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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Carrie Vaughn Interview

February 24, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 9: Vampires! Werewolves! Unicorns!

Carrie Vaughn, author of the Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, joins us to discuss strong heroines and werewolf-related romance. Dave and John discuss vampires in film and fiction.

Carrie Vaughn Author Photo     Carrie Vaughn Book Cover Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Blake Charlton Interview

February 19, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 8: Magic! Medicine! Fantic Episy!

Blake Charlton, author of Spellwright, joins us to talk about fantasy, dyslexia, and medical school. Dave and John discuss magic and medicine in fiction.

Blake Charlton Photo     Spellwright Blake Charlton

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Steve Eley Interview

February 10, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 7: Escape Pod! Those Voices You Hear! Unabridged!

Steve Eley—editor of Escape Pod, the internet’s most popular science fiction podcast—stops by this week and we discuss the very promising future of audio fiction.

Steve Eley Photo     Escape Pod Podcast Logo

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Cherie Priest Interview

February 5, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 6: Steampunk! Sherlock Holmes! Eschatology!

Cherie Priest—Steampunk aficionado, amateur theologian, and author of Boneshaker—joins us as our guest this week. We explain what Steampunk is, why it’s cool, and where you can check it out.

Cherie Priest Photo     Cherie Priest Boneshaker

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Brian Dunning Interview

January 31, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley 1 Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 5: Crystal Skulls! Alien Abductions! Bigfootology!

Brian Dunning of Skeptoid joins us as our guest this week. The Skeptoid podcast is one of the most popular science podcasts around, with over 50,000 listeners. Brian joins us to discuss critical thinking and its application in everything from alien abductions to medicine in the movies. Dave and John apply a little critical thinking of their own.

Brian Dunning Photo     Skeptoid Book Cover

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Marjorie M. Liu Interview

January 25, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 4: Superheroes! Romance! Sea Monsters!

Marjorie M. Liu—writer of comics NYX and Dark Wolverine (Marvel) and author of the novels in the Dirk and Steele and Hunter Kiss series—is our guest this week. She tells us about attending Clarion and writing for Marvel, and Dave and John discuss comics, then and now.

Marjorie M Liu Photo     Darkness Falls Marjorie M. Liu Book Cover

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy PW Singer Interview

January 18, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 3: Robots! War Machines! Robolobsters!

P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War, joins us this week to talk about the subject of robots in the military and the intersection between video games and war. John and Dave consider some of the science fiction works that influenced the development of robots as we know them.

PW Singer Photo     Wired for War Book Cover

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Paolo Bacigalupi Interview

January 11, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 2: Bacigalupilooza!

Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the critically-acclaimed The Windup Girl (which was named one of Time Magazine’s top ten novels of the year) joins us this week to talk about global warming, the horrors of travel, the current state of literature for boys, and his own forthcoming YA novel, Ship Breaker. John and Dave discuss their own experiences with literature when they were growing up, and how they became science fiction fans.

Paolo Bacigalupi author photo    The Windup Girl book cover Paolo Bacigalupi

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Chet Faliszek Interview

January 4, 2010 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 1: Zombies, Video Games, and the End of the World!

Left 4 Dead 2 lead writer Chet Faliszek is the featured interview guest on the premiere episode of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, a new podcast talk show here on Tor.com. In this episode, your hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley take on zombies and the apocalypse in video games, popular culture, and literature. They discuss Valve Software’s history of story-focused video games and talk to Chet about zombies and video games and contingency plans, then discuss their own strategies for surviving the coming zombie apocalypse, and give their opinions of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

chet faliszek valve left 4 dead     left 4 dead 2

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David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley is an author and the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he’s interviewed well over a hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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