648: Magical NDA

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Store up some mana and watch out for maleficers and maw-mouths! We’re going to discuss Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, which takes the familiar story of a school for teenage magicians and does some very different things with it! Before the Spoiler Horn, we talk generally about the books and why you should read them. Then we dig into some of the details of how the series changes as it comes to its end. [Our next Book Club selection is “Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution” by R.F. Kuang.]...

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0:00.0	Just a reminder, you can get ad-free episodes of The Incomparable and so many bonuses by going to
0:06.3	the Incomparable.com slash members and signing up.
0:11.1	The Incomparable, number 648, January 2023.
0:18.1	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:20.3	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we're convening our book club.
0:25.1	You know, our first episode was about the book club. And I feel like we haven't been doing enough of the book club because we've been doing like the award-winning short list books and then not a lot else.
0:37.4	And so one of those New Year's resolution kind of things we're going to do. award-winning short-list books, and then not a lot else.
0:43.1	And so one of those New Year's resolution kind of things, we're going to do more book club,
0:47.3	and we're going to actually communicate what our next book is.
0:48.7	Not this time.
0:50.4	Well, I mean, we'll communicate that now.
0:56.9	Our next book is going to be the Scolomance Trilogy by Naomi Novick. And we're going to cover those books now. Our next book is going to be the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novick. And we're going to cover those books now. But at the end of the episode, we'll tell you what the book is we're going to cover next time.
1:01.7	And you'll have more warning than none. How about that? Joining me in this edition of the book club
1:08.1	to talk about Naomi Novick's Scolomance trilogy, which just
1:11.4	concluded with the golden enclaves, are these four wonderful people.
1:15.5	Aline Sims, hello.
1:17.5	Hello.
1:19.0	Glenn Fleischman, robot roll call, something like that.
1:23.3	Will there be a test?
1:24.6	It's my question.
1:26.1	Yes.
1:27.0	Okay, I'm ready. But you have to give the test. Oh! So work on. Will there be a test? It's my question. Yes. Okay.
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