Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available