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bar curdly hello and David Barr-Kirtley. Hello, and welcome to episode 179 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing the new Amazon.com TV series, The Man in the High Castle, based on the Hugo Award winning novel by Philip K Dick.

And this topic was suggested by a listener Oliver Bayless, so thank you Oliver for the idea.

And this will involve spoilers for the novel The Man in the High Castle as well as season one of the TV show so just be aware of that and I'm joined by two guests. So first up we've got Laura Miller. In 1995 she co-founded salon.com and worked as an

editor and staff writer there for 20 years. For two years she wrote the last

word column in the New York Times Book Review, and she's currently the books and culture

columnist for Slate. She's also the editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to contemporary

authors and the memoir of The Magician's Book, A Skeptics, Adventures in Narnia.

So Laura, welcome to the show.

It's great to be here.

And also joining us today is John Kessel.

He's the author of such

news from outer space and corrupting Dr. Nice, and such short story collections as the pure product

and the Baum plan for financial independence.

Together with James Patrick Kelly, he edited the anthology's ReWired,

Kofka-esque, feeling very strange

and the secret history of science fiction.

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