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Wired.com presents the Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Curtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 527 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories, which is available now on Amazon.com.

We had a great conversation about the book back in episode 500, so definitely check that out if you missed it.

And today on the show will be discussing the classic 1959 post-apocalyptic novel

Canical for Leibowitz by Walter and Miller Jr. And this won't involve spoilers for everything

in the book, so just be aware of that. And I'm joined by three guests. So first up we've

got Matthew Cressel, making his 27th appearance on the show. His novel Queen of Static, the follow-up to his

groundbreaking novel King of Shards, is available now, and he recently launched a newsletter of

writing advice over at Outerdeep.substack.com. Together with Ellen Datalo, he hosts the monthly

fantastic fiction reading series in New York City. So I'm at,

welcome to the show. Thanks, Dave. Good to be back. The next up we've got Lisa Yazik, making her

11th appearance on the show. She's Regent's Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech,

and's author of the nonfiction books Galactic Suburbia, Sisters of Tomorrow,

and The Future Is Female. Her new book, The Future Is Female, Volume 2, the 1970s, will be out on

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