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Hello listeners. You've been hearing us talk about our newest show adaptation nation and we are so excited about the first episode that we wanted to drop it into your feed so that you didn't have to go looking for it.

You can just give it a listen right here right now. And it is a look at the new Dune movie as it compares to the first of the Dune books by Frank Herbert.

It features yours truly, Jen Northington as well as the bookriot podcast Jeff O'Neill and get books Amanda Nelson and we hope you enjoy.

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The test is simple remove your hand from the books and you die once in a box pain.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of adaptation nation today with this episode we're doing Dune the cultural monolith the idea of sci-fi that the big one of the biggest properties in all of American culture for sure makes its third major adaptation

attend this month with Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1960. Oh, I'm my notes. Help me, Jen or Amanda 1962.

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Novel Dune which then spiraled into what can you only say is a sprawling mess of a franchise with 19 books in the Dune series written by Frank and then his son Brian and various adaptations and

graphic novels and expansion standard universe of these things happen but we're going to get into especially the original first novel and then the most recent adaptation here.

And see what we can learn see we can find I think both all three of us have interesting relationship I'm here with Amanda Nelson and Jen northington we're going to get into Dune from in all the different kinds of ways but I guess I want to start here.

We've had what it's been out for a week now available.

And Rebecca and I were talking about this little bit on the book right podcast yesterday but I think we can say that Dune is having a moment like it's a thing.

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