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! - You can also find the episode on your podcast app of choice - To talk about Peter’s books (and so many more), come join the Hugonauts book club on discord: - 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