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All right, so now let's get to our show. Hi, I'm David Barr Curately. author of the book Save Me, please, and other stories.

And welcome to episode 577 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Today on the show we'll be discussing the short story collection The Best of Roger Zilasny, part of the SF Masterwork

series of science fiction classics.

And this will include spoilers for everything in the book, so just be aware of that.

And I'm joined today by my good friend Tom Gerencer making his 30th appearance on the show

His short fiction appears in magazines such as Galaxy's Edge and in books such as new voices and science fiction.

He's the author of the business book Think Like Google,

and the short story collection Intergalactic Refrigerator

Repair Men seldom carry cash,

and his popular science book, it's made written for the

discovery channel is out now so Tom welcome to the show. Thanks Dave 30 wow I'm

I'm honored. Yeah.

Okay, so first of all, just tell us a bit about your history reading Roger Zelasny.

So my history with Rogers-Alasny is tied directly to my history with reading any science fiction at all and fantasy. I was you know born in

1969 so I grew up encountering science fiction through used bookstores, which I would kind of walk around these old dusty musty

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