This week we talk to the delightful Marjorie M. Liu, writer of Marvel Comics’ Dark Wolverine and NYX and author of the novels in the Dirk and Steele and Hunter Kiss series. She tells us about attending Clarion and writing for Marvel, and Dave and John discuss comics, then and now.

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 4: Superheroes! Romance! Sea Monsters!

P. W. Singer

On this week’s episode of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, we interview P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War about the subject of robots in the military and the intersection between video games and war. Also, Dave and I consider some of the science fiction works that influenced the development of robots as we know them.

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 3: Robots! War Machines! Robolobsters!

Paolo Bacigalupi

You don’t want to miss this week’s interview with Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the critically-acclaimed The Windup Girl, which was named one of Time Magazine’s top ten novels of the year. Paolo talks to us about global warming, the horrors of travel, the current state of literature for boys, and his own forthcoming YA novel, Ship Breaker. John and Dave discuss their own experiences with literature when they were growing up, and how they became science fiction fans.

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, episode 2: Bacigalupilooza!

Hour of the Wolf

I was a guest on the HOUR OF THE WOLF radio show this morning, during which I discussed Lightspeed, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock Holmes, and other topics. If you missed it, or if you just loved it so much you want to listen to it again, you can do via the show’s web site. The show features Brilliance Audio’s production of “Dynamics of a Hanging” by Tony Pi (read by Simon Vance), which comes from the forthcoming unabridged audiobook version of the anthology.

Geeks have always loved what’s smart and fun – from fantasy literature, video games, and graphic novels, to science, technology, and gadgets. It’s never been a better time to be a geek, with Lord of the Rings sweeping the Oscars, iPods and iPhones in every pocket, and tales of wizards, vampires, and zombies dominating the bestseller lists. And now being a geek is about to get even better, with the launch of THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast, the indispensable news and talk show for geeks everywhere.

John Joseph Adams

Hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley are two geeks who also happen to be rising young stars in the world of publishing. John, the editor of the bestselling anthologies WASTELANDS and THE LIVING DEAD and the new science fiction magazine LIGHTSPEED, has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. David, who has been named “one of the newest and freshest voices in sf,” has published fiction in books such as FANTASY: THE BEST OF THE YEAR and NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION.

So if you’re a geek, be sure to join Dave and John each week for the smartest, funniest, and geekiest new show in the galaxy.

Each show will feature an interview with a geek celebrity from the world of publishing, movies, tv, video games…or any other geek worth talking to! In addition to the featured interview, hosts Dave and John

David Barr Kirtley

will discuss the various geeky topics brought up in the interview in further detail.

For more information about the show, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit http://tinyurl.com/geeksguidetothegalaxy

In our premier episode for Tor.com, your hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley take on zombies and the apocalypse in video games, popular culture, and literature. They discuss Valve Software’s history of story-focused video games and interview Chet Faliszek, lead writer for Left 4 Dead 2, then discuss their own strategies for surviving the coming zombie apocalypse, and give their opinions of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

This year’s Hugo Awards nomination ballot is now online. The 2010 Hugo Awards will be presented in Melbourne, Australia during Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. Deadline for nominating online is March 13, 2010 23:59 PST (paper ballots must be received by March 13).

Members of Aussiecon 4 who join by January 31, 2010 and members of Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, will be eligible to nominate people or works from 2009 in various categories.  If you didn’t attend Anticipation, and you don’t plan to attend Aussiecon, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works!

Here’s a list of works I edited that are eligible in the various Hugo categories.

Novella

John Langan: “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” (By Blood We Live)

Novelette

John C. Wright: “Twilight of the Gods” (Federations)
Rob Rogers: “The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape” (The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

Short Story

Alan Dean Foster: “Pardon Our Conquest” (Federations)
Allen Steele: “The Other Side of Jordan” (Federations)
Catherynne M. Valente: “Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy” (Federations)
Genevieve Valentine: “Carthago Delenda Est” (Federations) [Read it free!]
Georgina Li: “Like They Always Been Free” (Federations)
James Alan Gardner: “The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses” (Federations) [Read it free!]
Jeremiah Tolbert: “The Culture Archivist” (Federations) [Read it free!]
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.: “Life-Suspension” (Federations)
Mary Rosenblum: “My She” (Federations)
Sergei Lukyanenko: “Foxtrot at High Noon” (By Blood We Live)
S. L. Gilbow: “Terra-Exulta” (Federations)
Tempest Bradford: “Different Day” (Federations)
Trent Hergenrader: “Eskhara” (Federations)
Yoon Ha Lee: “Swanwatch” (Federations)

Editor, Short-Form

John Joseph Adams (Federations, By Blood We Live, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

• By Blood We Live: ebook | sampler
• The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ebook | sampler