98 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Alternative Evolutionary Histories [Public Limited Version]

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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.