I am very much looking forward to your book, and I am happy to read about your progress and success in changing publishers. I am an academic and a science fiction scholar. In one of my academic books, in addition to discussing a number of science fiction novels and short stories, I had a chapter about slime molds in which I approached scientific papers about slime mold intelligence as if they constituted a science fiction narrative, because the actual behavior of Physarum polycephalum struck me as being as bizarre, and yet as illuminating about questions of life and meaning, as any of the science fiction texts I was also writing about. -- Steven Shaviro
Thanks for the great comment, Steven! Slime molds have really crept under the radar of human consciousness because they don't generally bother us nor do most people eat them. That has allowed them to get away with a lot undetected, but I'm glad scientists are finally catching on and thoughtful people everywhere are pondering what it all means. : )
I am very much looking forward to your book, and I am happy to read about your progress and success in changing publishers. I am an academic and a science fiction scholar. In one of my academic books, in addition to discussing a number of science fiction novels and short stories, I had a chapter about slime molds in which I approached scientific papers about slime mold intelligence as if they constituted a science fiction narrative, because the actual behavior of Physarum polycephalum struck me as being as bizarre, and yet as illuminating about questions of life and meaning, as any of the science fiction texts I was also writing about. -- Steven Shaviro
Thanks for the great comment, Steven! Slime molds have really crept under the radar of human consciousness because they don't generally bother us nor do most people eat them. That has allowed them to get away with a lot undetected, but I'm glad scientists are finally catching on and thoughtful people everywhere are pondering what it all means. : )