If you, dear reader, are looking a this across some great gulf of time and increase of knowledge, spare me your condescension. You too were young onc… - Ken MacLeod

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If you, dear reader, are looking a this across some great gulf of time and increase of knowledge, spare me your condescension. You too were young once, and ignorant once, and from a future standpoint—perhaps your own—you are young and ignorant still.

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About Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science-fiction author.

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Alternative Names: Kenneth Macrae MacLeod
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(on The Hamburg Cell): "It shows them as weak, alienated individuals being recruited by the classic methods of any campus cult. Young men without a strong sense of self are a Microsoft for mind viruses, and these were no exception." weblog post, 3 September 2004

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