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[00:00:01.730] – John Knych
Hello everyone! Welcome to a book talk on Salvation with Peter F. Hamilton. Peter does not need an introduction. He is a celebrated British Scifi author who has had a long career publishing tons of books since 1987, I believe. And the books that we will be focusing on today is the Salvation Trilogy, which were published I believe in 2018, 2019, and 2021. My first question to you, Peter, is about the origin of this trilogy. How did you conceptualize it? Do remember how you started to write it? And what was your your origin idea?
[00:00:44.600] – Peter F. Hamilton
There was no one idea, there’s never one idea that sparks all of this. It’s all a combination of themes and ideas. I think probably the main one I’m thinking of now is: the trust people place in others these days and how misplaced that is a lot of the time…when you’re in this sort of post-truth era that we seem to be in… who do you turn to in times of crisis…those of the kind of things that are quite big throughout the book. Yes.
[00:01:20.770] – John Knych
Excellent. Moving on the Brandon.
[00:01:25.300] – Brandon M.
Thank you Peter for being here.
[00:01:29.260] – Peter F. Hamilton
I can see my books in the background there.
[00:01:31.690] – Brandon M.
Yeah yeah.
[00:01:34.030] – John Knych
He’s got the best book case right now.
[00:01:37.150] – Brandon M.
So my question is, I really like the portal technology. You came up with and you creeted this economy around these portals. We use for terraforming. It’s waste disposal, transport, transportation in all kinds of that. That so I think so this whole The changing society around it. So can you tell us a little bit about how you came up with this portal, think and like the ways that like. How did you come up with how all the ways that it could affect society and all just kind of your world building process. I guess, that sort of thing,
[00:02:18.570] – Peter F. Hamilton
It is I mean, it’s a very on the whole whole thing that you have to have you have to have both sides and now remember this, you have to have both sides of the whole together to start with, and then you have to transport one, but it’s always an instantaneous movement between the two. So you don’t have faster than light travel, but you do when you when you’ve taken at home all out another. Way and you’re traveling at relativistic speed. It will take two years to get one of the portal there. But then you can just step through Instantanée. So it’s that kind of transport system. So what I do from there is just kind of look out how that will affect the economy ? I mean it’s not unique, I mean. Larry Niven and space University has a different version of it, but he and I love this story and them back in the seven days. And it is here again. I had really thought through the value and work and how it would affect people and when you when it is so cheap to go anywhere a lot of barriers in society, we will collapse which will become one way towards a monoculture, which I don’t think it’s a good thing from the point of view and all that kind of thing so transport costs are kind of what I’m not here, become minimal.
[00:03:55.870] – Peter F. Hamilton
You don’t take transport if you’ve got it if you need fresh water in the Sahara, which I think was one of the things they were doing it. From the antarctic you just wait and see and all the way through it. It’s easy, it’s cheap and easy and when you have that level of technology things can really start being done that you can’t consider today, it’s like dumping all out of ice in the middle of the Sahara or think it was the Australian Dazed and the book of stuff like that. And then it’s just that they transport. Introduced in salvation where I mean it gets up in the morning in Glasgow and walk to work which is in London. I think and it’s basically if you’ve ever seen the London tube map it’s not the map that has everything in the relative position to each other is the line of the line. The train goes down is just the line with the space one after the other. You don’t need to know where they are in the physical relation to each other. That’s just what you get on the tube.
[00:05:08.370] – Peter F. Hamilton
That’s the next time. You get off. So it’s exactly the same principle is that there was one section. They make me cut from the book, which which was in that very early periods, which I was trying to explain how everything is connected through networks, which are then connected to each other and I think I think it was the one that there is one of the lines. There is in the circle. So the station are out in the circle in real life, but because they are back to back to each other through the portal link. It’s just the straight line line. So if you stand into one. You can see the back of your head because the portal are connected in the circle, but there are only projects in the straight line at which the editor said. I think we’ve had enough details and it’s just gonna confuse people. So yeah, it’s stuff like that you can ship anything around for minimal costs. So you can finally all the dirty infrastructure machinery manufacturing of world or somewhere horrible that it isn’t gonna matter you can clean up the world with by dumping incredibly toxic crafts that we’ve produced with the last two hundred years, just get rid of it once and for all all of which will will shape and change the economy, so it all in every step of the idea.
[00:06:35.390] – Peter F. Hamilton
I had like what will we do with waste with toxic dumps that we’ve got the day that we’re just bearing in the land or something we can just get rid of it and make the world a better Ecological and to leave in.
[00:06:52.330] – John Knych
Thank you.
[00:06:53.860] – Brandon M.
Thank you.
[00:06:55.390] – John Knych
You enjoyed the of what you did with the portal and the investigation of investigation of that graphic crime where they were like. That was satisfying. Use of the text and moving on to Noemie.
[00:07:14.440] – Noémie
Yes, I’m sorry. I didn’t remove my my sound. I’m going to ask you more general questions. If that’s okay with you. I have read all your books so far except for this. I haven’t actually read the last one. I’m so sorry, I was alive, but I found that the writing of the characters changed the low through the years and salvation stayed in my mind because it was very different and the way you would characters into the plot and into the story was very different. CAN you explain why the shift if there was a conscious one.
[00:07:49.120] – Peter F. Hamilton
Of my writing has progressed over the years. I’ve been doing this for years now. So I’m getting better at it. The the thing that made it is the first book of salvation was the structure of the story which for those of you that I haven’t read it. It’s the five people going on a journey to investigate and en alliant spacecraft and each of them tell the story on the way which I’ve seen before in Dan Simmons, Hypérion and I thought this is a fabulous way to introduce us to a new world science fiction team in everything like the portal system has to be explained and it does it without too much too much. I have enough dump kind of narrative. And I wanted to do that for years, but I knew very well that everyone would go. Oh yes, he’s just copd down and which is actually goes back to show. So it’s what I did on the Canterbury Tales. He had this pilgrims going in the age of the history and I was then when it was published two thousand fifteen or something.
[00:09:08.300] – Peter F. Hamilton
I was at the point in my my career where I did I really do not care If people just say I’m starting from Simmons and enough that were comment on it when it was published. But like I said I didn’t care because it is such a perfect way of introducing the science-fiction story. So that’s that’s why there was that big shift. I like to try and do something relatively new each time, which is what I’ve written in so many different universe if you like I mean, I have I think I think I want to. And I really right back from the start. I did not want to be the guy who is written by two books in one universe. I just I just couldn’t be myself and I wanted to explore other concepts and other ways of doing things, which is why different university of been created through it my career, so so of evolution and I wanted to do something new. I thought that was a great way of being the character in the world of science-fiction, and I stand by that it is other people are now friends to use it.
[00:10:15.640] – Peter F. Hamilton
So yes, that’s it, that’s how it happened.
[00:10:18.370] – Noémie
Okay. Thank you so much welcome.
[00:10:23.710] – John Knych
To Jenn and also for those who just arrived like that. If you don’t ask questions, you know how to ask you can just say so.
[00:10:32.650] – Jenn
I saw the feature in the book feels really familiar and reliable even know so much has changed. How do you go about keeping a world so recognizable and still transforming it completely.
[00:10:48.770] – Peter F. Hamilton
AM I trying to resonance, which is strange world to use, you know who has this amazing job easily rushing around and fire, but is still got relationships issues and is still worried about money and is still in need time off and all this kind of things which we do all related to is just his job is different, but everything that spin out from his job is the same and is recognized Bill today in all things are still going wrong. People are not doing what he wants to the politics doesn’t agree with him and half of it. We’ve got this, we’ve got this, so I try and build in the the every man and the every woman and to all I have to have somebody to have this kind of character, I help in most of the books because space opera used to be the big dramatique conflict between the good guy and the bad guys and was all very exciting and adventurous and more interested in in the little people underneath. I mean what the big conflict is is fabulous and when it’s over changed what changed the guy who wasn’t in the big battle scene and wasn’t on the front line there.
[00:12:10.180] – Peter F. Hamilton
How they supported have they not supported ? What’s going on All that has all that is essential to me and I think to put in the little guy story, and that is another way. I can get people to related to them by taking them as when they were when they were first introduced. Salvation we took a ride through this transport system, which gives you an idea of what can happen in this world, but it was, it was somebody going to work every morning because he’s got to because he needs money to pay the money in the bill and everything so yeah, It’s that combination of what we used to. In this exotic setting and I think blending. The two is such a good way of introducing the world as well.
[00:13:02.130] – Jenn
You and felt really natural your world building and like you said. It wasn’t that was just sort of the way. They’re telling your story and going about their lives. It was very natural. Thank you.
[00:13:14.730] – John Knych
Thank you. I saw Jane do the post that she is immediately ordered. The second one. Thank you just finished the first one who ordered the yes.
[00:13:24.240] – Jenn
But I don’t want you want to feel like. They can’t ask ask questions about the next, but I understand that there might be. Spoiler.
[00:13:31.350] – John Knych
Spoiler. If you want going to do it. Spoiler. Alright moving on tout tempsen.
[00:13:43.760] – Orateur 6
Cinq Over you this world but to me that it seems like that you really build them from scratch first and then you had things in. I just wanted how you build up the stories to build up the entire world to start with or do you think about the caractère or the problem or the plot will come together.
[00:14:07.610] – Peter F. Hamilton
I want to say yes, but it starts with as I said the idea of the trade, whatever I want to do so I’ve got the idea of the main problem that people whatever it is and which I think ok well, if it wasn’t what is a kind of invasion Story So what kind of technology and science and society, what we have that will stand a chance to fight against this. So it’s that kind of level. You gotta have that level of to be obvious in science fiction weapons that we have power have we have. WE have we struggling for energy all that kind of thing so that kind of the society will what kind of world will that it into and we are going to have slightly Startrek universe where every planet is habitable or are we gonna get a little bit more real you know and you can find a world that has the right condition, but we’re gonna have to therefore, it is changing and then do we have people Who do know you can’t do that we got to keep in worlds pristine for example, you know that will be a part of society.
[00:15:23.570] – Peter F. Hamilton
If we have to get out there and start turning the universe into the earth. So yeah, That’s all those Together and then when you work out the industrial level. Well, what kind of finance is available in that which leads to use the politician and what kind of functions ? I’ll be what works and what what the people want and they shouldn’t have. Social media developed and do something even more around us. All this kind of thing and you’ve got that world now. So who’s gonna leave it ? So I’ve just said I want my every man and every woman in it and what kind of job. They’re gonna do and they’re gonna be proud of this problem. And it just that’s when it starts literally coming together organically. So you come up with the world is all the people in it. You just have to pick the right one to tell the story through. And I make my choice of every man, you know in and it was. Very part of this big company. What was the company called the transport Company.
[00:16:31.010] – John Knych
Connect. Connexion.
[00:16:32.450] – Peter F. Hamilton
Connexion. Yes. So there is a lot of people that which helps explain it at which is another introduction to the kind of world. It is so it all come together like that it all come together very organic and then you start feeding them into the okay, You’ve got your good guy. The side kick. Maybe just be very crud about it and that so they are placed in the story and and then and only then do I start writing and of how I’m gonna tell the story. So the world building is very much first and that is built around what the issue ? What the problem or the plot is going to be then. Then you pick the caractère.
[00:17:15.230] – Orateur 6
Thank you.
[00:17:16.250] – Peter F. Hamilton
You are welcome.
[00:17:17.420] – John Knych
Thank you for that. Peter Alright. Moving on the team.
[00:17:21.440] – Orateur 7
And I’m good afternoon what I like about the book is the underpinnings of the science within and often. I thought of think of it is potentially a sign of actuality if humanity. Keep going. Rather than science-fiction. Are there any of go to contemporary journals of science ? Sources. You read regularly to give you some spark of ideas for developing that so the concept of futuristic thinking, but is potentially achievable by humanity.
[00:17:50.950] – Peter F. Hamilton
Yes and now I mean, there is some research in so many areas. It’s impossible to keep out the front of it if when I’m putting the world together, I need a specific technology or idea. I will try and read it. But it will only have to be at the pop science level. I mean the true is for me is you don’t learn about science from science fiction, but it is the application of the technology interests me most like like we’re dealing with the salvation. This instantaneous travel the effects that will have on us how we get around how we can do stranger things without thinking about it and want to think it is specifically years ago. Six years ago There was I help put together with the science fiction writers they are at Calum fusion research plants in oxfordshire. So we all went along trips too long to date and look around the fusion center and also the reaction engine, which are building and inbreeding. So we do kind of look at things like that and see how they can be applied and how they will grow.
[00:19:03.300] – Peter F. Hamilton
It’s not in the salvation books, but the the books before that’s the Commonwealth. I had what I called organic psychiatry tattoos. WE found was just basically a tattoo on your own your hand and that it came about very very simply because it’s this. This extrapolation that science-fiction of taking something like mobile phone, which we didn’t have when I was a kid have got small and small or more and more powerful following more law, but also tattoos which again were not around in my youth. They were the preserved cells, basically and that has exploded across society. So I just do not combined the two which seems perfectly logical to me at the time. So that’s how I’m kind of the angels. I look at this thing is. Where is it now ? What was it ? Where is it now and where can I push it to him and and then when it’s that good, how it is affecting society. So that’s the kind of process. I’ve got to do that the question.
[00:20:11.730] – Orateur 7
That was lovely. Thank you.
[00:20:16.800] – John Knych
Thank you. Thank you, Peter Criss. You have a question or would you like to you.
[00:20:27.980] – Orateur 8
Will be very quick cause I am a work. I shouldn’t be doing this but. I’ve been snake. I just always find I’ve just finished salvation of red Exodus as well as well as the Commonwealth sargas and I just love where the character and the dynamics from so of the police side and the detective side comes from and and have noticed that you’ve got a bit of that in salvation. Obviously, it’s very heavy in the Commonwealth saga as well as this is there any of the place where that it comes from like that. I don’t know what to do you have family and like the police force or is it just like the just the detected in the newer kind of settings. I really enjoy it.
[00:21:12.110] – Peter F. Hamilton
Thank you very much. I always think that it again. Like this the story structure and salvation. This is On a trip together and telling their stories. Detective stories to my mind are a very very good way of introducing a science-fiction world. Because you’ve got to send your detective down and to those mean streets and have him searches around so there for he gets a good lift. Good look around the world is and that’s the way to tell the story. That’s the way to explain the world to the reader again. Avoiding the big dumps. You know it’s the same thing. I know I’m always getting accused of writing books in the far too big if I was doing a contemporary work. WE will get up in the morning get to the airport and fly to somewhere. That’s three sentences in salvation. How he gets up and how it gets to work for you, because you need to be told this but Because it is so it’s the same thing with the detective, He’s looking up and down on the streets what you can find.
[00:22:26.180] – Peter F. Hamilton
How does it get there was there for him to see ? How do I do this job in those circonstances ? So I just think it’s a great way of telling the story plus I really like thrillers and detective fiction as well. So good for me.
[00:22:44.060] – John Knych
And you cry two people in this talk, take two or are participating from work. So thank you for taking the risk.
[00:22:53.030] – Peter F. Hamilton
Of his work related to it will help you.
[00:22:58.310] – John Knych
So now, we’re back to the beginning. So my question. Peter Piggyback theme question which has to do with your technology. So the right you have a question to your right very naturally with the Rich world with everything from data splashing across tarsus lance the telomeres treatment to 3D printing Asteroid mining, nuclear fusion of all the technology of writing about which have you encountered in the real world ? Where you’ve been the most surprised at its progress meaning you know who said the team that you don’t sort of actively write with a lot of science, but just to being in the world. What technology has have struck you as like Wow, That’s it. That’s progress in a way that similar to my books that is surprising.
[00:23:52.480] – Peter F. Hamilton
And I’ve got to say that that time when we want to look around. And it’s just saying and they all the knowledge. It is always in the future. Well actually that allows us to see that it’s hopefully a lot more than that. I’m not talking next year, but it’s the progress. I’ve made is quite astonishing in the technology ? They have is quite astonishing. It’s not cheap. Well, well will get the commercial fusion in the next twenty years. I don’t know, but it’s it changed my view of it to understand that I believe that is gonna be the energy. So we’re gonna be using when when will runs out so yeah that I would say I mean well, we’re getting it also the more thing about computing. It is. It is it is in capacity and have in every month. It’s I don’t know what they are now that’s just going. There is gonna have to be limits that at some point when you get down to the wire that can only take one electrons at the time quantum quantum is there is going to be a plato and that we’ve come ridiculously forts in just the last ten Now we’re getting into the cubic computing and all that kind of thing, But I think we’re all I think we’re all most of the platform that I’d love to be wrong, but that also has come along to create profound degree and it’s coming out of the research lab.
[00:25:32.420] – Peter F. Hamilton
Now we will see in the application of any way. This is this thing about what is it gonna hamper creativity ? And I’m not sure that it goes. I don’t think you can hear and creativity plus there are a lot of benefit in the coming along with the use of various diseases and everything with which will be made easy by whether it will hit the silver bullet at some point. I don’t know but yes, that’s the kind of things I will keep an eye on it when I said I think I don’t need it if the story is featuring a specific technology, I will try and ride up on that so I don’t get to many of complaint projects where I think it’s going.
[00:26:21.760] – John Knych
Thank you all right back to Brandon.
[00:26:25.690] – Brandon M.
You will have to agree with some other side with the. I really like the detectives and science fiction. You’ve done, you’ve done with that. Thank you so my general space travel and you’ve had this amazing career writing space opera. So what do you think realistically And knowing that space travel is is incredibly hard to do. Do you think you will ever leave the solar system realistically.
[00:26:58.780] – Peter F. Hamilton
Not with any technology. It’s gonna come across gonna be developed in my life. Time I love Myself and all Reynolds and learn and stay in people like that are all of the same generation. WE grew up with Apollo Skylab and the space shuttle. And then nothing happened. I mean that there has been up there fifteen years even something like that and it’s done so the amazing science and we have learned a lot of engineering about it, but the actual moving and from what we had been talking about artemus, maybe in twenty-seven, but then I was I was when we first landed on the moon and the technology will be very very different from the engineering point of view, the the kind of space launch system. WE have now are far more sophisticated. They are becoming very risibles cheaper to get out there. It’s what you put up. There is is the looking at the moment. It’s still very expensive for human spaceflight. Now I’m gonna put this without getting criticism. I admire Musk attempt to get to think he is somewhat stating it from what we’ve learned from the SS and the kind of medical biological problems human encounter, just going into what it is is bad and that if you are going to miss.
[00:28:37.700] – Peter F. Hamilton
You be coming back, you’ll be have to be fucked up to dialysis because your kidneys will not that kind of time. There is also the radiation exposure. The problem is actually traveling outside the magnétosphère huge and so what we have learned a lot, but it’s not necessarily been good news. WE have to get around all those systems all those issues and problems To get to more and maybe I will see that in my life time actually traveling the wonderful place to go by Jupiter with this moon and see if there is life under those days and stuff like that would be what I think further than that. I’m not gonna see it. Maybe we will start, Maybe I will deliver us in a few years, who knows that would be one thing playing into another lovely, but I’m optimistic for the very long term. Note I think the right of progress for space travel has not not going to have, I was hoping when I was younger, but it that way.
[00:29:50.590] – Brandon M.
Thank you for that I asked. Robert Charles Wilson the same kind of his will send von Newman replicator or Space probes out of the solar system instead of people.
[00:30:06.870] – Peter F. Hamilton
Yeah, That’s a long way in the future when you gonna get stuff down to the molecular level when you can literally build cells that will be an enormous shift in in how it will affect society. I mean for the start of bullshit any kind of problem. If you can a sample of living, so so yeah, that that he’s probably right about that and you and you come out with the nation or any of the other wonderful science-fiction. You put your mind in the in the storage and grow yourself in your body when you get to the new planet. Of those kind of personality with looking at the use in several hundred years time. I don’t think I don’t think I’m gonna see it.
[00:30:57.030] – Brandon M.
Will.
[00:30:57.720] – Peter F. Hamilton
Be happy to prove wrong.
[00:31:02.020] – John Knych
Bien que Peter Brandon. I am optimistic about my hair and our life time. I think will will send you.
[00:31:08.200] – Peter F. Hamilton
I will see some of them on nose.
[00:31:11.410] – John Knych
And we’ll quick before we moved to Noemie. There’s a book that came out the us at two years ago by saying all the problems which you just lifted Peter about like radiation liver problems, but I was thinking when people left you up to go to the new world right. There was scurvy and both they don’t know what was there ? There was wilderness. There was problem but people still went right now, we have technology and and ways to do with it. So I think we’re.
[00:31:39.850] – Peter F. Hamilton
The european expansion. If that’s what we want to call it. I was only technology driven that we could build the ship good enough. There is also an economic reason behind it. I’m not sure. There’s no reason to go to it. It’s purely scientific which is where the funding problems in it ? It would be delightful to go there and research stuff. It’s gonna be very expensive even with risible. Super rocket.
[00:32:09.390] – John Knych
Yeah. I think we’re quick and I think that’s why SpaceX is going public and if anybody heard that but it.
[00:32:15.330] – Peter F. Hamilton
Is very well as well we all accounts.
[00:32:18.690] – John Knych
Billion and billions of dollars all right for that quick corruption all right and to and.
[00:32:25.740] – Noémie
Thank you. I’m watching you do a lot of research about the technology and the science. You want to use is there one or multiple, maybe that you have researched a lot and couldn’t wave into your story and some ways all that you really want to use at some point, but you have to go into it yet, maybe ?
[00:32:44.400] – Peter F. Hamilton
Yes ! It’s very very clever and his ideas of consciousness. I just just got it here somewhere I’ve been reading up and it cause I thought it would play into my. New stuff. Where is it completely lost in having said that sorry ? It’s a bit of the theory of consciousness and he has received it at the moment space time is something that holds consciousness. WE are little blob of consciousness in space time. His series is that it is consciousness that creates space time. So it’s what we have now and I can’t get my head is done the matter of heaven. And I just can’t get my head around that at the moment. I’m sure it will be very useful to me when I do. But at the moment I’m yeah. It’s kind of well out there, but it is genuine Angel of Research. So yeah.
[00:34:00.100] – Noémie
That’s interesting. Thank you so much. I have to look it up to you.
[00:34:05.140] – Peter F. Hamilton
I should know his name. I’ve been doing a lot of proofreading. So my mind is his blank on that kind of thing and I’ll try and remember before the end of the end of the podcast.
[00:34:21.160] – John Knych
Back to Jenn
[00:34:24.640] – Jenn
I have questions about the character in Salvation was there was there one that you had the most fun reading or that you, they were your favourite. Maybe when you were reading the book.
[00:34:39.490] – Peter F. Hamilton
It was. I think the the kids in the future that have been brought up to it. I think the name Layla you and. I think they are my two of every man and every woman for that I’m in that she’s not she’s not a hero in the get out and have a big punch up to save the universe trip. She is doing but she’s the need for it. I’m very very conflicted and is actually completely in love with the friends. And I guess you that was there kind of my favourite there. I think in that that series rather than the ones. WE were following a lot in salvation itself. WE do follow them more in the second and third books and and what she does so in the big way to help resolve the whole crisis by going against the grain. I mean that is that is a classic. I do you like it is the rebel with a cause so yeah. She was she was fun to write. She was interesting to write I put it through hell and a lot of ways, but she she would be my standard I think.
[00:36:03.440] – Jenn
Tanks. I’m looking forward to the next few books. Okay.
[00:36:08.540] – John Knych
Thank you. Thank you, Peter. I would not have just that I would I would have just one of the one of the five interesting all right and two of.
[00:36:20.270] – Orateur 6
The kind of similar to previous questions about why you draw inspiration from with the science. How do you develop this ADN lifeform or the ecology of plant life ? If it’s so different from what we know in real life is there anything that has inspired it one that really stood out to me was this and from Right ? Just so weird but where there’s no direct or obvious kind of parallel in our world or what we’ve seen before. So how do you come up with this.
[00:37:02.740] – Peter F. Hamilton
Thing that I mean ? I grew up in the seventh where we had star trek, which was man in very good rubber masks with the bad guy, but but they were not necessarily even alien itself as you understand what the xenomorphes are about it ? They just killing machine so I wanted something that was so big and so powerful you can’t fight it. But what is it doing what it does and deliberately didn’t ensure that in the book. It’s just there and it was that it can also came out of one of the threads. I was building People who are on the opposite side you politically or radiological is why can’t they just say the things my way ? Why they are wrong all the time. What do we have to do to make them understand and where is because they think exactly the same thing about you and there is this and it’s getting worse, Obviously, you are having at the moment, but there is that I don’t know why I don’t understand why why why and that was what the answer is obviously doing something which is very important to them and whether it’s whether it’s a kind of colonization or their version of terraforming.
[00:38:25.530] – Peter F. Hamilton
WE don’t know, but they see us Why Why are they doing it ? And there is no thought you never can get somebody on the experiment and politics from you to change the mind. You can come to compromise, but to do that you’ve got to understand them. And they just don’t so I thought that is the real thing that is the absolute otherness. Which I mean what are we going to see when we get out there ? It’s not gonna be all wonderfull. Things and we get fusion power and they get all of medicine or something like that. That’s it. That’s it now, that’s not real. So when we get out there. It’s going to be something that you can’t talk to you can’t understand can’t. Can’t go around. That’s what I absolutely loved about this. And I’m really really proud of them.
[00:39:24.830] – Orateur 6
Is there amazing ?
[00:39:26.360] – Peter F. Hamilton
Thank you.
[00:39:28.160] – Orateur 6
Thank you.
[00:39:31.160] – John Knych
Thank you. Moving to team.
[00:39:34.580] – Orateur 7
At the British author to enjoy. I’m incorporating weaving in British location within your books and purposes living in the room and being a fan of the detector side of the great North road is one of my favourite books of years, I’ve been able to relate in the UK to the location of the road is very rewarding rather than all by the best in different countries, and this is where I mean.
[00:40:01.630] – Peter F. Hamilton
I was born and grew up in living in rutland for a very long time I think and rutland for those of you didn’t know is the smallest country in the UK. I have run out of rutland place names. I’ve just have used them all around my family comes from new Castle. So I was up there lost in the city and the seven days. And I did go up there and so to walk with those mean streets that the detective would just to get the correct geography in my head and to understand that. It starts with the body being dump into the time and I’ve I have I walked along the time to find out the best place to drop the body and into the time, and it is next to the time of this as I said and which I loved the art and that so yeah, I know that it was very much deliberate very much that those of the real streets if you encounter a street name, there is there it exists, which is nice to do with you in science fiction is something that you can go, and it is not that anybody will be you can do the great North of Newcastle if you wanted to and it is something again.
[00:41:16.600] – Peter F. Hamilton
It is this basing stuff on realities and extrapolation. I used to live in a very very old house. It was built in sixteen where was at work and developed into the real right and then it had me in it right in science fiction and I think well the building is still the same, but the use of change so much that that’s son extrapolation. Again you learn to extrapolation. And if you need that grounding, which is what the great white was new castle in what is it about time ? So yeah, I’m getting it right was very important to me.
[00:41:58.130] – Orateur 7
And great thank you. So how is changing in the last thirty years ? I’ve been around here and then looking that be further is nice again for yourself as the reader extrapolations to work past yourself.
[00:42:09.650] – Peter F. Hamilton
Yeah yeah.
[00:42:14.330] – John Knych
Thank you. Moving back to cry. If you can escape work or secretly.
[00:42:23.060] – Orateur 8
You can secretly escape escape are just thinking of you mentioned. The the kid in the future and everything and I keep to get in the name of the day Bâtiment. But it kind of reminds me of what you write in us. With regard to the celestial because that kind of so of evolved further from humanity. And I just like si do you sometimes take certaines troupes ou in your books of the idea of love as you go from the book is like the wormholes for me because I want the Commonwealth saga and kind of how I love it. Let’s go back into it. Which is why I like the salvation, But it so is that something that you Do you so of take the concept of all. This is this is really enjoy writing about this. This is really interesting. CAN I so of expand that somewhere else kind of thing you. I have to.
[00:43:33.460] – Peter F. Hamilton
Try and do something new every few I think the Commonwealth is some of fully explored. Now what if I come up with an idea that will be in the Commonwealth and all right it again. I think you’re talking about the omnia in salvation. That’s what it could be. A way.
[00:43:58.890] – John Knych
Is.
[00:44:02.820] – Peter F. Hamilton
The day where we came about as part of the big time for the salvation. Was this what you put your trust in people the world were very good. Very liberal idea of how we get equality and the day cycle through male and female cycles. I think the banks did very well in the culture as well to the degree and so you know When you start with the quality when you get rid of the inequality between sex and gender to start with him, but then they became very very prevalence and which points it seems to be a liberal idea and became doctrine and you can’t get out of doctrine without being a rebel and then you get found on by the authority and all that basically, it was an example of the road to hell being with good intentions is because it was that is what became limiting to the survival of the human survivor from earth, and is that they they all went off and their various directions. They will develop new plan to build build the weapons and go and fight the bad guys, but they are doing it because that’s what they supposed to do that was what the doctor said and and that is why they were doing so badly.
[00:45:29.780] – Peter F. Hamilton
So yeah, That’s how that kind of idea filters in there is what I wanted something. This is great. This is gonna have so many problems, but then it has its own self created the problem of something is is so far so good. It never seen the lost in the original state for me and it does become intolerant people become people who are the morphological. They are the more intolerant, they become and because they so this is us is the future, the way forward. Then they stuck to it for two rigorously and I’m going, but there is something that that I don’t.
[00:46:17.890] – John Knych
Think you cry. So this will be the number people have to be my last question. So well, I’ll go around the go around the Horn. One more time Des so pills is not the first of years that are red and something that struck me is that you ? Thank you so much you so much in right there. And you mentioned a couple of times and this took the different inspiration like the Hyperion, Chaucer, Hyperion. But also the the culture of the omnia is being similar to the culture. But you can take a little bit further with the analysis of them, the question is and with the other authors. This do you read ? Are you ? Do you keep up to date on contemporary sci-fi ? WE won’t have Alastair Reynolds for one of these talks and he said that in the eight early days. It is possible to read like all the literature. But now Syfy has expanded so much that it’s difficult to keep up and the general, but do you have you over the years to try and there is some authors that you go back to that you continue to read or have you sort of night raid contemporary ?
[00:47:41.030] – John Knych
What would do you ? I guess we are. What are you sure ? You are ?
[00:47:45.140] – Peter F. Hamilton
You are now it’s on the road. Don’t tell him. I haven’t found it all that is part of the problem as I know people like Alistair and Paul and Steve and Adrian Trajkovski and all this are you. So I’m really keen to see what they are doing. But that kind of you are always. I was well red and till the point I started writing with your time shrinks like that and then I had kids and I make it more of this year. To read more than the kick in the problem of I Influenced by. I’ve been there are other ideas and I would have done that. I don’t want them to work. So I do try and keep up. Against this. What the scene is I mean ? I don’t know how many science-fiction writers there are in the world. There’s clearly a lot because like you say that this is so wonderful. These days, there is every night. You can think of and I like it. I meet up with with my friends and convention, but we don’t sit down and flow.
[00:49:03.310] – Peter F. Hamilton
Where’s the direction of science fiction going ? It is everybody writing what they want to which is lovely and so I don’t I don’t see this. It’s going in that specific directions. It’s it’s so multiple these days that we’re going in every direction and I have done other stuff and I could be at the point of which I can do what I want to would in my career, I can I can publish or other stuff as well, but I do like in the space opera and the times and I’m now doing another completely different universe for myself and so I do try to read. It is not as much as I’d like to read and I you and it doesn’t need to people. I know all that I get sent obviously get a lot of books to create and so I read a few chapter one and maybe I don’t go as much as I should do with those books, but it’s all read all as much as is practical.
[00:50:16.560] – John Knych
I would be back to Brandon.
[00:50:20.610] – Brandon M.
Alister is right all of your books.
[00:50:23.820] – Peter F. Hamilton
He has and.
[00:50:29.970] – Brandon M.
It should be an easy one a star Trek or Doctor Who. What do you prefer to ?
[00:50:42.570] – Peter F. Hamilton
Probably. Star Trek. Doctor Who. Doctor. Who is John Pertwee. And that’s how I grew up with him. And it is and I always was intended for all by diplomatic a younger audience. Time of life. I don’t really fit into it. I don’t think I know a lot of people who still love it my age. But I’m a kind of and I have seen the new doctor who I haven’t put time of side to see the new doctor The same in search of what I’m just starting to watch the strange new worlds and I haven’t seen all I mean, I was I kind of water when you did I think that I didn’t see much and which I because I didn’t have the time. So I’m in my final answer is Star Trek awesome.
[00:51:45.600] – Brandon M.
Thank you.
[00:51:48.450] – John Knych
I want to know. For her last question.
[00:51:52.920] – Noémie
Do you have a book or a plot our character, you would have written differently now than when you first did it is there is there something, you would have changed and you would like to change if you could maybe.
[00:52:06.900] – Peter F. Hamilton
I’m gonna give you that is pretty much all of them and we had this. I think this was about the question. I don’t think my writing has changed and the one thing I haven’t done very much of my old stuff. I’ve had no name but the little snippets. I have read some of it is how you worry about. I’m not going to be that good again. And then you switch to the next beat, which is God. Why did I write that ? So I think if I had an infinite amount of time, I would rewrite them all and they will be there to be different. But it’s always I think there’s something that I used to write which are two crude. I think for now another stuff. I’m really pleased with so I stand by it all. But if I was wondering if I started back at the morning star rising now, I think I will be quite a different book. I was still have the same flow. But I think it will be. I think you will be quite different.
[00:53:06.320] – Peter F. Hamilton
I’m currently writing something which I’m determined to make it a good news for everyone and I seem to be doing a lot more time than used to doing the revision every day cutting is really ruthless with cutting at whole paragraph and lines and trying to make it a little bit of each paragraph a little bit more precise and so I think that all comes out different again to the lost books. So whether people see this as progress. I don’t know, but yeah, I would I would rewrite a lot. Yeah yeah.
[00:53:43.960] – Noémie
That makes sense. Thank you so much. I have to go for work. But I just want to take a quick moment to see you. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to talk to you and to ask questions. It’s always very precious those moments and I hope that we will have you again someday and thank you for all the time. You take to write your beautiful stories. It’s it’s the best gift. You can give you a lot of people like us. So thank you so much and thank you for inviting us again. Thank you have a lovely day.
[00:54:13.810] – John Knych
Have a good day. Excellent en tout, J’en.
[00:54:21.930] – Jenn
Passe. To the next person.
[00:54:24.900] – John Knych
And to time.
[00:54:28.920] – Orateur 6
Out of all of the worlds and caractères that you’ve written what would be the crossover that you would like to see.
[00:54:37.980] – Peter F. Hamilton
Hmm between my universe. Hum hum. Oh, that’s it be on the spot. Hum. I think I think I think I would be like to see. How how would get on in the fall and dragons world from the Commonwealth ? WE get done in the fall and dragons world. I think that would be a very interesting crossover. It can’t be done. But putting here there are there. I don’t do multiverse of the multiverse of putting her there would would be interesting.
[00:55:27.200] – Orateur 6
Thank you. Welcome and thank you for all of our questions.
[00:55:31.790] – Peter F. Hamilton
Thank you.
[00:55:35.390] – John Knych
Great moving to team.
[00:55:39.170] – Orateur 7
Well known for your sweeping and that you have to stop the time. There are there printed ? What’s your Outlook on something like that ? This is the one of the great North road. You see that as you know. It’s gonna be a single book is that we have a break in the time to take a breeder or or you are you always fearful ? You start off with a single book, but you think you might be tempted to go to the second to a third one that wasn’t the initial intention.
[00:56:05.960] – Peter F. Hamilton
I wish I had that planning skills to help you see the thing is salvation is salvation, salvation and signs of which is one story. It is split in two three days, some days and cliffhanger there, but it is one story time with the night down, which is about. It. It’s one book technically. So it is just the question of Where do you split ? Those kind of stories. This song is just physically. Where do you want it ? But I do you like that when I’m writing in the name. It is a stand-alone and the one after that is probably gonna be a stand-alone. Whether it’s me realizing. I’m running out of time and I need to get these things and it is a huge commitment to do trilogy. Now that those kind of thousands pages books and I’m going back to I’ve learned a little bit more about writing to become a little bit more precise. So I can’t see possibly I can see some Dewalt is coming. I can’t think I’ve ever been going back to the kind of night stone and void trilogy again.
[00:57:28.200] – Peter F. Hamilton
I think that help me to it, but I think that kind of stuff.
[00:57:35.040] – Orateur 7
Thank you.
[00:57:36.060] – Peter F. Hamilton
Welcome.
[00:57:40.110] – John Knych
Back to cry.
[00:57:43.500] – Orateur 8
Hello. Yes, sorry about the last question. I think we just did just did it all and on a more fun one of your characters that you have created and with or without you have created the law who would be one that you would like to go on like, you know on a lunch with or go out for a drink me personally. I would be from a Because I think he’s l’arriou, but who would be like the one. You could go on like for a mail or for for a drink. Who would it be.
[00:58:21.890] – Peter F. Hamilton
Since you.
[00:58:23.690] – Orateur 8
Are really ?
[00:58:26.960] – Peter F. Hamilton
Why would you think ? Yeah Absolutely.
[00:58:30.680] – Chris
No no no no.
[00:58:34.760] – Peter F. Hamilton
Osez ! Osez ! I would like. To be scary.
[00:58:43.220] – Chris
Yes. Yes. Perfect. Again. I’ll just what everyone else is said. Thank you very much for your time and for for you know the the story that you have written and how they are and I’m really looking forward to the second part of the saga. I think that comes out later on this year and will not the next year Thank you very much. I.
[00:59:15.280] – John Knych
Think. Thank everyone for your great questions and thank you for being here. I really enjoyed this discussion. So the last thing we always do Peter and we were right on the do our time. Oh yeah. What do you working on now you are working on the standalone. If you want to share more about south of what the next project is and then also I shoot out if there is a living author who or other than in house of Suns, but someone who is living who you respected and read and what we could.
[00:59:50.320] – Peter F. Hamilton
Do it from one cinq. 101 This one is going to be interesting. I think it’s coming out of this is the proof of it is called the infinite state and there is it is fairly space opera and. Yes ! Yeah yeah It’s good. I like it a lot the society of fighting against is quite horrific. But it’s a good battle to be had and some interesting stuff in their as well. Yeah yeah that will be my my one of my recommended day every month. But that they have could be with that when you’re wonderful.
[01:00:43.560] – John Knych
Thank you, Peter. This has been, it’s been a great talk. So this is recorded. I’ll send you an email with the link to the the video and have a great day. And thank you everyone for coming. Enjoy the conversation.
[01:00:56.580] – Peter F. Hamilton
Thank you.
[01:00:58.290] – Tim
Thank you. Thank you.
[01:01:00.390] – Orateur 7
Thank you.