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

Hello and welcome to episode 216 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing Stranger Things,

a Netflix original series about a young boy who mysteriously vanishes from a small Indiana town.

The show is set in 1983 1983 and is an homage to

classic works of that era by writers such as Stephen King and directors such as

Stephen Spielberg and John Carpenter. And we're talking about this show today because we got a request from

a listener Paige Kleckner, so thank you Paige for the idea. And this will

involve spoilers for the first eight episodes, so just be aware of that. And I'm

joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Andrew Liptak who you may remember from our panel on the Expanse back in episode 180 and our panel on the Magicicians back in episode 199.

He's the weekend's editor at The Verge,

and he also co-edited the anthology War stories,

New Military Science Fiction.

His writing has appeared in I.

9, Clark's World, Kirkus, and Light Speed.

So Andrew, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Then next up we've got Carly Vlochi.

She's the weekend's editor at Gizmodo and the creator of Postmortem magazine.

Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Broadly, and Polygon.

And you should all go check out her recent I09 article, Stranger Things is a nerdy story that is so much more than its references.

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