Ask the Author: Eric Kay
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Eric Kay
I have tried a few things, a Youtube channel, X, FB, etc. But to be honest Written Word Media was about the best bang, though it cost a few bucks.
Eric Kay
Done. Posted here:
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Eric Kay
FYI, Amazon discourages review swaps between authors, so do not leave one there, but I'd be willing to here.
What if I read your 'AI Gone Rogue?' I think you'd like my most recent one, Above Dark Waters. It's on KU right now and about the pitfalls of giving AI access to your brain data.
What if I read your 'AI Gone Rogue?' I think you'd like my most recent one, Above Dark Waters. It's on KU right now and about the pitfalls of giving AI access to your brain data.
Eric Kay
I try and keep my 'to-read' list short so I don't have much planned. The only one I am certain of is Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. Another strong candidate is Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin.
Eric Kay
The most direct inspiration for my novel No Lack of Sunshine was from the novel The Songs of Distant Earth [414998]. In it the author, Arthur C. Clarke has a one or two sentence description of the first generation of colonist. He said something to the effect that the first generation of humans had psychological problems. I stopped reading and said 'whoa I want to read that book.' There is also a planet-wide ocean in that story, but that was not the source for that. Such an ocean is one of the only ways to keep a tidally locked planet from icing over.
The biggest influence has been my study of exoplanets. I had long been interested in actual practical settlement of the stars. Unfortunately sending a spaceship to another star requires unimaginable amounts of energy.
I felt practical interstellar travel was unrealistic and instead defaulted to settling Mars. No one can study Martian settlement without hearing about Dr. Robert Zubrin. At some point after watching his videos, Youtube showed me a presentation he did for one of the Breakthrough Initiatives and the dipole drive, which is a modified electric sail. After that I was hooked and kept thinking about how we could settle the stars.
The biggest influence has been my study of exoplanets. I had long been interested in actual practical settlement of the stars. Unfortunately sending a spaceship to another star requires unimaginable amounts of energy.
I felt practical interstellar travel was unrealistic and instead defaulted to settling Mars. No one can study Martian settlement without hearing about Dr. Robert Zubrin. At some point after watching his videos, Youtube showed me a presentation he did for one of the Breakthrough Initiatives and the dipole drive, which is a modified electric sail. After that I was hooked and kept thinking about how we could settle the stars.
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Jan 17, 2025 04:16AM · flag