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

Hello and welcome to episode 336 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Andy Duncan.

He's the author of the Short Story Collections,

Beluth the Hotchien other stories,

and the Potawatomy Giants and other stories,

as well as the standalone nove, Novella The Night Cash.

His fiction has received the Nebbue Award, The Sturgeon Award, and multiple World Fantasy Awards,

and he teaches Creative Writing at Frostburg State University. And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book and agent of Utopia,

new and selected stories.

And now here's our interview with Andy Duncan.

All right, so we're here with Andy Duncan.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, and so your new short story collection is called an agent of Utopia.

So what is an agent of Utopia?

I guess that's a subjective question depends on whom you ask. In this

particular story it is the emissary sent by the island nation that Sir Thomas Moore wrote about on a secret

mission to the Tower of London to rescue more from the Tower and the story tells about what

transpires from there. But of course U, meaning something different to almost everyone, when I first wrote down

that title back in grad school and agent of Utopia, the title came to me minus the story.

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