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Thank you. Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 597 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Matthew Cressel, making his 40th

appearance on the show. He's the author of the novels King of Shards and Queen of Static,

as well as the nonfiction book dispatches from the Outer Deep, a guide to writing, editing, submitting, and publishing short and long fiction. He also hosts the Nerdcount podcast along with Mercurio Di Rivera, and together with Ellen Datlow, he hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction reading series in New York City. And in this interview, we'll be discussing his recent

short story collection, Histories Within Us, and his new novel, Space Trucker Jess. And now here's

her interview with Matthew Cressel. All right, so we're here with Matthew Cressel. Welcome to the show.

Thanks, Dave. Thanks for having me. Okay, so first of all, just tell us about your recent book, History's Within Us.

Yeah, so basically for years I wanted to come out with a collection.

And I just, I finally published it.

It's called Histories Within Us.

And it's got 16 of my more or less favorite stories going back to what is my first published

story, Mortar to some of my later works.

I think the most recent piece in there is from 22, 2021, I'm not sure.

But yeah, it's, and it runs the gamut from, there's science fiction in there, there's

fantasy in there, there's horror in there.

And it also contains a few stories that take place in my connected series of stories,

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