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Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing
WorkLife with Adam Grant
The Origins of Project Hail Mary
The details are where the originality lives, right? I remember when I was reading Project Hail Mary, I don't even know how one would begin to think about what it means to be a species that functions this way. The first planet in the 40 Eridani system is actually, it's a real planet and its name is like 40 Eridali capital A lowercase B because astronomers suck at naming things,. And so, you know, this is bit by bit how things came together. Nobody wants to read a 40 page Wikipedia article on Aridian biology.
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