Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.