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.

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

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

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.