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Wired dot com presents The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr Curtley.

Hello, it's welcomed episode 495 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Ada Palmer.

She's a professor of European history at the University of Chicago, and is the author

of the four volume Tara Agnoda series of science fiction novels.

She's also a composer and anime expert.

And together with Joe Walton, she hosts the science fiction podcast Xerbae at Astro.

And we'll be speak with her today about the first book in the Tara Agnoda series, two

like the lightning.

The fourth and final volume, perhaps the stars is out now.

And now here's our interview with Ada Palmer.

All right, so we're here with Ada Palmer.

Welcome to the show.

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