EP 30 How Andy Weir went from being an unknown sci-fi writer to a Matt Damon starring Hollywood blockbuster
The Aarthi and Sriram Show
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What Influences You in Sci-Fi?
I assume I ripped it off from him, although I never really consciously meant to. Azimov like to take, like, to create a system. Like, here's a system of rules for my universe. And then let's just see where that goes. For Azimov, he just made the three laws of robotics. Where does that go? That's one thing I absolutely love about Azimov. He just made multiple different series that were amazing. My go-to answer when people ask me that is I robot, is a bunch of short stories on all the directions that you can end up going with these simple rules.
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