My interpretation of the enthusiasm for you to host "Jeopardy!" is that it had to do with you and Alex Trebek having similar public personas: There's a shared nostalgic appeal, a standing for education and generally radiating and being the recipient of longstanding good vibes. I obviously have no idea if that's how you experience the public's affection, but I was wondering whether — as a presumably multifaceted human being — inhabiting that persona ever feels limiting? That's pretty probing, David.

Forgive me for making the subtext of these questions the text, but I'm trying to see if we can complicate the image of you as almost a secular pop-culture saint like Alex Trebek or Fred Rogers. And one of the things that I came across that maybe does complicate things is your novel, "Aftermath." Wow. I love talking to people who have taken the time to read my book. I'm enormously proud of it. I just recorded a digital version of it with a new author's note. I threw out the old author's note about how I came to be a science-fiction fan and instead addressed the time in which we find ourselves now and some of the ways in which the events at the beginning of the novel are kind of prescient.

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