Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

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.

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.