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51: Zombie Marmaduke (Hugo Awards 2011)

 

00:00:00   the incomparable podcast number 51 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/0">TS</a>]

00:00:07   artists 2011 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/7">TS</a>]

00:00:11   we're back on the uncomfortable and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/11">TS</a>]

00:00:13   is time for the book club or at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/13">TS</a>]

00:00:15   the literacy club because we might even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/15">TS</a>]

00:00:16   talk about some things that aren't books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/16">TS</a>]

00:00:18   I'm Jason style i'm your host i'm joined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/18">TS</a>]

00:00:20   by the members of the literacy club Dan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/20">TS</a>]

00:00:23   Morris here hide am I is glad to be here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/23">TS</a>]

00:00:27   but I are glad I are glad to be here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/27">TS</a>]

00:00:30   Jason on and Fleischmann also joins us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/30">TS</a>]

00:00:33   hi Glenn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/33">TS</a>]

00:00:34   hi i can recognize at least 20 letters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/34">TS</a>]

00:00:36   that's good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/36">TS</a>]

00:00:37   well you gotta work there 10 more miles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/37">TS</a>]

00:00:39   or extra are you working on the vowels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/39">TS</a>]

00:00:41   i'm working on the right girl you like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/41">TS</a>]

00:00:44   to buy one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/44">TS</a>]

00:00:45   the sniper of Internet podcast comedies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/45">TS</a>]

00:00:48   I've arbys in the bushes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/48">TS</a>]

00:00:49   wait for it here he comes it's copic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/49">TS</a>]

00:00:51   multi-site Scott hello hello [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/51">TS</a>]

00:00:55   I have nothing to say to that is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/55">TS</a>]

00:00:56   the greatest introduction ever it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/56">TS</a>]

00:00:58   that I families really funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/58">TS</a>]

00:01:00   wait here it comes that's a jarhead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/60">TS</a>]

00:01:03   yes so I here so so in college in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/63">TS</a>]

00:01:07   college people would introduce i would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/67">TS</a>]

00:01:09   meet new people my friends would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/69">TS</a>]

00:01:10   introduce me to someone and they say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/70">TS</a>]

00:01:11   here Scott he's very funny and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/71">TS</a>]

00:01:14   would look at me and wait for me to say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/74">TS</a>]

00:01:17   something mr. rubber chicken man except [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/77">TS</a>]

00:01:19   watermelon your hammer my friend tony [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/79">TS</a>]

00:01:21   has a as a default response to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/81">TS</a>]

00:01:23   which is just go glam makeup pics he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/83">TS</a>]

00:01:28   so funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/88">TS</a>]

00:01:29   yes so anyway we're not talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/89">TS</a>]

00:01:32   that or are we may be so this is right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/92">TS</a>]

00:01:34   so the number one item on the agenda in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/94">TS</a>]

00:01:37   this podcast is to talk about some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/97">TS</a>]

00:01:40   novels that were nominated for the hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/100">TS</a>]

00:01:42   award which is given out every year to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/102">TS</a>]

00:01:44   generally it's sci-fi although there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/104">TS</a>]

00:01:47   some fantasy stuff that creeps in there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/107">TS</a>]

00:01:48   too and that they did this year there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/108">TS</a>]

00:01:50   are five nominees for the best novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/110">TS</a>]

00:01:53   Hugo we have collectively read all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/113">TS</a>]

00:01:57   them some of us have read some of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/117">TS</a>]

00:01:59   some of us have not I i read all of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/119">TS</a>]

00:02:01   i put in the water yeah yeah but aren't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/121">TS</a>]

00:02:04   you voting as well Jason I am voting now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/124">TS</a>]

00:02:07   they're gonna ask my ballot so we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/127">TS</a>]

00:02:08   going to talk about these novels and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/128">TS</a>]

00:02:10   we're going to take them in turn and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/130">TS</a>]

00:02:12   may throw in some short stories and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/132">TS</a>]

00:02:14   novels that came up as part of the hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/134">TS</a>]

00:02:16   processes well and so five best novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/136">TS</a>]

00:02:18   nominees i guess i'll just take them in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/138">TS</a>]

00:02:21   order and we can talk about them those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/141">TS</a>]

00:02:23   who have read them may speak about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/143">TS</a>]

00:02:24   middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/144">TS</a>]

00:02:25   first one up those who have not read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/145">TS</a>]

00:02:27   them silence another shot outside and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/147">TS</a>]

00:02:29   actually I'd love to hear what you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/149">TS</a>]

00:02:32   to say having not actually read that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/152">TS</a>]

00:02:33   book is great that would be a new kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/153">TS</a>]

00:02:36   of podcast we could do this once we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/156">TS</a>]

00:02:37   haven't read my favorite opinions are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/157">TS</a>]

00:02:39   uninformed picture no book club blackout [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/159">TS</a>]

00:02:43   and all clear two novels by connie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/163">TS</a>]

00:02:45   willis you know who is author author of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/165">TS</a>]

00:02:48   many good novels we talked about before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/168">TS</a>]

00:02:50   and she's won the hugo award before so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/170">TS</a>]

00:02:52   two novels it's really one story which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/172">TS</a>]

00:02:54   is why I was generated to get it i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/174">TS</a>]

00:02:56   a funny story about that which is I read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/176">TS</a>]

00:02:57   the first book and I got to the like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/177">TS</a>]

00:02:59   was getting close to the end oh it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/179">TS</a>]

00:03:01   long book is a big it's a big book and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/181">TS</a>]

00:03:03   i'm getting closer onli and they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/183">TS</a>]

00:03:05   gonna have to work fast to wrap this up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/185">TS</a>]

00:03:07   i did not know until I got to the very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/187">TS</a>]

00:03:09   last page that there was a second part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/189">TS</a>]

00:03:11   coming look quite literally they just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/191">TS</a>]

00:03:13   took a novel and cut it yes basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/193">TS</a>]

00:03:15   shit into books it's yeah it's that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/195">TS</a>]

00:03:17   feeling you get when you're 48 minutes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/197">TS</a>]

00:03:19   into an hour-long TV show and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/199">TS</a>]

00:03:20   realize oh no this is not going to end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/200">TS</a>]

00:03:23   this is going to be to be continued yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/203">TS</a>]

00:03:25   they can't wrap this up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/205">TS</a>]

00:03:26   yeah so so its second world war two it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/206">TS</a>]

00:03:29   about time travelers who go back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/209">TS</a>]

00:03:31   study itself in the same universe is to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/211">TS</a>]

00:03:32   say nothing of the dog and domesday book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/212">TS</a>]

00:03:34   and the domesday book say nothing of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/214">TS</a>]

00:03:37   dog very funny good book Tuesday book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/217">TS</a>]

00:03:39   other end of the spectrum that very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/219">TS</a>]

00:03:41   depressing also very good about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/221">TS</a>]

00:03:43   black disc this was somewhere in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/223">TS</a>]

00:03:45   middle for me really like it's not it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/225">TS</a>]

00:03:47   got some very serious points right in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/227">TS</a>]

00:03:49   there there's some very serious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/229">TS</a>]

00:03:50   discussion of you know more time and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/230">TS</a>]

00:03:54   know the prices people pay but it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/234">TS</a>]

00:03:57   it wasn't as Holy depressing as doomsday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/237">TS</a>]

00:04:00   book was no there's some there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/240">TS</a>]

00:04:02   amusing parts and then there's the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/242">TS</a>]

00:04:04   kind of carrion spirit that's going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/244">TS</a>]

00:04:06   during the Blitz and it really is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/246">TS</a>]

00:04:08   many ways so you know largely a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/248">TS</a>]

00:04:10   historical historical fiction has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/250">TS</a>]

00:04:12   outlets right i mean that's you've got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/252">TS</a>]

00:04:14   these these people from the future who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/254">TS</a>]

00:04:16   are stuck there but they're they're so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/256">TS</a>]

00:04:18   mired in real time that they just have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/258">TS</a>]

00:04:21   to live through the Blitz and so you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/261">TS</a>]

00:04:23   got you know all these sort of slices of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/263">TS</a>]

00:04:25   life of people going around in London [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/265">TS</a>]

00:04:27   and out in the countryside and and we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/267">TS</a>]

00:04:30   working for the army during the Blitz [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/270">TS</a>]

00:04:32   and as such it is interesting because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/272">TS</a>]

00:04:34   does start you start to get this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/274">TS</a>]

00:04:35   impression of the interminable nature of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/275">TS</a>]

00:04:38   it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/278">TS</a>]

00:04:38   I you know there's so many the way that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/278">TS</a>]

00:04:41   the story is arranged narratively you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/281">TS</a>]

00:04:43   feel like you're undergoing something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/283">TS</a>]

00:04:45   you know if something traumatic and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/285">TS</a>]

00:04:46   catastrophic because it keeps dragging [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/286">TS</a>]

00:04:49   on and we have this sort of plot line [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/289">TS</a>]

00:04:50   for these characters who are stuck in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/290">TS</a>]

00:04:51   the past [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/291">TS</a>]

00:04:52   keep thinking oh well we'll be rescued [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/292">TS</a>]

00:04:55   soon and then it keeps going a lot but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/295">TS</a>]

00:05:00   one of the funny things happen is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/300">TS</a>]

00:05:01   sort of these alternating timelines and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/301">TS</a>]

00:05:04   you end it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/304">TS</a>]

00:05:05   it's kind of hard to perceive of what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/305">TS</a>]

00:05:07   what's exactly going on that's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/307">TS</a>]

00:05:09   they're telling sort of stories from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/309">TS</a>]

00:05:11   from earlier in the war and later in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/311">TS</a>]

00:05:14   war and it turns out you know not to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/314">TS</a>]

00:05:17   give too much away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/317">TS</a>]

00:05:19   I you know we maybe we can avoid the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/319">TS</a>]

00:05:21   spoiler here but it turns out that some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/321">TS</a>]

00:05:24   of the characters you see are actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/324">TS</a>]

00:05:27   it you see in the toward the end of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/327">TS</a>]

00:05:30   war or actually characters you've seen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/330">TS</a>]

00:05:32   earlier in the war going under assumed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/332">TS</a>]

00:05:34   names so yeah that was kind of a that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/334">TS</a>]

00:05:37   did definitely confused me when it when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/337">TS</a>]

00:05:38   it finally got to be like because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/338">TS</a>]

00:05:40   start you know very much that you're in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/340">TS</a>]

00:05:42   the heads of these three characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/342">TS</a>]

00:05:43   so who are really like you know you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/343">TS</a>]

00:05:45   realized okay they're from the future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/345">TS</a>]

00:05:47   they're going back in time there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/347">TS</a>]

00:05:48   historians they're there to do this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/348">TS</a>]

00:05:49   research and then there are a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/349">TS</a>]

00:05:51   chapters thrown in where you're like but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/351">TS</a>]

00:05:54   who is who is this person like you all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/354">TS</a>]

00:05:56   the sudden you're not in their head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/356">TS</a>]

00:05:57   right you just observing them as they do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/357">TS</a>]

00:06:00   strange funny things they also seem to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/360">TS</a>]

00:06:02   know things right occasionally that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/362">TS</a>]

00:06:04   know there's definitely an air and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/364">TS</a>]

00:06:05   couple of places of like something's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/365">TS</a>]

00:06:07   quite right with this parade or they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/367">TS</a>]

00:06:08   hiding their hiding something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/368">TS</a>]

00:06:10   you get the sense of foreboding that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/370">TS</a>]

00:06:12   that something's really wrong and at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/372">TS</a>]

00:06:13   end of the first book you definitely get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/373">TS</a>]

00:06:15   the feeling like you know something's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/375">TS</a>]

00:06:16   gone wrong and having trouble getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/376">TS</a>]

00:06:17   back to the to the future and it you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/377">TS</a>]

00:06:22   know and that's and that's fine and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/382">TS</a>]

00:06:23   there in the second book I thought that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/383">TS</a>]

00:06:25   toward the end the you know she she is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/385">TS</a>]

00:06:27   not afraid to put characters in peril [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/387">TS</a>]

00:06:30   and kill people off and have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/390">TS</a>]

00:06:32   ramifications of of that I i thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/392">TS</a>]

00:06:35   this book ended really well i was almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/395">TS</a>]

00:06:38   ready to give us it late in the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/398">TS</a>]

00:06:41   book in early in the second book and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/401">TS</a>]

00:06:42   feel you know we can always talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/402">TS</a>]

00:06:45   how we could do a podcast about series [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/405">TS</a>]

00:06:47   that disappoint us after the first book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/407">TS</a>]

00:06:49   this is a book that could be the start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/409">TS</a>]

00:06:51   of a whole new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/411">TS</a>]

00:06:52   cast which is books that needed an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/412">TS</a>]

00:06:53   editor yes books that needed a freaking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/413">TS</a>]

00:06:55   editor all gods so many like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/415">TS</a>]

00:06:58   because this is too huge book it did not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/418">TS</a>]

00:07:01   need to be two books it was not two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/421">TS</a>]

00:07:03   books were yeah it absolutely non-book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/423">TS</a>]

00:07:05   really that could have been it should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/425">TS</a>]

00:07:07   have been trimmed down considerably and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/427">TS</a>]

00:07:09   I understand like I'm saying you know I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/429">TS</a>]

00:07:11   think there was a idea of like getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/431">TS</a>]

00:07:13   across you just how scary and terrifying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/433">TS</a>]

00:07:15   it was to be stuck with no way out but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/435">TS</a>]

00:07:16   there were so many there's so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/436">TS</a>]

00:07:18   arranged like yeah there's so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/438">TS</a>]

00:07:21   arranged like closed mrs. Wright in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/441">TS</a>]

00:07:24   cases where they're like oh now these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/444">TS</a>]

00:07:26   two characters are going to meet up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/446">TS</a>]

00:07:27   everybody the same town and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/447">TS</a>]

00:07:29   just miss each other and you're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/449">TS</a>]

00:07:31   what and then you have to go like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/451">TS</a>]

00:07:33   another hundred pages before they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/453">TS</a>]

00:07:34   actually find each other you know so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/454">TS</a>]

00:07:36   some of those crosses are are funny and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/456">TS</a>]

00:07:39   some of them are are infuriating like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/459">TS</a>]

00:07:41   it's just you know just trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/461">TS</a>]

00:07:43   stretch things out the thing that got me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/463">TS</a>]

00:07:44   though that thing that really drove me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/464">TS</a>]

00:07:46   to almost operating was um you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/466">TS</a>]

00:07:50   these people are from the future and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/470">TS</a>]

00:07:51   they're concerned that even though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/471">TS</a>]

00:07:54   everything we've learned in all these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/474">TS</a>]

00:07:55   books about how going back in time is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/475">TS</a>]

00:07:58   that the universe doesn't allow you to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/478">TS</a>]

00:07:59   change change the timestream that if if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/479">TS</a>]

00:08:03   you were going to do something to change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/483">TS</a>]

00:08:04   time you just won't be able to go there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/484">TS</a>]

00:08:06   to do it so so you when you're a time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/486">TS</a>]

00:08:08   traveler you want to be careful but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/488">TS</a>]

00:08:10   can't really change the future and yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/490">TS</a>]

00:08:12   one of these characters in this little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/492">TS</a>]

00:08:14   yeah spends chapter after Chapter after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/494">TS</a>]

00:08:17   Chapter you spend in her head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/497">TS</a>]

00:08:19   we're all she's thinking is oh I need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/499">TS</a>]

00:08:22   reach this person I need to tell him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/502">TS</a>]

00:08:23   this but I can't tell them this because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/503">TS</a>]

00:08:25   what if he knows this and I can't tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/505">TS</a>]

00:08:26   them this because he what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/506">TS</a>]

00:08:27   and I'm I'm serious hundreds of pages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/507">TS</a>]

00:08:30   about a worrying about plot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/510">TS</a>]

00:08:33   ramifications about time travel that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/513">TS</a>]

00:08:36   almost certainly not true and i just it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/516">TS</a>]

00:08:40   was it was a tricky like it's the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/520">TS</a>]

00:08:42   notes as the problem right to hit the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/522">TS</a>]

00:08:44   same notes after time after time endless [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/524">TS</a>]

00:08:47   yeah I really did feel like a dragon and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/527">TS</a>]

00:08:49   i agree like there's a great so I tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/529">TS</a>]

00:08:51   mike should i not tell my co i can tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/531">TS</a>]

00:08:53   i better not say anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/533">TS</a>]

00:08:54   does he know does he does he no no he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/534">TS</a>]

00:08:56   doesn't know but I can't tell them yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/536">TS</a>]

00:08:58   it got it got a little bit got a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/538">TS</a>]

00:09:00   bit frustrating and that's one of those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/540">TS</a>]

00:09:01   things where it's like it could have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/541">TS</a>]

00:09:02   been there is a good story in here there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/542">TS</a>]

00:09:04   really is it just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/544">TS</a>]

00:09:05   needed to be shout the the non sci-fi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/545">TS</a>]

00:09:08   elements are 50 they fascinate and as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/548">TS</a>]

00:09:11   historical fiction right it's it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/551">TS</a>]

00:09:13   fascinating like this you really get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/553">TS</a>]

00:09:15   that inside view and the drum at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/555">TS</a>]

00:09:18   where there are real stakes and kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/558">TS</a>]

00:09:20   really real sacrifices made toward the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/560">TS</a>]

00:09:22   end so that they can get home and and or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/562">TS</a>]

00:09:26   or have their story resolved in some way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/566">TS</a>]

00:09:29   you know rear end and then there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/569">TS</a>]

00:09:32   more kind of ships into into not not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/572">TS</a>]

00:09:35   their home future but you see things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/575">TS</a>]

00:09:37   sort of in the kind of our present-day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/577">TS</a>]

00:09:39   where they do some other characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/579">TS</a>]

00:09:42   travel in there to try and do some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/582">TS</a>]

00:09:43   research about what happened to them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/583">TS</a>]

00:09:45   because they're trying to find them you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/585">TS</a>]

00:09:47   know that stuff was great too it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/587">TS</a>]

00:09:49   that there's that chunk in the middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/589">TS</a>]

00:09:51   where it's just let's dwell on the worry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/591">TS</a>]

00:09:53   of time travelers and their anhui [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/593">TS</a>]

00:09:55   existential if it was just awful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/595">TS</a>]

00:09:58   yeah and I and I think to a certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/598">TS</a>]

00:10:00   degree a lot of this was accomplished [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/600">TS</a>]

00:10:02   better in her previous books to write i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/602">TS</a>]

00:10:05   agree i mean she covered a lot of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/605">TS</a>]

00:10:06   ground and to say nothing of the dog in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/606">TS</a>]

00:10:08   don't domesday book are both excellent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/608">TS</a>]

00:10:10   excellent books much better than this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/610">TS</a>]

00:10:12   one although this has got you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/612">TS</a>]

00:10:13   a little like a mash-up that's it it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/613">TS</a>]

00:10:15   like those two books mashed-up it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/615">TS</a>]

00:10:17   then lots of historical stuff about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/617">TS</a>]

00:10:18   Blitz which is really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/618">TS</a>]

00:10:19   yeah so but yeah perplexing that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/619">TS</a>]

00:10:22   ended up into books and that there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/622">TS</a>]

00:10:24   nobody to say you know this should just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/624">TS</a>]

00:10:27   be shorter it's hard I mean I the ice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/627">TS</a>]

00:10:29   I imagine that after you you know she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/629">TS</a>]

00:10:31   fairly accomplished as ray she's written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/631">TS</a>]

00:10:32   a lot of great books and I think it a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/632">TS</a>]

00:10:33   certain point maybe if you don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/633">TS</a>]

00:10:34   the the editor who's willing to stand up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/634">TS</a>]

00:10:36   to you you know or a lot of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/636">TS</a>]

00:10:38   assume all you know she knows what she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/638">TS</a>]

00:10:39   doing but even you know even good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/639">TS</a>]

00:10:41   writers need editors from time to time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/641">TS</a>]

00:10:43   alright so so that's blackout and all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/643">TS</a>]

00:10:45   clear redeeming redeeming qualities but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/645">TS</a>]

00:10:49   as kind of a long way to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/649">TS</a>]

00:10:51   would that be kind of your site where i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/651">TS</a>]

00:10:52   would agree i would agree i I'm glad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/652">TS</a>]

00:10:54   that I'm not the only person who felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/654">TS</a>]

00:10:55   that way because i was like maybe I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/655">TS</a>]

00:10:56   just not getting it like maybe I'm just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/656">TS</a>]

00:10:58   not as involved in this is I should be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/658">TS</a>]

00:11:00   but I I there was a lot there are a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/660">TS</a>]

00:11:02   couple points that really shine through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/662">TS</a>]

00:11:03   but if it did feel like that repeated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/663">TS</a>]

00:11:05   hammering of this point yes we get it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/665">TS</a>]

00:11:07   you're worried about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/667">TS</a>]

00:11:08   ok move on third the last third of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/668">TS</a>]

00:11:12   clear is just amazing it really is when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/672">TS</a>]

00:11:16   when it comes time to actually resolve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/676">TS</a>]

00:11:18   this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/678">TS</a>]

00:11:19   story oh yeah it becomes quite a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/679">TS</a>]

00:11:20   page-turner at that point right like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/680">TS</a>]

00:11:22   yeah but it's just you have to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/682">TS</a>]

00:11:23   through whatever 800 pages of Eileen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/683">TS</a>]

00:11:26   worrying about whether she should tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/686">TS</a>]

00:11:27   Mike about that she saw a guy down by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/687">TS</a>]

00:11:30   the side of the road [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/690">TS</a>]

00:11:31   it's like wow no much too much too much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/691">TS</a>]

00:11:35   alright so we'll move on our next novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/695">TS</a>]

00:11:38   is cry burn which is a miles for Kosygin [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/698">TS</a>]

00:11:41   book by lois mcmaster bujold so Dan and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/701">TS</a>]

00:11:45   scott and i have read crabber and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/705">TS</a>]

00:11:47   is the you know obviously the latest of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/707">TS</a>]

00:11:49   the 80,000 book along with Miles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/709">TS</a>]

00:11:52   Vorkosigan saga which we all I think a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/712">TS</a>]

00:11:55   bond and excellent recommendation we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/715">TS</a>]

00:11:57   read these books and enjoy them and did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/717">TS</a>]

00:11:58   a whole podcast about right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/718">TS</a>]

00:12:00   so Dan as the as the one who's been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   reading this book the longest want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/722">TS</a>]

00:12:03   give us your take first on on cry i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/723">TS</a>]

00:12:06   really liked cry Auburn I I don't you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/726">TS</a>]

00:12:08   know it's not my favorite in the series [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/728">TS</a>]

00:12:10   but coming on the heels of i think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/730">TS</a>]

00:12:11   was in like 2003 that the last one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/731">TS</a>]

00:12:13   diplomatic immunity came out and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/733">TS</a>]

00:12:16   book i thought was an absolute i just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/736">TS</a>]

00:12:17   did not like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/737">TS</a>]

00:12:19   it was one is probably my least favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/739">TS</a>]

00:12:21   of the actual books that involve miles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/741">TS</a>]

00:12:24   and this one I thought was wasn't it an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/744">TS</a>]

00:12:27   improvement there was a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/747">TS</a>]

00:12:29   interesting setting which is it takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/749">TS</a>]

00:12:31   place on this world where being frozen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/751">TS</a>]

00:12:34   in like you know cryogenic storage is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/754">TS</a>]

00:12:37   like this really you know it's part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/757">TS</a>]

00:12:39   society essentially and and all these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/759">TS</a>]

00:12:42   people get some essentially are you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/762">TS</a>]

00:12:44   you're frozen storage and the company or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/764">TS</a>]

00:12:46   whatever that you've you know that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/766">TS</a>]

00:12:48   storing you get your votes or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/768">TS</a>]

00:12:50   you know it's it's it's right so you end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/770">TS</a>]

00:12:52   up with his corporate kind of grammar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/772">TS</a>]

00:12:54   it's that use frozen people as political [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/774">TS</a>]

00:12:57   chefs yeah and and so there and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/777">TS</a>]

00:13:00   into this comes this ensures this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/780">TS</a>]

00:13:01   intrigue that of course mile gets drawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/781">TS</a>]

00:13:03   into I mean we kind of start it starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/783">TS</a>]

00:13:06   off with this kind of strange like he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/786">TS</a>]

00:13:08   gets kidnapped right and it starts off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/788">TS</a>]

00:13:09   with him sort of breaking out of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/789">TS</a>]

00:13:11   this kidnapping he befriends this young [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/791">TS</a>]

00:13:14   child sort of street urchin kid and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/794">TS</a>]

00:13:17   get we get a whole bunch of chapters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/797">TS</a>]

00:13:18   from this kids point of view which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/798">TS</a>]

00:13:20   kind of interesting I thought in terms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/800">TS</a>]

00:13:21   of having like miles is in some ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/801">TS</a>]

00:13:25   interesting character to see through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/805">TS</a>]

00:13:26   someone else's lens especially when it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/806">TS</a>]

00:13:29   a kid who has this like well there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/809">TS</a>]

00:13:32   this guy wandering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/812">TS</a>]

00:13:32   and he's kind of my size but he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/812">TS</a>]

00:13:34   definitely not a child and he seems very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/814">TS</a>]

00:13:36   straight bitch and I kind of enjoyed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/816">TS</a>]

00:13:40   that i enjoyed some of the character I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/820">TS</a>]

00:13:42   think some one of the things i like is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/822">TS</a>]

00:13:44   that a lot of its secondary characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/824">TS</a>]

00:13:45   who could have easily become cookie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/825">TS</a>]

00:13:48   cutter characters they actually fleshed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/828">TS</a>]

00:13:50   out a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/830">TS</a>]

00:13:50   there's the which is for Lincoln who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/830">TS</a>]

00:13:53   sort of this the the political guy on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/833">TS</a>]

00:13:55   the console on the planet or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/835">TS</a>]

00:13:56   and he he could have very easily been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/836">TS</a>]

00:13:59   set up as just a straight file like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/839">TS</a>]

00:14:01   guy you know you're a loose cannon you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/841">TS</a>]

00:14:02   know but he he actually becomes a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/842">TS</a>]

00:14:05   sympathetic character and you know takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/845">TS</a>]

00:14:08   on an interesting sort of a role in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/848">TS</a>]

00:14:10   response two miles there you know they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/850">TS</a>]

00:14:13   are heroic who's kind of his bodyguard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/853">TS</a>]

00:14:16   I think it's flush out a lot more and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/856">TS</a>]

00:14:17   quite enjoy his his his chapters that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/857">TS</a>]

00:14:21   are narrated from his point of view [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/861">TS</a>]

00:14:22   because he's obviously got a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/862">TS</a>]

00:14:23   different perspective on this whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/863">TS</a>]

00:14:24   affair and so you know in general I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/864">TS</a>]

00:14:27   would say it was you know like a solid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/867">TS</a>]

00:14:29   solid b-plus the ending in particular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/869">TS</a>]

00:14:31   though like you know pumps it up for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/871">TS</a>]

00:14:34   a little bit like that it because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/874">TS</a>]

00:14:36   kind of know it's coming but at the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/876">TS</a>]

00:14:38   time if you've been reading the series [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/878">TS</a>]

00:14:39   as long as I have you know it was still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/879">TS</a>]

00:14:42   heart-wrenching it was a heart-wrenching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/882">TS</a>]

00:14:43   end so basically you've got you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/883">TS</a>]

00:14:46   it's kind of a fun adventure and there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/886">TS</a>]

00:14:47   some really clever stuff but you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/887">TS</a>]

00:14:51   when the plot is resolved then they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/891">TS</a>]

00:14:52   sort of like the payoff of the people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/892">TS</a>]

00:14:54   who've been reading all the books where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/894">TS</a>]

00:14:55   there's you know sort of secondary thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/895">TS</a>]

00:14:57   which is major life events for miles and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/897">TS</a>]

00:15:00   his family that only really make sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/900">TS</a>]

00:15:03   if you've read all the other books and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/903">TS</a>]

00:15:05   thinking thinking about it gives me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/905">TS</a>]

00:15:07   goosebumps just in terms of like that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/907">TS</a>]

00:15:08   that that's the story that I you know in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/908">TS</a>]

00:15:10   some ways that's the story I really want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/910">TS</a>]

00:15:12   to read is the thing that comes after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/912">TS</a>]

00:15:13   this right there is that nice little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/913">TS</a>]

00:15:15   epilogue where they sort of delve into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/915">TS</a>]

00:15:17   how several of the characters the majors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/917">TS</a>]

00:15:20   characters deal with this change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/920">TS</a>]

00:15:22   yeah but it really just that last line [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/922">TS</a>]

00:15:25   in the book because you kind of even if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/925">TS</a>]

00:15:28   you kind of see it coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/928">TS</a>]

00:15:29   like once it hits you i just found it I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/929">TS</a>]

00:15:31   found it very heart-wrenching yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/931">TS</a>]

00:15:34   but the actual adventure you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/934">TS</a>]

00:15:35   not my money and yeah there's a it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/935">TS</a>]

00:15:37   like if there's a caper and they have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/937">TS</a>]

00:15:39   go switch bodies out and then solve a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/939">TS</a>]

00:15:41   mystery of like why is this person than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/941">TS</a>]

00:15:44   lots of it is funny that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/944">TS</a>]

00:15:46   that this is a UH there's like a major [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/946">TS</a>]

00:15:49   coincidence that has to happen where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/949">TS</a>]

00:15:51   miles happens to escape from being there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/951">TS</a>]

00:15:54   trying to kill them or whatever and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/954">TS</a>]

00:15:56   kid happens to find him and it turns out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/956">TS</a>]

00:15:58   that his mom happens to be deeply [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/958">TS</a>]

00:16:02   involved in the conspiracy that interest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/962">TS</a>]

00:16:05   miles and that keeps him around you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/965">TS</a>]

00:16:07   you get it kind of a lot to get there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/967">TS</a>]

00:16:10   your butt like once they said it once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/970">TS</a>]

00:16:12   you sort of get past that premise like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/972">TS</a>]

00:16:13   that that's you know the setup i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/973">TS</a>]

00:16:16   it does kind of you know it rolls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/976">TS</a>]

00:16:17   downhill a little better but I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/977">TS</a>]

00:16:19   miles being put in with these people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/979">TS</a>]

00:16:21   are like really poor and they're like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/981">TS</a>]

00:16:22   squatters in this old factory because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/982">TS</a>]

00:16:24   he's so he moves in in big circles right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/984">TS</a>]

00:16:29   he moves in in in nobility right he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/989">TS</a>]

00:16:32   he's a one of the privileged class of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/992">TS</a>]

00:16:35   the galaxy and so could have him be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/995">TS</a>]

00:16:38   basically like he's got nothing and he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/998">TS</a>]

00:16:40   with these squatters and then when he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1000">TS</a>]

00:16:42   finally gets to call on some of his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1002">TS</a>]

00:16:44   resources these squatters are like oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1004">TS</a>]

00:16:46   wow you know they really appreciate it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1006">TS</a>]

00:16:48   because he has power and these people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1008">TS</a>]

00:16:51   are completely powerless and he's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1011">TS</a>]

00:16:52   using his power to get to bring the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1012">TS</a>]

00:16:55   hammer down a little bit yeah and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1015">TS</a>]

00:16:57   like a righteous thing because he you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1017">TS</a>]

00:16:59   know these people have been oppressed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1019">TS</a>]

00:17:01   and exploited for so long and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1021">TS</a>]

00:17:03   know he's making trouble on their behalf [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1023">TS</a>]

00:17:05   these two being miles on their behalf to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1025">TS</a>]

00:17:07   for their benefit that was a fun take on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1027">TS</a>]

00:17:10   one miles Scott what do you think well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1030">TS</a>]

00:17:13   thought it was fun read but i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1033">TS</a>]

00:17:15   think that it would have been nominated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1035">TS</a>]

00:17:17   for Hugo had the other novels existed if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1037">TS</a>]

00:17:21   that makes sense i mean if they didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1041">TS</a>]

00:17:22   exist obviously she wouldn't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1042">TS</a>]

00:17:24   written this book but taken by itself i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1044">TS</a>]

00:17:27   do not think it's a hugo caliber novel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1047">TS</a>]

00:17:30   in given the context of the series you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1050">TS</a>]

00:17:33   know your opinion can change but I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1053">TS</a>]

00:17:35   if I were voted for the Hugo's i would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1055">TS</a>]

00:17:39   have to look at each novel on its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1059">TS</a>]

00:17:41   and this novel yes I don't think meets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1061">TS</a>]

00:17:45   the caliber that I expect you go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1065">TS</a>]

00:17:48   nominated nothing i would agree that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1068">TS</a>]

00:17:50   mean I think they're there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1070">TS</a>]

00:17:51   definitely books in the series that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1071">TS</a>]

00:17:53   think you know have deserved that more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1073">TS</a>]

00:17:55   that honor more and it's not necessarily [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1075">TS</a>]

00:17:57   the strongest standalone book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1077">TS</a>]

00:17:59   you know yeah it's fun that's what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1079">TS</a>]

00:18:01   agree agree with both of you i think i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1081">TS</a>]

00:18:03   think it's a fun fun read surprised that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1083">TS</a>]

00:18:05   got nominated well i guess not too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1085">TS</a>]

00:18:07   surprised because many miles books have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1087">TS</a>]

00:18:09   been nominated a few of them of one but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1089">TS</a>]

00:18:12   you know yeah it absolutely is not of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1092">TS</a>]

00:18:15   caliber to really be considered like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1095">TS</a>]

00:18:16   best novel of the year just because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1096">TS</a>]

00:18:18   you know I knew not miles novel is fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1098">TS</a>]

00:18:20   and i look forward to the next one but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1100">TS</a>]

00:18:23   you know it was just you know a fun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1103">TS</a>]

00:18:25   adventure rump and you know had some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1105">TS</a>]

00:18:27   interesting ideas but yeah that was that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1107">TS</a>]

00:18:30   was about as far as it went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1110">TS</a>]

00:18:31   yeah i-i-i thought a lot of it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1111">TS</a>]

00:18:34   predictable which is kosher [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1114">TS</a>]

00:18:36   I mean everybody yeah you know in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1116">TS</a>]

00:18:38   same time and I think it tickles that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1118">TS</a>]

00:18:39   part of you that likes that you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1119">TS</a>]

00:18:41   there's a part of me that read the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1121">TS</a>]

00:18:43   is like all man i see what's government [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1123">TS</a>]

00:18:44   and Kyrie I still really enjoy the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1124">TS</a>]

00:18:46   payoff even if icy roads coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1126">TS</a>]

00:18:48   did you read the book yet you you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1128">TS</a>]

00:18:51   looking for that kind of thing in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1131">TS</a>]

00:18:52   the miles saga right because your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1132">TS</a>]

00:18:54   character you're comfortable with you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1134">TS</a>]

00:18:56   know kind of how he relates with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1136">TS</a>]

00:18:58   world and it's interesting to see him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1138">TS</a>]

00:19:00   kind of screw-up everybody else's plans [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1140">TS</a>]

00:19:03   and just kind of you know cause trouble [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1143">TS</a>]

00:19:05   yeah agreed alright so we're going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1145">TS</a>]

00:19:09   move onto a book that Glen has read part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1149">TS</a>]

00:19:11   of who the Dervish house by eve and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1151">TS</a>]

00:19:14   mcdonald I'd be happy to sever the part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1154">TS</a>]

00:19:16   i read but you didn't you didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1156">TS</a>]

00:19:18   actually stop reading this book and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1158">TS</a>]

00:19:19   honey just ran out of time and time it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1159">TS</a>]

00:19:22   um yes very i mean i look forward to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1162">TS</a>]

00:19:23   actually finishing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1163">TS</a>]

00:19:25   it's interesting i think i tried to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1165">TS</a>]

00:19:26   start it several times and it's a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1166">TS</a>]

00:19:28   know it's a little of flowery and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1168">TS</a>]

00:19:31   difficult at first I can't quite figure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1171">TS</a>]

00:19:33   it's like listening to music in using a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1173">TS</a>]

00:19:35   different chromatic scale than you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1175">TS</a>]

00:19:37   used to your studio used to Western [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1177">TS</a>]

00:19:38   allottees and you listen to something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1178">TS</a>]

00:19:40   you're like I can't quite figure out if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1180">TS</a>]

00:19:42   this is good or noise and it took me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1182">TS</a>]

00:19:46   number of pages to get into it and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1186">TS</a>]

00:19:47   I started to fly along and ran out of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1187">TS</a>]

00:19:48   time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1188">TS</a>]

00:19:49   alright well Scott and I read the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1189">TS</a>]

00:19:51   thing is amazing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1191">TS</a>]

00:19:52   um no I you know I thought it was a I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1192">TS</a>]

00:19:57   thought it was really good although it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1197">TS</a>]

00:19:58   definitely not like super easy light I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1198">TS</a>]

00:20:01   mean like I blew through cry over and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1201">TS</a>]

00:20:03   dervish house took more work but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1203">TS</a>]

00:20:05   really liked it Scott what did you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1205">TS</a>]

00:20:06   I am a huge fan of diverse house and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1206">TS</a>]

00:20:10   and uh MacDonald in general he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1210">TS</a>]

00:20:12   someone who I hadn't read until recently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1212">TS</a>]

00:20:14   and for some reason I got in my head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1214">TS</a>]

00:20:16   that a previous one of his books was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1216">TS</a>]

00:20:19   kind of a prequel to dervish house was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1219">TS</a>]

00:20:22   so i said i have to read the river of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1222">TS</a>]

00:20:24   God's for readers house because it's one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1224">TS</a>]

00:20:26   story and they are completely unrelated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1226">TS</a>]

00:20:28   and step in completely different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1228">TS</a>]

00:20:30   universes both universes being our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1230">TS</a>]

00:20:34   universe but so you don't have to eat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1234">TS</a>]

00:20:35   both of them to enjoy this story at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1235">TS</a>]

00:20:38   i don't know what i was thinking but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1238">TS</a>]

00:20:39   what I love about him well I think he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1239">TS</a>]

00:20:43   a great writer and he sets his stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1243">TS</a>]

00:20:46   like Glenn you were talking about you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1246">TS</a>]

00:20:47   know different chromatic scale he sets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1247">TS</a>]

00:20:49   his settings are non-western which makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1249">TS</a>]

00:20:53   it very interesting to me because it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1253">TS</a>]

00:20:55   an alien culture and yet it's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1255">TS</a>]

00:20:58   still humans so in a dervish houses case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1258">TS</a>]

00:21:00   it we get it set and in Turkey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1260">TS</a>]

00:21:03   yep in the near future and like what 20 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1263">TS</a>]

00:21:06   40 20 30 something like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1266">TS</a>]

00:21:09   20-25 minutes the it's it's me rish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1269">TS</a>]

00:21:11   future turkey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1271">TS</a>]

00:21:13   yeah it's great because i have no idea i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1273">TS</a>]

00:21:15   don't know the cultural enough to know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1275">TS</a>]

00:21:16   what is actually current behavior I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1276">TS</a>]

00:21:19   know the technology of course but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1279">TS</a>]

00:21:21   don't know what's current behavior and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1281">TS</a>]

00:21:22   what's supposed it feels it feels very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1282">TS</a>]

00:21:25   genuine so even if it's wrong and feels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1285">TS</a>]

00:21:27   right but I'm but maybe it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1287">TS</a>]

00:21:29   displacement and a travel log kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1289">TS</a>]

00:21:31   feel to it was like this is cool i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1291">TS</a>]

00:21:33   learning things that may or may not be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1293">TS</a>]

00:21:34   true but I'm i feel like i'm learning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1294">TS</a>]

00:21:36   things about Turkey and about this sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1296">TS</a>]

00:21:38   of it you know attitude of the Turks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1298">TS</a>]

00:21:41   toured europe and do they face toward [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1301">TS</a>]

00:21:43   Europe or do they face away from Europe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1303">TS</a>]

00:21:45   and that's all going on in there which I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1305">TS</a>]

00:21:48   which is really interesting and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1308">TS</a>]

00:21:49   there's the whole sci-fi element on top [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1309">TS</a>]

00:21:50   of them and the the story of the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1310">TS</a>]

00:21:52   mellah fide man i don't know which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1312">TS</a>]

00:21:55   which is like again i don't know if it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1315">TS</a>]

00:21:57   true or not but it's the the somebody he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1317">TS</a>]

00:22:00   eats honey until he dies and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1320">TS</a>]

00:22:05   put him in a stone casket full of honey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1325">TS</a>]

00:22:08   and they stored away in the ground and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1328">TS</a>]

00:22:09   he turns it's like his body turns into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1329">TS</a>]

00:22:12   honey and then it's supposed to like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1332">TS</a>]

00:22:14   have magical healing properties of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1334">TS</a>]

00:22:15   course i love that word i was this like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1335">TS</a>]

00:22:17   Mel ified you read that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1337">TS</a>]

00:22:19   like well I want to know what that is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1339">TS</a>]

00:22:22   I talk to somebody who is frustrated by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1342">TS</a>]

00:22:24   this book and um because they're stupid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1344">TS</a>]

00:22:26   drunk drunk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1346">TS</a>]

00:22:30   yes or near future turkey Nana there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1350">TS</a>]

00:22:32   like nano technology nano technology [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1352">TS</a>]

00:22:36   startups are happening and and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1356">TS</a>]

00:22:40   there's like business guys with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1360">TS</a>]

00:22:41   investments and there's like gasps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1361">TS</a>]

00:22:42   investors and all this stuff and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1362">TS</a>]

00:22:44   enter these multiple stories and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1364">TS</a>]

00:22:46   eventually converge but it takes a long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1366">TS</a>]

00:22:47   time for them to converge and it's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1367">TS</a>]

00:22:50   is keyed off of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1370">TS</a>]

00:22:53   oh and there's the kid who's got his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1373">TS</a>]

00:22:54   robot is nanorobot and the old man who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1374">TS</a>]

00:22:57   used to be like an academic and is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1377">TS</a>]

00:22:59   connected to the government who kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1379">TS</a>]

00:23:00   the friends the kid and the kid can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1380">TS</a>]

00:23:02   hear not because he can't hear but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1382">TS</a>]

00:23:04   because loud noises will cause his heart [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1384">TS</a>]

00:23:06   to stop just a video crate crazy amounts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1386">TS</a>]

00:23:10   of interesting detail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1390">TS</a>]

00:23:11   oh and the man who the man who sees [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1391">TS</a>]

00:23:13   Jin's oh yeah so so so it all starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1393">TS</a>]

00:23:17   with a terrorist bombing in a tram where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1397">TS</a>]

00:23:19   nobody dies except the bottom which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1399">TS</a>]

00:23:22   seems strange and to me it was very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1402">TS</a>]

00:23:24   clear that that was important and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1404">TS</a>]

00:23:27   everything was going to come from that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1407">TS</a>]

00:23:29   and yet I talk to somebody who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1409">TS</a>]

00:23:30   frustrated by that i mean the amazing to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1410">TS</a>]

00:23:32   have a suicide bomber who is literally a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1412">TS</a>]

00:23:34   suicide bomber not a homicide bombers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1414">TS</a>]

00:23:36   that is an extraordinary thing in itself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1416">TS</a>]

00:23:37   right but there's something that happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1417">TS</a>]

00:23:40   because of that leads to all these other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1420">TS</a>]

00:23:42   events to happen including the guy who's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1422">TS</a>]

00:23:44   like a petty criminal basically an air [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1424">TS</a>]

00:23:46   do well who suddenly starts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1426">TS</a>]

00:23:48   hallucinating that he's seeing you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1428">TS</a>]

00:23:50   sort of religious figures all around him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1430">TS</a>]

00:23:54   ada and and the fact that the the guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1434">TS</a>]

00:23:57   who sees the religious figures and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1437">TS</a>]

00:23:58   kid who saw the bombing from his room [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1438">TS</a>]

00:24:00   via his robot and then it's followed by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1440">TS</a>]

00:24:03   another robot that tries to destroy his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1443">TS</a>]

00:24:05   robot and then the gas investors are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1445">TS</a>]

00:24:08   gonna try to sell irradiated gasps yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1448">TS</a>]

00:24:10   right because Iran has had their nuclear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1450">TS</a>]

00:24:12   complex bombed by the Americans like 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1452">TS</a>]

00:24:15   years before and they've got all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1455">TS</a>]

00:24:16   gas but it passes through the radiation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1456">TS</a>]

00:24:18   zone and just all of this stuff that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1458">TS</a>]

00:24:21   so densely packed in there and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1461">TS</a>]

00:24:23   it's going to converge and these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1463">TS</a>]

00:24:25   characters are the characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1465">TS</a>]

00:24:27   interesting although i did I to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1467">TS</a>]

00:24:29   characters of women characters have very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1469">TS</a>]

00:24:31   similar names and i got really confused [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1471">TS</a>]

00:24:33   about which one was which but you know I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1473">TS</a>]

00:24:35   figured it out eventually because one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1475">TS</a>]

00:24:37   them had a one of the husband and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1477">TS</a>]

00:24:39   other one didn't have a husband or a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1479">TS</a>]

00:24:42   career and was you know meet her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1482">TS</a>]

00:24:44   family's help to get a job right but uh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1484">TS</a>]

00:24:46   and and was walking past the tram when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1486">TS</a>]

00:24:50   it got bombed trying to get to a job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1490">TS</a>]

00:24:51   interview right so and then it's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1491">TS</a>]

00:24:53   connected i can see how it's different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1493">TS</a>]

00:24:54   the names are kind of difficult to keep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1494">TS</a>]

00:24:56   strategies they were for me to keep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1496">TS</a>]

00:24:57   straight all the names because they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1497">TS</a>]

00:24:59   so they're not Western name is so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1499">TS</a>]

00:25:01   exactly so i have no real context for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1501">TS</a>]

00:25:03   them but i think i just really love the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1503">TS</a>]

00:25:05   way he writes and the stick it in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1505">TS</a>]

00:25:09   river of God's he also which is I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1509">TS</a>]

00:25:12   twice the size of the Jewish house and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1512">TS</a>]

00:25:14   probably has four times as many plot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1514">TS</a>]

00:25:16   elements that all seem unrelated until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1516">TS</a>]

00:25:19   the very end he just knows how to weave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1519">TS</a>]

00:25:22   this very intricate story that you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1522">TS</a>]

00:25:25   really know what why you're reading 5 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1525">TS</a>]

00:25:28   different stories that seem not related [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1528">TS</a>]

00:25:31   whatsoever until the last maybe ten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1531">TS</a>]

00:25:33   percent of the book and you're like uh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1533">TS</a>]

00:25:34   oh ho [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1534">TS</a>]

00:25:35   it all makes sense down well and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1535">TS</a>]

00:25:38   fact that they the plot comes together [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1538">TS</a>]

00:25:40   like that which is really interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1540">TS</a>]

00:25:42   but also that he you know and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1542">TS</a>]

00:25:44   writing is is really really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1544">TS</a>]

00:25:46   some really beautiful descriptions just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1546">TS</a>]

00:25:48   adjust descriptions of of turkey of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1548">TS</a>]

00:25:51   Istanbul and the river and the bridge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1551">TS</a>]

00:25:55   over the river and all that and some you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1555">TS</a>]

00:25:57   know and then you've got some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1557">TS</a>]

00:25:58   interesting characters and then if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1558">TS</a>]

00:26:00   step back the themes that he's talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1560">TS</a>]

00:26:03   about you know he's talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1563">TS</a>]

00:26:04   identity on a lot of different levels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1564">TS</a>]

00:26:06   right there's Turkish identity and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1566">TS</a>]

00:26:08   and how you know on one side of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1568">TS</a>]

00:26:10   river you're in europe and on the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1570">TS</a>]

00:26:11   side you're in Asia but also there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1571">TS</a>]

00:26:13   this whole identity issue with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1573">TS</a>]

00:26:16   nanotechnology and what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1576">TS</a>]

00:26:18   nanotechnology has to do with like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1578">TS</a>]

00:26:20   modifying the identities of people and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1580">TS</a>]

00:26:22   there's a characteristic debate like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1582">TS</a>]

00:26:24   erasing the memory of a friend of his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1584">TS</a>]

00:26:26   with this nanotechnology just you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1586">TS</a>]

00:26:29   it's such it's something that only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1589">TS</a>]

00:26:31   science fiction can do and it's actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1591">TS</a>]

00:26:32   one of the reasons why really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1592">TS</a>]

00:26:33   science fiction is so great and why i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1593">TS</a>]

00:26:35   love reading it is that you know to use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1595">TS</a>]

00:26:39   all of these tools to talk about culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1599">TS</a>]

00:26:41   and identity and technology and how they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1601">TS</a>]

00:26:44   all interact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1604">TS</a>]

00:26:45   and and and then speculate a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1605">TS</a>]

00:26:47   about a future where the hots the hot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1607">TS</a>]

00:26:50   tech startups are outside of istanbul [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1610">TS</a>]

00:26:51   turkey instead of in Silicon Valley is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1611">TS</a>]

00:26:54   uh you know it's really it is just so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1614">TS</a>]

00:26:57   much to it and it sits there it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1617">TS</a>]

00:27:00   real joy to read it and I want some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1620">TS</a>]

00:27:02   those nanobots toys that kid has yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1622">TS</a>]

00:27:06   he's got the it turns into a monkey and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1626">TS</a>]

00:27:08   a rat and a snake and I mean there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1628">TS</a>]

00:27:11   action to I shouldn't say this is like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1631">TS</a>]

00:27:12   complex meditation on identity because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1632">TS</a>]

00:27:15   while it is that there's also like some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1635">TS</a>]

00:27:17   great action stuff where the you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1637">TS</a>]

00:27:19   the monkey robot has to like free a guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1639">TS</a>]

00:27:22   and they're doing like hand signals [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1642">TS</a>]

00:27:24   because the guy was being held by these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1644">TS</a>]

00:27:25   terrorists and that he acted it works on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1645">TS</a>]

00:27:29   many levels and maybe there's the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1649">TS</a>]

00:27:31   mellah five-man which is such a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1651">TS</a>]

00:27:32   thing really is not very important [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1652">TS</a>]

00:27:36   whatsoever to little overall plot of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1656">TS</a>]

00:27:39   story but it's got some great raiders of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1659">TS</a>]

00:27:41   the lost ark kindness is that has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1661">TS</a>]

00:27:43   open their tracking it down and you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1663">TS</a>]

00:27:45   you get that whole concept of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1665">TS</a>]

00:27:47   architect who laid out in Istanbul and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1667">TS</a>]

00:27:50   who wanted to spell the name of God out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1670">TS</a>]

00:27:52   who did apparently well in this book he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1672">TS</a>]

00:27:54   spilled up a name of God and that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1674">TS</a>]

00:27:56   how they kind of have to figure out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1676">TS</a>]

00:27:57   where the mellah fide man was and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1677">TS</a>]

00:27:59   fanatic who once he saw the name he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1679">TS</a>]

00:28:02   carries acid on him as we can burn his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1682">TS</a>]

00:28:05   eyes out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1685">TS</a>]

00:28:06   so the last thing he sees is the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1686">TS</a>]

00:28:08   word of the name of God and then he'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1688">TS</a>]

00:28:09   burn his eyes out exactly so much to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1689">TS</a>]

00:28:12   like and it's not very long book either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1692">TS</a>]

00:28:13   so I he packs it all it it's really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1693">TS</a>]

00:28:16   very good book one of the better books [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1696">TS</a>]

00:28:18   that I've read and and in quite a while [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1698">TS</a>]

00:28:21   yes and if it does not win the hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1701">TS</a>]

00:28:23   something is terribly wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1703">TS</a>]

00:28:25   yeah I great so highly recommended from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1705">TS</a>]

00:28:28   all of us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1708">TS</a>]

00:28:29   let's check it up and if if you if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1709">TS</a>]

00:28:31   like it you should start read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1711">TS</a>]

00:28:32   directions first because it is short and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1712">TS</a>]

00:28:34   if you like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1714">TS</a>]

00:28:35   pick up the river gods which is also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:37   fantastic but much longer and much more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1717">TS</a>]

00:28:40   dense alright we will we will move on to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:44   our next hugo nominees selection we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1724">TS</a>]

00:28:46   just blowing through the books after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:47   band knocking them down if you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1727">TS</a>]

00:28:49   really goes much faster yes yes haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1729">TS</a>]

00:28:52   feed by mirror Grant who read fee i did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1732">TS</a>]

00:28:55   mean for shot and neither of us liked it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1735">TS</a>]

00:28:58   ok so let me talk about food for manage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1738">TS</a>]

00:29:03   and winding up can you give you hear it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1743">TS</a>]

00:29:05   and the pit shit it's crap [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1745">TS</a>]

00:29:07   oh yeah I i have so many problems with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1747">TS</a>]

00:29:11   this book i will let you go first okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1751">TS</a>]

00:29:13   let's see if I can hit the problems that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1753">TS</a>]

00:29:15   you've got her if you've got your own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1755">TS</a>]

00:29:16   defeated by mere Grant who is actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:18   mirror grant is actually a pseudonym for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1758">TS</a>]

00:29:21   a writer of other novels called I guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1761">TS</a>]

00:29:27   her name is Shawn Maguire and she wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1767">TS</a>]

00:29:30   this under a pen name she's a she's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1770">TS</a>]

00:29:32   sci-fi writer of some sort of position [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1772">TS</a>]

00:29:35   is it young adult stuff is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1775">TS</a>]

00:29:37   yeah and I think she's just I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1777">TS</a>]

00:29:39   she's generally liked and she wrote this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1779">TS</a>]

00:29:40   under this other name and it got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:42   nominated and it awful up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1782">TS</a>]

00:29:44   it baffles me anyway so that before i go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1784">TS</a>]

00:29:47   about bafflement let's just talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1787">TS</a>]

00:29:49   the book feed is is a novel about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1789">TS</a>]

00:29:52   bloggers yes who are essentially news [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1792">TS</a>]

00:29:58   reporters of the future and this is set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1798">TS</a>]

00:29:59   in the near future as well where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1799">TS</a>]

00:30:01   technology is a little more advanced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1801">TS</a>]

00:30:03   also there's been a zombie apocalypse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:04   not making this up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1804">TS</a>]

00:30:06   zombie apocalypse there's a you know a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1806">TS</a>]

00:30:09   virus or actually a a virus and a cure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1809">TS</a>]

00:30:13   for the common cold that meat and create [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1813">TS</a>]

00:30:16   zombies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1816">TS</a>]

00:30:17   yes and everybody who dies becomes a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:19   zombie and if you get bitten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1819">TS</a>]

00:30:22   if by a zombie you die and then your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1822">TS</a>]

00:30:25   zombie and an interesting but I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:27   that her world building was interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1827">TS</a>]

00:30:29   so you can also since the the whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1829">TS</a>]

00:30:32   the the zombie particle or whatever you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1832">TS</a>]

00:30:34   wanna call it has been around it has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1834">TS</a>]

00:30:37   virus yet the virus that's probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1837">TS</a>]

00:30:38   better is it so it's in everyone and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1838">TS</a>]

00:30:41   can just spontaneously activate so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1841">TS</a>]

00:30:45   don't have to be bitten by a zombie you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1845">TS</a>]

00:30:46   can just spontaneously turn into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1846">TS</a>]

00:30:49   zombie and animals also turned into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1849">TS</a>]

00:30:51   zombies over 40 pounds or something so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1851">TS</a>]

00:30:54   right there's like there's a law that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1854">TS</a>]

00:30:55   you can't have a pet that's over 40 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1855">TS</a>]

00:30:57   pounds because it could spontaneously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1857">TS</a>]

00:30:59   turn into like a zombie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1859">TS</a>]

00:31:01   Marmaduke but think how Bad's Ombey like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1861">TS</a>]

00:31:04   mosquitoes would be zombie one rat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1864">TS</a>]

00:31:06   that's why you can't do that yet so but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1866">TS</a>]

00:31:08   zombie horses yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1868">TS</a>]

00:31:09   so here's the thing though she you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1869">TS</a>]

00:31:11   right Scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1871">TS</a>]

00:31:12   the the world-building the world she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1872">TS</a>]

00:31:15   builds is interesting who her world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1875">TS</a>]

00:31:18   building skills are poor because the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1878">TS</a>]

00:31:21   the world gets built in the story is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1881">TS</a>]

00:31:23   that somebody will like say something to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1883">TS</a>]

00:31:26   another character and then they'll be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1886">TS</a>]

00:31:28   four pages of explanation of what this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1888">TS</a>]

00:31:31   means and how this happened in history [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1891">TS</a>]

00:31:32   and how it all came to be at which point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1892">TS</a>]

00:31:35   you will then immediately go to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1895">TS</a>]

00:31:37   response of the character in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1897">TS</a>]

00:31:39   conversation you're like what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:40   oh right i was in the middle of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1900">TS</a>]

00:31:42   conversation before there were five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1902">TS</a>]

00:31:43   pages of exposition it's kind of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1903">TS</a>]

00:31:45   her editor said show your work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1905">TS</a>]

00:31:47   yeah yeah and so rather than dropping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1907">TS</a>]

00:31:49   kind of these these hints and clues [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1909">TS</a>]

00:31:51   about how it's going to work throughout [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1911">TS</a>]

00:31:53   she just sort of lays it all out there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1913">TS</a>]

00:31:55   the dialogue is is poured the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1915">TS</a>]

00:31:58   you know a couple of the characters are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1918">TS</a>]

00:32:00   interesting but mostly the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:01   are cardboard cutouts I think she's got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1921">TS</a>]

00:32:03   some kind of interesting things to say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1923">TS</a>]

00:32:04   about the media and blogging as people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1924">TS</a>]

00:32:08   who work in primarily electronic media [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1928">TS</a>]

00:32:11   she's trying to get some of what she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1931">TS</a>]

00:32:14   says it's kind of interesting and what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1934">TS</a>]

00:32:16   she envisions as mass media but most of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1936">TS</a>]

00:32:19   it is so simplified and sort of silly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1939">TS</a>]

00:32:21   and it seems it feels to be like if this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1941">TS</a>]

00:32:23   was a book written by someone who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1943">TS</a>]

00:32:26   discovered blogging in like 1996 and r [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1946">TS</a>]

00:32:30   is setting out a world where that can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1950">TS</a>]

00:32:32   you believe that bloggers are actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1952">TS</a>]

00:32:34   credible now its creation and I'm like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1954">TS</a>]

00:32:36   can't believe it because I'm living in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1956">TS</a>]

00:32:37   that world right as if that happens so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1957">TS</a>]

00:32:40   the characters are not great that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1960">TS</a>]

00:32:42   dialogue is bad there's huge amounts of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1962">TS</a>]

00:32:44   exposition so my other problems with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1964">TS</a>]

00:32:47   there's a political story the story is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1967">TS</a>]

00:32:49   the bloggers get to cover up hold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:51   presidential campaign tag along on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1971">TS</a>]

00:32:54   with one of the candidates with with an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1974">TS</a>]

00:32:57   improbable e nice candid he is he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1977">TS</a>]

00:33:01   they don't believe how night had not how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1981">TS</a>]

00:33:03   nice goodie is so you know that in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1983">TS</a>]

00:33:05   end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1985">TS</a>]

00:33:06   how could he be nice and good because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1986">TS</a>]

00:33:07   he's so perfect well the answer is he so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1987">TS</a>]

00:33:09   perfect cause he's a really bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1989">TS</a>]

00:33:10   character and he just as perfect as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1990">TS</a>]

00:33:12   president but he doesn't have to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1992">TS</a>]

00:33:14   any imperfections because his running [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1994">TS</a>]

00:33:16   mate becomes the stock evil general so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/1996">TS</a>]

00:33:20   I fire off the spoiler horn but honestly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2000">TS</a>]

00:33:22   the law of the economy of characters is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2002">TS</a>]

00:33:25   in full force in this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2005">TS</a>]

00:33:26   which is there's only one person who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2006">TS</a>]

00:33:28   could be the bad guy and it's the guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2008">TS</a>]

00:33:30   who is completely evil from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2010">TS</a>]

00:33:32   beginning Nov and redeeming values and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2012">TS</a>]

00:33:35   let me alert [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2015">TS</a>]

00:33:36   yes spoiler alert he is the bad girl [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2016">TS</a>]

00:33:39   because of course he's the bad guy he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2019">TS</a>]

00:33:41   the only bad guy in the book yeah and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2021">TS</a>]

00:33:42   he's a nice old mustache twirling he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2022">TS</a>]

00:33:46   snidely whiplash of fundamentalist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2026">TS</a>]

00:33:49   Republican presidential candidate who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2029">TS</a>]

00:33:52   becomes a vice-presidential candidate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2032">TS</a>]

00:33:53   and is plotting the death of his running [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2033">TS</a>]

00:33:57   mate sabu haha he can become the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2037">TS</a>]

00:33:59   president of the United States awful so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2039">TS</a>]

00:34:01   so I'm um ok Scott you go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2041">TS</a>]

00:34:04   I i'm trying to think what else I have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2044">TS</a>]

00:34:06   long list let me know what else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2046">TS</a>]

00:34:08   ok so I have a couple of other things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2048">TS</a>]

00:34:09   she so it annoys me in general I read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2049">TS</a>]

00:34:14   books you know I started to beginning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2054">TS</a>]

00:34:17   and read through it and I noticed some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2057">TS</a>]

00:34:19   authors traditional you know that's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2059">TS</a>]

00:34:20   how i do it call me crazy and as I do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2060">TS</a>]

00:34:24   I remember even though I have this weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2064">TS</a>]

00:34:26   book amnesia as i'm reading a book i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2066">TS</a>]

00:34:29   generally remember what i'm reading and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2069">TS</a>]

00:34:31   so I notice if an author is using the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2071">TS</a>]

00:34:34   same phrase over and over and over again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2074">TS</a>]

00:34:37   and apparently this author really likes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2077">TS</a>]

00:34:40   the phrase poke it with a stick because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:42   like every other page poke it with a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2082">TS</a>]

00:34:45   stick and I like with a stick [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2085">TS</a>]

00:34:47   I don't understand why you keep coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2087">TS</a>]

00:34:49   back to poke it with a stick it has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2089">TS</a>]

00:34:50   nothing to do I understand you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2090">TS</a>]

00:34:52   there are literary techniques where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2092">TS</a>]

00:34:54   repetition it builds it up but poke it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2094">TS</a>]

00:34:56   with a stick with the wine-dark mine it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2096">TS</a>]

00:34:58   gets of its got nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2098">TS</a>]

00:35:00   ok with a stick and then I I i work in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2100">TS</a>]

00:35:04   IT you know specifically insecurity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2104">TS</a>]

00:35:07   right so there's a there's a character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2107">TS</a>]

00:35:08   in this book who is given you know these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2108">TS</a>]

00:35:12   mythical IT abilities right and she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2112">TS</a>]

00:35:15   built the system that no one can hack [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2115">TS</a>]

00:35:18   and it's impenetrable and she you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2118">TS</a>]

00:35:21   she dies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2121">TS</a>]

00:35:22   spoiler alert after the fact with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2122">TS</a>]

00:35:25   leaving leaving no pet leaving no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2125">TS</a>]

00:35:27   password behind ever know she left a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2127">TS</a>]

00:35:28   password behind and so the characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2128">TS</a>]

00:35:30   like message from the grave exactly the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2130">TS</a>]

00:35:32   characters like oh well let me just log [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:34   into the system that no one could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2134">TS</a>]

00:35:35   possibly hack with a 5 character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2135">TS</a>]

00:35:38   password that is a common [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:39   now I'm like what the hell is going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2139">TS</a>]

00:35:45   in this world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2145">TS</a>]

00:35:46   how did you know what my password once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:47   thats it was it was infuriating to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2147">TS</a>]

00:35:51   because it was just so ridiculous and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2151">TS</a>]

00:35:57   and the end so the two main characters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2157">TS</a>]

00:35:58   are brother and sister and they have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2158">TS</a>]

00:36:01   creepiest relationship ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2161">TS</a>]

00:36:03   I kept waiting for them to have sex so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2163">TS</a>]

00:36:05   did I it was so we're super creepy it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2165">TS</a>]

00:36:10   was like Angelina Jolie and her brother [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2170">TS</a>]

00:36:12   kind of yeah this is it was creepy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2172">TS</a>]

00:36:14   it was it was not it was distracting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2174">TS</a>]

00:36:17   honestly from the rest of the story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2177">TS</a>]

00:36:19   it didn't have to be now but it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2179">TS</a>]

00:36:22   because it was just so weird i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2182">TS</a>]

00:36:24   think it ended me to Scott that it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2184">TS</a>]

00:36:26   really weird i did so i'm gonna fire off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:29   the spoiler warning here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2189">TS</a>]

00:36:30   [Music] [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2190">TS</a>]

00:36:34   the spoiler is it's not going to win a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2194">TS</a>]

00:36:36   hugo up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2196">TS</a>]

00:36:39   no I want to talk about the one thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2199">TS</a>]

00:36:40   that I appreciate about this book which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2200">TS</a>]

00:36:42   I was why I have to fire off the spoiler [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2202">TS</a>]

00:36:44   horn what I appreciate about this book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2204">TS</a>]

00:36:46   is that eighty percent of the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2206">TS</a>]

00:36:47   through it the protagonist is killed em [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2207">TS</a>]

00:36:50   and her brother takes over as the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2210">TS</a>]

00:36:53   viewpoint character for the rest of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:54   book she she gets hit by a dart full of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2214">TS</a>]

00:36:57   zombie venom or whatever it is and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2217">TS</a>]

00:37:00   there's a very interesting scene where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2220">TS</a>]

00:37:02   she is doing her last message as the as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2222">TS</a>]

00:37:06   as her brain slowly starts to shut down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2226">TS</a>]

00:37:08   and become zombified and then he blows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2228">TS</a>]

00:37:10   her brains out and then the rest of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2230">TS</a>]

00:37:12   story and the rest of the plot results [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2232">TS</a>]

00:37:14   itself with the brother who is you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2234">TS</a>]

00:37:16   obviously very upset [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2236">TS</a>]

00:37:17   I like the fact that she had the guts to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2237">TS</a>]

00:37:19   go through almost the whole book but not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2239">TS</a>]

00:37:22   till the end kill off the main character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2242">TS</a>]

00:37:24   and have the resolution have to come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2244">TS</a>]

00:37:26   from her brother who is very upset that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2246">TS</a>]

00:37:27   that hit the protagonist in the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:29   that he was in has died so he has to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2249">TS</a>]

00:37:31   become the protagonist because he didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2251">TS</a>]

00:37:32   sign up for this crowd and he just wants [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2252">TS</a>]

00:37:34   to poke things with sticks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2254">TS</a>]

00:37:35   yeah exactly so that I like that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2255">TS</a>]

00:37:39   one if you gotta say something positive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2259">TS</a>]

00:37:40   about I like that that was a that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2260">TS</a>]

00:37:41   kind of a narrative interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2261">TS</a>]

00:37:43   narrative decision and you know so there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2263">TS</a>]

00:37:46   but otherwise this was really not very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2266">TS</a>]

00:37:49   good know it was I mean it would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2269">TS</a>]

00:37:52   been bringing an endorsement [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2272">TS</a>]

00:37:54   I cannot believe I actually i look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2274">TS</a>]

00:37:57   this and think how did this get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2277">TS</a>]

00:37:59   nominated for hugo award was there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2279">TS</a>]

00:38:01   there a campaign was there astronaut [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2281">TS</a>]

00:38:03   earlier they had the computer the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2283">TS</a>]

00:38:05   computer genius hacked the voting system [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2285">TS</a>]

00:38:07   while your password and it isn't it will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2287">TS</a>]

00:38:10   unbreak so secure the shugo voting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2290">TS</a>]

00:38:13   system could never be my I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2293">TS</a>]

00:38:17   yeah I don't just be I don't understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2297">TS</a>]

00:38:20   a world where this book and the Dervish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2300">TS</a>]

00:38:23   house and even you know a hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2303">TS</a>]

00:38:25   thousand kingdoms and and a cryo burn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2305">TS</a>]

00:38:28   can be considered in the same group [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2308">TS</a>]

00:38:31   it's just the gap is so why don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2311">TS</a>]

00:38:33   understand it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2313">TS</a>]

00:38:35   zombie demographic they vote I guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2315">TS</a>]

00:38:38   zombie I I actually you know Scott I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2318">TS</a>]

00:38:42   believe the dream of perpetual motion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2322">TS</a>]

00:38:44   would have been eligible this year right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2324">TS</a>]

00:38:46   the dream of perpetual motion is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2326">TS</a>]

00:38:48   about 14,000 times better than feed yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2328">TS</a>]

00:38:51   this is the thing that gets me is is I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2331">TS</a>]

00:38:53   actually nominated the dream of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2333">TS</a>]

00:38:54   perpetual motion for all of its you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2334">TS</a>]

00:38:56   interesting challenges it is roughly an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2336">TS</a>]

00:39:00   infinite amount times better than busy i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2340">TS</a>]

00:39:03   think so i haven't even read feed but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2343">TS</a>]

00:39:05   you know you're special motion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2345">TS</a>]

00:39:06   I don't worry we read it was months ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2346">TS</a>]

00:39:08   I still a book still occupies my mind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2348">TS</a>]

00:39:10   part at times very so so Dan and Glenn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2350">TS</a>]

00:39:14   what what can I tell you you gotta reach [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2354">TS</a>]

00:39:16   yeah I'm gonna take it on the go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2356">TS</a>]

00:39:17   oh I'm gonna go right out i'm so glad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2357">TS</a>]

00:39:19   that I didn't just like go on mute for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2359">TS</a>]

00:39:21   this and then come back and guys like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2361">TS</a>]

00:39:22   totally read happy sucker and the best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2362">TS</a>]

00:39:27   part is it's the first book in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2367">TS</a>]

00:39:28   trilogy so of course after so I'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2368">TS</a>]

00:39:33   to the I should say i'm going to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2373">TS</a>]

00:39:35   Reno con the innovation which is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2375">TS</a>]

00:39:38   world con this year in in reno nevada [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2378">TS</a>]

00:39:40   lovely summer in reno nothing better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2380">TS</a>]

00:39:43   of course all the hugo nominees going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2383">TS</a>]

00:39:44   be there and I'm actually hoping to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2384">TS</a>]

00:39:46   to the hugo ceremony awkward and punch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2386">TS</a>]

00:39:48   out the authors write and here's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2388">TS</a>]

00:39:51   thing is I'm going to see her there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2391">TS</a>]

00:39:52   shaker that'd be like I gotta walk away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2392">TS</a>]

00:39:55   Jason if you have nothing nice to say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2395">TS</a>]

00:39:57   because i haven't read any of your other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2397">TS</a>]

00:39:59   books but the one book i read then punch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2399">TS</a>]

00:40:01   them in the face yeah you could say I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2401">TS</a>]

00:40:03   really like how you killed your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2403">TS</a>]

00:40:04   protagonist yeah that's right that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2404">TS</a>]

00:40:07   right i thought it was very brave of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2407">TS</a>]

00:40:08   to kill your protectiveness most of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2408">TS</a>]

00:40:10   way through your novel and what do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2410">TS</a>]

00:40:12   think about the rest of my book did you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2412">TS</a>]

00:40:13   like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2413">TS</a>]

00:40:14   I wish you I wish you had killed that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2414">TS</a>]

00:40:16   you're an embarrassment of humor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2416">TS</a>]

00:40:18   alright i I'm glad you didn't make the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2418">TS</a>]

00:40:21   brother and sister have sex [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2421">TS</a>]

00:40:22   thank you yeah well it always it always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2422">TS</a>]

00:40:25   it always pains me to criticize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2425">TS</a>]

00:40:27   someone's book so harshly because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2427">TS</a>]

00:40:29   spent so much time writing it and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2429">TS</a>]

00:40:31   can tell she was really invested in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2431">TS</a>]

00:40:33   but it's not very good I'm sorry no it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2433">TS</a>]

00:40:35   not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2435">TS</a>]

00:40:36   hey is your nomination sell enough it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2436">TS</a>]

00:40:38   not it's not only not in the class to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2438">TS</a>]

00:40:40   a hugo nominee it's not in the class to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2440">TS</a>]

00:40:41   be considered a good but now it's just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2441">TS</a>]

00:40:43   bad and frankly it cheapens the hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2443">TS</a>]

00:40:45   award for heavy and not really does i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2445">TS</a>]

00:40:47   don't and it's a parasite is hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2447">TS</a>]

00:40:49   thousand hundred thousand kids how many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2449">TS</a>]

00:40:53   kingdoms yr a hundred Lee out hundreds a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2453">TS</a>]

00:40:56   big planet I think that's a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2456">TS</a>]

00:40:57   kingdoms it is alright did everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2457">TS</a>]

00:41:00   read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2460">TS</a>]

00:41:01   NK Jameson's hundred thousand kingdoms i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2461">TS</a>]

00:41:03   read this book and I read the sequel by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2463">TS</a>]

00:41:05   the way around half of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2465">TS</a>]

00:41:07   this book is a hundred thousand times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2467">TS</a>]

00:41:09   better than feed so feeds like feels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2469">TS</a>]

00:41:11   like one Kingdom is that what you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:13   saying and feed it feed is half a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2473">TS</a>]

00:41:15   Connecticut negative negative zombies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2475">TS</a>]

00:41:18   three kingdoms these zombie-infested [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2478">TS</a>]

00:41:20   blogger infested king that's right that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2480">TS</a>]

00:41:23   is very secured i think let's think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2483">TS</a>]

00:41:26   that's where we're going I have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2486">TS</a>]

00:41:28   floor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2488">TS</a>]

00:41:29   I thought hundred thousand kingdom out i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2489">TS</a>]

00:41:31   know i see i read it without thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2491">TS</a>]

00:41:32   about the fantasy about Hugo issue and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2492">TS</a>]

00:41:34   the fantasy sci-fi thing and it's it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2494">TS</a>]

00:41:37   fantasy with a 0.001% science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2497">TS</a>]

00:41:43   thrown in to make it feel a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2503">TS</a>]

00:41:46   more sci-fi I mean there is a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2506">TS</a>]

00:41:48   of sci-fi overtone like to like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2508">TS</a>]

00:41:50   a little taste of it in there but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2510">TS</a>]

00:41:52   really fantasy but I thought it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2512">TS</a>]

00:41:53   quite a beautiful novel I i think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2513">TS</a>]

00:41:55   an incredibly good read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2515">TS</a>]

00:41:57   yeah i was drawn into it right away it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2517">TS</a>]

00:41:59   very complicated she's fully populated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2519">TS</a>]

00:42:01   world starting from scratch he has this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2521">TS</a>]

00:42:03   world of richness of gods and man you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2523">TS</a>]

00:42:06   like wait a little bit about what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2526">TS</a>]

00:42:08   book is about sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2528">TS</a>]

00:42:09   well so the idea is that they live in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2529">TS</a>]

00:42:11   universe that this HR the book is about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2531">TS</a>]

00:42:13   essentially a other bloggers say happy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2533">TS</a>]

00:42:16   other plugins tell his other side of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2536">TS</a>]

00:42:17   hell is other planters zombie blogger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2537">TS</a>]

00:42:20   the book is about a woman a girl who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2540">TS</a>]

00:42:22   lives in a distant Kingdom from sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2542">TS</a>]

00:42:23   the center of the world is practically a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:25   legitimate center of the world which all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2545">TS</a>]

00:42:27   the power resides and she's called by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2547">TS</a>]

00:42:30   her grandfather she's a sort of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2550">TS</a>]

00:42:32   half-caste she's called but a prominent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2552">TS</a>]

00:42:34   her own Kingdom in the north [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2554">TS</a>]

00:42:35   she's called to the central Kingdom and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2555">TS</a>]

00:42:38   her grandfather is it is named here is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2558">TS</a>]

00:42:41   one of his heirs three potential errors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2561">TS</a>]

00:42:43   and will be some kind of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2563">TS</a>]

00:42:44   there's imagination there but she finds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2564">TS</a>]

00:42:46   out very quickly spoiler horn that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2566">TS</a>]

00:42:49   really she's there to die because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2569">TS</a>]

00:42:51   someone has to die in order for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2571">TS</a>]

00:42:53   accession ascension to happen for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2573">TS</a>]

00:42:55   next ruler of the kingdom but here's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2575">TS</a>]

00:42:58   thing you know a lot of kingdoms a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2578">TS</a>]

00:43:00   of novels talk about the gods and how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2580">TS</a>]

00:43:02   important they are whatever and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2582">TS</a>]

00:43:03   sometimes they're made manifest in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2583">TS</a>]

00:43:05   the gods are no real and palpable and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2585">TS</a>]

00:43:08   they're in the captain the cash will be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2588">TS</a>]

00:43:09   trapped right because there's other was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2589">TS</a>]

00:43:12   an epic battle between the three Creator [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2592">TS</a>]

00:43:14   God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:14   of sorts of different ages in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:16   universe are three legitimate creator [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2596">TS</a>]

00:43:18   gods and one of them two of them were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2598">TS</a>]

00:43:20   lovers a third came along a to sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2600">TS</a>]

00:43:22   male entities were lovers and friends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2602">TS</a>]

00:43:24   and foes at third came along and she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2604">TS</a>]

00:43:26   provided a balanced and then sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2606">TS</a>]

00:43:29   poison entered one of their hearts and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2609">TS</a>]

00:43:30   the one who is the white is the light he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2610">TS</a>]

00:43:32   manages to kill the sort of woman who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2612">TS</a>]

00:43:36   symbolize are the goddess who symbolizes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2616">TS</a>]

00:43:37   all of growth in creation and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2617">TS</a>]

00:43:40   enslave the one who is the symbol of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2620">TS</a>]

00:43:42   darkness and so the darkness and all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2622">TS</a>]

00:43:45   his children and all of those related [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2625">TS</a>]

00:43:47   are all now subject there under the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2627">TS</a>]

00:43:49   thumb of this ruling family essentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2629">TS</a>]

00:43:51   can order them around and make them do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2631">TS</a>]

00:43:53   their will and it's there all humiliated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2633">TS</a>]

00:43:55   and have been for some I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2635">TS</a>]

00:43:57   thousands of years at that point right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2637">TS</a>]

00:43:59   it's a couple thousand you and me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2639">TS</a>]

00:44:00   so it's a beautiful thing it's like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2640">TS</a>]

00:44:02   gods are made manifest and yet there and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2642">TS</a>]

00:44:03   change their suffering but they're need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2643">TS</a>]

00:44:05   you know if released they would destroy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2645">TS</a>]

00:44:07   everything and and this woman comes into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2647">TS</a>]

00:44:09   this environment she's the outsider lets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2649">TS</a>]

00:44:11   us have the perspective we get to know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2651">TS</a>]

00:44:12   exposition thank you for the expedition [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2652">TS</a>]

00:44:14   because she's coming in without any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2654">TS</a>]

00:44:16   knowledge beyond sort of distant stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2656">TS</a>]

00:44:18   about what the situation is it's very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2658">TS</a>]

00:44:20   complicated it's very well realized and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2660">TS</a>]

00:44:22   I think it's um it's so subtle so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2662">TS</a>]

00:44:25   things happen in the novel that I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2665">TS</a>]

00:44:27   some of the plot points are very broad i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2667">TS</a>]

00:44:29   would argue but some of the actual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2669">TS</a>]

00:44:30   events the way in which people are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2670">TS</a>]

00:44:31   acting what they do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2671">TS</a>]

00:44:32   totally unexpected to me and I kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2672">TS</a>]

00:44:35   love the narrative i love the University [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2675">TS</a>]

00:44:37   immediately went and bought and read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2677">TS</a>]

00:44:39   second book and there's a third in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2679">TS</a>]

00:44:41   trilogy coming out this October I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2681">TS</a>]

00:44:43   enjoyed it very much actually I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2683">TS</a>]

00:44:47   this is probably my second right after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2687">TS</a>]

00:44:48   dervish house if drivers house was not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2688">TS</a>]

00:44:50   nominated I think this would probably be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2690">TS</a>]

00:44:52   the one I would think should get the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2692">TS</a>]

00:44:54   hugo it was unlike any fantasy book i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2694">TS</a>]

00:44:57   think i've ever read very enjoyable well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2697">TS</a>]

00:45:00   written i like the interaction with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2700">TS</a>]

00:45:03   gods [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2703">TS</a>]

00:45:04   I like the the idea that they their City [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2704">TS</a>]

00:45:08   sky that hovers I guess above the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2708">TS</a>]

00:45:11   kingdom or something and this whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2711">TS</a>]

00:45:13   family lives there and you have to be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2713">TS</a>]

00:45:15   part of the family to live there because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2715">TS</a>]

00:45:17   if you're not you can't get this little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2717">TS</a>]

00:45:19   symbol on your like implanted on your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2719">TS</a>]

00:45:22   head that protects you from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2722">TS</a>]

00:45:24   the the captured gods that roam the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2724">TS</a>]

00:45:27   hallways so that they can go just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2727">TS</a>]

00:45:29   just kill you because they're angry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2729">TS</a>]

00:45:32   they're and they're sort of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2732">TS</a>]

00:45:33   like all gods are there sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2733">TS</a>]

00:45:35   capricious and so even though they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2735">TS</a>]

00:45:36   under the thumb of you say something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2736">TS</a>]

00:45:38   like get get me away from here they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2738">TS</a>]

00:45:41   might send you to the bottom of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2741">TS</a>]

00:45:43   ocean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2743">TS</a>]

00:45:43   you have to be very precise it's like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2743">TS</a>]

00:45:45   genie is you have to be very precise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2745">TS</a>]

00:45:46   with you ask because if you ask me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2746">TS</a>]

00:45:48   emphasize they are then still within the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2748">TS</a>]

00:45:50   rule of the law of this sort of balls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2750">TS</a>]

00:45:52   been laid down by this Elder God but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2752">TS</a>]

00:45:54   look funny about it setup we started out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2754">TS</a>]

00:45:56   you're like well they're so this is sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2756">TS</a>]

00:45:57   of the usual thing there's a sort of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2757">TS</a>]

00:45:58   white lie to God and there's fallen dark [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2758">TS</a>]

00:46:01   demons and so forth and really quickly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2761">TS</a>]

00:46:04   like wait a minute this is not anywhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2764">TS</a>]

00:46:05   near that simple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2765">TS</a>]

00:46:06   it's very complicated and you know there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2766">TS</a>]

00:46:09   is redemption and loss and hatred and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2769">TS</a>]

00:46:11   whatever its and things happen that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2771">TS</a>]

00:46:13   can imagine within the structure the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2773">TS</a>]

00:46:14   university created suddenly happen she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2774">TS</a>]

00:46:16   breaks it open cracked open and reforms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2776">TS</a>]

00:46:19   and it's um I can't believe this is her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2779">TS</a>]

00:46:21   first novel isn't it unbelievable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2781">TS</a>]

00:46:23   beautiful just like a she's like a job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2783">TS</a>]

00:46:27   counselor such a bar because of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2787">TS</a>]

00:46:29   second one she I mean this equal thing I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2789">TS</a>]

00:46:30   think the second one action some ways [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2790">TS</a>]

00:46:32   that even is even better because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2792">TS</a>]

00:46:34   universe already exists and you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2794">TS</a>]

00:46:36   inside of it instead of having to invent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2796">TS</a>]

00:46:37   the universe and it's not about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2797">TS</a>]

00:46:40   ruling class i think my second one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2800">TS</a>]

00:46:42   stronger stand down on the question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2802">TS</a>]

00:46:44   first one is first one is that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2804">TS</a>]

00:46:45   rulers of this of this planet and or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2805">TS</a>]

00:46:48   whatever it is that with all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2808">TS</a>]

00:46:50   kingdoms and a lot of atoms and the gods [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2810">TS</a>]

00:46:52   that the other like a hundred thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2812">TS</a>]

00:46:54   of them with but it's I i love the God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2814">TS</a>]

00:46:57   dynamic the fact that the gods there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2817">TS</a>]

00:46:59   were rules about how the gods they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2819">TS</a>]

00:47:01   they were mad right so is so they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2821">TS</a>]

00:47:03   going to be capricious they have good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2823">TS</a>]

00:47:05   reason to be they've been sort of bound [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2825">TS</a>]

00:47:07   and tied down to earth and now they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2827">TS</a>]

00:47:08   to follow the you know that created they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2828">TS</a>]

00:47:11   are their parents created the universe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2831">TS</a>]

00:47:13   and yet they have to follow the rules [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2833">TS</a>]

00:47:14   the orders of the members of this family [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2834">TS</a>]

00:47:17   and and then there's the white God whose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2837">TS</a>]

00:47:21   up in heaven and he is you know not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2841">TS</a>]

00:47:26   doesn't seem to be very nice right i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2846">TS</a>]

00:47:28   mean he won the war [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2848">TS</a>]

00:47:30   basically that's what he's got going for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2850">TS</a>]

00:47:32   him and yet and that you know so this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2852">TS</a>]

00:47:35   character comes on and there are the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2855">TS</a>]

00:47:36   I i guess on one level you could view it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2856">TS</a>]

00:47:38   as being very traditional it's outsider [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2858">TS</a>]

00:47:40   she doesn't seem like she's important [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2860">TS</a>]

00:47:41   turns out she's very important she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2861">TS</a>]

00:47:43   learns all about it that's that same old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:45   story except the way it's told it just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2865">TS</a>]

00:47:47   didn't feel like that to me it felt much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2867">TS</a>]

00:47:49   more like this was a real voyage of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:51   discovery because you know it was it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2871">TS</a>]

00:47:55   not just about her it was about the you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2875">TS</a>]

00:47:57   know how the gods were trying to use her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2877">TS</a>]

00:47:59   and her family was trying to use her and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2879">TS</a>]

00:48:02   so even though all the trappings it does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2882">TS</a>]

00:48:03   have that sort of traditional structure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2883">TS</a>]

00:48:06   just like it'sit's fantasy but it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2886">TS</a>]

00:48:08   like any fantasy novel i've ever read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2888">TS</a>]

00:48:10   either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2890">TS</a>]

00:48:11   it also has its the same structures like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2891">TS</a>]

00:48:13   Harry Potter it's not for Star Wars yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2893">TS</a>]

00:48:15   but it but it doesn't feel like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2895">TS</a>]

00:48:17   because there's so much originality to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2897">TS</a>]

00:48:19   it that I never felt like oh yeah I see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2899">TS</a>]

00:48:21   what she's doing here in fact there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:23   a couple twists in it that i was really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2903">TS</a>]

00:48:25   surprised it's like oh I didn't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2905">TS</a>]

00:48:26   that was gonna happen to this character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2906">TS</a>]

00:48:28   that's like so she'd represent something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2908">TS</a>]

00:48:30   different than I think there's a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2910">TS</a>]

00:48:31   Cruelty net which I gotta say is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2911">TS</a>]

00:48:33   actually a not appealing per se but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2913">TS</a>]

00:48:36   fact that you know the worlds that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2916">TS</a>]

00:48:38   sort of primitive sort of a fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2918">TS</a>]

00:48:39   world meets like medieval times the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2919">TS</a>]

00:48:41   guild the culture of things and it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2921">TS</a>]

00:48:43   fact that it's not sugarcoat it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2923">TS</a>]

00:48:45   people going haha I'm an evil person or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2925">TS</a>]

00:48:47   whatever it's just it's the casual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2927">TS</a>]

00:48:49   contempt of the ruling class for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2929">TS</a>]

00:48:51   peasants and people are miss malformed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2931">TS</a>]

00:48:53   and kill the known and the really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2933">TS</a>]

00:48:54   question he cares because those people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2934">TS</a>]

00:48:55   don't count and I think there's some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2935">TS</a>]

00:48:57   incredible like Ferris million students [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2937">TS</a>]

00:49:00   through that well and the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2940">TS</a>]

00:49:02   corruption of the family has been ruling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:04   has landed they are they are so corrupt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2944">TS</a>]

00:49:06   and just depraved in so many different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2946">TS</a>]

00:49:10   ways and that's well well done there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2950">TS</a>]

00:49:13   they're quite depraved it is it the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2953">TS</a>]

00:49:15   there but they're not just like single [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2955">TS</a>]

00:49:18   note characters they all have depth and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2958">TS</a>]

00:49:21   so they have their you can kind of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2961">TS</a>]

00:49:23   understand they all have this underlined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2963">TS</a>]

00:49:24   depravity right but they have other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2964">TS</a>]

00:49:26   things that make them interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2966">TS</a>]

00:49:28   yes who's your favorite character is my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2968">TS</a>]

00:49:31   question of those of us who read the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2971">TS</a>]

00:49:32   book who is the standout character for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2972">TS</a>]

00:49:34   you can I got one but i'm curious the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2974">TS</a>]

00:49:36   other files i like the the old dying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2976">TS</a>]

00:49:38   leader dude all interesting ok but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2978">TS</a>]

00:49:42   grandfather having really running the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2982">TS</a>]

00:49:44   kingdom try to run the kingdom at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2984">TS</a>]

00:49:46   comes cried the most interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2986">TS</a>]

00:49:49   character is her mother who is never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2989">TS</a>]

00:49:51   seen because she's already dead and but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2991">TS</a>]

00:49:53   she said she sort of plan has plotted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2993">TS</a>]

00:49:55   out the entire thing that's fascinating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2995">TS</a>]

00:49:58   i was i was going to say the the low-key [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/2998">TS</a>]

00:50:00   like character the the eternally young [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3000">TS</a>]

00:50:03   the first time he's the first child of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3003">TS</a>]

00:50:05   the Gods raising the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3005">TS</a>]

00:50:06   yeah and he and that is I think it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3006">TS</a>]

00:50:09   remarkable character because she's able [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3009">TS</a>]

00:50:11   to simulate this you know it's it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3011">TS</a>]

00:50:13   a doctor who is sort of thing in some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3013">TS</a>]

00:50:14   ways like someone who is simultaneously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3014">TS</a>]

00:50:16   infinitely old billions of years old and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3016">TS</a>]

00:50:18   yet is absolutely child-like in his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3018">TS</a>]

00:50:21   nature right he doesn't just look like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3021">TS</a>]

00:50:23   child he thinks like a child because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3023">TS</a>]

00:50:25   wants to be a china in the Sun bit but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3025">TS</a>]

00:50:27   he like wants to communicate with her he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3027">TS</a>]

00:50:29   wants to comfort himself as if she is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3029">TS</a>]

00:50:30   his mother and their spoilers there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3030">TS</a>]

00:50:33   mr. won't even say but but and she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3033">TS</a>]

00:50:36   thinks is this a sexual thing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3036">TS</a>]

00:50:38   whatever and then she takes his army is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3038">TS</a>]

00:50:40   no he is like a child even though he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3040">TS</a>]

00:50:42   no 4 billion years old or whatever and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3042">TS</a>]

00:50:44   that kind of thing like there's so much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3044">TS</a>]

00:50:46   in so much of what you read this fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3046">TS</a>]

00:50:48   and science fiction is so much binary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3048">TS</a>]

00:50:50   stuff black-and-white lack of subtlety [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3050">TS</a>]

00:50:53   and I just thought the book was so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3053">TS</a>]

00:50:54   beautifully shaded throughout even when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3054">TS</a>]

00:50:56   there is some you know dopey things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3056">TS</a>]

00:50:58   instead of the the sister the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3058">TS</a>]

00:51:00   sisters an error the I guess half-sister [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3060">TS</a>]

00:51:03   whatever of the our primary character or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3063">TS</a>]

00:51:07   she is sister i don't even know anyway [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3067">TS</a>]

00:51:08   has some husband whenever she's there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3068">TS</a>]

00:51:11   a set of siblings who are heirs to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3071">TS</a>]

00:51:13   throne this upstart is brought in as the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3073">TS</a>]

00:51:15   third legitimate one and the sisters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3075">TS</a>]

00:51:17   playing pretty broad strokes but she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3077">TS</a>]

00:51:19   she's cool and capricious but she sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3079">TS</a>]

00:51:20   of karela deville and brother is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3080">TS</a>]

00:51:23   completely dissipated they're sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3083">TS</a>]

00:51:24   the weakest characters they have to sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3084">TS</a>]

00:51:25   of fill a role but even with that said I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3085">TS</a>]

00:51:28   mean that's such a minor criticism of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3088">TS</a>]

00:51:29   the overall just gorgeousness of of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3089">TS</a>]

00:51:32   it's not overwritten either she writes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3092">TS</a>]

00:51:34   beautifully without feeling that you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3094">TS</a>]

00:51:35   reading something that's supposed to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3095">TS</a>]

00:51:36   beautiful prose on the Nightlord the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3096">TS</a>]

00:51:39   character of all night Laura right i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3099">TS</a>]

00:51:40   mean that that every security we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:42   skipped right over him but it's such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3102">TS</a>]

00:51:43   great character he's in the daytime he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3103">TS</a>]

00:51:45   kind of suppressed by the light because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3105">TS</a>]

00:51:47   the what the Sun the Sun is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3107">TS</a>]

00:51:48   representative of the white God who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3108">TS</a>]

00:51:50   suppressing them but at night he's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3110">TS</a>]

00:51:52   black God he's the opposition but he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3112">TS</a>]

00:51:54   bound now he comes you know much more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3114">TS</a>]

00:51:56   powerful at night and has all of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3116">TS</a>]

00:51:59   you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3119">TS</a>]

00:52:00   he's not he's not the devil right i mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3120">TS</a>]

00:52:02   he's he's dangerous and can do horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3122">TS</a>]

00:52:07   things but yet you know he's got his own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3127">TS</a>]

00:52:09   perspective too and it's just it is very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3129">TS</a>]

00:52:11   very well done and very evocative and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3131">TS</a>]

00:52:14   and you know the attraction that the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3134">TS</a>]

00:52:16   protagonist feels for him is not just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3136">TS</a>]

00:52:20   you know it's not like twilight was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3140">TS</a>]

00:52:21   all vampire boys i love you you're so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3141">TS</a>]

00:52:24   shiny darkens it's it's um it's really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3144">TS</a>]

00:52:28   interesting and really horrible he is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3148">TS</a>]

00:52:31   yeah it's great you know I think there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3151">TS</a>]

00:52:33   that I'm the notion of that like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3153">TS</a>]

00:52:35   you know you want to believe you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3155">TS</a>]

00:52:36   York set up to expect this is additional [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:38   light and dark and black and white [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3158">TS</a>]

00:52:40   blonde there's like there's a third got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3160">TS</a>]

00:52:41   it was not following me so captain and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3161">TS</a>]

00:52:43   they had this great creative thing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3163">TS</a>]

00:52:45   universe was created through sort of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3165">TS</a>]

00:52:47   fights of the white and the Dark Gods [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3167">TS</a>]

00:52:50   and the creative forces the third god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3170">TS</a>]

00:52:52   that was woman who comes in a female [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3172">TS</a>]

00:52:54   force she's like the mother of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3174">TS</a>]

00:52:55   living things she's the green energy in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3175">TS</a>]

00:52:58   the world and create the procreative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3178">TS</a>]

00:53:00   energy and it's just AIT's I don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3180">TS</a>]

00:53:03   I can't say that I've ever read any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3183">TS</a>]

00:53:06   fantasy or even mythology in which you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3186">TS</a>]

00:53:08   have these roles occupied in this sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3188">TS</a>]

00:53:11   of distinct interesting way it's it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3191">TS</a>]

00:53:13   very it's a great mythology someone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3193">TS</a>]

00:53:14   could make a religion out of this it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3194">TS</a>]

00:53:16   straight and I thought it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3196">TS</a>]

00:53:17   interesting with the so you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3197">TS</a>]

00:53:19   third God wanted to create order and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3199">TS</a>]

00:53:22   bring about life and the other two gods [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3202">TS</a>]

00:53:23   were kind of like I don't think we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3203">TS</a>]

00:53:25   really need the head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3205">TS</a>]

00:53:26   we're having so much fun doing all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3206">TS</a>]

00:53:28   other stuff why should we bother [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3208">TS</a>]

00:53:29   yeah we don't want to create life like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3209">TS</a>]

00:53:31   new message no I think we should have it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3211">TS</a>]

00:53:33   i think we should have some life messy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3213">TS</a>]

00:53:35   and unpredictable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3215">TS</a>]

00:53:36   it's a part of the universe's mind and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3216">TS</a>]

00:53:38   i'm going to create life and you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3218">TS</a>]

00:53:39   gonna have to cope with that and i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3219">TS</a>]

00:53:41   it's interesting that so the white God [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3221">TS</a>]

00:53:43   who is you know kind of distant doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3223">TS</a>]

00:53:46   make it appear until the the end of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3226">TS</a>]

00:53:48   book and but he influences everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3228">TS</a>]

00:53:51   and the main character through her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3231">TS</a>]

00:53:55   journey finds out that this God that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3235">TS</a>]

00:53:57   she's worshipped perhaps is not as great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3237">TS</a>]

00:54:00   as you know as pure as a shepherd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:02   thought but yet she still has this this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3242">TS</a>]

00:54:05   programming a loving him and she she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3245">TS</a>]

00:54:09   finds it very difficult to go against [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3249">TS</a>]

00:54:11   him because of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3251">TS</a>]

00:54:12   who her whole culture and her the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3252">TS</a>]

00:54:14   should have brought up and I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3254">TS</a>]

00:54:16   that kind of attention was was done very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3256">TS</a>]

00:54:18   well yeah there's no the harry potter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3258">TS</a>]

00:54:21   ickiness of like why did they have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3261">TS</a>]

00:54:23   say random weird words to get things to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3263">TS</a>]

00:54:25   happen it's like the universe's ordered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3265">TS</a>]

00:54:27   it makes sense within constraints that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3267">TS</a>]

00:54:28   are don't have to be explained but don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3268">TS</a>]

00:54:30   seem stupid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3270">TS</a>]

00:54:32   I'm sorry I like Harry Potter but ideal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3272">TS</a>]

00:54:35   campaign Gladish incantation think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3275">TS</a>]

00:54:38   me so big thumbs up for the hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3278">TS</a>]

00:54:40   thousand can read yeah I'm very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3280">TS</a>]

00:54:42   surprised I you know I I don't want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3282">TS</a>]

00:54:44   be too much better because obviously i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3284">TS</a>]

00:54:45   did not i read about half of it and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3285">TS</a>]

00:54:47   will go back to at some point and finish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3287">TS</a>]

00:54:48   it but I was not impressed with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:50   first half of this but the next fifty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3290">TS</a>]

00:54:51   thousand really good so tell us and I'd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3291">TS</a>]

00:54:54   forgotten that you you you like like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3294">TS</a>]

00:54:56   Glenn with the Dervish house or a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3296">TS</a>]

00:54:58   partial yeah I i started it and I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3298">TS</a>]

00:55:02   know maybe i just read better fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3302">TS</a>]

00:55:03   than you guys earlier in my life I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3303">TS</a>]

00:55:06   know they're just fighting words i tend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3306">TS</a>]

00:55:08   to read more stuff that you know is was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3308">TS</a>]

00:55:10   you know more complex as I didn't really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3310">TS</a>]

00:55:12   find much of the stuff in here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3312">TS</a>]

00:55:13   surprising or new or different to me it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3313">TS</a>]

00:55:15   really felt I don't know I felt kinda [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3315">TS</a>]

00:55:18   cold to it i didn't even the part where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3318">TS</a>]

00:55:19   we sort of hit that and I hit that twist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3319">TS</a>]

00:55:21   you know where the with the main [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3321">TS</a>]

00:55:22   character and sort of when you figure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3322">TS</a>]

00:55:23   out her nature of her and i was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3323">TS</a>]

00:55:25   okay you know like it didn't really it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3325">TS</a>]

00:55:28   didn't really shocked or surprised me or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3328">TS</a>]

00:55:30   make me revisit that character anyways I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3330">TS</a>]

00:55:32   feel like that's something I've you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3332">TS</a>]

00:55:33   that's that seems like a device i've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3333">TS</a>]

00:55:34   come across before I mean I I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3334">TS</a>]

00:55:37   think it's badly written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3337">TS</a>]

00:55:38   i think i agree that she's she has a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3338">TS</a>]

00:55:40   very you know good command and she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3340">TS</a>]

00:55:41   setting up this world I just felt very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3341">TS</a>]

00:55:42   cold to it did not really implement any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3342">TS</a>]

00:55:45   any sort of response in me and and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3345">TS</a>]

00:55:47   found the way I mean I understand the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3347">TS</a>]

00:55:50   rationale for the romantic aspect of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3350">TS</a>]

00:55:53   but it felt melodramatic to me it felt a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3353">TS</a>]

00:55:56   little overplayed and overwrought and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3356">TS</a>]

00:55:58   and you know maybe again I i will finish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3358">TS</a>]

00:56:01   the book at and I will you know perhaps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3361">TS</a>]

00:56:03   that will change my impression that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3363">TS</a>]

00:56:04   just speaking from having read the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:06   half i just i mean i put it down to read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3366">TS</a>]

00:56:09   because i had to read something I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3369">TS</a>]

00:56:11   I still because I got embassy sounds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3371">TS</a>]

00:56:12   like a really interesting this and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3372">TS</a>]

00:56:14   I and then I had not felt a desire to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3374">TS</a>]

00:56:17   back to it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3377">TS</a>]

00:56:17   no you know dan you should check out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3377">TS</a>]

00:56:19   feed because I think you like that haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:22   wait a second [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3382">TS</a>]

00:56:24   you know what's funny i was quite a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3384">TS</a>]

00:56:25   of fantasy although I probably not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3385">TS</a>]

00:56:27   sounds like you were deeply right but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3387">TS</a>]

00:56:28   you know everyone is younger than a ton [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3388">TS</a>]

00:56:30   of fantasy and I always felt enough to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3390">TS</a>]

00:56:33   read much less of it as I've got older [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3393">TS</a>]

00:56:34   my turn more of sci-fi but I always felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3394">TS</a>]

00:56:36   there was even the best fantasy I felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3396">TS</a>]

00:56:39   there was some lot of shallow thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3399">TS</a>]

00:56:41   of the universe was created in order to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3401">TS</a>]

00:56:43   make put magic in it as opposed to a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3403">TS</a>]

00:56:44   universe that was created from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3404">TS</a>]

00:56:45   principals in which people function and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3405">TS</a>]

00:56:48   the magic sort of the structure of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3408">TS</a>]

00:56:50   you know it's like a like this idea for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3410">TS</a>]

00:56:52   how we structure university know there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3412">TS</a>]

00:56:53   a story that should come first I felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3413">TS</a>]

00:56:55   here the narrative is very strong and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3415">TS</a>]

00:56:57   the universe sort of was built around it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3417">TS</a>]

00:56:59   and and consistently influenced the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3419">TS</a>]

00:57:03   nature of the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3423">TS</a>]

00:57:04   no I was really skeptical going into it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3424">TS</a>]

00:57:06   I was like really I you know I i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3426">TS</a>]

00:57:09   know i just even when i started reading [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3429">TS</a>]

00:57:11   it and it said that was part of a series [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3431">TS</a>]

00:57:12   and I thought really if there's more of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3432">TS</a>]

00:57:14   these and it's sort of fantasy and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3434">TS</a>]

00:57:17   know and within like three chapters I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3437">TS</a>]

00:57:18   was I was like all right this is this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3438">TS</a>]

00:57:20   good stuff this is I was i buy with body [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:23   and and I don't came at a similar way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3443">TS</a>]

00:57:25   because I just have this prejudice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3445">TS</a>]

00:57:27   against fantasy I guess after reading so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3447">TS</a>]

00:57:29   much bad fantasy when I just assumed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3449">TS</a>]

00:57:31   that this would just be bad fantasy but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3451">TS</a>]

00:57:34   was short so i would read it and I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3454">TS</a>]

00:57:36   glad it because it was really good i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3456">TS</a>]

00:57:39   recommend book 22 it's a book to is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3459">TS</a>]

00:57:40   very different story for smaller story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3460">TS</a>]

00:57:42   and you get more of the get more stories [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3462">TS</a>]

00:57:45   about people but there's a big you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3465">TS</a>]

00:57:46   universe destroying business in it as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3466">TS</a>]

00:57:48   well as there has to be in these kinds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3468">TS</a>]

00:57:50   of stories of but it's a it's a quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3470">TS</a>]

00:57:52   different quite interesting as well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3472">TS</a>]

00:57:53   like the protagonist blind woman is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3473">TS</a>]

00:57:56   quite lovely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3476">TS</a>]

00:57:57   alright my ballot by the way and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3477">TS</a>]

00:58:02   will come as no surprise given if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3482">TS</a>]

00:58:04   listen to this is the Dervish house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3484">TS</a>]

00:58:06   followed by the hundred thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3486">TS</a>]

00:58:09   kingdoms followed by no award I i feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3489">TS</a>]

00:58:14   that i feel that the other three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3494">TS</a>]

00:58:16   nominees here really really don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3496">TS</a>]

00:58:17   deserve an award by auburn would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3497">TS</a>]

00:58:19   been next then blackout all clear and of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3499">TS</a>]

00:58:21   course last would be feed less that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3501">TS</a>]

00:58:24   really think duration hundred thousand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3504">TS</a>]

00:58:26   kingdoms the only ones even worthy of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3506">TS</a>]

00:58:27   winning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3507">TS</a>]

00:58:28   yeah those are those I think I've ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3508">TS</a>]

00:58:30   read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3510">TS</a>]

00:58:31   kinda Wilson the other one but i figured [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3511">TS</a>]

00:58:35   there were also a number of fine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3515">TS</a>]

00:58:37   additional shorter pieces of fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3517">TS</a>]

00:58:39   rekha nominated for the hugo awards this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3519">TS</a>]

00:58:42   year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3522">TS</a>]

00:58:43   yeah let's let's mention a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3523">TS</a>]

00:58:45   standouts really quickly before before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3525">TS</a>]

00:58:47   we conclude the hugo portion of our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3527">TS</a>]

00:58:49   program girl and I never read anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3529">TS</a>]

00:58:52   by Rachel sports key before I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3532">TS</a>]

00:58:53   she's written a fair amount is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3533">TS</a>]

00:58:55   right the woman realia the lady who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3535">TS</a>]

00:58:57   plucked red flowers beneath the Queen's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3537">TS</a>]

00:58:58   window fantastic that got my vote for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3538">TS</a>]

00:59:01   best thanks it's a also fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3541">TS</a>]

00:59:04   yeah and essentially a very complicated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3544">TS</a>]

00:59:06   and stunning realization of light and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3546">TS</a>]

00:59:08   you can read it online for free into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3548">TS</a>]

00:59:10   lot of two it's like you know it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3550">TS</a>]

00:59:11   world again world with magic and but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:14   passage of enormous scope of time and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3554">TS</a>]

00:59:17   while woman is a magician or which sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3557">TS</a>]

00:59:19   of you know put into a form which you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3559">TS</a>]

00:59:21   can be called up at will by people with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3561">TS</a>]

00:59:23   the right incantation and comes in two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3563">TS</a>]

00:59:25   different cultures past civilizations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3565">TS</a>]

00:59:27   rise and fall there are you know sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3567">TS</a>]

00:59:29   a new civilization Rises which they want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3569">TS</a>]

00:59:31   her help to change things and she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3571">TS</a>]

00:59:33   refuses because they're not women and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3573">TS</a>]

00:59:35   selling women's magic and it's just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3575">TS</a>]

00:59:37   crazy amount of detail in it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3577">TS</a>]

00:59:39   marvelous it's like even though it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3579">TS</a>]

00:59:41   fantasy it's a story about immortality [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3581">TS</a>]

00:59:44   yeah in the truest sense which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3584">TS</a>]

00:59:46   immortality doesn't mean yeah I get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3586">TS</a>]

00:59:49   live live my life that I have now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3589">TS</a>]

00:59:51   forever it means that like in 10,000 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3591">TS</a>]

00:59:54   years when you can't recognize anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3594">TS</a>]

00:59:56   about civilization or anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3596">TS</a>]

00:59:59   you're still there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3599">TS</a>]

00:59:59   you're still there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3599">TS</a>]

01:00:00   and that's what happens with this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:01   character she keeps getting really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3601">TS</a>]

01:00:02   summoned and you know it's for fastening [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3602">TS</a>]

01:00:06   she's like whatever happened to the hill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3606">TS</a>]

01:00:08   people like I have no idea what you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3608">TS</a>]

01:00:09   talking about anyway we have a question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3609">TS</a>]

01:00:11   for you and she's you know this is all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3611">TS</a>]

01:00:13   she all she can do is get these glimpses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3613">TS</a>]

01:00:15   of these various cultures as she sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3615">TS</a>]

01:00:18   fast-forwards through you know through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3618">TS</a>]

01:00:20   basically many fantasy novels that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3620">TS</a>]

01:00:23   happening and you get a little fraction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3623">TS</a>]

01:00:25   of it while she's there and then off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3625">TS</a>]

01:00:27   she's off to the next thing you have any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3627">TS</a>]

01:00:28   others that you read that you thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3628">TS</a>]

01:00:30   were particularly interesting well I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3630">TS</a>]

01:00:32   really liked chang who we talked about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3632">TS</a>]

01:00:34   different podcast lifecycle of software [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:37   objects I'd say we talk about that then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3637">TS</a>]

01:00:39   is uh it's a it's a good story but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3639">TS</a>]

01:00:41   feels more like a rumination instead of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3641">TS</a>]

01:00:43   a short story or a novella rather its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3643">TS</a>]

01:00:45   law in his past yeah it's very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3645">TS</a>]

01:00:47   interesting i mean i enjoyed reading it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3647">TS</a>]

01:00:49   but i think that since one of completion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3649">TS</a>]

01:00:51   was like oh this was a great story with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3651">TS</a>]

01:00:53   fully realized characters in it was more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3653">TS</a>]

01:00:55   like what a bunch of interesting ideas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3655">TS</a>]

01:00:57   how fascinating a lot of these nominees [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3657">TS</a>]

01:01:00   are online and we'll post a link in our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3660">TS</a>]

01:01:01   show notes on the incomparable com [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3661">TS</a>]

01:01:03   so you can go and find some of the hugo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3663">TS</a>]

01:01:05   nominated stories because they they did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3665">TS</a>]

01:01:08   put a lot of them up as PDFs or just on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3668">TS</a>]

01:01:11   web pages and so you can get a chance to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3671">TS</a>]

01:01:14   to read them the ones that stood out for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3674">TS</a>]

01:01:17   me other than the lady who plucked red [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3677">TS</a>]

01:01:18   flowers beneath the Queen's window which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3678">TS</a>]

01:01:20   is a really great story historical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3680">TS</a>]

01:01:22   troika by alastair reynolds which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3682">TS</a>]

01:01:26   Scott Scott Malastare Reynolds book on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3686">TS</a>]

01:01:28   his on his bookshelf or on his desk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3688">TS</a>]

01:01:30   right there on my desk right now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3690">TS</a>]

01:01:31   terminal world now so I'd never read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3691">TS</a>]

01:01:34   anything by alastair reynolds I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3694">TS</a>]

01:01:35   that maybe an occasional short story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3695">TS</a>]

01:01:36   torque is really good it's um it's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3696">TS</a>]

01:01:39   strange story about Russians russian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3699">TS</a>]

01:01:41   cosmonauts in a reform Soviet Union who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3701">TS</a>]

01:01:44   gets sent to this weird object that has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3704">TS</a>]

01:01:49   been located in in orbit that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3709">TS</a>]

01:01:52   artificial in nature and but it's sold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3712">TS</a>]

01:01:56   told from the perspective of the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3716">TS</a>]

01:01:57   one of them who is still alive and he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3717">TS</a>]

01:02:00   in a mental institution and he is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3720">TS</a>]

01:02:03   Siberia and he escapes to try and find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3723">TS</a>]

01:02:06   somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3726">TS</a>]

01:02:06   it's cool it's crazy and it's good it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3726">TS</a>]

01:02:09   really good i also like to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3729">TS</a>]

01:02:13   one of the novel at nominees plus or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3733">TS</a>]

01:02:15   minus by james patrick kelly which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3735">TS</a>]

01:02:17   about people on a spaceship this crew on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3737">TS</a>]

01:02:20   a spaceship and there there's a an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3740">TS</a>]

01:02:24   accident and it's very much like cold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3744">TS</a>]

01:02:26   equations kind of story there's an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3746">TS</a>]

01:02:27   accident they have to figure out what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3747">TS</a>]

01:02:30   they're going to do to survive it while [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3750">TS</a>]

01:02:32   they're on this spaceship so that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3752">TS</a>]

01:02:34   don't run out of oxygen and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3754">TS</a>]

01:02:36   suffocate that I thought was pretty good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3756">TS</a>]

01:02:38   and and a story called eight miles by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3758">TS</a>]

01:02:41   Sean McMullen which is basically about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3761">TS</a>]

01:02:43   guy who's a balloonist in i think the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3763">TS</a>]

01:02:47   19th century and he i'm interested he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3767">TS</a>]

01:02:51   commissioned to take the balloon eight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3771">TS</a>]

01:02:53   miles up which is above the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3773">TS</a>]

01:02:54   breathability area for people and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3774">TS</a>]

01:02:57   the reason is that there's this creature [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3777">TS</a>]

01:03:00   who looks like a human being but was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3780">TS</a>]

01:03:04   found at high elevation and the the guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3784">TS</a>]

01:03:07   who found who think has a theory that if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3787">TS</a>]

01:03:09   they take her up to eight miles high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3789">TS</a>]

01:03:13   she will be able to communicate because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3793">TS</a>]

01:03:16   she will be no longer be drunken by the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3796">TS</a>]

01:03:18   thick atmosphere of Earth surface and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3798">TS</a>]

01:03:21   it's it and it's really cool it's a it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:23   a great idea and and it is it you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3803">TS</a>]

01:03:26   it's very retro it's very you know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:28   what what would it be like if there were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3808">TS</a>]

01:03:30   people who lived on Mars where the air [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3810">TS</a>]

01:03:32   is thinner than it is on earth and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3812">TS</a>]

01:03:36   short stories like there's one Kerry Von [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3816">TS</a>]

01:03:39   have a shirt circled amaryllis which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3819">TS</a>]

01:03:41   kind of interesting about people on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3821">TS</a>]

01:03:42   ship in the future with their resource [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3822">TS</a>]

01:03:45   constraints and they want to have a baby [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:46   and and a story by Peter what's called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3826">TS</a>]

01:03:50   the things which i really like to which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3830">TS</a>]

01:03:52   is the story of the movie the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3832">TS</a>]

01:03:54   where there's there in Antarctica and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3834">TS</a>]

01:03:56   there's this alien thing and it takes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3836">TS</a>]

01:03:57   over people's bodies and stuff like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3837">TS</a>]

01:03:59   that you very well-known movie this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3839">TS</a>]

01:04:03   short story about that same thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3843">TS</a>]

01:04:06   basically from the perspective of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3846">TS</a>]

01:04:07   alien and it's really quite good so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3847">TS</a>]

01:04:10   frozen like there's a story a Grendel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3850">TS</a>]

01:04:13   you know which is payable tall candles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3853">TS</a>]

01:04:15   and classic high school reading material [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3855">TS</a>]

01:04:18   African glasses so the bonus that we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3858">TS</a>]

01:04:21   didn't get to hear is that we want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3861">TS</a>]

01:04:23   talk about China Mieville book embassy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3863">TS</a>]

01:04:26   town which there are some very strong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3866">TS</a>]

01:04:29   opinions on this among our panel I know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3869">TS</a>]

01:04:31   but we're gonna have to save it for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3871">TS</a>]

01:04:33   future podcast dear listener if you some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3873">TS</a>]

01:04:37   of us enjoyed embassy town and think you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3877">TS</a>]

01:04:39   should read it and then two and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3879">TS</a>]

01:04:40   tune in to our podcast where we talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3880">TS</a>]

01:04:42   about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3882">TS</a>]

01:04:43   dan moore and however suggest that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3883">TS</a>]

01:04:44   don't you suggest you buy a copy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3884">TS</a>]

01:04:47   burn it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3887">TS</a>]

01:04:47   I would never ok my parents are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3887">TS</a>]

01:04:50   librarians I would never ever get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3890">TS</a>]

01:04:51   burning books acceptance return a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3891">TS</a>]

01:04:53   library [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3893">TS</a>]

01:04:53   yes yes donated anyway it uh until next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3893">TS</a>]

01:04:57   time when we will discuss wide and more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3897">TS</a>]

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01:05:20   have to go so until next time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3920">TS</a>]

01:05:22   dear listeners I i'm jason l and i would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3922">TS</a>]

01:05:24   like to bid farewell for now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3924">TS</a>]

01:05:26   Fleischmann thank you for being here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3926">TS</a>]

01:05:27   Glenn thank you so much Dan Morgan thank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3927">TS</a>]

01:05:30   you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3930">TS</a>]

01:05:30   thanks Jason and Scott McNulty thank you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3930">TS</a>]

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01:06:01   time thanks for listening to part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3961">TS</a>]

01:06:04   [Music] [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbAGJrE/3964">TS</a>]