With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. 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.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature