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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you're a regular geek's guide to the galaxy listener, please rate and review us on iTunes or using the podcast app on your phone. |
0:08.0 | And I want to give a special thank you to Bloom Ulysses in Great Britain, who just gave us this five-star review. |
0:14.1 | Great host, great guests, fascinating topics. |
0:17.7 | There's so much in this podcast, every sci-fi fan will find something. There's discussions of the classic novels, reviews of modern works, and the interviews and panel discussions usually have interesting guests. David's got a good interview style and often asks insightful questions, just a good podcast overall. |
0:36.4 | So big thanks again to Bloom Ulysses for that great review all right so now let's get to our show |
0:43.7 | wired dot com presents the geek's guide to the Galaxy. |
0:55.8 | And here is your host, David Barr-Curtley. |
1:01.5 | Hello, and welcome to episode 530 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. |
1:06.5 | I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me, Please, and other stories, which is available |
1:11.9 | now on Amazon.com. We had a great conversation about the book back in episode 500, so definitely |
1:18.5 | check that out if you missed it. And in this episode, we'll be discussing the classic |
1:23.2 | 1992 novel of Fire Upon the Deep by Werner Vinci, the first book in his space opera series, |
1:28.9 | The Zones of Thought. And this will include spoilers for everything in the book, so just be |
1:33.7 | aware of that. And I'm joined by three guests. So first up we've got Tobias S. Backell, |
1:40.2 | making his 15th appearance on the show. He's the author of the Zenowel series of |
1:44.8 | space adventure novels, the eco-thrillers, Arctic Rising and Hurricane Fever, and the Halo novels, |
1:50.7 | The Cold Protocol, and Envoy. His latest book, Show Goths and Traffic and other stories, |
1:55.5 | is out now from Fairwood Press. So, Toby, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. 15. Wow. |
2:03.8 | The next up, we've got Abby Goldsmith, making her sixth appearance on the show. |
2:08.5 | She's a co-host of the Stories for Nerds podcast, and her short fiction has appeared in EscapePod and Fantasy Magazine. |
2:15.5 | Her TORTH series of space opera novels are available now on Wattpad, |
2:19.2 | where they've racked up over 65,000 reads. So, Abby, welcome to the show. |
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