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

Hello and welcome to episode 120 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Anne Lecky, author of Ancillary Justice, one of last year's most popular books.

It won numerous awards including the Hugo, the

Nebula, the Arthur C. Clark Award and the British

Science Fiction Association Award. A sequel, Ancillary Sword, is out now.

So Anne, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me.

All right, so to start out with, how did you first get interested in reading fantasy and science fiction?

I honestly do not know the answer to that question.

I've been reading fantasy and science

fiction since I was pretty little. So it's one of those things that's kind of

always been there, so and I'm not sure how I got interested in it. I heard you say

that your parents were not big science fiction fans?

They were not. They were big mystery novel fans, but they were not into science fiction.

They felt like science fiction was just about gadgets and stuff and couldn't really be real literature and they really kind of hoped I would grow out of it.

But somehow so it wasn't around the house I assume right but you somehow you found it in a library or school or something?

Probably in the library. I spent, I lived walking distance from the local library branch

when I was a kid and would go down there almost every Saturday and just hang.

So that's probably where I found it.

And what were some of the authors that you were reading at that time?

At that time, I read almost everything that was on the shelf there, but that was when I discovered Andre Norton, big favorite of mine, for a very long time.

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