Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.