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Watt Evans = 1 / Nay-Sayers = 0

As some of you may or may not know, I've been following with interest the progress of Lawrence Watt Evans' Spriggan Experiment. For those of you who aren't familiar with LWE, he is a fantasy/sci-fi author whose cannon includes a number of titles that I think are exemplary; his writing style is informal and fun, and he's the master of the super-interesting premise - "The Cyborg and the Sorceror" for example is a wildly creative idea and one that I think has been under-received by the sci-fi community.

So what does this have to do with information security? About a year ago, LWE decided to use Schneier's Street Performer Protocol for the distribution and authorship of a new book in one of his series. Because he's cool as shiz, he even answered some questions for us about the process and his use of the method. Well, apparently the experiment worked; so much so that he's decided to release another book that way; even more interesting is that he's put up a blog for reporting progress and (hopefully) where he'll post his thoughts about the process.

So, needless to say I'm excited. I'm wishing him the best on this project and hopefully it'll be economically successful enough that he'll keep going... and going... and going...

As a side note, the image above is cover-art from the last serial he put out (linked to the image on his site.) I highly encourage fans of sci-fi to check it out; after all, it's free to read.