Hi, I'm David Bart Kurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 602 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing nine short stories from the book The Best of Larry Niven.

And those stories are, In Constant Moon, Ramer, Clove of Anarchy, The Fourth Profession, Flash Crowd,

The Defenseless Dead, Flight of the Horse, The Whole Man, and Night on Mispect Moore.

And this will include spoilers for all of those stories, so just be aware of that.

And this is a follow-up to our previous discussion of the best of Larry Niven back in episode

590,

so definitely check that out if you missed it. And I'm joined today by my good friend,

Mercurio Di Rivera, making his seventh 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

Vale of Stars recently appeared as a podcast from

Dust Studios, featuring the voices of Jillian Jacobs from Community and Justin Kirk from

weeds.

His first novel, Wurgan, The Alien Love War, has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clark Award.

And now here's her interview with Mercurio D. Rivera. All right, so we're here

with Mercurio D. Rivera. Welcome to the show. Hey, David. Happy to be back. Okay. And so the first story

we're going to talk about for part two is called In Constant Moon. And so in this story, there's a young

freelance science journalist living in Los Angeles.

And he happens to look out the window one night and see that the moon has suddenly become much, much brighter.

And he figures out that, oh, moonlight is reflected sunlight.

So the sun must have become much, much brighter.

So he realizes that the sun

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