Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

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

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.