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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 2006 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Cameron Hurley. She's the author of such novels as

God's War and The Mirror Empire. And her essay on the history of women in

conflict we have always fought was the first blog post to be nominated for and win a Hugo Award.

That essay and many others are included in Cameron's new book, The Geek Feminist Revolution.

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