The Incomparable, number 514, May 2020.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host Jason Snell and this is a very special episode.

It's one of those episodes we do every so often with one of our own, one of our favorite panelists,

who has written a book. I've done this with

Dan Morin. I've done this with Anthony Johnston. And we're back around to Dan again. Dan has a new

book that's out May 12th, 2020, called the ALF extraction. It is Galactic Cold War Book 2,

because like any nerd,

any good nerd, Dan starts counting from zero.

It's his third book.

Hi, Dan.

Hi, Jason.

I will say, and this has come up in other places,

but I heard you did it correctly, quote unquote,

before the show,

and then you changed the pronunciation of the book when you do the

actual intro and someday someday i'm going to write a book that doesn't have multiple multiple possible

pronunciations because literally all three of the books in this series there are multiple ways to pronounce

i always said alif but it's olif like an olive, but not. Or Aleph.

In fact, when I said Ollif, when I said Ollif to Lex Friedman, he's like, well, I would

have pronounced it Aleph like the letter.

And I was like, all right, and that might just be an accent thing.

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