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

Hello and welcome to episode 143 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the military fantasy sub-genra 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 more than 20 anthologies and his latest books are the post-apocalyptic

reprint anthology Wastelands 2 and the original anthology of military fantasy Operation

Arcana. So John, welcome back.

Thanks, glad to be here. Operation Arcana. So John, welcome back.

Thanks, glad to be here. I've got the sexy, you know, post-Cold voice, so if people don't recognize me, that's why.

All right. Then next up we've got Mike Cole who you may remember from

our panel on Soldiers and Science Fiction in episode 75 and our panel on hackers in

episode 102.

As a security contractor, government civilian and military officer, his career has run the

gamut from counterterrorism to cyber warfare to federal law enforcement.

His Shadowop series has been described as Black Hawk Down

meets the X-Men, and the latest book in that series, Gemini Cell, is out now. So Mike,

welcome to the show. Thanks for having me back.

And also joining us today for the very first time is Weston Oaks.

He's a military veteran with more than 30 years of military experience and also the author of 20 books including the military fantasy series

Seal Team 666 which is currently in development at MGM with Duane the Rock

Johnson attached to star. So Weston, welcome to the show. Thanks David.

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