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

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?

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

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.