This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to you by Saturn Run,

a new novel from Number 1 New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

John Sanford, and internationally known photo artist and science fiction aficionado Khatain.

Saturn Run is a near future thriller about astronauts

racing to reach a mysterious alien spacecraft

as it approaches Saturn.

The book is drawn praise from authors such as Stephen King and science fiction legend Larry Nevin.

Learn more at jon Sanford.org slash Saturn Run. HTML. Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 171 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Jason Pargen, who writes under the pseudonym David Wong.

He's the executive editor of Crack.com and the author of the horror comedy novel John Dies at the End

and its sequel, This book is full of spiders.

Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It.

In 2012, John Dies at the End

was adapted into a feature film by Don Coscarelli,

director of Buba Hote. Pardin's latest book is a science fiction novel called

futuristic violence and fancy suits. And today's show is brought to you by the new novel Saturn Run, a unique partnership between number one best-selling thriller writer John Sanford and internationally known photographer and science fiction geek Khatine. Sanford is the author of 37 best-selling thriller and And here's a synopsis, it says,

The year is 2066.

A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope.

Something is approaching Saturn and decelerating.

Space objects don't decelerate, space ships do.

A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion.

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