I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.