Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 613 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing the first 11 stories from the book The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson.

And the stories are, Venice drowned, ridge running, before I wake, black air, the lucky strike, a sensitive

dependence on initial conditions, Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars, the blind

geometer, hour town, escape from Catmandu, and remaking history. And this will include spoilers for all

of those stories, so just be aware of that.

And I'm joined today by my good friend Anthony Ha, making his 35th appearance on the show.

His short fiction appears in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Ristlet, and in the chat book,

Love Songs for Monsters.

And his story, A Brief History of the Afterlife, recently appeared in the March-April issue of Asimov's magazine.

He currently works as weekend editor at TechCrunch and is a co-host of the podcast original content.

And now here's our interview with Anthony Ha.

All right, so we're here with Anthony Ha. Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me back.

Okay, so tell us about your history reading Kim Stanley Robinson.

So in high school, I read the Mars trilogy.

No, I read just read Mars.

And I remember being impressed by it, but also like kind of bouncing off it a little bit, just because there's so much,

you know, fairly technical descriptions of terraforming Mars. And so for a long time, I sort of,

he was a writer I knew about, but hadn't really explored further. But in the last, I don't know,

maybe decade or so, I've started to go a little bit

deeper. I've read the full Morris trilogy. And after bouncing off of it so long ago, I think,

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