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Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 223 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new

HBO series West World based on the 1973 feature film written and directed by

Michael Crayton. And this may involve spoilers for the first four episodes of the

show, so just be aware of that, and I'm joined by three guests.

So first up, we've got our producer John Joseph Adams. He's the editor of Light Speed and Nightmare

Magazines, and he also oversees John Joseph Adams books

an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He's the series editor of Best American

science fiction and fantasy and he's also edited many other anthologies

including a book of Weird West fiction called Dead Man's Hand.

So John, welcome back.

Howdy, partner?

Then next up we've got Theresa Delucci, making her seventh appearance on the show.

She's written about Hannibal and Twin Peaks for Boing Boing.

And she's also a frequent guest on Den of Geek's You Still Know Nothing, Game of Thrones

podcast.

She'll be reviewing Westworld for tour.com and you should

all go check out her tour.com article six guns and strange shooters a weird

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