<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Matt Katz -  More Light! More Light!]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://www.morelightmorelight.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[MattK]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://www.morelightmorelight.com/author/mattk-2/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Too fast for futurism.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[Charles Stross is one of the best near future writers I've ever read, and he's having a problem.

The present is eating his plots.  He recently wrote a book about crime and banking in massively multiplayer role playing games and it was great stuff.  He started the sequel, but 
<a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/05/next_years_books.html">"one of last year's major news stories ate my plot!"</a>.

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