Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.