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International Short Story Series, Part : Today on Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author J.G. Ballard. Along with his science fiction, J.G. Ballard is widely known for his semi-autobiographical novel The Empire Of The Sun. Third in the international short story series. Following the interview, J.G. Ballard reads "The Enormous Space," from the collection War Fever.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews American astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan on hope and being human. They discuss his new book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Then, an interview with American-Canadian science fiction novelist William Gibson and a reading from his cyberpunk thriller novel, Virtual Light.

This week on Writers and Company, unusual stories of scientific discovery. Dava Sobel transforms her passion for astronomy into best-selling books on longitude, Galileo, and her newest, The Planets.

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro joins Eleanor Wachtel to discuss his bestselling new novel, Klara and the Sun. It's an imaginative exploration of love, artificial intelligence and what it means to be human.