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

467. F. Brett Cox on Roger Zelazny

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

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This episode of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy is brought to you by God Bless the Dead by

0:04.5

Evan Geller, the first book in the Kodotrology. Indie reads, calls the book,

0:09.2

an entertaining read with engaging characters and an intricate plot with plenty

0:13.5

of action and plot twists. We're in more over at TheGoatRodioBlog.com

0:17.7

Wired.com presents The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Bar

0:34.6

Curdley. Hello, and welcome to episode 467 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest

0:43.0

today is F. Brett Cox. He's the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Norwich

0:47.5

University, and author of the short story collection, The End of All Are Exploring.

0:52.1

Together with Andy Duncan, he edited the anthology crossroads, Tales of the

0:56.0

Southern Literary Fantastic, which includes stories by Michael Bishop, Kelly Link,

1:00.4

and Gene Wolf. And we'll be speaking to him today about his new book, Rodgers

1:04.1

Elasni, Modern Masters of Science Fiction. And today's show is brought to you by God

1:09.2

Bless the Dead by Evan Geller, the first book in the Kodotrology, a series of

1:14.0

speculative novels combining hard science fiction with a modern day retelling

1:17.4

of the Fenian cycle of Irish mythology. And here's a description of the book, it says,

1:23.4

When a struggling grad student develops a practical method to interpret meaning in brain

1:27.1

electrical activity, the world is confronted with a death of lies, the tyranny of truth,

1:32.5

and the realization that some truths are too dangerous to reveal. Combining hard science

1:36.8

with reason speculation, God Bless the Dead asks a fundamental question. What happens

1:42.0

when we discover scientific evidence of what awaits us beyond death? Rebecca's

1:46.3

read says, God Bless the Dead encompasses the best of almost every single literary genre.

1:51.8

There's intrigue, espionage, drama, medical, technical slash science fiction, plus there's

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