I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

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

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

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.

We are, after all, homo economicus.