The Incomparable Podcast, number 19, for January 2011.

It's a new year and time for a new edition of The Incomparable Podcast.

Welcome everybody.

I'm Jason Snell, your host.

With me today, I have two guests

for our exciting incomparable book club. Yes, we've managed to kill just about everyone else,

but two remain alive, and they enter our Thunderdome here today. From the Pacific Northwest,

Glenn Fleischman, thank you for reading the book.

You are very welcome.

Somebody had to do it.

And from the East Coast, from Philadelphia, Lonely No Longer, Scott McNulty.

Thank you for being literate, Scott.

You know, I think this is what happens to all book clubs, isn't it?

Slowly people just stop coming.

So you mean the next one will be Jason talking to himself?

Yes.

Either that or it'll be me talking to my digitized version of Dan Morin that I can play back and debate things with at my leisure.

So our topic today, primary topic, first topic, is the book selection, which is how to live safely in a science fictional universe, which is by Charles U, I believe.

Charles U.

That is correct.

All right.

And this is a very peculiar book.

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