216: Maps of London

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

London is a thriving modern metropolis, but beneath its streets and behind its doors are ancient, magical secrets. In this episode, a group of (North) Americans discuss some of our favorite London-based urban fantasy novels. This is a spoiler-light episode, so listen in and get ready to add a whole bunch of books to your to-read list. Plus, what are we reading?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Number 216, October 2014.
0:07.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this is going to be another edition of our book club.
0:17.0	We're going to talk about a bunch of different books in a particular genre. I'm hoping this will be a little spoiler light.
0:22.1	So you can listen, maybe find some books you want to read, maybe suggest some books to us,
0:27.3	although, unless you're listening live as we record this, we won't hear you for a while.
0:31.9	Anyway, London Urban Fantasy is the topic.
0:35.9	I realized not too long ago that I had read a whole bunch of different books that were set in London, that featured magic.
0:44.9	And I thought that was a really interesting like trend, that all of a sudden accidentally, although to be fair, three of the books were by people who have written episodes of Doctor Who, so maybe that has something to do with it.
0:56.6	Anyway, we're going to talk about those books and other books that my panelists have read that are vaguely connected to sort of magic and London and urban fantasy.
1:06.9	I have an excellent panel to talk about this with me today.
1:10.9	Erica N. Sin is here. Hello.
1:13.2	Hello. Good to have you.
1:15.1	I am always happy to come and talk about Doctor Who writers doing, well, really anything.
1:19.9	I was going to say Doctor Who related things are happening, so I'm glad, of course, you would be here because that's how it has to work.
1:25.9	Dan Moran is also out there. Hi, Dan. Hi, Jason. How are you? Thanks for reading.
1:32.1	That's, uh, you know, uh, you sound like my second grade teacher. Thank you for literacy. Reading is
1:37.5	fundamental, Dan. Uh, yes, I enjoy it. Writh. Uh, and now, a very special panelist, he's been on the incomparable's back channel mailing list
1:47.1	for the very beginning, just as he was on the TV.net back channel mailing list from the very
1:51.8	beginning. He's been listening to all of our conversations for more than 200 episodes and has
1:56.3	never appeared on a podcast, but that changes with this episode. It is my friend from back at UCSD, David Burkhard.
2:04.2	Hi, David.
2:05.2	Hi, thank you.
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