Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.