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

Hello and welcome to episode 236 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the January 2017 issue of Wired,

which is the magazine's first ever fiction issue,

and I'm joined by two guests.

So first up we've got Maria Strashinsky. issue and I'm joined by two guests.

So first up we've got Maria Strashinsky.

She's the features editor for Wired magazine and has also been deputy editor of Mother

Jones, editor-in-chief of Pacific Standard, and managing Editor of the Atlantic.

Pacific Standard won a National Magazine Award for Public Service in 2014 for a cover story that Maria edited,

and in 2009 she received the Atlantic Media Company Chairman's Award for editing excellence.

She also spent two years working at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

So Maria, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

I'm glad to be here.

And also joining us today is Jason Kay. He's an associate editor at Wired, focusing on front of book stories and features.

Before joining Wired, he was a freelance journalist and arts critic.

So Jason, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much. Happy to be here.

I'm so surprised you got my last name right.

How did you know?

I looked at your Twitter account.

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