231: Eat Pray Love Die Survive

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The end of the world is here, or in the near future, or in the far future, or maybe all three? Our Book Club reconvenes to talk about three somewhat apocalyptic novels: “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, “The Peripheral” by William Gibson, and “Slow Apocalypse” by John Varley.

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0:00.0	The Inconparable, number 231, January 2015.
0:10.7	Welcome back, everybody to The Inconparable.
0:12.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	We're here tonight to convene another edition of our book club.
0:16.3	We may need to just change the title to Apocalypse Book Club because we do that an awful lot.
0:24.2	I blame Lisa.
0:25.4	As you should.
0:26.4	Lisa Schmeiser.
0:27.3	Hello, we read more apocalyptic books.
0:30.1	Also out there, of course, it's book club.
0:32.0	It wouldn't be a book club.
0:33.1	Angry people on Twitter point out were it not for the presence of Scott McNulty.
0:37.4	Hello, Scott. Are you here? Is this
0:39.1	officially a book club? It is a book club. Oh, whew. Thank goodness. Well, now that we know that it's
0:45.6	officially a book club, I'd like to introduce my other two guests. Monti Ashley also joins us. Hello, Monty.
0:50.9	Hello, Jason. Remember electricity? Oh, good times.
0:54.2	Remember podcasts?
0:55.7	Oh.
0:56.4	They were like a traveling theater, but they came to you over the clouds.
1:03.0	I can't even picture such a thing.
1:04.8	I know.
1:05.5	I'll draw you a comic book about it later.
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