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

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

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.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.