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 75 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Lois McMaster Bourgeoisold,

author of the long-running Vorkozgan Saga, a far future adventure series about a

military officer from the planet Barriar named Miles Vercosegan, whose body is weakened

due to prenatal exposure to poison gas, and who must rely instead on his exceptional

wit. The latest book in the series Captain Vore Patrel's Alliance focuses on Miles

handsome cousin Ivan and is the first book by Buejold to make the New York Times bestseller list.

Then stick around after the interview as Mike Cole, author of the Shadow Ops series,

joins us to discuss soldiers in science fiction.

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

All right, so we're here with Lois McMaster Bourgeoisold.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Okay, so your new book is called Captain Four Pactrel's Alliance.

You want to just tell us about that?

This is book 14, depending on how you count it, or 16 in the Vorkosiverse series.

And it concerns the adventures of Ivan Bar Patrol, the titular

character.

He has been a long-running character in the series.

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