The modern dilemma . . .

So should I be p'd that a complete set of Deep Black (all six books) has been pirated and is available on-line, or disappointed that it's the only one of my series that anyone cared enough about to post in its entirety?

A whole lot of 0's and 1's


From today's news :

An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

How safe is your encryption?

Then again, maybe they're just going to use it to surf porn sites . . .

But no, all that stuff in Deep Black is made up....

Conspiracy



So what's the book about anyway?

Deep Black

On Sale Tuesday . . . and Wednesday, and Thursday . . .

On Charlie Dean

The next book in the Deep Black series, Deep Black: Conspiracy, is out next week. Here are some thoughts about Charlie Dean, the series' main character . . .

Today's editor's question

Editor: Does the phrase for hello in Vietnamese sound like sin chow or seen chaw?

Me: It depends on whether the person has a gun or not.