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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

392. Jonathan Kay, author of Your Move and Among the Truthers

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0

Are you looking for the perfect gift for that very special geek in your life?

0:04.0

Well, after 10 years, we finally got around to setting up a page for Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

0:08.0

t-shirts over at threadless.com.

0:10.6

Big thanks to our logo artist Blake Reynolds for the cool designs

0:13.6

and to our marketing manager slash my girlfriend Steph Grossman for setting up the page

0:17.8

and selecting the various options. There are lots of styles and colors to choose

0:21.4

from so collect them all over at geeksky dot threadless.com so that's geeksky dot threadless.com all right so now Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:44.4

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:49.9

Hello and welcome to episode 392 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:54.9

Our guest today is Jonathan Kay.

0:57.0

He's Canadian editor of Colette and a host of the Colette and Rong Speak podcasts and

1:01.8

his articles have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker,

1:04.7

Harpers and Newsweek.

1:06.7

And we'll be speaking with him today about his books, Your Move, What Board Games

1:09.9

teach us about life, and among the trututhers a journey through America's growing

1:14.2

conspiracist underground and now here's an review with Jonathan K.

1:17.7

All right so we're here with Jonathan K. Welcome to the show.

1:21.3

Thanks for having me on.

1:24.0

So in an article you wrote for the National Post, you said,

1:27.0

As a boy, I liked science fiction for the same reason all boys like it.

1:30.0

It offered grand cosmic landscapes on which to project the boundless possibilities of my own life.

1:35.3

So just tell us a bit more about how you got into science fiction and which authors you were reading.

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