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All right, so now let's get to our show.

Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide

The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 417 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the 1965 novel Dune written by Frank Herbert.

And just so you know this episode will not involve any discussion of the David Lynch movie

or the SciFi Channel miniseries, which will be saving for a future episode.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up, we've got Andrea Kale making her 15th

appearance on the show. She's a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop and

her short fiction appears in the writers of the future anthology, fantasy magazine

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