This is a republishing of the Metaphysics of Physics podcast interview with Warren Fahy, author of the books Fragment and Pandemonium. We are going to talk about these books as well as about some biology stuff.
For those unaware, the Metaphysics of Physics was the previous incarnation of this site and for a time in included a podcast.
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Introduction
Today we have an interview with Warren Fahy, author of the books Fragment and Pandemonium. We are going to talk about these books as well as about some biology stuff. Should be fun!
Some of you may not know what these books are. Well, Warren is going to tell us all about them in a little bit. But they are science thrillers something along the lines of Jurassic Park.
You can probably gather by the fact that I am interviewing him about these books, that I have read them and probably enjoy them.
Yes, I have read them and I do enjoy them. Fragment and the sequel are amazingly interesting books with some extremely compelling biological theories.
There are some truly terrifying, nightmare creatures in both of them. They make the dinosaurs and monsters in other books seem tame. Dragons? T-Rexes? The critters in these books, such as spigers are much deadlier and scarier.
I also quite like the main cast of characters, but I cannot talk about that very much without spoilers. But two of them are biologists and they may or may not have some fascinating biological ideas, new and old.
Highly recommended. But more than that and as entertaining as the scary monsters are, you might also learn something reading this.
If you have not read these books, you might want to go to the non-spoiler version of the podcast here. It has a lot of the same stuff, but with some spoiler content removed.
Episode Transcript
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However, there may be mistakes in the transcript. Any mistakes in transcription represent our own errors or a transcription error we missed.
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Brief Excerpt
Dwayne: Hello, welcome to episode twenty-five of the Metaphysics of Physics podcast.
I am Dwayne Davies, your occasional host. Today we are going to interview Warren Fahy, the author of the bestselling books Fragment and Pandemonium.
Some of you may not know what these books are. Well, Warren is going to tell us all about them in a little bit. But they are science thriller something along the lines of Jurassic Park.
You can probably gather by the fact that I am interviewing him about these books, that I have read them and probably enjoy them. Yes, I have read them and I do enjoy them.
Fragment and the sequel are amazingly interesting books with some extremely compelling biological theories.
There are some truly terrifying, nightmare creatures in both of them. They make the dinosaurs and monsters in other books seem tame. Dragons? T-Rexes? The critters in these books, such as spigers are
much deadlier and scarier.
I also quite like the main cast of characters, but I cannot talk about that very much without spoilers. But two of them are biologists and they may or may not have some fascinating biological ideas, new and old.
Highly recommended. But more than that and as entertaining as the scary monsters are, you might also learn something reading this.
All right, now we have that out of the way, lets get back into things.
Alright, thank you for being here Warren.
Give us a brief introduction to Fragment and Pandemonium. Later questions will focus more on the science and the like, so maybe, for now, focus more on the theme and the plots.
Warren: Perfect. Well, Fragment and Pandemonium are science thrillers. They are somewhat in the vein of Michael Crichton books,which happened to be my favorite kind of thriller.
I like to read a thriller, get something out of it, get some new information and to learn something. So that was the kind of book I decided I wanted to write.
Since I was a kid, I’ve been writing. And I have been studying evolution since I dug a fossil out of the hills behind my grandparent’s home when I was eight. And ever since then I’ve been fascinated by evolution. So, I decided to mine that avenue for a thriller.
I hadn’t really seen anyone ever deal with the concept of a completely separate evolution that was isolated and went off in a completely different direction. Resulting in an entire ecosystem of almost alien creatures. If you went back far enough, I figured you could make a very compelling world.
