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 68 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Alistair Reynolds.

He's a scientist who worked for the European Space Agency and also the author of over a dozen novels, including the Revelation Space series.

His latest book, Blue Remembered Earth, is about a pair of siblings from a wealthy African family who traveled the solar system in order

to unravel their grandmother's mysterious legacy.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geek Matt London joins us to discuss

Hollywood adaptations

at the novels and stories of Philip K Dick.

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

All right, so we're here with Alistair Reynolds.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me on.

Okay, so first of all, your new novel is called Blue Remembered Earth.

What's it about?

Well, this is a big departure from me.

It's my attempt to get back to something a little bit closer to the present in terms of the way I think about science fiction.

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