I never even saw, either because I just didn’t notice them in the hi-graded blizzard or because they never got hi-graded in the first place. And some of those questions were pretty damn good, and I feel bad for having not answered them. The official transcript will be posted back on XFire before too long, but because those won’t include unanswered questions, I will be answering those here in dribs and drabs over the next little while.<\/p>\n
So if any of you guys have come over from XFire and didn’t get your questions answered, watch this space; I’ll rectify that shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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