117: Intergalactic FedEx

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2012

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We follow up on our previous episode to ask Serenity Caldwell how she uses her iPhone to read books (and discover her shocking method of scanning pages). Then there’s a discussion of Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest Vorkosigan novel, “Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance.” Finally (at 65 minutes in if you’re skipping ahead), Jason asks Scott to recommend which unread book on his Kindle he should dive into next.

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 170, December 2012.
0:08.2	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast. I'm Jason Snell, and I'm joined by three fine members of our book club.
0:14.2	We're going to talk about the latest in the Vorkozygian series of books by Lois McMaster Buzold, which we also talked about on a previous
0:23.2	podcast called The Episode Title was My Word is Vorkozygan, the links in the show notes.
0:28.3	This is the 14th book in the series, I believe.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.3	So if you haven't read the first 13, you might want to tune out at some point when we start
0:39.3	talking about it because...
0:40.6	Well, that's interesting.
0:41.5	It's an interesting question.
0:42.4	Although we can talk about that.
0:43.7	Yes, it is interesting.
0:45.0	And that was that voice you heard was Dan Moran, who is the man who introduced me to the
0:48.8	Forkosigan series, which I then read 13 books in about two months a couple of years ago.
0:53.6	I consider that a win.
0:54.8	Yes, thank you very much.
0:55.7	Also joining me is Scott McNulty.
0:57.7	Hi, Scott.
0:58.8	Hello.
0:59.1	I also blame Dan for reading about.
1:01.4	Yes.
1:02.3	I had never heard of this little strange character until I met Dan.
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