Benjamin Percy on Sci-Fi Fungi in 'The Unfamiliar Garden'

The Science in The Fiction

The Science in The Fiction
Benjamin Percy on Sci-Fi Fungi in 'The Unfamiliar Garden'
Oct 24, 2024 Season 2 Episode 41
Marty Kurylowicz and Holly Carson

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Beginning our highly anticipated new topic of Sci-Fi Fungi, we talk to science fiction author Benjamin Percy about the second book of his Comet Cycle, 'The Unfamiliar Garden'.  We discuss Ben's writing career in comic books and novels and soon TV and film, the literary treatment that space fungus gets in this book, as well as the human and emotional stakes that make it a really good story.  We discuss the goodies and the baddies of the fungal world, lichenification, symbiosis, collective intelligence, creating wonder and seeing the world with fresh eyes. 

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