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

Hello and welcome to episode 175 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is David Mitchell,

whose best-selling 2004 novel Cloud Atlas

was adapted by the Wachowski's

into a feature film starring Tom Hanks and Holly Berry.

All of Mitchell's novels are set in the same universe, with characters from one book appearing

in or being referenced in the others. And those books include ghost-written, Number

Nine Dream, Black Swan Green, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Desute.

Mitchell's most recent books are The Bone Clocks, about a secret war between two factions

of immortal occultists and Slade House, A Decade Spanding Haunted House novel.

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