Non-financial applications of block chain.

There is more of a gap between those two than you might think. If you apply the standards of the tech industry, then there are only a few writers who even show up on the radar. The only thing I care about, in the final analysis, is not having to flip burgers.

It makes surprisingly little difference economically because TV pays you in nickels and magic beans until something actually gets produced and becomes colossal. Writers sign those deals anyway because the quality can be much higher than what you generally see in movies.

Let’s have no more talk about process. Let’s just write. Hopefully I’m not one of those guys writing fake science based fiction, but there’s always a naysayer, especially on the Internet.

I love doing it but on an economic level it is completely insane.

I can’t handle the level of introspection that answering this question would require.

I’m keeping loosely in touch with this stuff. But my timeline for actually doing anything is on the order of years.

No, SEVENEVES is standalone. Just go for it.

I would like nothing better than to dwindle into a long retirement writing books in that vein. Maybe I will. But not now.

No, just the scotch.

YOu’re not going to like this but I have to give it to you straight: asking other novelists about their process is not going to work. I generally come up with a different process for each book, and the processes I use might not work for you at all. The only way to do it is just to sit down and write and crank out…

Maybe REAMDE.

No Canada stops planned, unfortunately. Planning book tours is a crazily asymmetrical and nonlinear process. The people who do it are really sophisticated but that means decisions that are opaque to mortals. Yes, Gibson and Pynchon.

Climate change. It’s coming and there’s very little we can do about it, I’m sorry to say. I worry about the same technological things you worry about, but those risks can be managed if we stay on our toes.

The urge to explore, because actually being in space involves puking and occasionally going to a fiery death.

It kind of depends on what you mean by “emerging” but if we take that to mean “you might be able to buy one within a few years” then I guess my answer would be what Magic Leap is working on.

I have a soft spot for THE CONFUSION.

It’s been a long time since I played an old school pen-and-paper RPG. When I did, it was just classic D & D. Consequently, every video game now looks to me like an electronic version of same.

This is another totally reasonable question that I’m going to suck at answering because I’m not well read enough. To be clear, written SF is very diverse and has always encompassed a wide range of visions. What I’d really like to see is a change in the tone of the SF we see on screens.

Doing difficult things in public makes them more difficult.