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

Hello and welcome to episode 116 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show, guest geeks Matt London,

Allison Hayslip, and David Wexler,

will be joining me to share our childhood memories of the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles and to discuss the new movie.

But first up we've got an interview with science fiction author Stephen Gould.

His first novel Jumper was one of my favorite books growing up and I got to meet Steve back in 2004

when he was one of my instructors at the viable Paradise Writers Workshop. In 2008

Jumper was adapted into a big budget movie starring Samuel L Jackson and Hayden Christensen that bears almost no resemblance to the book.

Steve is now working with James Cameron on the upcoming avatar sequels and is also the current president of the science fiction and fantasy writers of America.

The fourth book in his Jumper series, XO, is out now.

And now here's our interview with Stephen Gould.

All right, so we're here with Stephen Gould.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I'm really glad to be here.

Okay, and so your new book is called XO, and it's a sequel to Jumper. And as I mentioned in the intro

Jumper was one of my favorite books growing up so I'd just like to start out and

talk a bit about that. So for people who haven't read Jumper, what's it about?

So Jumper is about a teenager who discovers under very unpleasant circumstances

that he has the ability to

to teleport and he does so you know and under the sort of

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