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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

598. The Story of Elden Ring (with Matt London)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Matt London joins us to discuss narrative design, George R. R. Martin, and the new book Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring by George Truscott. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This episode of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy is made possible thanks to support from listeners like you.

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So if you enjoy the show and want it to continue, please support us on Patreon over at patreon.com

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or via PayPal over at Geeksguideshow.com slash crowdfunding. And I want to give a special thank you to Vail

0:20.4

Stevens, who just signed up this week to support

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us on Patreon.

0:24.4

So big thanks again to everyone who's contributed.

0:27.1

We really appreciate it.

0:29.0

All right.

0:29.3

So now let's get to our show.

0:57.6

Music Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Pleased and other stories, and welcome to episode 598 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

1:03.0

Today on the show will be discussing the story and lore of the fantasy video game Eldon Ring.

1:07.5

And this will include spoilers for everything in the game, so just be aware of that.

1:11.7

And I'm joined today by my good friend Matt London, making his 20th appearance on the show. He's the author of the Eighth Continent novels, a series of science fiction

1:16.7

eco-adventures, and the interactive novel, You Are the Classics Treasure Island. His short

1:22.3

fiction appears in The Living Dead 2, daily science fiction, and space and time, and he's also worked as a narrative designer on video games such as Harthstone and Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery.

1:33.2

And now here's our interview with Matt London.

1:36.6

All right, so we're here with Matt London.

1:38.4

Welcome to the show.

1:39.8

It's great to be back.

1:42.0

Okay, so how this episode came about is that a few years ago, I played most of the way through Eldon Ring.

1:49.2

And I was interested in it mainly because I saw that George R. Martin had worked on the story.

1:54.2

And I'm a big George R. Martin fan.

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