He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.