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Thank you. Hi, I'm David Bart Kurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories,

and welcome to episode 581 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing the movies Gattaca,

The Truman Show, Simone, In Time, and Anon, all of which were written by Andrew Nickel.

And this will include spoilers for all of those movies, so just be aware of that. And I'm joined by three guests. So first up we've got Andrea Kale, making her 39th 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, and Lightspeed.

She's been a television writer, producer, and script supervisor for shows such as Late Night

with Conan O'Brien, The Chew, and WWE's Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown,

and she's currently a writer for Pixelberry Studios. So, Andrea, welcome to the show. Good to be back, Dave.

The next up we've got Matthew Cressle, making his 36th appearance on the show. His novel Queen of Static, the follow-up to his

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