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

Hello and welcome to episode 163 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today in the show we'll be discussing the way that video games are portrayed in books and movies,

and I'm joined by four guests.

So first up we've got our producer John Joseph 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 other anthologies including the recent books Wastelands. and to be here. And also joining us today is Daniel H Wilson, who you may remember from our

future interview back in episode 41 and our panel on robot uprisings in

episode 107. He is a New York Times best-selling author whose novel Robo Apocalypse is currently being adapted for film by Stephen Spielberg.

Together with John, he co-edited Press Start to Play, a science fiction anthology about video games.

So Daniel, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me.

And also joining us today is Chris Aftalone. He's worked on many popular games

including Plainscape tournament, Fallout 2, and Knights of the Old Republic 2.

And his recent projects include Obsidian's Kickstarter RPG

Pillars of Eternity, and In Exiles, Wasteland 2,

and Torment Tides of Numinera.

His short story Endgame appears in John and Daniel's

anthology press start to play. So Chris, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me David, I appreciate it.

And finally we've got Mickey Nielsen, lead writer in publishing at Blizzard Entertainment.

His game writing credits include World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3,

as well as the best-selling World of Warcraft graphic novels Ashbringer and Pearl of Pandaria.

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