My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.