Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is a podcast hosted by author David Barr Kirtley and produced by Lightspeed Magazine editor John Joseph Adams. The show features conversations about fantasy & science fiction in books, movies, games, and comics, as well as related subjects such as science, history, and critical thinking. The show gets about 18,000 downloads per episode and has racked up over 6 million total downloads. Guests have included: Novelists, such as: James Patterson (The President is Missing), George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones), Neil Gaiman (American Gods), Dean Koontz (Innocence), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), Joyce Carol Oates (The Doll Master), Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go), David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass), Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Diana Gabaldon (Outlander), Neal Stephenson (Anathem), and Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness). Directors, such as: Alex Garland (Ex Machina), David Cronenberg (A History of Violence), and Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko); Showrunners, such as: J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), David X. Cohen (Futurama), and Naren Shankar (The Expanse); Film and TV personalities, such as: John Cleese (Monty Python), Adam Savage (MythBusters), Bill Nye (Bill Nye Saves the World), Hank Green (The Vlogbrothers), and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead); Graphic novelists, such as: Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), and Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half); Video game designers, such as: Richard Garriott (Ultima), Warren Spector (Deus Ex), and Ron Gilbert (The Secret of Monkey Island); Scientists, such as: Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Death by Black Hole), Lawrence Krauss (A Universe from Nothing), Michio Kaku (Physics of the Future), and Brian Greene (Fabric of the Cosmos); Nonfiction writers, such as: Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers), Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now), Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine), and Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs); Policy experts, such as: Richard A. Clarke (Against All Enemies), Garry Kasparov (Winter is Coming), and Daniel Ellsberg (The Doomsday Machine); Political commentators, such as: Paul Krugman (New York Times columnist), David Ignatius (Washington Post columnist), Bill McKibben (enviromental activist), and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette). Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, io9, Omni, The Strand, Library Journal, and Popular Mechanics. CBC Radio writes, “You may not think a podcast about science fiction and fantasy would be the place to go for political insight, but — it is. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy manages to be more insightful about politics ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdubfbBrLU0

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