291: I Like Complicated Books, Glenn

The Incomparable Mothership

Moisés Chiullán

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club returns to read two recent, highly praised science fiction novels. From Kim Stanley Robinson comes “Aurora,” the story of a spaceship sent from Earth to a far-off star in a trip that will take generations. And from Ian McDonald comes “Luna: New Moon,” a sort of “Dallas” (or is it “The Godfather”?) set on and under the surface of the moon. Plus, what else are we reading?

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0:26.1	The incomparable number 291, March 2016.
0:33.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable podcast.
0:35.9	I convened this edition of our book club.
0:38.0	Book Club is back.
0:39.4	Yay.
0:40.4	And we read two recently published in the last year novels of science fictional description and origin.
0:50.2	It is, we're going to be talking about Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson and Luna New Moon by Ian McDonald.
0:57.5	And joining me to discuss these two novels are a wonderful panel of four people who have read at least as far in both of these novels as they could until it broke them and then possibly skimmed the rest of the way.
1:09.7	It happens.
1:13.9	Aline Sims, welcome to the book club. possibly skimmed the rest of the way. It happens. Aline Sims, welcome to the book club.
1:19.5	I skimmed. Yeah, you were a skimmer. That's okay. That's okay. I was, I was, well, this will come up in the what are we reading segment at the end, but I was broken by a book that is not one of these two books.
1:24.5	And Scott was very kind in our Slack chat and said, Jason, you don't have to
1:28.1	keep reading it. And so I didn't. Unless we're going to do a Nebula Awards podcast. In which case I'm
1:34.4	going to have to, yeah, well, that was the question is now I might have to go back to it because I got
1:37.6	nominated for a Nebula Award. Anyway, we'll get there. Scott McNalty, of course. He reads everything. Hi, Scott. Hello. You're not a skimmer. I am not a skimmer. I read these books many months ago, though, so it may seem like I skim them.
1:49.8	Yeah, yeah. I read them. I finished them about a month ago, so I too perhaps have, have, have, don't, like, no memory of them. But that's okay. We will will remember as we go Glenn Fleischman is also here
2:01.5	hello hello I gave these books intensive attention good at least one of us did and Erica
2:08.3	Ensign also read did the reading you did the reading right I did there was I did a little bit of
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