Robert J. Sawyer on Sci-Fi Dinosaurs in 'The Quintaglio Ascension'
Robert J. Sawyer returns to the show to discuss 'The Quintaglio Ascension', a trilogy composed of ‘Far-Seer’, ‘Fossil Hunter’ and ‘Foreigner’. We talk about his early writing in the 90’s, which indulged his love and passion for paleontology. This trilogy recapitulates the history of science with the stories of Galileo, Darwin and Freud. Each of these figures delivered blows to the narcissistic ego, which lends high stakes to a thought experiment about how different species may be ...
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