October 14, 2003
They All Look Alike to Me
Zed Lopez and his partner, Jennifer (whose last name, if I've ever heard it, has never registered with me), came to Debbie's and my monthly salon. As they were preparing to leave, Zed asked for the return of the bound galley of Charlie Stross's novel Singularity Sky that Zed had loaned to us.
Like a shot I leaped up and went to where I was sure I had remembered seeing it last, beside the bed. I picked up the bound galley and returned, thrusting it into Zed's hands.
There was just one problem: the galley in question was that of The Cassini Division, by Ken MacLeod.
It was a natural mistake. After all, if you've read one left-wing Scots writer of cutting-edge science fiction, you've read them all, right?
Posted by abostick at October 14, 2003 08:36 AMI expect you're going to hear this from Charlie too, but he's from Yorkshire. He just lives in Edinburgh and hangs out with the Scots.
Posted by: Teresa Nielsen Hayden at October 15, 2003 04:47 PMThat would make him, then, not an actual card-carrying Scot, but just a fellow traveler.
Posted by: Alan Bostick at October 16, 2003 09:15 AM
