

“What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!”
― Going Solo
― Going Solo

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
― Poems
― Poems

“Instead of being assembled by genes, the worm was assembled by “memes,” a word coined by British scientist and polemicist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Memes are original ideas. Dawkins argued that they play the same role in cultural evolution as genes play in biology, getting passed along from person to person, surviving and adapting as they move.”
― Worm: The First Digital World War
― Worm: The First Digital World War
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