Snack on sushi with Ray Nayler as we discuss how his time living outside the U.S. helped him become a better science fiction writer, why he feels the greatest effect of having written The Mountain in the Sea was a culinary one, the reason we agree our favorite part of writing is rewriting, the sad results of his accidental Facebook experiment, whether his mammoth memory behavior is based on scientific facts or is purely speculative, why we'll likely never be able to truly resurrect extinct species, how changes in culture can affect evolution, the train trip where he received career advice from a stranger he didn't realize was Neil Gaiman, why we aren't totally in control of our writing destines, how he's haunted by the ghost of an alternate version of himself, plus much more.
Episode 231: Chuck Tingle
Episode 230: Ai Jiang
Episode 229: Sally Wiener Grotta
Episode 228: Elwin Cotman
Episode 227: Alex Jennings
Episode 226: Tobias Carroll
Episode 225: Lesley Conner
Episode 224: Dan Parent
Episode 223: Arthur Suydam
Episode 222: Sunny Moraine
Episode 221: Julie Phillips
Episode 220: Glenn Hauman
Episode 218: Jo Miles
Episode 217: Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
Episode 216: Izzy Wasserstein
Episode 215: Pat Murphy
Episode 214: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Episode 213: Neil Clarke
Episode 212: Alex Shvartsman
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