“My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science …” — Alastair Reynolds

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.

Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams.

There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all the volatile materials, leaving us with bits of rock and using that to make some incredible structures.