ROBERT J SAWYER ON QUANTUM NIGHT, HIS NOVEL ON PSYCHOPATHY AND POSSIBLY HIS LAST NOVEL OF ALL (MF GALAXY 068)
DO PSYCHOPATHS COMPRISE 2/7 OF HUMANITY? DO THE MENTALLY-DEAD COMPRISE 4/7? IS INTELLIGENCE A QUANTUM EFFECT? IS ERADICATION OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT THE ONLY SOLUTION? LISTEN/DOWNLOAD The word “psychopath” strikes terror. While most people imagine psychopaths to be extremely rare serial killers, in fact, most psychopaths are not murderers, but exploitative and terrorising managers, bosses, politicians, drug dealers, pharmaceutical CEOs, family members, clergy, atheists, police, teachers, and others we’ve met and under whom we’ve suffered. The Canadian researcher Robert Hare is one of the world’s leading experts on the subject of psychopathy; he developed a screening test called the Psychopathic Check List (Revised) or PCL-R, and estimates that approximately one percent of people, or around 70 million humans, are psychopaths. But Robert J. Sawyer thinks otherwise. Sawyer is one of Canada’s most celebrated novelists with endless awards and accolades. His carefully-rese...