Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 574 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing Werner Vinci's classic novel A Deepness in the Sky, a prequel to his novel of Fire Upon the Deep, which we discussed back in episode 530.

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 Seth Dickinson, making his ninth appearance on the show. He's the author of the

Baruch-Cormoran series of epic fantasy novels and the new science fiction novel

Exordia. And he's also a 10-year contributor to Bungee's hit video game destiny. So, Seth, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Great to be here. The next hope we've got Abby Goldsmith, making her sixth appearance on the show.

She's a co-host of The Stories for Nerds podcast, and her short work appears in the EscapePod podcast,

and in the anthology putting the science and fiction from Writers Digest Books.

World of Wreckage, the third book in her Torth series of space opera novels, is out now.

So, Abby, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me on.

And also joining us today is Mercurio Di Rivera, making his fifth appearance on the show.

He's the author of the short story collection across the event horizon from Newcon Press,

and his story beyond the tattered veil of stars recently appeared as a podcast from Dust Studios, featuring

the voices of Gillian Jacobs from Community and Justin Kirk from Weeds. His first novel,

The Alien Love War, which was nominated for the Arthur C. Clark Award, is out now. So, David,

welcome to the show. Hey, Dave. Thanks for having me.

Okay, so let's start off with Seth and have you tell us about your history reading, Vernor Vingy.

Okay.

I think my first Vingy novel was A Fire Up on the Deep, which I read probably in college,

and I read Deepness probably right afterwards.

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