Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

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

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.