Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and it's welcome to episode 320 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing horror stories that are about politics or that have a political message.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Grady Hendrix, making his 15th appearance on the show.

He's the author of such novels as Satan loves you and my best friend's exorcism

and his novel horror store about a haunted Ikea is being developed for television

by Gail Berman, producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and

Angel.

His new Heavy Metal Horror Novel, We Sold Our Souls, will be out in September.

So Grady, welcome to the show.

Greetings, comrades. The next up we've got Honor Marie Cox, who you may remember from our feature interview back in

episode 309.

She's a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, and she also hosted with friends like these

podcasts from Crooked Media. Her writings appeared in the

Washington Post, The New Republic, Sports Illustrated, Ant Esquire, and her Space the Nation

column about the intersection of science fiction and politics appears each week on

sci-fi.com so on a welcome to the show it's good to be here and also

join us today is Sam J Miller making his fifth appearance on the show

he's a community organized in New York City

and the author of the novel's Blackfish City and the art of starving.

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