Where Subtlety Fails Us We Must Simply

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

Indeed, The Maligned American Pastime Of Baseball May Be By-far The Greatest And Best Sport By One Criterion, When It Comes To Emulating And Training For Genuinely Useful Neolithic Skills! Think About It. The Game Consists Of Lots Of Patient Waiting And Watching (stalking), Throwing With Incredible Accuracy And Speed, Sprinting, Dodging... And Hitting Moving Objects Real Hard With Clubs! And Arguing. Hey, What Else Could You Possibly Need? Now, Tell Me, How Do Soccer Or Basketball Prepare You To Survive In The Wild, Hm?

The Village Is Coming Back, Like It Or Not.

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.