I Would Normally Never Set Out To

For All Its Beauty, Honesty, And Effectiveness At Improving The Human Condition, Science Demands A Terrible Price - That We Accept What Experiments Tell Us About The Universe, Whether We Like It Or Not. It's About Consensus And Teamwork And Respectful Critical Argument, Working With, And Through, Natural Law. It Requires That We Utter, Frequently, Those Hateful Words - 'i Might Be Wrong.'

...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.

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.

Everything Isn't Subjective. Reality Also Matters. Truth Matters. It Is Still A Word With Meaning.

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