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

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 439 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Neil Pollock.

He's the author of 11 books, including the memoirs Pothead and Alternadad, the novels Juball and downward facing

death, and the essay collection, the Neopolic anthology of American literature.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his humorous science fiction novels repeat and keep Mars weird.

And now here's our interview with Neil Pollock.

All right, so we're here with Neil Pollock.

Welcome to the show.

Hey, thank you for having me. So first of all, how big of a fantasy and science fiction fan are you?

I would consider myself a fairly a big fantasy and science fiction fan.

I'm not, I don't have a deep knowledge of the genre,

but obviously, apparently I was, honestly I was surprised

when you email me because to do this because I have written a couple of

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