And welcome to The Incomparable Podcast.

This is Jason Snell.

I am your host.

What will the incomparable podcast be?

Well, it's a good question, and I'm not sure we know the actual answer to that question.

We're hoping you'll let us know.

Here's the idea.

The idea is to get a bunch of people I know together who are, we'll admit, a little bit on the geeky side,

and talk about things that you would probably call geek culture, we'll admit, a little bit on the geeky side, and talk about things that you would

probably call geek culture, sci-fi, comic books, fantasy maybe a little bit across genres.

So I think the way this is going to work is every week we're going to have a new genre.

We're going to start this week with books, sci-fi novels in particular. Next week, move on to comic books, and then in forthcoming weeks we'll throw in movies and TV, and who knows what else. Maybe we'll do a special music edition and talk about geeky music or something. I don't know. Anyway, that's the premise. I've gathered several of my friends in the technology

business, actually, but where else to find geeky people? And today we're going to get

started with a discussion of sci-fi novels.

The incomparable, number one, August 2010.

Joining me is Scott McNulty. Hello, Scott.

Hello, Jason. It's good to have you here. You're very well-read, gentlemen.

I do know how to read. That's good. That's what well-read means. You read well.

Dan Morin, as well, from far away in the eastern part of the United States. Hello, Dan. Hello, from far away. Are you well-read?

I'm told that I've been read like a book. Is that what that means? Well-read then? No. That is a second definition of what it means.

And from the great Northwest, Glenn Fleischman joins us.

Hi, Glenn.

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