This is the video of the specbio panel I moderated last year at Flights of Foundry. I’m a little slow getting started, but my guests had some excellent things to say, so please skip ahead a few minutes and hear such things as:
“The stranger it is, the more likely it is to be real” – Adrian Tchaikovsky
“Did you give it a butt-hole?” – Casey Lucas
“pythons use constipation as a predator strategy” – Peter Watts, helpfully
“What kind of flesh instantiates that idea?” – Peter Watts
“the worms come out of the toad…this is why I thought of you, Peter” – Julie Czerneda
“We break the laws because…we don’t know everything.” – Peter Watts
“Of course the birds know what they’re doing” – Julie Czerneda
book reccs
Science as a Process
The Kindly Inquisitors
Winter World
Parasite Rex
Evolving the Alien
“I go to the bibliography and tear it up” – Casey Lucas