Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

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

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

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.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.