Climb in your Zeppelin, grab a self-burning book, and prepare for the first Incomparable Podcast, in which we discuss "The City and The City," "The Windup Girl," "For The Win," and more. Plus we mispronounce the names of writers.
Download Episode 1 (53 minutes, 24.3 MB)
The Incomparable Participants: Glenn Fleishman, Scott McNulty, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell. The Incomparable Theme Song composed by Christopher Breen.
Prominently mentioned in this Incomparable episode:
- "The City & The City" by China Miéville
- "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
- "For the Win" by Cory Doctorow
A list of other mentioned books is after the jump.
Also mentioned:
- "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville
- "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
- "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow
- "Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest
- "The Gone-Away World" by Nick Harkaway
- "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
- "Tongues of Serpents" by Naomi Novik
- "The Dream of Perpetual Motion" by Dexter Palmer
- "A Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin
- "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
- "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon
- "Bitter Seeds" by Ian Tregillis
- "The Adamantine Palace" by Stephen Deas
- "Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde
- "Fables" by Bill Willingham and Lan Medina
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The Bitter Seeds book reminds me a bit of Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey's podcast book series The Secret World Chronicle. The premise is that there were supermen who fought on both sides of WWII and it's set after that occurs.
Great show! Looking forward to more of your new podcast. Love the 'books' genre focus.
Oh, the talk of Zeppelins reminded me of The Diamond Age which definitely had airships, but I can't recall if they actually called them Zeppelins or not at the moment.
There's airships in at least one of Jasper Fforde's early Thursday Next books, she takes one to her hometown from London.
Great podcast! Someone on GoodReads recommended, I was glad they did. All the books you reviewed were on my radar. I liked your discussion because it answered several questions I had (good to know that For the Win is not as didactic as Little Brother) with spoiling the story. I put several books on my to-read list after this.
I am interested in any comics/graphic novel related discussion as well, as you can see from my website I am into that material.
I reviewed your podcast on iTunes. Best of luck!