I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

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.

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).