Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

I don't get even, I get odder.

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

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.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.