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 95 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Scott Lynch, author of the fantasy novel The Lives of Lock Lomora, book one in the

gentleman bastard series. The long-awaited third book, The Republic of Thieves, is

out now.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geeks Douglas Cohen and Rajan Kana join us to discuss epic fantasy book series.

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

All right, so we're here with Scott Lynch.

Welcome to the show.

Hi there, thanks for having me.

All right, so your new book is called The Republic of Thieves,

and it's the third book in the Gentleman Bastards series.

So just for readers who are new to your work, do you want to just describe the basic premise of the series?

The gentleman bastard series starting with the lies of Loch Ramora is essentially a sort of sword and sorcery crime

novels. The protagonists are con artists in sort of a renaissance era world where

con artistry as we know it is not a very developed

form of art and they're essentially the first people to sort of play with the deep and the long con.

And it's essentially the story of how they are thrown

from bad situation to bad situation,

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