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

Hello and welcome to episode 107 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show, my longtime co-host John Joseph Adams

will be stopping by to discuss his new anthology robot Uprising,

which he co-edited with author and robot expert Daniel

H Wilson, who will also be joining us.

But first up, we've got an interview with author Elizabeth Bear, who recently concluded

her Eternal Sky trilogy, which Tor.com calls the most significant

epic fantasy published in the last decade.

And now here's our interview with Elizabeth Bear. All right, so we're here with Elizabeth Bear. Bear. All right, so we're here with Elizabeth Bear.

Welcome to the show.

Hi, I'm happy to be here.

All right, and so your new books are The Eternal Sky Trilogy.

You want to just tell us how these came about?

The first book, Range of Ghosts, which was out in 2012, yes, 2012, was written in part, I should say that these are what a friend of mine calls

Silk Road Fantasy, they're an epic fantasy set in Central Asia and Eurasia.

Rather, well, not our Central Asia and Eurasia but a parallel one a different history but a

similar part of the world and I wanted to do something that was a little bit different

from the sort of standard, you know, generic European fantasy setting. And part of that is because of my very good friend, Asha

Srenewas and Chippman, who had had met who is obviously of Indian descent and had

mentioned to me that she wished she could find more fantasy that

on my side through my classic and it turns out that on my side through my

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