More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

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

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.