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I am very pro-science.

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I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.

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I've had many of my books optioned.

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All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.

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Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.

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Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

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Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.

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We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: April 29th, 1960

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