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I guess the whole Boston thing will get a few Al-Qaeda donors thinking.
In Iraq they have to finance bombs that kill hundreds of innocent people to facilliate the political climate they favour and still only barely register on western news while in Boston the could have a similar thing with just two dudes and a couple of blinking lights.
It's as if Boston had put up a sign inviting them to hit them with their lamest attack possible and promised them to react exactly like they would if they had executed some fancy 24/Jack Bauer plan.

If your goal is increased fearmongering, the cost/benefit analysis of the DHS/BPD/Media reaction must be a terrorists dream.

How does _A Deeper Sea_ compare to _Carve the Sky_?
A Deeper Sea is a lot bleaker than Carve the Sky.
I guess it didn't really fit my mood at the time I read it but I found some of the protagonists a bit too alien (the ones living in water) and the way they became protagonists left me cold.
Still a good read.
Carve the Sky is one of my alltime favorites.

'(6) What's the name of that SF story about people finding themselves on a line stretching over the horizon, of aliens?'

That could be 'ROAD OF SKULLS' from Iain Banks.

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