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Kirtley. Hello and welcome to episode 224 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new anthology, The Best American Science Fiction in Fantasy 2016,

and I'm joined by two guests.

So first up we've got our producer John Joseph Adams.

He's the editor of Light Speed and Nightmare magazines and he also oversees John Joseph

Adams books an imprint of

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He's edited many anthologies including the recent

books The Ant has come loosed upon the world and Operation Arcana and he's also

the series editor of the best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.

So John, welcome back.

Always good to be here.

And also joining us today is Karen Joy Fowler.

She's the author of seven novels including Sister Noon,

Witts End, and We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, and Five Short Story Collections,

including Artificial Things, Black Glass, and What I Didn't See in Other Stories.

Her work has received the Nebul Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Penn Faulkner Award,

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