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The Incomparable, number 163, October 2013.

Welcome back to The Uncomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

And a little while ago, we asked our listeners to write iTunes reviews.

They didn't even have to be good.

We're not participating in some sort of fraud here.

They could be any kind of iTunes review,

and randomly we would select somebody from the iTunes reviewers,

and they would get to pick the topic of an episode.

And we indeed chose somebody at random.

It was an Australian fellow.

His name is Dave Gork Roger,

and Dave picked, he had actually already recommended these books to us on Twitter and mentioned the author's name and then the author jumped in on Twitter and also recommended his books.

Big surprise.

And so this is what we did.

So we read a series of books by John Birmingham,

The Axis of Time Trilogy, Weapons of Choice is the first book in this series.

I believe some of us on this podcast read more than that.

So we're going to talk about that a little bit,

hopefully keeping it spoiler light enough.

I personally, I don't actually think there are a lot of things that could spoil these books. It's not really those, they're not

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