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

Wired.com presents the geekeks Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kurtly. Hello, and welcome to episode 456 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is

Dennis Lubay.

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, Kingsile Entertainment,

TKO Software, and Pixel Mind Games.

And we'll be speaking with him today about Andrea Cantato's new book Through the Moongate,

the story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima, part two, from Wing Commander

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