Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

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.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

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

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.