The Incomparable, number 757, March 2025.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

This is a new version of our book club.

Hooray!

We're very perilously, I think, close to getting some assigned reading from various short lists,

but we have not received it yet, and that has allowed us to read, as promised in our last

episode, a new book. This is Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Robin Sloan, who wrote Sourdough, some of you

might have read, or Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore, which some of you might have read.

But Boonbound is what we're talking about.

It's a science fictiony book that's also a fantasy e-book.

It's lots of stuff all mixed together.

And here to talk about it are these wonderful people in our book club.

Aline Sims is here. Hello, Aline. Welcome

back to the book club. Hello. This was a weird little book. Weird, weird. Yeah, I kind of loved it,

but we'll see how everybody else feels about it. I read it because Scott McNulty, he said he loved it.

Hi, Scott. Hello, I did love it. I've loved all of, uh, I've read all three

of Robin Sloan's novels and I've loved them all. I've only read, I haven't read sourdough yet,

but I read Mr. Penumbra. I'll put it to you this way. I read moonbound and I was like,

I shall read another book by Robin Sloan now. And surely thereafter I did. Uh, Erica Ensign also here. Hello, Erica.

Hello.

You can call me regret maximization.

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