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

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

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

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

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

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.