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

Hello and welcome to episode 213 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new movie Ghostbusters.

This reboot of the classic comedy from 1984 stars four women as an all new ghostbusting team and has been

controversial with many fans and this will involve spoilers so just be aware of

that and I'm joined by four guests. So first up we've got Angela Watercutter, who you may remember from

our panel on Jupiter Ascending back in episode 138 and our panel on Penny Dreadful

back in episode 210. She's a writer and editor for Wired and she's also the main person behind the scenes who helps get our posts up on wired.com each week.

And you should all go check out her recent articles, no matter how good it is the new Ghostbusters can't win and we love you Kate

McKinnon and thanks for saving Ghostbusters. So Angela welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me. Then next up we've got Carmen Maria

Machado who you may remember from our panel on The Best

American Science Fiction and Fantasy back in episode 177. She's a graduate of the Iowa

Writers Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta,

and Best Horror of the Year.

Her debut short story collection, Her body and other parties, is forthcoming from Gray Wolf Press.

So Carmen, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

And also joining us today is Jennifer Cross.

She's the lead organizer of Just Right Chicago, which is Chicago's largest writing group dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive space for writers of all genres and levels.

Her article, We've Made It to Magrathia, appeared in Queers Destroy Science Fiction, and she's also spoken about diversity

and representation at conventions such as C2E2 and Wiskon.

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