Prison For The Crime Of Puberty --

Seldom Does A Storytelling Talent Come Along As Potent And Fully Mature As Mike Brotherton. His Complex Characters Take You On A Voyage That Is Both Fiercely Credible And Astonishingly Imaginative. This Is Science Fiction.

Beware Of Assumptions That Seem "obvious" In One Decade. They May Become Quaint In The Next.

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.

Gaia Spins On, Silently Contemplating What It Means To Be Born Into A Sarcastic Universe.

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