501: The Kickstarter of Space Exploration

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Climb aboard your spaceship and prepare your skin to be sparkly, because we’re discussing “To Be Taught, If Fortunate,” a novella from Becky Chambers, a writer we enjoy quite a lot. This is a story about science, adventure, sacrifice, and the difficulty of being away from home for a very, very long time. An interesting crew of characters explores strange, new worlds—while trying to fit in biologically. Sometimes it goes really well, and other times it doesn’t. Also: What are we reading?

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0:00.0	The Inconquerable
0:04.0	Number 501
0:08.0	February 2020
0:11.0	Welcome back everybody to The Inconparable
0:14.0	Another edition of our book club.
0:16.0	This is a novella.
0:17.0	We are picking books that don't, you don't need to read like eight other books in the series. You don't need to read like a thousand pages. It's a short book by Becky Chambers,
0:27.1	whose books we have liked a lot lately called To Be Taught, If Fortunate. I love a book with a
0:33.4	comma in the title. P punctuation. Could be worse. Could be a colon. Not a colon.
0:38.2	That's the most important thing.
0:39.9	It's just a comma.
0:41.7	Joining me to talk about to be taught if fortunate on this edition of the book club, it's
0:46.2	the incomparable book club and that means Scott McNulty is here because we wouldn't read books
0:50.2	without him.
0:51.1	Hi, Scott.
0:51.9	Hello.
0:53.0	I like short books.
0:54.8	Cannot lie. Yeah, I got, I saw.
0:57.8	Can't profess your like for anything unless you make a reference to that.
1:02.0	Aline Sims is also here. Hello. I too like commas.
1:05.5	Oh.
1:07.4	Hello to you, David J. Lorre.
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