This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to by Ascendant, the latest novel in the Genesis fleet series from New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell.

In this book, a young officer Antemoreen must stand together to defend their newly settled planet from rebel attacks

as they face a seemingly hopeless battle to retain their freedom.

Kirkus writes, the visceral action comes fast and furious.

Learn more over at jack das Campbell.com.

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And here is your host, David Barr Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 309 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Anna Marie Cox.

She's a political writer and culture critic whose work has appeared in publications such as The New Republic, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and Esquire.

She's a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, and also hosts the With Friends Like These Podcast from Crooked Timber Media.

And we'll be speaking with her today about her new column, Space the Nation, about the intersection

of science fiction and politics, which appears each week on SciFiWire, the new section of SciFi.com.

And this interview was recorded before SciFi announced that they were canceling the expanse,

so that's why there's nothing about that in this interview.

And today's show is brought to you by

Ascendant, a new science fiction novel by Jack Campbell. Ascendant is the second

book in the Genesis Fleet series and is a direct sequel to Campbell's earlier novel

Vanguard.

Both of those books are set in the same universe as Campbell's New York Times

best-selling Lost Fleet series of military science fiction.

And these new books, which are set before the Lost Fleet series, deal with the founding of the Alliance

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