Has IB ever posted or been known to lurk here?

If I was a author, I have to say I'd be tempted to lurk in the places
where people talk about me and my work.......but then again I suppose
the old adage about hearing nothing good if you listen in on a
conversation about you may also prove true.

Either way, being almost certainly usenet literate, I would imagine
that he's looked in from time to time.

Has anyone ever claiming to be him ever posted? I imagine he'd post
under a pseudonym though.

Can't wait for The Algebraist; I only wish it was a Culture novel.
(that's a request, Iain...)

Favourite story? Toss up between The State of the Art and Excession.

I wonder why I find the Culture so beguiling....it's not just the
Utopian factor, it's more. It's just, well it would be, such a fun
place to live. And I see nothing wrong with hedonism.

(Sorry, turned into a bit if a ramble, but there are really only two
threads here......)

W

Will wrote:

>
> If I was a author, I have to say I'd be tempted to lurk in the places
> where people talk about me and my work.......but then again I suppose
> the old adage about hearing nothing good if you listen in on a
> conversation about you may also prove true.
>
> Either way, being almost certainly usenet literate, I would imagine
> that he's looked in from time to time.
>
> Has anyone ever claiming to be him ever posted? I imagine he'd post
> under a pseudonym though.
>
> Can't wait for The Algebraist; I only wish it was a Culture novel.
> (that's a request, Iain...)
>
> Favourite story? Toss up between The State of the Art and Excession.
>
> I wonder why I find the Culture so beguiling....it's not just the
> Utopian factor, it's more. It's just, well it would be, such a fun
> place to live. And I see nothing wrong with hedonism.
>
> (Sorry, turned into a bit if a ramble, but there are really only two
> threads here......)

I do know that terry pratchett used to go to an NG dedicated to him (yes I
know people who read terry pratchett). but left, similarly Ian Anderson
used to post on Alt.Music.jethro-tull

I heard mr. Pratchett left due to people writing fan fiction and he was
being accused of plagiarism. The whole band used to post on Jethro Tull,
but at the time it had a very very bad case of trolls who just kept
changing their names, using anonymous posting sites and quoting 'mien
kampf' to anything anyone posted (they kept it up for well over a year).

I do not doubt mr. Banks looks in of occasion, but the traffic lately has
been almost non-existant, no doubt it will pick up when the next book is
released and we can all discuss it and tell him he should write another
culture novel.

neil