Andrew Hunter Murray on dystopias
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Andrew Hunter Murray on dystopias
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#2The sunlit side of the earth is far too hot to inhabit in many places - the ‘Coldside’ is uninhabitable in just the opposite way. Life clings on in a narrow, sunlit ring - a kind of Goldilocks Zone
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#3Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
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#4Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
You can also see him on stage in the West End. Quite the talented chap.
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#5Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
And a de-facto voice-double to Stephen Mangan if he wanted to, I swear I can never distinguish the two on the radio.
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#6Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
Also writes for Private Eye and hosts their Page 94 podcast (which is infuriatingly infrequent in episodes.)
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#7Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
I've only ever listened to the podcast.
Giving these familiar voices faces did uncomfortable things to my brain.
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#8Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
I've only ever listened to the podcast. Giving these familiar voices faces did uncomfortable things to my brain.
I once went to a live podcast recording after having listened to the hosts for ~300hr without knowing what they looked like. It's hard to describe how uncanny it was. It was sort of like watching a movie with poorly dubbed dialogue.
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#9How could a stray planet(oid?) possibly affect the rotational momentum of the Earth enough to stop it from rotating entirely? That seems like the kind of physics gaffe that would give me a tyrescreech.wav end to my suspension of disbelief.
(Kind of like in Three Body where the sun is described as having a... crust? Which keeps the hot gases contained within it? And if punctured will spray a jet of solar plasma strong enough to cook planets out into space?)
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#10How could a stray planet(oid?) possibly affect the rotational momentum of the Earth enough to stop it from rotating entirely? That seems like the kind of physics gaffe that would give me a tyrescreech.wav end to my suspension of disbelief. (Kind of like in Three Body where the sun is described as having a... crust? Which keeps the hot gases contained within it? And if punctured will spray a jet of solar plasma strong…
> I also subscribe in a very self-interested way to the School of Disbelief Suspension, and hoping the reader will meet me halfway. I was trying to write a world where you can absolutely believe it, once you have accepted the enormous and unlikely sci-fi premise.