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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 189 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing People of Color

Destroy Science Fiction, a crowd-funded special issue

of Light Speed magazine written, edited, and illustrated

by People of Color.

The project has raised over $30,000 on Kickstarter, and you can help unlock the remaining stretch goals over at destroySF.com.

To learn more about the previous volumes in the series, Women Destroy Science Fiction and Queers Destroy Science Fiction,

Check out our panels in episodes 112, 123, 133, and 173.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Nalo Hopkinson,

who you may remember from our feature interview back in episode 81.

She's the author of books such as Brown Girl in the Ring,

skin folk and Sister Mine,

and editor of Books

such as Wh whispers from the Cotton Tree Root and Mojo.

Her short story collection,

falling in love with hominids, was published in 2015.

And she's also the co-editor-in-chief slash original fiction editor of People of Color destroys science fiction.

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