The HomeSec's focus group will take one look at this and tell you to sex it up."... "Why do you think that'll be a priority?" she asks. "You know per… - Charles Stross

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The HomeSec's focus group will take one look at this and tell you to sex it up."...
"Why do you think that'll be a priority?" she asks.
"You know perfectly well why—...For the same reason they want a balanced team rather than a competent one. It doesn't fit the cultural agenda they're trying to impose."

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About Charles Stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964 in Leeds) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

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Birth Name: Charles David George Stross
Alternative Names: Charlie Stross
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The Other Place, the astral plane, the land of dreams—it’s not a real place like, say, Walsall. But it’s a metaphor for a mathematical abstraction, a manifold containing an n-dimensional space where everything is the product of geometrical transformations, including mass and energy and time. Leakage between dimensions occurs there: it’s how we summon demons from the vasty deep, communicate with aliens, and try to extract our tax codes from the Inland Revenue.

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