Episode 37: AM Scott - Air Force Space Operations, Galactic Time Keeping, and Extraterrestrial Expansion

Episode 37: AM Scott - Air Force Space Operations, Galactic Time Keeping, and Extraterrestrial Expansion

In this episode, I chat with AM Scott about her experiences in the US Air Force Space Operations, how GPS and time-keeping satellites influenced her novels, and human expansion into space. We also discuss artificial intelligence, alien life forms, and Firefly. As usual, there's also The Lightning Round and The Big Questions.

Books of hers we discuss are: The Folding Space series, and the Quantum Fold series

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