179: Thief-Based Economy

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Our book club returns with discussion of two books! First we talk Scott Lynch’s “The Lies of Locke Lamora,” a fantasy book about a gang of thieves that are even outlaws to other thieves (spoiler horn at 12:00). Then it’s Ann Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice,” a space opera about AIs and ships and empires and corpse soldiers that brings Iain M. Banks to mind (starts at 28:48, spoilers at 33:22). Confusingly long prologues! Fun with gendered pronouns! Questionable burrito metaphors! Plus: What are we reading (starts at 68:13)?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 179, January 2014.
0:09.3	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and it's time for us to convene another edition of our book club.
0:16.2	And we haven't read books in a little while.
0:18.9	Well, we've been reading books, but we haven't met
0:21.3	and convened. There's been no convention of book readers on the podcast in a little while to talk
0:27.5	about specific books. We did our book draft, where we did our winter book, you know, picked a
0:33.7	bazillion books for you to read that you're probably still trying to get through. But we're back to talk about two books in specific.
0:39.8	We are going to have some spoilers.
0:41.6	We'll fire off the spoiler horn.
0:43.3	We'll give you a warning about when to skip ahead if you want to talk about one of the books and not the other book.
0:49.2	The two books that we read, because it's been so long, I wanted us to read two different books and these are books that i've actually been i've had recommended to me for a while now by our panelists and i read them
0:59.5	and so i thought hey now that i've read them i should get something out of this like a podcast so
1:05.2	here we are and scott mcnulty joins course, as always, because he reads everything.
1:11.4	Hi, Scott.
1:13.0	Hello, Jason.
1:13.8	It's good to be here.
1:14.7	Reading books.
1:15.9	Reading books for once.
1:18.1	Not like that Dungeons of Dragons with Rod your Brain.
1:19.0	That's true.
1:25.7	So if I remember correctly, this is the podcast where we all individually silently read books.
1:28.7	And all you hear is the turning of pages, yes.
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