All Living Things Are Gnarly, In That

Computations Are Everywhere, Once You Begin To Look At Things In A Certain Way.

Science Fiction Writers Put Characters Into A World With Arbitrary Rules And Work Out What Happens.

Electronic Distribution Is More Of A Fall-back Strategy For Putting Out A Book That Isn't Deemed Profitable Enough To Print. You Hardly Make Any Money Publishing An Electronic Book.

A Computation Is A Process That Obeys Finitely Describable Rules.

Think Of A Field Of Daisies: They Bloom, They Wither, And In The Spring They Grow Again. Who Wants To See The Same Stupid Daisy Year After Year, Especially With A Bunch Of Crappy Iron-lung-type Equipment Bolted To It?