If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.