The pair revealed, among many other things, that we likely would have met the mother in May 2013 no matter what: The original plan was for the show to end after just eight seasons (meaning it would have been over...now), with the mother brieflyintroduced in the series finale.
The album's lone voice comes from a disembodied robot, introducedbriefly on the second track, "Vio vorum sma, " more as a narrator than a singer. (Think Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer).
Mr Flannery is a respected biologist with plenty of published papers to his name, but the book feels dilettantish, with a dizzying array of concepts introduced, briefly discussed, then dispensed with before the reader has had time to digest them.