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,

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-tech novel you've been looking for.

So again, the author is Garakashai, so that's Garak, G-U-E-R-R-I-C, Hashai, H-A-C-H-E, and the book is called A Slice of Mars.

Alright, so now let's get to our show.

Wired.com presents

The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, and here is your host, David Bar Curley.

Hello, it's welcome to episode 538 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 the recent book The Best American Science Fiction in Fantasy 2022,

which features 20 stories by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Meg Ellison, Stephen Graham Jones, Navajo Hopkinson, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, Peng Shepard, and Catherine M. Valente, and I'm joined by three guests.

So first up, we've got our producer, John Joseph Adams. He's the editor of Flight Speed Magazine, and the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction in Fantasy,

and he's also edited more than 30 other anthologies. His latest project is the anthology Lost World and Mythological Kingdoms from Grim Oak Press. So John, welcome back.

Always good to be here.

The next book we've got Rebecca Rohnhorst, who served as guest editor for The Best American Science Fiction in Fantasy 2022.

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