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

Hello and welcome to episode 123 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing the experiences of women in the fantasy and horror genres,

and talking about women destroy fantasy and women destroy horror, special issues of

fantasy magazine and nightmare magazine written and edited entirely by women.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got our producer John Just Adams. He's the editor of Light Speed and Nightmare

magazines and also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. He's also edited many anthologies including the recent books The End is Now, Dead Man's Hand, and Help Fund My Robot Army.

So John, welcome back.

Thanks, ma'am.

Then next up we've got Cat Rambo, guest editor of Women Destroy Fantasy.

She sold more than 150 short stories to magazines such as Asimov's, Clark's World,

and Tour

Tour.com. Her story, Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain from her collection near and far

was a 2012 Nebul Award nominee. She also earned a World Fantasy Award nomination

for editing Fantasy magazine.

So Cat, welcome to the show.

Hello, thank you for having me here.

And also joining us today is Alan Dattlow, guest editor of Women Destroy Horror. She served as fiction editor for Omni magazine and

Cy Fiction and currently edit stories for Tour.com. She's also edited more than 50 anthologies,

including the Best Horror of the Year series.

She's also received many awards, including a Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association

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