David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he’s interviewed well over 300 guests, including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Lightspeed, and Intergalactic Medicine Show, on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod, and in books such as The Living Dead, New Cthulhu, The Way of the Wizard, and New Voices in Science Fiction. His story “Save Me Plz” was picked by editor Rich Horton for the 2008 edition of the anthology series Fantasy: The Best of the Year.
Work on Escape Artists[]
Escape Pod
- EP088 Blood of Virgins, read by Stephen Eley
- EP124 Save Me Plz, read by Mur Lafferty
- EP382 They Go Bump, read by Alasdair Stuart
Pseudopod
- PP048 The Disciple, read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
- PP094 The Skull-Faced Boy, read by Ralph Walters