Introducing Author Conversations with Chris Dabbs

0:04 Hello, and welcome to Author Conversations. I'm Christ tabs Say, broadcast journalists with the BBC and Times Radio in London, and in this podcast I sit down with writers to explore the ideas behind their books. Each episode is a thoughtful, long form conversation with authors from a wide range of fields, from novelists and historians to religious leaders, scientists and researchers, looking at the stories, research, and big questions that shape their work. So whether you're interested in literature, science, religion, history or the future of human civilization, this podcast offers a chance to hear directly from the people thinking deeply about those subjects. To give you a taste of the kinds of conversations you'll hear, here's a moment for my discussion with science fiction writer Peter Dingus, PhD, author of Deep Time and The End of the World. In this clip, he explains the question he'd ask if humanity ever encountered another civilization in the universe.

1:11 The question I'd ask an alien is, you know, in order to come from one start to the next, the amount of power that you have to be in charge of is unimaginable. And you know, we have like these little things like atomic bombs, and we're always like one step away from self annihilation. So I'd ask them, presumably you came from where we came from, how did you get to the other side of it? That's just one moment from my conversation with Peter Dingis Follow Author Conversations with Chris Stabs to hear the full interview and many more discussions with writers about their books and the ideas behind them. Thanks for listening. Oh and you can also watch the full interview on YouTube.