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

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?