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

Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show my good friend John Just V Adams, Matt London, and Rob Bland

will be stopping by to discuss the new Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy.

But first up we've got an interview with Nick Harkaway, author of the Gone Away world and angelmaker.

His latest book, Tiger Man, presents an unusual take on the idea of a costume superhero.

And now here's our interview with Nick Harkaway.

All right, so we're here with Nick Harkaway. Welcome to the show.

Hello. All right, and we're here with Nick Harkaway. Welcome to the show.

Hello.

All right, and so your new book is called Tiger Man.

So what's that about?

It's about a lot of things.

I mean, in the plot tells about a guy on an island who's been sent there very

specifically to relax and told not to see any of the bad things that are happening

there and he makes he finds a friendship with a local kid who just wants him to

see everything bad that's happening there.

So he has an immediate problem.

And his way of resolving this ultimately is to put on a sort of ad hoc superhero suit and try and do something about it in a way that can't be traced back to him.

But it's not ultimately just a story about a guy putting on a suit, it's also about the friendship and in fact it's about, basically it's about fatherhood.

I was becoming a dad while I was writing this book.

So when you say there are bad things, what sort of bad things are happening?

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