37: Shadow War of the Night Dragons

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club discusses the works of sci-fi writer John Scalzi, including “Old Man’s War.” We also talk about “The Forever War” and many other books. We play the “new author remakes classic novel” game we just invented. Find out why Dan says “Ce Podcast est Fini!” And stay after the end to learn Jason’s secret plan to create a terrible sci-fi trilogy.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable podcast, number 37, May 2011.
0:14.9	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I'm Jason Snell.
0:17.7	I'm joined today by Dan Moran.
0:20.6	Hi, Dan.
0:21.9	Hello, Jason.
0:22.7	It's so nice to be on this podcast with you after so long since I was last on a podcast with you.
0:27.9	Also joining me today is Scott McNulty.
0:31.9	Hello.
0:32.7	Hello.
0:34.1	We form, we Brave 3, form this particular invocation of the incomparable book club.
0:44.6	So John Scalzi is our topic today.
0:47.1	John Scalzy, award winning, I believe, science fiction writer, president of the Science Fiction
0:53.3	Writers Association of Americaica i believe so he
0:56.7	i hope to someday be a member of that association working working hard at it that would be that would
1:00.9	be good you need to write more science fiction i guess oh maybe that's not the problem science fiction
1:05.3	yes well we can always aspire we can all aspire dan i aspire to that great. Awesome. Great. He has, so he's in the news. He's got a new book coming out called Fuzzy Nation, Fuzzy Nation, which is a recasting, I guess, of an older book. Yeah. So that's interesting. We'll start there. Why not?
1:32.8	There's a book called Little Fuzzy, which is by Beam Piper.
1:35.8	H. Beam Piper from the 60s.
1:42.4	And it's a very sort of 60s book where there's a protagonist with a pipe and he's a, you know,
1:45.5	he discovers, he works for a mining company and he discovers little cute aliens.
1:47.7	You had me a protagonist with a pipe.
1:49.6	He's a savvy guy.
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