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Andy Weir talks "Project Hail Mary", from Book to Blockbuster
Bloomberg Television· 2026-03-21 13:09
When you were pitching this to your publishers, you said, Hey, I got an idea for a guy who's kind of trapped in space by himself and he's got to like science his way out of it. At any point did they say to you, Dude, you already wrote this. Yeah, you already wrote that.Well, I mean, I pitched it to him is like, I've got a first contact story and interstellar travel and stuff like that. And, you know, he's not alone. Was there a debate about whether or not to reveal the alien in the movie trailers and things ...
Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley
MSNBC· 2025-11-29 18:42
Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shel centers on Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose youth was spent obsessed with alchemy and adulthood was spent obsessed with chemistry, electricity, and biology. After the death of his mother, Victor becomes infatuated with discovering the secret to life. quote, "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is, who believes his native town to be the world, than he ...