What really switched me over into writing full-time was a growing disgust at the political nonsense infesting my research post at the University of British Columbia. I always wanted to do both I started collecting rejections when I was still in high school, continued throughout the eighties while getting science degrees. In fact, both those pursuits happened more or less in parallel I first decided I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was five or six, and that I wanted to be a writer sometime between six and eight (I remember both moments as if they were just decades ago). What made you change your career from using science as a marine biologist, to reflecting about science as a writer? Because aliens don’t need to be human-like creatures or even multi-cellular organisms to ‘think’ strategically and conquer the universe, after all. Peter was kind enough to share his thoughts and views on the thrilling problem of consciousness and its relation to intelligence that he has raised in his award-winning novel Blindsight. Blindsight touches on the topics of human nature and technology, approaching them from a philosophical point of view. Peter Watts, a contemporary science-fiction writer from Canada, spoke to milk commissioning editor Olena about his career path from marine biology to sci-fi authorship.
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