Vintage SF | 'The Downloaded' book tour with Robert J. Sawyer #cryogenic #quantum #download #scifi #author #sf @vintagesf | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
What if both criminals and astronauts had their minds scanned into a quantum computer? And what if their bodies were cryogenically preserved. Something goes wrong and they are downloaded 500 years later in a post-apocalyptic world.

Robert J. Sawyer website
sfwriter.com

Full event recording at the YouTube channel McNally Robinson Online Events or at the link below.
youtube.com/live/JsFUFYNFNQE?si=-B9QeaDVj1L7xwTu

Host: Richard Rempel
Channel: @vintagesf

00:00 Intro
00:22 Audible commissions 'The Downloaded'
05:40 Publishing rights
08:38 My question
15:41 Oppenheimer and Barbie
22:29 Asimov's 3 laws of robotics
28:00 AI independence
32:36 Star Trek
39:08 Updating novels
44:44 TV and movie rights
47:06 Book signing and outro

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