Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 553 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories.

Publishers Weekly says,

Vissural settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much currently is able to fit into a limited page count.

For SFF fans with no time to sink into a doorstopper,

these concentrated doses of genre goodness will hit the spot,

and Kirkus refused rights currently employs sharp concise pros that compliments his pucish

sense of humor. The author's passionate voice breathes life into this wonderful

array of tales. So again, the book is called Save Me Please and Other Stories, and it's available now

on Amazon.com.

And today on the show will be discussing the movie Scanners,

Video Drone, The Fly, Existence, and Crimes of the Future.

All of which were written and directed by David Cronenberg, who was our guest

back in episode 125.

And this will include spoilers for all of those movies, so just be aware of that, and I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Andrea Kale making her 31st appearance on the show.

She's a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop

and her short fiction appears in the Writers of the Future anthology, Fantasy magazine, and Lightspeed.

She's been a television writer, producer, and script supervisor for shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Chew, and for Pixelberry Studios. So Andrea, welcome to the show.

Good to be back, Dave.

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