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Music Hi, I'm David Barr-Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 619 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing 10 short stories by legendary science fiction author Werner Vinji.

And the stories are bookworm run, the accomplice, true names, the peddlers apprentice, the ungoverned, apartness, conquest by default, long shot, the whirligigig of time, and

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

And we previously interviewed for a Rhinji back in episode 56 and reviewed his novels of Fire Upon the Deep and a deepness in the sky back in episodes 530 and 574.

So definitely check those out if you miss them. And I'm joined today by my good friend Mercurio D. Rivera, making his ninth appearance on the show. He's the author of

the short story collection across the event horizon from Nucon Press, and his story beyond

the tattered veil 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, War,

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. Glad to be here. Okay, so I just want to explain, first of all, that our original plan for this episode is we were just going to discuss stories from this book, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinci.

But then a couple days ago, as I was doing research, I realized that actually Renovinci's most famous story, which it's called True Names, is not in this book.

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