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 John.

And welcome to episode 86 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Rick Jansi,

author of popular young adult novels such as the Alfred Crop series and the Monstramologist series.

His latest book The Fifth Wave is the story of a teenage girl searching for her of $750,000 marketing push.

The fifth wave has also been optioned for film by Sony Pictures with Toby McGuire reportedly attached to the project.

Then stick around after the interview as we discuss the current state of science fiction

podcasting with author and podcaster Mer Lafferty. All right so let's get to our

interview. All right so we're here with Rick Yancey welcome to the show.

Hey thanks for having me.

Okay, so first of all, just tell us about your new book, The Fifth Wave.

What's it about?

The Fifth Wave is a story that takes the alien invasion genre and leaps from the premise that Hollywood has

gotten it completely wrong, that if they're out there, we better hope that they never find us.

And it centers around four survivors of the alien apocalypse that comes about in waves.

Instead of one single attack there, it's a coordinated multiple assault on the planet

Earth.

The first wave knocks out all electronics, all power, the entire grid goes down.

The second wave is designed to take advantage of the fact that the Earth has an unstable surface and that 40% of the world's

population lives within 60 miles of a coastline. The third wave is a plague

delivered by birds and the fourth wave is well I'll leave the

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