Hello and welcome to another episode of no Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Gothenburg.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.
And once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
And in no particular order, here we go.
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 20 times before being printed by a publisher who specialized in car repair manuals.
Because this is the book festival here in Gothenburg, one of the themes this year is space.
This is about a book about space.
Taking into consideration that we only have an hour, can you explain what Dune is?
Oh, it's so great.
It's a sci fi novel.
It's set on the desert planet of Arrakis and it's all about the rise of a young messiah.
Or is he Paul Atreides?
And of course, there's the Harkonnen family and there are giant worms.
And anyway, it's a fantastic, fantastic work of 60s sci fi.
Frank Herbert.
Right.
Frank Herbert was the author and it had been serialized in a magazine.
But it's really long.