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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee

Inquiring Minds

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How to Tell a Science Fiction Story

There's still a sense that there's a character thereget my editor, a ravy merchantane er, whom i've known for a no long time. He said, i have to be careful about anthropomorphising things here. That's exactly what you should do to make it kind of intelligent and interesting. So i hope that even if you're reading about bacteria that squirted oxygen into the oxygen free atmosphere, thus killing all their friends two point five billion years ago, i'm hoping to make people feel that they were there and this was important.

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