about me

"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." - American Gods, Neil Gaiman

favourite books

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Eyes of Heisenberg - Frank Herbert
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
The Santaroga Barrier - Frank Herbert
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Drood - Dan Simmons
Olympos - Dan Simmons
Black Hills - Dan Simmons
Prey - Michael Crichton
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

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