I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.