Based on the best-selling novel! Inspired by HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” in this episode we discuss the translation of books to the screen. Should movies be faithful to the book? Is it better if filmmmakers take liberties? And what books do we wish would be made into movies? If you don’t want to listen to this episode, just buy the novelization.

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The Incomparable Participants: Jason Snell, John Siracusa, Dan Moren, and Scott McNulty.An MP3 version is also available.

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No spoilers! Not even for “Game of Thrones.” Fear not.

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The lesson learned? Never share anything you love with John Siracusa. Like, for example, “Real Genius.” Or any ’80s movie. Or any ’80s anything. Or from-any-other-time anything. Fear John Siracusa, for he is the destroyer of dreams.

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The Incomparable Participants: Jason Snell, John Siracusa, Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman and Serenity Caldwell. Edited by Greg Knauss. An MP3 version is also available.

Buy “Real Genius” on DVD. You’ll be glad you did.

Buy an “I Heart Toxic Waste” T-Shirt at Found Item Clothing.

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It’s a testament to how scatter-shot the plot of “Real Genius” is that we talk about the details of it for over an hour and you really can’t tell if anything’s been spoiled.

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The tears of Jason Snell are available in ounce, pint and quart-size jars from the gift shop.

This time, on the Incomparable: Ted Chiang short stories, including the anthology “The Story of Your Life and Others.” Plus, enough recommendations to get you through every bathroom break and bus ride for the next three years.

Download Episode 32 (77 minutes, 21 MB AAC file)

The Incomparable Participants: Lisa Schmeiser, Scott McNulty, Glenn Fleishman, and Jason Snell. Edited by Greg Knauss. An MP3 version is also available.

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Seriously, just don’t listen if you haven’t read the Chiang stuff. You should. It’s really good.

Show Notes

• Ted Chiang’s The Story of Your Life: and Others.

• Some of Chiang’s work online, for free.

• Suzette Elgin Haden’s books.

• Counting Heads, by David Marusek.

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 28th Edition.

• Hindsight, a short story in ANALOG.

• Bible Stories for Adults, by James Morrow.

• Burning Chrome, by William Gibson.

• James Tiptree Awards.

• Mike Resnik’s books.

• Damon Knight’s books.

• Harlan Ellison’s books.

And some other stuff. I lost track. Man.

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An entire hour devoted to The CW’s “Supernatural.” Can you imagine it? Brr. Fortunately, that’s not what this podcast is about. It’s about stuff we think is funny. Only one of likes “Supernatural.” To find out who, you will need to listen.

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The Incomparable Participants: Steve Lutz, Scott McNulty, Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman, Serenity Caldwell, and Jason Snell. An MP3 version is also available.

Show Notes

Here’s what we talked about.

• Diana Wynne Jones: Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin.

• Terry Pratchett: Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)

• Galaxy Quest

• Jasper Fforde: One of Our Thursdays is Missing, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, Shades of Grey

• Supernatural

• Achewood. And as the possibly final strip is indescribably bizarre, here are some classic Achewood strips of yore.

• An Idiot Abroad

• Bored of the Rings

• George Lucas in Love

• The biography of Douglas Adams that is in its increasingly accurate fifth edition (or beyond), originally written and revised and re-revised by Neil Gaiman, is Don’t Panic. Glenn got it wrong as “Wish You Were Here,” a different biography.

• Futurama

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in printed book form, the original BBC Audioplay, and on TV.

• Garfield Minus Garfield

• 3eanuts

• Darths & Droids

• Red Letter Media’s Phantom Menace critique

• The Curse of Fatal Death

Warning

The last outtake gets a little blue. Only a little, though.

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