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98 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Alternative Evolutionary Histories
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You can find full details of Adrian’s fiction here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fantasy/adrian-tchaikovsky-books-in-order. Follow Adrian on Twitter @aptshadow. Timestamps 0:57 Introduction 1:58 Children of Time optioned 3:24 Passage from Doors of Eden 7:53 Alternative evolutionary scenarios 9:55 Gould and the Burgess shale 12:13 Intelligence without sentience 14:10 What are the defining characteristics of intelligence? 19:38 A.I., Shards of Earth and adapted humans 22:48 The singularity 29:03 Networked intelligences And a debate on the latest Star Trek! 31:53 Ursula Le Guin 33:23 Oher favourite SF writers 36:06 Why did you become a fiction writer? 38:33 Passage from Doors of Eden 45:27 Why Adrian is especially drawn to SF/Fantasy 48:53 Writing Neil de Grasse Tyson style proof 50:48 Two types of research 53:57 Research and Wolf Hall 55:02 Ursula Le Guin/ Left Hand of Darkness 56:46 Twitter questions - 3rd book of Children of Time 57:32 Titles being changed 59:16 Putting oneself in the place of a hive mind 1:00:38 Role playing games 1:01:53 Final thoughts - Dogs of War, Bear Head and Adrian reads from Children of Time.
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You can find full details of Adrian’s fiction here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fantasy/adrian-tchaikovsky-books-in-order. Follow Adrian on Twitter @aptshadow. Timestamps 0:57 Introduction 1:58 Children of Time optioned 3:24 Passage from Doors of Eden 7:53 Alternative evolutionary scenarios 9:55 Gould and the Burgess shale 12:13 Intelligence without sentience 14:10 What are the defining characteristics of intelligence? 19:38 A.I., Shards of Earth and adapted humans 22:48 The singularity 29:03 Networked intelligences And a debate on the latest Star Trek! 31:53 Ursula Le Guin 33:23 Oher favourite SF writers 36:06 Why did you become a fiction writer? 38:33 Passage from Doors of Eden 45:27 Why Adrian is especially drawn to SF/Fantasy 48:53 Writing Neil de Grasse Tyson style proof 50:48 Two types of research 53:57 Research and Wolf Hall 55:02 Ursula Le Guin/ Left Hand of Darkness 56:46 Twitter questions - 3rd book of Children of Time 57:32 Titles being changed 59:16 Putting oneself in the place of a hive mind 1:00:38 Role playing games 1:01:53 Final thoughts - Dogs of War, Bear Head and Adrian reads from Children of Time.
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