You're going to be. Hi, I'm David Barr-Cirtley, author of the book Save Me, Please, and Other Stories, and welcome to episode 573 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Robert Charles Wilson, author of more than a dozen novels, including the Cronoliths, Darwinia, and Julian Comstock, a story of 22nd Century America.

His 2005 novel spin about Earth being enclosed in a mysterious time bubble, won the Hugo Award for Best

Novel.

And in this interview we'll be discussing his short story collection, The Perseids and Other Stories,

and his non-fiction book, the unknown a science fiction writer explores

atheism agnosticism and the idea of God and now here's our interview with

Robert Charles Wilson. All right so we're here with Robert Charles Wilson. All right, so we're here with Robert Charles Wilson.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, and so your new book is called Owning the Unknown.

So, tell us about that.

Well, it's the subtitle is the

science fiction writer explores atheism, agnosticism, and the idea of God.

It's my first book-length work of non-fiction.

And what it tries to do is make a,

what I think of as a general defense of atheism. See the medium of looking at these ideas in

science fiction. The way I've encountered these ideas and used these ideas as a science

fiction writer. And the way these ideas have played into my own experience and in many pieces

prompted me to do the kind of work I do as a science fiction writer.

So could you say kind of like what has been the relationship between science fiction and

atheism in your own life? Did science fiction make you an atheist or what kind of what is the

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