Aurora is somehow simultaneously a pessimistic and optimistic book.

Actually, I guess that’s true for many of his books, but it’s stark in Aurora.

I’ll add my thanks too - I love reading these.

Glad this is a real podcast and not behind some individual service’s paywall!

Discovery changed a lot season-to-season. As did Picard.

I found the question about which other genres I read very limiting. Only three responses allowed!

I’m not sure if I’m unusual, but left to my own devices I’d have picked at least five or six. As it is, I had to leave out some I really do regularly read (like ‘non-fiction’ and ‘literary fiction’).

That page was written by the man interviewed in the posted article!

It doesn’t really have anything to do with the arguments in the post I guess, but I thought I’d point out for anyone as confused as me: the ‘latest’ book OP is talking about, “Judgement at Proteus’, is thirteen years old, not some new instalment.