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  The Incomparable Mothership October 27, 2011 “The Wise Man’s Fear”

  63 Like a Good Book Exploded

  Jason Snell with Dan Moren, John Siracusa, Scott McNulty and Serenity Caldwell

  Is Patrick Rothfuss’s “The Wise Man’s Fear” a rich fantasy novel about storytelling and myth-making, or is it a collection of good story elements scattered across an overlong plot? Could it be both? Ninjas! Off-camera shipwrecks! Board games! Sexism! Off-camera courtroom drama! Discursions within digressions within framing sequences! Join us as we discuss yet another 1000-page fantasy novel, the sequel to “The Name of the Wind.”

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  The Incomparable Mothership March 22, 2011

  29 Magic Fridge

  Dan Moren with John Siracusa and Scott McNulty

  A hero with an unpronounceable name, magic that doesn’t actually do much, cardboard female characters, a story where nothing really happens, and the first and inconclusive part of a longer series? Sounds like an acclaimed fantasy novel to us! “The Name of the Wind” on this week’s Incomparable Podcast.