Author Interview: Fold Catastrophes, by Peter Watts

Well, I'm very pleased to be joined by Peter Watts to talk about his new short story collection, Fold Catastrophes.

So hi, Peter.

Thanks for joining me.

Thank you.

Glad to be here.

Also, thank you for, I mean, clearly I'm not here as one of your Hugo winners.

So I guess by default, that makes me one of your comfort reads, which is not something I'm actually used to being described as.

So this is new and welcome territory.

Yes, yeah.

I think I'm calling this one more just a one-off author interview kind of thing.

Although it's not a one-off, I'm actually doing two of these this month.

But yeah, that is kind of my two different curricular stuff and comfort reads.

Although I haven't really done a proper comfort read episode in a while.

Seems like it's about time to bring those back, though, now that you mention it.

I mean, are there any comfort reads out there anymore? Are you still reading Hope Punk? No.

I mean, not every comfort read has to be hope punk.

One of my comfort reads guests picked something that was about the fall of the Soviet Union and kind of some of the disasters that occurred as a result of that.

Everybody has their different comfort, I guess.

I suppose the comfort is that it

happened over there and not over here.

Right, right.

You're kind of straining for the silver lining there.

Yeah, exactly.