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

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

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

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.