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Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing

Worklife with Adam Grant

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Project Hail Mary: A Novel About Life on Earth

I don't believe that we've been visited by aliens, intelligent or even microbes. The nearest life might be like two million light years away. Life is very, very good at evolving to fill it everywhere. If there's any native life on Mars, it would be all over the damn place. And no, you can't send information faster than light because speed of light isn't just how fast photons go.

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