398: Apart From All the Skiing

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club returns to discuss two late 1960s works by the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away earlier this year. We tackle the fantasy novel “A Wizard of Earthsea” and the science fiction novel “The Left Hand of Darkness”, both deeply influential in different ways. The works were new to some of our panelists and old favorites for others, so we discuss both what they represented at the time and how we view them from the perspective of 2018.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 398, Marix 2018.
0:11.2	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.4	This is an edition of our book club.
0:16.0	Ursula Kayla Gwynn, the beloved science fiction and fantasy author, passed away recently, and it got us talking
0:22.8	about her and her work, and we decided to do rather than a giant overview, because a lot of us
0:29.2	haven't read a lot of her books. We decided to pick two books and have a bunch of people read them,
0:33.2	and now we're going to talk about them. The books are the left hand of darkness from 1969 and a
0:39.3	Wizard of Earthsea from 1968. Oh, look at that. Back to back, to back almost. And joining
0:46.9	me to talk about these two books by Ursula Kayla Gwynn are the following wonderful people,
0:50.9	Erica Ensign. Hello. Oh, I'm a wonderful person.
0:54.7	Aw.
0:56.7	Anthony Johnston.
0:57.2	Hello.
0:58.3	Hello, Jason.
0:58.7	How are you?
1:01.0	It's very nice to hear your voice on The Uncomparable.
1:01.8	That's how I'm doing.
1:03.9	Glenn Fleischman is here.
1:04.3	Hello.
1:05.7	I feel pretty wonderful.
1:06.2	Thank you.
1:07.4	Well, there's the wonderful people.
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