Welcome to one of the queens of science fiction, Nancy Kress, as we talk about her newest book “Observer” — written in partnership with Robert Lanza, MD. Observer is a brilliant story that combines tasty science with real human problems. The science mingles theories of consciousness and the nature of reality with quantum universal cosmology and brain neural pathway mapping. From how to write a novel with a scientist to a critique of science fiction in movies, Nancy takes us from Mars to the oceans and we just can’t get enough of her.
- NancyKress.com
- on Facebook
- Observer by Nancy Kress with Robert Lanza, MD
- Co-author Dr. Robert Lanza
Mentions from Episode 169:
- Beggars in Spain – by Nancy Kress
- Corie & Sean Weaver’s Young Explorer’s Adventure Guides – (Jeannie and Nancy both have stories in these anthologies!)
- Dr. Chanda Prescod Weinstein
- Stephen Hawking
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Outlier effect
- Jack Skillingstead
- The Chaos Function
- (Your faithful podcasters do not wish to provide links to whackadoodle groups mentioned – look them up only if you must.)
- George Berkeley, philosopher
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
- Symbolism in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Her movie
- Moon movie
- Transcendence movie
- Hawking Radiation
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
- Nancy’s Probability Series
- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- William Gibson – Johnny Mnemonic
- PW = Publishers Weekly
- Nancy’s novella Sea Change from Tachyon
- About those San Francisco sturgeon
- The Chesapeake Oyster Reefs