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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

537. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Book Club (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Rajan Khanna)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 172 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by My Life Among Humans, a new graphic novel written and illustrated

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by longtime Geeks Guide to the Galaxy listener, Jed McGowan.

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Jed's work has been nominated for an Ignats Award, been featured in the best American comics

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2019, and appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Vice, and Wired.

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And here's a description of My Life Among Humans, it says,

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My Life Among Humans is an evocative, melancholy, and ultimately hopeful graphic novel about

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a solitary aliens misguided search for connection among its human subjects.

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A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the

0:38.3

outskirts of a small desert community in North America.

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Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular

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reports to its manager back home, using sporolite technology to read the minds of its hosts.

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The alien quickly takes a special interest in will, when if it's early subjects.

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That interest proves to be a problem when the alien is accidentally revealed to Will's

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family, and it takes desperate measures to save its own life.

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In doing so, it discovers a forbidden ability, it can control human minds.

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Now, the alien struggles to keep this secret from its manager, deal with a growing number

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of suspicious humans, and come to terms with its ethically questionable decisions.

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My Life Among Humans is a beautifully painted, evocative first graphic novel from illustrator

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and cartoonist Jed McGowan.

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Library Journal writes that My Life Among Humans is, quote, recommended for all who have

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felt like an outsider looking in.

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Its Eisner award-winning artist Ryan North, who was our guest back in episode 93 writes,

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