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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read

I'm not going to argue with any of this, especially the "extremely online" bit (I helped run a BBS at my high school in 1986), but I'm pretty sure I just code-named the character "Karen" as an in-joke for a neighbor and then the world used the name otherwise. So, uh, coincidence?

I mean, I *may* be engaging in revisionist history here? But I don't think the "Karen" phenomenon was in full fettle when I wrote Emperox, and my neighbor's name *is* Karen (and for the record she's great), and I do name characters for friends. So I'm sticking with my story.

@MaryRobinette

(Also for the record there are a huge number of name inserts ("Tuckerizations") in the Interdependency series, including other authors, high school friends and even my copy editor on one of the books. @MaryRobinette shows up twice! It's fun to give these sorts of salutes.)

Also, as a head's up, The Kaiju Preservation Society takes place in current time and is chock full of "extremely online" post-doc types who are quippy as fuck. And also, kaiju. Who to be fair, are *not* "extremely online" or quippy. Maybe for the sequel, if I write one.

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