Episode 48: Clayton Rumley - Game Development, Star Trek, and Envisioning Pre-recorded History
Alternate Futures15 Syys 2023

Episode 48: Clayton Rumley - Game Development, Star Trek, and Envisioning Pre-recorded History

In this episode, I chat with Clayton Rumley about game development, his interest in Star Trek, and considerations when writing about pre-recorded human history. We also chat about being a cemetary groudskeeper, time travel, and generation ships.

As usual, there's also The Lightning Round and The Big Questions.

Books of his we discuss are: Holocene.

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