Charles Liu
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What a pleasure.
Hi, man.
Oh, my gosh.
A quarter million full-time students.
Wow.
It wasn't me, okay?
My family did.
I'm proud to have it as the name, but I always thought it was...
a little bit weird to put your name into the universe and claim that you had a real role in that.
Oh, yes.
And then there is lewd.
The lewd.
Yeah.
There's a famous, I don't know, human nature makes us think about monsters because when we have something that's unknown and we fear it, we want to explain it.
We want to put it in a context.
And so with me,
As a professional scientist, I still am driven by the unknown and the creative and the strange things.
Yeah, I love comic books.
I love science fiction and fantasy and everything like that.
And what we did as a species centuries or millennia ago, anything we didn't know, didn't understand and feared, we tried to personify or put into this concept of a monster.