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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Children of Time: A Novel of Non-Human Characters

I think the problem you'd get eventually is that everyone would assume that the other person was the one supplying that human agency. Especially given how good these things are already at feigning being a human agency. I'm sort of interested in some of the non-corvid characters in Children of Time because, you know, one of the extraordinary things I think you did in that book is there were these two characters in the book. One which is even less human than the Corvids or the Porteds. And then there's this simulated character that just never even existed outside of a simulation. You write these characters in such a way that like I was actually in tears twice at the end of

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