so, peter watts is this very interesting SF author, he wrote blindsight which occupies a special place in my heart because of its sheer fucking weirdness (in a good way, would recommend)
Conversation
I'm not sure if I've ever *just* tried asking it for ideas but if I'm e.g. writing an essay over multiple days then I often notice my mind going "hey you could [random thing X you just encountered] as an example in your essay" on a regular basis during that time
1
1
I did for a while have an exercise where I went on walks and then tried to come up with at least one novel interpretation for some ordinary object I saw. Was fun.
1
2
Also did I tell you about the time I walked up to Peter Watts in a science fiction convention, handed him one of my papers, found out that he'd already read it, and then later he cited it in his sequel to Blindsight and also named a starship after me rifters.com/echopraxia/sot
1
10
wait WHAT
1
2
I was surprised too!
He wrote about the event here: rifters.com/crawl/?p=4236
1
3
ha that's awesome! and wow i really like the style of this post, he seems like a fun guy to grab a beer with
1
1
He was! I don't remember much of the discussion but I remember him venting about some other scifi author whose work he'd been invited to discuss but he was agonized by how little sense that science in that work made and he was very entertainingly elaborate about why not exactly
1
2