573. Robert Charles Wilson Interview

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  Hi, I'm David Barr Kirtley, author of the book save me, please and other stories.

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  And welcome to episode 573 of Geek's Guide to the galaxy.

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  Our guest today is Robert Charles Wilson, author of more than a dozen novels, including the chronoliths, Darwinia, and Julian a Story of 22nd century America.

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  His 2005 novel spin about Earth being enclosed in a mysterious time bubble won the Hugo Award for best novel.

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  And in this interview, well be discussing his short story collection the Perseids and other stories.

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  In his nonfiction book, owning the Unknown, a science fiction writer explores atheism, agnosticism, and the idea of God.

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  And now here's our interview with Robert Charles Wilson.

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  All right, so we're here with Robert Charles Wilson.

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  Welcome to the show.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  Okay, and so your new book is called owning the Unknown.

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  So tell us about that.

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  Well, it's.

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  The subtitle is the science fiction writer explores atheism, agnosticism, and the idea of God.

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  It's my first book length work of nonfiction, and what it tries to do is make what I think of as a gentle defense of atheism through the medium of looking at these ideas in science fiction.

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  The way I've encountered these ideas and use these ideas as a science fiction writer and the way these ideas have played into my own experience and in many pieces prompted me to do the kind of work I do as a science fiction writer.

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  So could you say, kind of like, what has been the relationship between science fiction and atheism in your own life?

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  Did science fiction make you an atheist, or what is the relationship there?

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  Well, I can't honestly say that science fiction made me an atheist.

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  I explain in the book that I come from a family that was in many ways conventionally religious, a protestant family, but we didn't talk about religion at home.

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