This episode is brought to you by the new novel A Slice of Mars by a long-time geeks guide to the galaxy listener, Garakashai.

A slice of Mars presents an optimistic vision of life on Mars and explores the day-to-day lives of regular people living in a future in which the workplace, the family and adult friendships have all been radically changed by future technologies and speculative cultural shifts.

Inspired by the speculative societies of books such as Infomocracy and to the left-hand of Darkness.

A slice of Mars explores topics such as transhumanism, biodiversity, automation, and universal basic income.

And here's a description of the book. It says,

Mars is a strange place these days, corporate overlords, capitalism, and even aging are things of the past, on a planet increasingly brimming with biodiversity, yet pizzerias are in short supply.

Sippling's head and sun set out to change that, but a roboticist and a bureaucrat can't run a restaurant alone, so they bring on some help, a bioengineer, a communication scientist, and an unlikely grad student from Earth.

Together, this gang of geeks will brave the fires of small business. But work is just a small part of life.

People are complicated, different brains, different wounds, different values, and one questionable tame wildcat will all collide as they try to grow and succeed together.

What comes out of the oven in the end is anyone's guess.

Perfect for fans of legends and lattes, the Wayfarer series, and the cemeteries of Amalo. A slice of Mars is the low stakes, high technology you've been looking for.

So again, the author is Garrick Hasey, so that's Garrick, G-U-E-R-R-I-C, Hasey, H-A-C-H-E, and the book is called a slice of Mars.

Alright, now let's get to our show.

The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Bar Curley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 536 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Bar Curley, 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 we'll be discussing season one of the Netflix series Arcane, a spin-off of the popular computer game League of Legends.

And this will involve spoilers for everything in the show, so just be aware of that, and I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Aaron Lindsay, making her 35th appearance on the show.

She's the author of the Bloodbound series of epic fantasy novels, and the Rose Gallagher series of paranormal historical mystery novels.

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