Ask the Author: Frank Winter
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Frank Winter
Nine-year-old me would say "The Digital World" from the Digimon series. While I played more with the Pokémon cards and Gameboy games, the Digimon anime had me fully enraptured in the original two season story.
As an adult, I'd probably say the Star Wars or Halo universe in a time of maximum sci-fi and minimum risk ... lol.
As an adult providing a more adult answer, I'd say one of the theoretical bicameral civilizations from the Julian Jaynes book "On the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind". Provided we spoke the same language, I would love to have a long conversation with someone who truly had no inner voice or real consciousness, perform a Turing Test of sorts to understand the true differences and what consciousness actually does for us.
As an adult, I'd probably say the Star Wars or Halo universe in a time of maximum sci-fi and minimum risk ... lol.
As an adult providing a more adult answer, I'd say one of the theoretical bicameral civilizations from the Julian Jaynes book "On the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind". Provided we spoke the same language, I would love to have a long conversation with someone who truly had no inner voice or real consciousness, perform a Turing Test of sorts to understand the true differences and what consciousness actually does for us.
Frank Winter
Hoping to read a lot more in general! Want to do more reviews for Booktasters and have been getting a lot of great sci-fi book recommendations from the Quinn's Ideas YouTube channel. He's worth checking out for any sci-fi fans. Watching his videos led me to the Three Body Problem series by Cixin Liu and that was worth every minute (of audiobook listening).
Frank Winter
The mystery of the disappearing Beanie Babies box.
Our family moved when I was in fourth grade, when the truck unpacked our things at our new house in the small backwater Oklahoma town, there was an extra box on the truck. Inside were about five dozen Beanie Babies, some of which looked very expensive. This was in 2000, when they were still valuable. Seven months later, we moved again and when we unpacked the truck back home in California again, the mysterious Beanie Babies had disappeared.
Our family moved when I was in fourth grade, when the truck unpacked our things at our new house in the small backwater Oklahoma town, there was an extra box on the truck. Inside were about five dozen Beanie Babies, some of which looked very expensive. This was in 2000, when they were still valuable. Seven months later, we moved again and when we unpacked the truck back home in California again, the mysterious Beanie Babies had disappeared.
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