The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.