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 66 of Geek's Guides of the Galaxy.

Our guest today is David Bryn, author of novels such as The Uplift Series and Kilm People. His novel The Postman was loosely adapted

into a feature film starring Kevin Kostner, and he wrapped up Isaac Asimov's Foundation's

series with his novel Foundations Triumph.

His latest novel Existence

is an epic tale of alien contact

set in the year 2050.

Then stick around after the interview

as we discuss Batman in comics, TV, and film with guest geek, Rob Bland.

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

All right, so we're here with David Brin. Welcome to the show.

Great to be back in any association with Wired.

Okay, so first of all, tell us about your new novel existence.

What's it about?

What existence is about is it's about the world of roughly 2050 and terrible things have happened

But guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping as they always have.

And they're dealing with it. They're dealing with living in a world of augmented reality

where you would step outside and you can scroll through all

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