101: Insular Nerdosphere

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2012

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club discusses “Redshirts” by John Scalzi. It’s a book that’s far more complex than its elevator-pitch premise would suggest, but did our panel appreciate its winking narrative-within-narrative structure? And more broadly, why are we worried about some of our favorite geek creators turning inward and pandering to the nerd audience?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 101, August 2012.
0:10.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:13.3	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.8	It's episode 101, starting a new century of podcasting excellence, excellence in quotation marks.
0:26.5	This week's episode is about a book. It's Red Shirts by John Scalzy. We did an entire podcast about
0:33.0	John Scalzy and his collected works. It's number 37, so you can get to that at 5x5.
0:37.7	comparable slash 37. That episode is called Shadow War of the Night Dragons.
0:44.6	It's got, we talk about basically all the books that Scalzy wrote up to red shirts,
0:50.8	which is the topic of today's podcast.
1:00.8	Joining me to talk about red shirts are these three fine upstanding citizens.
1:03.2	Serenity Caldwell is with us again.
1:03.7	Hello.
1:04.6	Hello.
1:06.9	I wouldn't call myself upstanding, but you know what? I'll take the compliment.
1:07.8	I called you that, so I get to do that.
1:10.4	All right. Also, the great, so I get to do that. All right.
1:11.1	Also, the great and well-read Scott McNulty.
1:15.1	Hi, Scott.
1:16.1	Hello, Jason.
1:17.1	And I would call myself great, so spot on.
1:21.6	And joining us from the Pacific Northwest, a man who reads many books and hence has many
1:26.5	opinions about them, Glenn Fleischman.
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