The Freeze-Frame AMA.

Last-minute Editorial Update: It’s actually happening at noon. Which is 44 minutes from when I’m typing this.

I suppose I should have mentioned that sooner…

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I’m doing another one of these Reddit AMA thingies next Wednesday.  Prior to that event, I’m supposed to post some kind of evidence that I am not, for example, Hilary Clinton who has seized Peter Watts’s online identity in an attempt to damage his credibility with false posts.

Hopefully this will suffice:

PW-AMA

If not, here’s the introductory passage I dashed off while dabbing Polysporin on my many cuts and bruises:

I’m Peter Watts. This is my second run at one of these AMA things (the first was back in 2014). Tachyon set this up to promote The Freeze-Frame Revolution, but that’s only one novella set in a larger sequence so you might want to wander a bit further afield. For example, I have a complex relationship with raccoons. I am a convicted tewwowist in the State of Michigan. I have a big scar on my right leg. I am part of a team working on a Norwegian Metal Science Opera about sending marbled lungfish to Mars, and the co-discoverer of Dark energy keeps screwing up my autocannibalism scene by inventing radical new spaceflight technology.

Really, the field is wide open. So.

AMA.WR.

Now that it’s all on the official record, I’ll forward it to Reddit so they’ll know I’m serious.  Or at least, who I say I am.  Then, I guess, we wait until Wednesday.

See you then.



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Mark Dennehy
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6 years ago

Honestly, it’s like you’re challenging B3TA half the time 😀

Hey, I’ll ask one – you coming to WorldCon in Dublin next year? It’s being held in a giant covert railgun cannon and there’s decent Poitin….

https://dublin2019.com/

(No, seriously, it really looks like that and we do have poitin)

Phil
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Phil
6 years ago

Probably not Hillary – I believe she’s a dog person.

The video clip promoting Lungfish is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a while, btw. (Good storyline, too).

Nestor
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Nestor
6 years ago

Mark Dennehy,

Jaysus what is that thing, they must’ve knocked it up since I was last there. What do the locals call it though? I bet it has a funny name like “the floozy in the jacuzzi”

As for the AMA honestly you’re pretty approachable right here, so I’ll just sit in the audience and clap (Or upvote, whatever), unless you want us regulars to throw you some softballs, ha ha.

David
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David
6 years ago

Look forward to seeing you on reddit Wednesday.

I will be asking when Freeze-Frame will be available on audible. Unless you’d like to be super star author to your fan and tell me now? 🙂

Ensley F. Guffey
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6 years ago

So, maybe I have missed it because my eyes are currently two different sizes because of steroid drops for an inflamed iris, but, um, what time will this asking of anything be taking place?

Heather S
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Heather S
6 years ago

Did this AMA happen? I forgot to check earlier, and I don’t see anything on r/IAmA or r/PeterWatts.

Agarob
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Agarob
6 years ago

Heather S,

It was in r/books, actually. Still pinned, as of right now.

Heather S
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Heather S
6 years ago

Peter Watts,

Thanks for the link!

Lots of great questions asked. And thanks for doing this the right way (actually answering questions, even when they’re weird), instead of treating it like an advertising campaign.

Deseret
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Deseret
6 years ago

Sorry didn’t get to ask anything. Enjoying reading it though. What it may lack in quantity due to mismanaged advertising I’m seeing overshadowed by quality of Q and A.

Speaking of complex relationships with racoons, have you seen the original Grey Gardens documentary? Amazing to think how that underground film shaped, and probably indirectly still shapes, fashion.

I think it was the racoons all along. They like seeing us pets dressed up in various colors and styles. And probably hats.

Greggles
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Greggles
6 years ago

Dammit! I totally spaced on the AMA, I was going to ask you what type of computer Siri has in half his skull.

Klaus
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Klaus
6 years ago

I never manage to be around for those time-limited AMA things. I do have a question, though, if you feel inclined to answer it. How come the Valerie short story that’s set right before Echopraxia doesn’t show up in your backlog? Were you just unhappy with how it turned out, or is there another reason?

Anna
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Anna
6 years ago

Gah, I missed the AMA. Just noticed the commentary on Blindsight handling various neural divergences as quirky adaptations rather than disabilities and wanted to pipe up about how you handled multicores/dissociative identity disorder – I’ve known a few people with DID, and as far as I can tell you got it dead-on, and when I loaned the book to a couple of them they said it was a pretty good take on it. So yeah, kudos.

Danny Boy
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Danny Boy
6 years ago

Peter Watts,

Damn! I missed it. I was hoping for the answer to get an answer to this:

Is the context for “usurper” this story, another story, or biology?

Tim
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Tim
6 years ago

Hey Peter. According to “upcoming appearances” , you’re going to be at Bakka this Saturday, for the Freeze Frame launch. I’d love to get a signed copy, so what time will you be there?

Deseret
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Deseret
6 years ago

Animals and roofs. Had I seen that part earlier, might have worded the above differently. Once heard tell of a guy who caged a bird for doing that.

Anton
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Anton
6 years ago

There is a Valerie short story?! Please Peter, put it up here on the website… It can’t be that bad. If you really don’t want to, could you email it to me? I really wanna read it.