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Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello. David Barr curtly.

Hello and welcome to episode 456 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Dennis Lubei.

He was the first artist hired at Origin Systems, where he created art for the

classic Ultima and Wing Commander series of video games. He's also worked as an artist for Steve

Jackson Games, Hero Games, Kings Isle Entertainment, TCO Software, and Pixel Mind Games.

And we'll be speaking with him today about Andrea Kuntato's new book Through the Moon

Gate, The Story of Richard Gariot, Origin Systems Inc and Ultima Part 2, from Wing Commander in Ultima 7 to Port Alarium.

And we previously discussed Part 1 of Through the Moon Gate back in episode 426.

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