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

Hello and welcome to episode 346 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Lisa Yazzick.

She's a professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech,

and her books include Galactic Suburbia,

recovering women science fiction, and Sisters of Tomorrow, the first

women in science fiction. She's also a past president of the Science Fiction Research Association

and a juror for the John W Campbell and Yucci Foster Awards

and she recently appeared in the AMC series James Cameron story of science fiction

and we'll be speaking with her today about her new anthology The Futurist Female,

25 classic science fiction stories by women, from Pul pioneers to Ursula Kaye Le Gwyn.

And now here's our interview with Lisa Yazzick.

All right, so we're here with Lisa Yazzick.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks so much.

I'm glad to be here today.

Okay, so to start with, just tell us about how you first got into science fiction.

Well, I've actually always been interested in science fiction.

My very first memory in the world is watching Star Trek reruns with my parents and eating

vegetables out of our organic garden.

So I figured I was going to have to grow up and either do something with science fiction or be a farmer.

And it looks like it went for science fiction instead of the farming.

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