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And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 298 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new movie Annihilation

directed by Alex Garland and based on the novel by Jeff Bandermere.

And I just want to mention that we interviewed Alex Garland back in episode 147 and Jeff

Bandermere back in episode 103.

So definitely go check those out if you miss them.

And this will include spoilers for the movie Annihilation,

as well as the novel Annihilation,

the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy.

So just be aware of that.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Jason Kay, who you may remember from our panel on the Wired Fiction issue back in episode 236.

He's a senior associate editor at Wired, focusing on magazine stories,

and you should all go check out his

wire.com review. Annihilation is a thrilling terrifying surrealist trip. So

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