This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to by author Matt Bell.

Don't miss his new book, A Tree or a Person or a Wall,

a collection of new fiction and one out of print nove.

Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies, calls Matt's writing glorious, sinuous, and darkly

magical. Learn more over at matbell.com presents, the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 220 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Hano Ryanimi.

He's a Finnish science fiction author who holds a PhD in string theory from the University

of Edinburgh, and he recently co-founded the biotech startup Helix-Nano.

His popular Jean-Lof-Lumbur trilogy, The Quantum Thief, the Fractyl Prince, and the Causal

Angel, is about a gentleman thief living in a densely imagined far future world.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new short story collection,

Invisible Planets from Tachion publications.

And today's show is brought to you by author Matt Bell, whose new novel Scrapper about a boxer struggling with a dark past in modern day Detroit, is out now in paperback.

And here's a description of the book. It says,

Detroit has descended into ruin.

Kelly scavenges for scrap metal

from the 100,000 abandoned buildings

in a part of the city known as the zone,

an increasingly wild landscape

where one day he finds something far more valuable than the

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