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The incomparable number 814, April 2026.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I am your host, Jason Snell.

This is a book club episode, although before we started, there was a really interesting conversation about whether this is the book club or a series of novellas, but also one novel club.

What's a book? What's a novella?

What is a book?

Can you, if you listen to an audio book, is that reading?

Yes, it is.

Anyway, we are here to not talk about any of those ridiculous issues, but instead talk about a fantasy series by Lois

McMaster Boisjold called The World of the Five Gods.

And I have a story to tell before I introduce my panel, which is at WorldCon in Reno, I want to say,

I went to a Lois McMaster Boisold reading.

And I didn't realize what was going to happen because she was there to read a chapter from her Vorkozygan series of sci-fi novels that Dan turned me on to ages ago and that I love dearly.

And I discovered that Lois and Pastor Bouchold, when she announced she would be reading

from a Vorkosigan and not from the world of the five gods, roughly half the audience kind of

...