267: I Read It All

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club reconvenes to cover two books that are both sort of about the end of the world: Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Water Knife” and Neal Stephenson’s “Seveneves.” Regional apocalypses versus worldwide apocalypses! Plus, what else are we reading?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 267, October 2015.
0:10.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.8	We are reconvening our book club.
0:16.6	This episode, we're going to be talking about two books. One by Palo Bacagalupi.
0:23.0	It's called The Waterknife.
0:24.9	And another by Neil Stevenson, which is called Seven Eaves.
0:28.7	These are authors we've talked about before in previous episodes.
0:32.0	You could look it up or in the show notes, perhaps, if I'm not too lazy.
0:35.8	To talk about these two novels of a science fictional
0:39.1	nature, I have four human beings who are not robots that we know of. Lisa Schmeiser, not a robot.
0:47.5	Hi, Lisa. Hi, how are you? I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. David J. Lour, probably not a
0:53.8	mandroid. Possibly. Possibly. That's fine. David J. Lour, probably not a mandroid.
0:55.2	Possibly.
0:56.2	Possibly.
0:56.8	Possibly.
0:57.0	Possibly.
0:58.2	Possibly.
0:59.1	Serenity Caldwell, good to hear your voice, your human voice.
1:02.2	Yes, I am not a robot for this podcast.
1:05.4	I don't believe you.
1:06.9	And the most of all of the creatures I've met in my travels his is the most human it is
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