Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

625 episodes

625. Why Do We Believe in Aliens? (with Adam Kirsch)
2026/09/25 | 1h 2 mins.
Adam Kirsch joins us to discuss his books We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters and The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks.
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624. Widow's Bay Season 1 Review
2026/09/21 | 1h 31 mins.
Andrea Kail, Tom Gerencer, and Zach Chapman join us to discuss the Apple TV series Widow’s Bay, about a small-town mayor trying to turn his haunted island into a tourist destination. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks.
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623. Jedediah Berry, author of Kill All Wizards
2026/07/31 | 1h 6 mins.
Jedediah Berry, author of The Manual of Detection and The Naming Song, joins us to discuss his new sword & sorcery novel Kill All Wizards. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks.
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622. Light by M. John Harrison Review (with Philip Gelatt)
2026/07/17 | 1h 27 mins.
Philip Gelatt, writer of The Europa Report and The Spine of Night, joins us to discuss M. John Harrison’s cosmic horror space opera novel Light. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks.
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621. For All Mankind Season 5 Review (with John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan)
2026/06/24 | 1h 28 mins.
John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, and Rafael Jordan join us to discuss Season 5 of the alternate reality sci-fi show For All Mankind on Apple TV. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks.
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About Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

** Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks ** Host David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories, talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins, Simon Pegg, Amanda Knox, Andrew Yang, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, Wired, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, WVXU, 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 than many pundits." View a complete list of guests and topics at geeksguideshow.com/episodes/. Listen to the show on YouTube at youtube.com/@geeksguidetothegalaxy to easily skip ahead to our discussion of a particular movie or story.

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