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 87 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Oliah Don Johnson, author of the Spirit Binders series and the Zephra Halla series.

Her latest novel The Summer Prince is set in Brazil 400 years in the future, in a pyramid city

where young men vie for the honor of being elected king for a year, after which they are ritually sacrificed.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geeks, E.C. Meyers, and Emily Ash-Parran,

join us to discuss the new movie Star Trek into darkness.

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

All right, so we're here with Aliah Don Johnson.

Welcome to the show.

Hey.

Okay, so your new book is called The Summer Prince.

So what's that about?

It is a novel that takes place in what is now Brazil on the coast of the state that is now by

but 400 years in the future in the aftermath

of a global apocalypse.

And it's basically in a matriarchal society

that's a utopian experiment run by women of color and basically women have power but every five years they elect a king and it's a summer king and he rules and is the ultimate rock star sex god political figure head for a year and then at the end of the year he's

ritually killed but it's basically a year in the life of the summer king

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