Listen in to my nearly hour-long chat with Neal Stephenson whose latest book is Seveneves. Our conversation touched on
so many great topics: why women are better equipped to survive long-term in
space, why so many SFF novels and films create humanoids with race-based
character traits and the limitations of this, advances in epigenetics and the
question of genome manipulation, whether or not humans are a part of nature and
the merits of geoengineering to address climate change, human responses to
sudden vs. gradual catastrophes, the importance of celebrity scientists and the
difference between what Carl Sagan was up against and what Neil deGrasse Tyson is,
the role of science fiction in inspiring scientific advances, and much
more. Hope you’ll tune in!
