I Do An Awful Lot Of Scuba

So Much Of Literary Sci-fi Is About Creating Worlds That Are Rich And Detailed And Make Sense At A Social Level. We'll Create A World For People And Then Later Present A Narrative In That World.

That Worst Evil Of Long Dictatorships: The Loss Of All Political Experience.

All My Films Are Love Stories.

Everybody Is Always Talking About Droughts And Sea Level Rise, But When Human Civilization, With More Crowding And Greater Resource Depletion, Is Under That Much Stress, It Translates Into Wars And Huge Displaced Populations. The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Just A First Taste Of What It's Going To Be Like. I Don't Want My Kids Growing Up In That Kind Of World.

I've Sworn Off Agnosticism, Which I Now Call Cowardly Atheism. I've Come To The Position That In The Complete Absence Of Any Supporting Data Whatsover For The Persistence Of The Individual In Some Spiritual Form, It Is Necessary To Operate Under The Provisional Conclusion That There Is No Afterlife And Then Be Ready To Amend That If I Find Out Otherwise.