For a while now I've been meaning to get into her work. I read the short story Bloodchild in the VanderMeers' weird fiction anthology but would like to check out something in long form. Can anyone suggest where would be a good starting point? Does she have a definitive book/series?

I don't know what you're talking about. With the cheat code, I could beat it every time. It was really more of an issue to see how few lives you could lose while beating it. I never got good enough to be it without the cheat, but I think I was fairly close.

or even the books of magic kid would work

To elaborate on @hazza's reply, they are probably using a sort of the words based on Unicode. TL;DR in Unicode, non-English characters (which includes things like an accented "e" as well as totally different characters like Greek, kanji, mathematical symbols, etc) are all considered to come after the 26 Latin alphabet…

It's sharks all the way down.

A large amount of debate in theoretical physics is about definitions. One of my favorite literature reviews is titled "What is String Theory?" The author doesn't attempt to supply a definitive answer.

Honestly, this is a conversation that I wish we could have in person. But I don't have the patience to conduct a technical debate in a comment thread which is why I tried to politely beg off before. I don't mean to dismiss your claims rudely, I just didn't want to get into a protracted debate in this environment.

Sorry, it has been several years since I have kept up with any of his work.

I've had the pleasure of attending lectures on string theory by Gates a number of times. He's a pretty engaging speaker and I think that comes through here.

And we all know what happened after that.

Well done, both amazing and funny as claimed!

I'm sorry, but I respectfully disagree with much of what you're saying. I gave you a specific example and reference to dispute your claim regarding the heterotic string and spacetime supersymmetry. I think some of the other things you say are disputed in that same reference. At any right, it has been a nice…

It's the opposite. Worldsheet SUSY is required for quantization since it is part of the worldsheet gauge symmetry. The choice of GSO projection will determine whether spacetime SUSY is maintained or not (basically, if a massless spacetime gravitino remains after projection, then it's SUSY). Maybe this is an issue of…

It's supersymmetric on the worldsheet, certainly, but not in spacetime.

Sort of. As another commenter posted, there are real tachyons in a variety of quantum field theories (including the Standard Model), but the interpretation there is a bit different from a particle moving faster than c.

Thanks for pointing out number 3. This is the legit notion of a tachyon. It's also not really theoretical, since these tachyons exist (briefly) at certain real phase transitions, not too mention the Standard Model.

Baltimore is definitely stronger than those two, but I enjoyed them. Father Gaetano is really short, though, and you'll want more.

There are some comics franchises I'll just always get the latest installment of. Anything in the Hellboy/BPRD universe, for instance, or even anything by Mignola. There are some weak entries but by-and-large I'm confident I'll be satisfied at the very least. I used to feel this way about anything Fables related but…

Great, I've been looking for a way to needlessly produce even more trash.

Portraying traditional vampires as getting drunk is sort of problematic from a consistency point of view. As essentially dead bodies, you wouldn't imagine you could poison one, but getting drunk is just a mild case of poisoning.