Interview with Peter Watts - Author of Blindsight!
Peter Watts is the award winning author of Blindsight; Echopraxia; Starfish, and many more - but we focused the conversation on our favorite of his books - Blindsight!
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- Our episode about Blindsight:
We talked with Peter about:
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
1:12 Why he quit science to write fiction
6:16 The real-world science that inspired Blindsight
10:40 Why vampires?!
17:22 Blindsight movie(s) in the works
19:17 Cosmic horror and the search for consciousness
27:58 Future predictions that came true
33:40 Writing novels full of real science
38:03 What’s coming next (the sequel to Echopraxia!)
Next episode we’ll be discussing Greg Egan’s Permutation City - look forward to talking with y’all then. Happy reading everybody!
#hugonauts #scifi #peterwatts #booktube #bookrecommendations #sciencefiction #blindsight
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