Change Is The Principal Feature Of Our

The Worst Mistake Of First Contact, Made Throughout History By Individuals On Both Sides Of Every New Encounter, Has Been The Unfortunate Habit Of Making Assumptions. It Often Proved Fatal.

It Is Said That Power Corrupts, But Actually It's More True That Power Attracts The Corruptible. The Sane Are Usually Attracted By Other Things Than Power.

It's How Creativity Works. Especially In Humans. For Every Good Idea, Ten Thousand Idiotic Ones Must First Be Posed, Sifted, Tried Out, And Discarded. A Mind That's Afraid To Toy With The Ridiculous Will Never Come Up With The Brilliantly Original.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

With Gritty Action And Realistic Science, Peter Watts Brings To Life A Dark And Vivid World.