316: Just Add Jesuits!

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2016

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

After 20 years, we revisit Mary Doria Russell’s first-contact classic “The Sparrow.” It’s a story about aliens, spirituality, and why God allows terrible things to happen to good people. And boy, do terrible things happen to people in this book. (Content advisory: One of those things is sexual assault of humans by aliens.)

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0:00.0	Come see the cast of The Incomparable and many other podcasts at the Now Here This Festival in Anaheim, California, October 28th through 30th, go to Nowherethest.com.
0:14.2	The incomparable, number 316, September 2016.
0:24.5	Welcome. 2016, September 2016. Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:26.6	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:27.4	We're here for another edition of our book club.
0:29.5	We're going to be talking about, I would say, a classic book, or at least a book that is not a current release.
0:35.7	It is a book from 1996, which means
0:38.9	we are celebrating its 20th anniversary, which kind of is hard to believe. It's a book that I really
0:44.7	loved when I read the first time, and I reread it for this podcast. It's The Sparrow, a science
0:50.0	fiction novel. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. A science fiction novel by Mary Doria
0:55.0	Russell. Uh, joining me to talk about the Sparrow are the following. Erica Ensign. Hello.
1:01.3	Hello. Hello. And Shannon Sutterth. Hello. Hello. And Mr. Book Club himself, I guess.
1:09.1	Scraming N McNulty. Hello.
1:11.4	So the Sparrow, some of us have read it before.
1:14.4	I believe Shannon and Scott and I have read it before, but that Erica, it was new to you.
1:19.9	Is that right?
1:20.6	I had never even heard of it.
1:22.0	Oh.
1:22.6	Look at you.
1:23.3	So it was that new.
1:24.4	Why did you agree to be on this podcast?
1:26.1	That's the thing I want to know.
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