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.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

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

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

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.