Rob has been online since 1983; used to be a system operator for the pioneering online service CompuServe; was a regular contributor in the 1980s to ProFiles, the magazine for KayPro computer users; has one of the world’s oldest blogs; and is widely recognized as having been the first science-fiction writer to have a website. That site, which contains more than one million words of material, including a book-club discussion guide for this novel, is at sfwriter.com.