This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to you by Outpost, a new science fiction novel from best-selling author W Michael Gere. Robert J Sawyer writes, What a Ride, Excitement, adventure, and intrigue, all told in W Michael Gere's vivid compulsively readable

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Gear hits a home run right out of the park and all the way to Capella.

Learn more about Outpost over at gear-gear-gir.com. Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide.

The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 296 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Stephen Pinker. He's a psychology professor at Harvard and the author of many books including the stuff of thought

the better angels of our nature and the sense of style and we'll be speaking with him

today about his new book Enlightenment now the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress.

And today's show is brought to you by Outpost, a new science fiction novel by best-selling

author, W Michael Gere.

And here's a description of the book.

It says, Donovan is a description of the book. It says,

Donovan is a world of remarkable wealth, a habitable paradise of a planet.

It sounds like a dream come true, but Donovan's wealth comes at a price.

When the ship Turulon arrives in orbit,

Supervisor Calco Aguila discovers a failing colony, its government overthrown,

and the few remaining colonists now gone wild. Donovan offers the chance of a lifetime, one that could leave her the most powerful

woman in the solar system, or dead.

Planetside, Tylina Perez, is one of three rulers of the Port Authority colony, the only law

left in the one remaining town on Donovan.

With the corporate ship demanding answers about the things she's done in the name of survival, Perez

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