Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 102 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Later in today's show, guest geeks, P.W. Singer and Mike Cole,

will be joining me to discuss hackers.

But first up, we've got an interview with author Scott Sigler.

He was the first author to start podcasting novels and built up a huge online following

which led to a five-book deal with Crown Random House.

Two of his books are currently in

development as TV shows and his new novel Pandemic. The third book in the

Infected trilogy is out now. So Scott, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.

All right, and so your new book is called Pandemic, and it's out now.

You want to just tell us a little bit about that?

Well, Pandemic is the final book in the Infected Trilogy, and this is the classic invasion

tale but told in three parts across the trilogy. Part one which is infected, we zoom in on one faceless individual who would just be a statistic

in most invasion movies, as in now there's 17,000 dead, now there's 18,000 dead. Who are those people and how do they react when this thing breaks and no one has any idea what's happening

and there's no information at all?

Then in the second book, Contagous, the camera pulls back to see the national response to this.

What is the president doing?

What is the army doing?

The CDC, etc.

And how does a nation respond to an unthinkable horror that is spreading from citizen to citizen?

And this isn't a disease, this is actually people being turned into killers or people being turned into other things entirely.

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