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

Hello and welcome to episode 199 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be reviewing season one of the Magicians,

a new Sci-Fi channel series based on the Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman,

who was our guest back in episode 48.

And this will involve spoilers for both the books and the show, so just be aware of that.

And I'm joined by two guests.

So first up we've got Andrew Liptac, who you may remember from our panel on

Kill Joy's and Dark Matter back in episode 167 and our panel on The Expans back in

episode 180. He's the weekend editor of G Gizmodo and I.

And he also co-edited the anthology war stories,

New military science fiction.

His reviews have appeared in Clark's World, Kirkus, LightSpeed, and Tour.com.

So Andrew, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

And also joining us today is Melinda Nodgrass.

She's the author of The Circuit Series and The Edge Series,

and her latest novel The High Ground will be out in July from Titan.

She's also written scripts for TV shows like The Outer Limits, Sea Quest D.S. V. and Reasonable Doubts.

And her Star Trek The Next Generation script, The Measure of a Man, has been voted as one of the 10 best Star Trek scripts of all time.

Together with George R. Martin, she edits the Wild Card series of shared world superhero anthologies.

So Melinda, welcome to the show.

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