99: Convenience Store Clerk of Dune (A Summer Reading List)

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2012

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summer’s here and it’s time to get to the beach with a good sci-fi novel. Our panelists are well read and of exquisite taste, so we’ve got a boatload of suggestions for you. From funny to serious, there’s a book in our list that will hit the spot the next time you’re looking for something to read.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 99, July 2012.
0:10.7	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and I am joined by a fantastic panel today to create something
0:18.2	we're going to call the incomparable summer reading list.
0:21.0	Are you somebody who lives in the Northern Hemisphere?
0:23.2	If not, we apologize, but we all are.
0:26.3	So we're going to say that it's summer, and we're going to come up with some suggestions for books,
0:31.4	mostly sci-fi novels, but we may cheat a little bit.
0:34.7	Just things we like.
0:36.1	Books we like, we're not going to go heavy into
0:38.3	the spoilers, I think, but books we like that we think you should read. And at the end of this,
0:43.2	there will be a wonderful list that will be posted at 5x5.tv slash incomparable slash 99. And it will be
0:51.3	books that we, at least some of us, endorse and think that you should read if you haven't read them yet.
0:56.4	It's that simple.
0:57.7	And if you're saying to yourself, this sounds Jason a little bit like you're doing a book draft, but not calling it that.
1:03.4	You are a very clever person and also very handsome, I must say.
1:07.8	Anyway, joining me today to draft some books and talk about books we love are Dan Moran. Hi, Dan.
1:15.4	Hi, Jason. I'm glad to be participating in this experiment in literacy. That's good. I'll let you know the results when we're done.
1:23.5	Scott McDonulty is also here, of course, because he is the most well-read among us. Hi, Scott.
1:28.8	Hello. I'm also joined by Serenity Caldwell. Hi. Thanks for being here.
1:33.2	Yeah, I am happy to be here, Jason. I didn't think I would be able to, but I managed to scrounge up some books.
1:38.5	That's good. Just got in under the wire. Exactly. And Lex Friedman is the least read among us, but no, but he's here. Anyway, I
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