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No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast, |
| 0:16.4 | this week coming to you live from Gothenburg! |
| 0:19.2 | My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, |
| 0:28.1 | and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days |
| 0:34.3 | and in no particular order, here we go. |
| 0:38.0 | Starting with fact number one, and that is Andy. My fact is that the novel Dune, one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever, was rejected |
| 0:48.2 | 20 times before being printed by a publisher who specialized in car repair manuals. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the book festival here in Gothenburg. |
| 0:59.0 | One of the themes this year is space. |
| 1:02.0 | This is about a book about space. |
| 1:04.3 | Taken into consideration that we only have an hour. |
| 1:06.6 | Can you explain what Dune is? |
| 1:08.1 | Oh, it's so great. |
| 1:10.9 | It's a sci-foy novel. |
| 1:12.4 | It's set on the desert planet of Arrakis and it's all about the rise of a young Messiah or is he? Paul Etrades. Of course there's the Harkinen family and there are giant worms and anyway it's a fantastic |
| 1:25.5 | fantastic work of 60s sci-fi |
| 1:27.8 | you know Frank Herbert was the author and it has been serialized in a magazine, but it's really long. |
| 1:34.6 | I mean, it's really long to you. |
| 1:35.7 | And it was way too long to be a book, according to most publishers, |
| 1:38.6 | who've got a look at it, and no one wanted to print it even in three volumes. |
| 1:42.0 | They just said, no thanks thanks so you got lots of |
| 1:43.6 | rejections and then you met the guy called Sterling E Lania of Chilton books and they |
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