Comments on: Interview: Ian McDonald's research secrets revealed

By: jungletek

jungletek — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So Beast has an amygdala too. Big whoop! Wanna fight about it?

By: JonStewartMill

JonStewartMill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I talk to people, I read the papers. I cook the food. I buy the music, I follow the sports teams. I try to second-guess what the government will do in international politics. I learn a bit of the language. I study the religion. I study the etiquette. I try and work out what the day-to-day details are like. ”

This must have been quite a trick when he was researching his novels that are set on Mars. I kid, I kid!

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, one other research tool. I tie bundles of memories to scents and smells. When I smell that scent again or something like it, everything in the bundle springs back into the forebrain.
That's how the Beast got his memories back in an issue of The Astonishing X-Men.