Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kurtley. Hello, and welcome to episode 551 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Barr Kurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories.

Publishers Weekly says,

Visceral settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much

Kurtley is able to fit into a limited page count. For SFF fans with no time to sink into a doorstopper, these concentrated doses

of genre goodness will hit the spot. And Kirkus Reviews writes,

Kurtley employs sharp, concise prose that complements his puckish sense of humor. The author's

passionate voice breathes life into this wonderful array of tales.

So again, the book is called Save Me Please and other stories, and it's available now on

Amazon.com.

And today on the show we'll be discussing the classic 2006 science fiction novel Blindsight

by Peter Watts.

And this will 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 Teresa

DeLucci, making her 17th appearance on the show. She reviews books, TV, and video games for

denivegeek and tour.com. And her short fiction appears in Strange Horizons,

weird horror and light speed. Her short story, Only My Skin That Crawled Away, received an

honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's The Year's Best Horror, Volume 14. So, Teresa, welcome to the show.

Hello.

The next up, we've got Sam J. Miller, making his 11th appearance on the show.

He's the Nebula award-winning author of the novels The Blade Between, Blackfish City,

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