Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kirtley.

Hi this is Dave and this is Dave. And this is John.

And welcome to episode 63 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Shondon McGuire, who recently became the first woman to ever appear four times in the Hugo ballot in a single

year. She's the author of the October Day series and the encrypted series, and under the name

Mira Grant is the author of the News Flesh trilogy set in the aftermath of

a zombie apocalypse.

Her latest book in that series Blackout is out now.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geeks Matt London and Theresa

Daluchi join us to discuss Ridley Scott's Prometheus.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Sean and McGuire.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so first of all, you know, you're right fiction as both Sean and McGuire and is Merritt Grant.

So could you just explain why you used the two different names?

So do you remember how back in, think the early 90s Disney created touchstone

pictures so that they could release R-rated movies? Basically there was a point

where Disney wanted to diversify.

They wanted to start doing more things without worrying that mothers were going to say,

Oh honey, look, Disney's got a new film out.

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