Charles Liu
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's right, that's right.
So she has really good stuff, and she did this all before Jules Verne started doing things like Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Journey to the Moon.
That would have helped back then, unfortunately.
That's right.
And nowadays, just to sort of contextualize your question, zombies...
And undead things are indeed the monster du jour, right?
Whether it's the walking dead from past years, now there's the last of us.
Zombified by fungus.
Zombified by fungus 28 days, 28 years later and that kind of thing.
Things that are not alive fascinate us simply because we're not alive.
Dead, right?
Think about this.
Things that are not alive fascinate us because we are alive and we don't understand them.
That's right.
Nothing can be spookier.
That's right.
And even those belief systems cannot be confirmed.
in any sort of experimental strategy.
People have tried.