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

Hello and

Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show, Guest Geek's Paolo Bacheal

Tobias Bachekel and Ramez Nam

will be joining me to discuss extreme weather in science fiction books and movies.

But first up we've got an interview with No. 1 New York Times best-selling urban fantasy

author Kim Harrison.

The 13th and final book in her hollows series The Witch with

no name is out now. And now here's our interview with Kim Harrison.

All right so we're here with Kim Harrison. Welcome to the show.

It is great to be here.

All right, so first of all, why don't you just tell us a bit about how you first got interested in reading fantasy and science fiction?

Oh, I grew up on it. in really good reader, but in middle school they let me become a library aid, as bad as that

sounds. I was a library aid for two years and the library was stock full of a lot of fantasy and science fiction.

And I made that library mine. I read everything in it and it was like believe it or not they had

azimoth in there and Heinlein and Andre Norton so I got a lot of my early science fiction from them.

But they also had the fantasy and I wasn't reading just, you know, the Hansel and Gruttle stuff. I was reading, I later found out that they were actually research textbooks for the teachers because they were fairy tales from from Germany and from France and from the

UK and and they were you know telling the same story over and over in different ways and so I was seeing all these little things differences that different

their fairy tales to make them unique and different and pertinent to them.

And I was soaking it all in.

And that's where I really got my start in reading the science fiction and fantasy.

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