Peter Watts is Sofanauted

I thoroughly recommend the latest episode of the Sofanauts, and not for once just because it's a freaking episode of the Sofanauts (missed that theme tune so much!) but because it's a frank and at times harrowing interview with Peter Watts.

Watts, a marvellous SF writer whose short story "The Island" is up for a Hugo this year, made the internet explode a few times over the last year with the news that, upon returning to his home in Canada after a convention in the US, he was stopped by...