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Kirtley.

Hi, this is Dave.

And this is John.

And welcome to episode 19 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today we'll be interviewing Robin Wasserman, author of the young adult science fiction novel Skind,

about a popular high school girl who dies in a car accident and has her mind transferred to a strange robot body.

You know Robin appeared last month at the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series and so, you know, we saw her there and saw her read sort of the opening of

her novel and it sounded very interesting and so we thought we should have her

on the show and we were saying you know we should let people if you're, if you live in New York or if you ever make it into New York, there are some really good public events that people should try to make it out to, one of which is the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series that we just mentioned that's

monthly, curated by Jim Freunds.

And we'll have links on the show notes to the schedules and things.

You can look up who the upcoming authors are.

And then the other big one is the Fantastic Fiction Reading Series

at the KGB Bar in the East Village,

which is curated by Ellen Dattlowe and Matt Kressel.

That's also monthly. And actually there's a list serve called Gotham Litt that you know people can

just post upcoming events to so that's a really good way to find out about

stuff that's going on in New York too.

And they're just on Twitter as of today.

And if you live in another city, like if you live in San Francisco, there's a, there's sort of an

equivalent called SF and SF, which is basically, you know, just the same deal where you have a couple of readers in

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