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

Hello and welcome to episode 255 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new book Cosmic Powers,

the Saga anthology of Faraway Galaxies,

edited by our producer John Joseph Adams,

and I'm joined by three guests. So first up of course we've got

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

oversees John Joseph Adams books in imprint of Potent Mifflin Harcourt.

He's the series editor of the best American science fiction and fantasy,

and he's also edited many other anthologies, including the recent books loosed upon the

world and what the bleep is that.

So John, welcome back.

Oh he's good to be here.

The next up we've got Tobias Bacell making his ninth appearance on the show.

He's the author of the Zenowelweel series of Space Adventure novels,

The Eco-Thrillers, Arctic Rising, and Hurricane Fever, and the Haleo novels, the Cole Protocol and Envoy.

His short story, Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance, appears in Cosmic Powers.

So Toby, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me again.

And also joining us today is Becky Chambers.

She's the author of the novels The Long Way

to a small angry planet and a closed and common orbit and her articles have appeared on

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