I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

So much technology, so little talent.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.