The Incomparable Mothership
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- 13 nov 2026
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The Incomparable Mothership is the flagship of the Incomparable podcast network. It’s all about geeky media we love, including movies, books, TV, and more, featuring a rotating panel of guests and hosted by Jason Snell and friends.
Episódios 835
843: It's Not Bananas, It's Wood
Live from Massachusetts, Jason interviews Dan about his new book, “Eternity’s Tomb.” Topics include genetically-engineered murder birds, bear men, humanity as a pernicious rash, Stephen King’s bookshelves, and …
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Live from Massachusetts, Jason interviews Dan about his new book, “Eternity’s Tomb.” Topics include genetically-engineered murder birds, bear men, humanity as a pernicious rash, Stephen King’s bookshelves, and the difficulty of building a puzzle-based society.
(We tried very hard to not spoil the book and think we did a pretty good job. But we do touch on many of its themes.)
Thanks to Porter Square Books for hosting us!
Dan Moren's "Eternity's Tomb"
Host Jason Snell with Dan Moren.
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842: No Offense to Our Marriage
Our astute panel of TV watchers reconvenes to induct 30 excellent series, all from the 21st Century, into the Incomparable’s TV Hall of Fame. 21st Century TV Hall of Fame Host Jason Snell with Erika Ensign …
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Our astute panel of TV watchers reconvenes to induct 30 excellent series, all from the 21st Century, into the Incomparable’s TV Hall of Fame.
21st Century TV Hall of Fame
Host Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Moisés Chiullán, Micheline Maynard, Monty Ashley, Andy Ihnatko, Shelly Brisbin, Steven Schapansky, David J. Loehr, and John Siracusa.
Show Notes & LinksPrevious 21st-Century inductees:
- The Wire
- The Good Place
Round 1:
- Erika - Doctor Who (2005-2022)
- Moises - The Americans (2013-2018)
- Micki - Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
- Monty - Over the Garden Wall (2014)
- Andy - Bob’s Burgers (2011-)
- Shelly - Mad Men (2007-2015)
- Steven - Andor (2022-2025)
- David - The Lowdown (2025-)
- Jason - Detectorists (2014-2022)
- John Siracusa - The Leftovers (2014-2017)
Round 2:
- Erika - Ghosts UK (2019-2023)
- Moises - The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (2015-2026)
- Micki - Call My Agent! (2015-2020)
- Monty - Review (2014-2017)
- Andy - The Shield (2002-2008)
- Shelly - We Are Lady Parts (2021-2024)
- Steven - The Thick of It (2005-2012)
- David - Documentary Now! (2015-2022)
- Jason - Counterpart (2017-2019)
- John Siracusa - Fleabag (2016-2019)
Round 3:
- Erika - Travelers (2016-2018)
- Moises - WandaVision (2021)
- Micki - Crash Landing on You (2019-2020)
- Monty - Garth Marengi’s Darkplace (2004)
- Andy - Fake or Fortune? (2011-)
- Shelly - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2023)
- Steven - Chernobyl (2019)
- David - Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
- Jason - Lost (2004-2010)
- John Siracusa robot or not - Band of Brothers (2001)
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841: There's a Ton of Normal Movies
For Halloween we watched a… not particularly spooky movie. It’s the 30-year-old supernatural comedy “The Frighteners,” starring Michael J. Fox and directed by Peter Jackson, who was about to embark on making …
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For Halloween we watched a… not particularly spooky movie. It’s the 30-year-old supernatural comedy “The Frighteners,” starring Michael J. Fox and directed by Peter Jackson, who was about to embark on making many “Lord of the Rings” movies. We are not sure we see the connection! But this movie… is not normal. Who is the target audience? Why does Jeffrey Combs appear, mid-film, combing it up at 100%? How many ghosts of loved ones would you want at your hot date at the Medieval Times? We have lots of questions, but very few answers!
"The Frighteners" (1996)
Host Jason Snell with Monty Ashley, Tiff Arment, and Steve Lutz.
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840: Back Up the Money Truck Again
Put on your shin guards and get out on the pitch, because we’re tackling the return of “Ted Lasso” for a fourth season after it seemingly ended with season 3! What did we think of the new story arcs? Was the …
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Put on your shin guards and get out on the pitch, because we’re tackling the return of “Ted Lasso” for a fourth season after it seemingly ended with season 3! What did we think of the new story arcs? Was the villain obvious and did it matter? Is Roy Kent the Fonzie of “Ted Lasso?” Follow the money.
"Ted Lasso" season 4
Host Jason Snell with Chip Sudderth, Erika Ensign, Kathy Campbell, Moisés Chiullán, Casey Liss, and Brian Warren.
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839: The Weather is the Bad Guy
In Jason’s absence, Shelly indulges her fondness for disaster movies, a genre that peaked in the 1970s. And what better way to revel in disaster than with a draft? From shipwrecks to nuclear war to runaway …
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In Jason’s absence, Shelly indulges her fondness for disaster movies, a genre that peaked in the 1970s. And what better way to revel in disaster than with a draft? From shipwrecks to nuclear war to runaway planes and trains, we’ve got you covered in cinematic mayhem. There’s even a zeppelin.
Disaster Movie Draft!
Host Shelly Brisbin with David J. Loehr, Monty Ashley, and Micheline Maynard.
Show Notes & Links- David: Airplane!, Failsafe/Dr. Strangelove, Dante’s Inferno, Night of the Lepus
- Monty: Airport 1975, Stop That Train!, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, The Day After Tomorrow
- Micki: All of Titanic, The Perfect Storm, San Francisco, Submersion of Japan
- Shelly: The Towering Inferno, The Last Voyage, Lifeboat, Dirigible
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838: And I'm All Outta Dinosaurs
Inhale deeply of the intoxicating gases and get ready to discuss the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season gone by. Our panel of puppets, “Casablanca” characters, badmirals, and high fantasy types have …
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Inhale deeply of the intoxicating gases and get ready to discuss the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season gone by. Our panel of puppets, “Casablanca” characters, badmirals, and high fantasy types have opinions on the genre-shifting penultimate season. Too much Kirk, or just enough? What’s up with La’an’s journey? Beam us up, Scotty, but only if you’re not still experimenting with the transporter…
"Strange New Worlds" season 4
Host Jason Snell with Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Moisés Chiullán, and Shelly Brisbin.
Referenced Works Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Show Notes & Links "Vulcan Hello" SNW S4 wrap panelSupport this show and other shows like it on The Incomparable network by becoming a member. Members get early access to podcasts, bonus episodes, and more.
837: Thoughts About a Fictional Bakery
Helene Wecker’s third Golem and Jinni novel, The Gates of Midnight, is now available! Jason asks her about her multi-decade journey to get to the end of the trilogy, how research has changed along the way, the …
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Helene Wecker’s third Golem and Jinni novel, The Gates of Midnight, is now available! Jason asks her about her multi-decade journey to get to the end of the trilogy, how research has changed along the way, the themes of the three books, and what she might do next.
"The Gates of Midnight"
Host Jason Snell with Helene Wecker.
Referenced Works The Gates of Midnight [Amazon] [Apple] The Golem and the Jinni [Amazon] The Hidden Palace [Amazon] [Apple] Show Notes & Links(There are some mild thematic spoilers for the final book in the trilogy, but nothing too bad!)
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836: Tea, Blankets, and Murder
Once a subcategory for mysteries, “cozy” feels like the latest craze in publishing with every genre getting in on the act. Is it really a new thing? Are authors able to take sci-fi or horror and turn it into …
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Once a subcategory for mysteries, “cozy” feels like the latest craze in publishing with every genre getting in on the act. Is it really a new thing? Are authors able to take sci-fi or horror and turn it into something to be read while cuddled into a warm blanket with a cup of tea at one’s elbow? Our panel discusses what makes a piece of media cozy, drafts a few books (sometimes with media tie-ins), and then throws it open to anything that gives us that cozy feeling. David includes tea pairings with his choices and Antony tells us how he ended up writing a cozy mystery series.
Cozy Draft
Host Shannon Sudderth with Antony Johnston, Annette Wierstra, Shelly Brisbin, David J. Loehr, and James Thomson.
Show Notes & Links- Annette: “A Council of War” cozy mysteries inspired by Elizabeth Peters (series with Amelia Peabody and Vicky Bliss), Veronica Speedwell mysteries by Deanna Raubourne, Jaya Jones mysteries by Gigi Pandian
- David: the Gervase Fen series by Edmund Crispin
- Antony: the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie
- James: The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England
- Shelly: the Night Soldiers series by Alan Furst
- Shannon: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
- Annette: A Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
- David: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- Antony: the Wayfarers books by Becky Chambers
- James: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
- Shelly: the Bridgerton novels by Julia Quinn
- Shannon: the Cat Who… mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun
- Annette: outdoor lights on my patio
- David: the Jeeves and Wooster series by P.G. Wodehouse
- Antony: Journey (videogame) by Thatgamecompany
- James: Fallout 4 (videogame) by Bethesda Game Studios
- Shelly: my cozy reading nook with my Incomparable blanket, Mom’s cozy furniture, various cats, and “Murder, She Wrote” playing in the background
- Shannon: revisiting children’s books/media: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Colin Thompson picture books, Disney fairy tales
Antony’s rec list of fellow cozy authors:
- Poppy Denby mysteries by Fiona Veitch Smith
- Cressida Fawcett mysteries by Fliss Chester
- The Dales Detective Agency series by Julia Chapman
- The Inspector Chopra mysteries and the Malabar House series, both by Vaseem Khan
- The Bloody Christmas mysteries by Jo Middleton
- Various books by Janice Hallett
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835: Team Whammer
The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as …
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The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as American mythology, filtered through the mind of Barry Levinson. Barbara Hershey shocks and confuses, Glenn Close glows, Wilford Brimley is very old and near retirement despite being younger than us, and Robert Redford is so versatile he can play a teenager and a man in his mid-thirties despite being in his late forties.
"The Natural"
Host Jason Snell with Philip Michaels, Micheline Maynard, John Siracusa, and David J. Loehr.
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834: Dial-a-CIA-computer
The Summer of Sundance continues with the paranoid thriller, “Three Days of the Condor.” A devastatingly handsome nerd goes out to buy sandwiches for the office, and the next thing he knows he’s on the run and …
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The Summer of Sundance continues with the paranoid thriller, “Three Days of the Condor.” A devastatingly handsome nerd goes out to buy sandwiches for the office, and the next thing he knows he’s on the run and kidnapping Faye Dunaway…
"Three Days of the Condor"
Host Jason Snell with David J. Loehr, Shelly Brisbin, Paul Weimer, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren.
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833: She Thought She Heard the Ice Cream Truck
Now the curtain is going up, “The Sting” is starting the show! Snappy patter and jokes, along with the star power of Robert Redford and Paul Newman, drive this story of an elaborate con that goes right—or does …
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Now the curtain is going up, “The Sting” is starting the show! Snappy patter and jokes, along with the star power of Robert Redford and Paul Newman, drive this story of an elaborate con that goes right—or does it?! Also there’s a lot of Scott Joplin music.
"The Sting"
Host Jason Snell with Micheline Maynard, Dr. Drang, Monty Ashley, and David J. Loehr.
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832: Likeable Goblins
Eleven books later, our Awards Book Club has finally reached the end of the line. In this episode we cover our last uncovered book, “Shroud” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, recommend some Hugo-nominated short fiction …
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Eleven books later, our Awards Book Club has finally reached the end of the line. In this episode we cover our last uncovered book, “Shroud” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, recommend some Hugo-nominated short fiction, and rank all eleven books. Plus: What are we reading other than shortlisted novels?! See you next year.
2026 Awards Book Club, final chapter
Host Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Aleen Simms, Heather Berberet, and Scott McNulty.
Referenced Works Shroud [Amazon] [Apple] Show Notes & LinksWhat are we reading?
Erika: Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis and Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Aleen: The Book Witch by Meg Schaffer, The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula
Heather: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
Scott: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, The Dentist by Tim Sullivan
Jason: Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler, The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey
The Incomparable Book Club Awards final rankings
- The Everlasting (4 first-place votes) - Average place: 1.7
- The Incandescent 3.2
- Shroud (1) 3.8
- A Drop of Corruption 4.8
- The Raven Scholar 5.2
- Wearing the Lion 6.2
- Katabasis 6.7
- When We Were Real 7.7
- Death of the Author 8.0
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (1) 8.3
- Sour Cherry 10.5
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831: What Is Even Bolivia?
Our Summer of Sundance kicks off with Sundance himself, as we travel back to the end of the old west (and, later, to the garden spot of Bolivia) to visit a couple of robbers, their lady friend, and their …
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Our Summer of Sundance kicks off with Sundance himself, as we travel back to the end of the old west (and, later, to the garden spot of Bolivia) to visit a couple of robbers, their lady friend, and their not-very-important gang with “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Did they use enough dynamite? Is Woodcock a little too loyal to his employer? What does it say about the old west when a call for a posse is hijacked by a bicycle salesman?
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Host Jason Snell with Dr. Drang, Shelly Brisbin, Philip Michaels, and Dan Moren.
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830: Sad Man in a Van
Buy some flowers and get ready to profess your feelings—we’re here to talk about “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” in which Tom Holland’s Peter gets to be a sad sack who is saving New York while his personal life …
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Buy some flowers and get ready to profess your feelings—we’re here to talk about “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” in which Tom Holland’s Peter gets to be a sad sack who is saving New York while his personal life has fallen completely apart. There are surprising character reveals, unsurprising character twists (well, at least Peter was surprised), interesting guest-star choices, and a lot of themes involving the dangers of letting yourself become isolated.
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day"
Host Jason Snell with James Thomson, Moisés Chiullán, and Ben Rice McCarthy.
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829: The True Horror is Bureaucracy
Put on your summer best and board a ferry to New England’s hottest tourist destination! It’s time for us to discuss “Widow’s Bay,” a funny horror story about the mayor and other denizens of a cursed island. Of …
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Put on your summer best and board a ferry to New England’s hottest tourist destination! It’s time for us to discuss “Widow’s Bay,” a funny horror story about the mayor and other denizens of a cursed island. Of course there’s a creepy clown, and a slasher, and a dark secret that goes back centuries. Of course Stephen Root is wild-eyed! Once you visit Widow’s Bay, you’ll never want to leave… which is good, because you might not be able to.
"Widow's Bay"
Host Jason Snell with Annette Wierstra, Tony Sindelar, and Monty Ashley.
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828: Perfectly Serviceable Boat Movie
It’s one of the best “Star Trek” movies, a classic Dad Movie, and the start of a franchise that never really started. It’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” in which oceans have become …
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It’s one of the best “Star Trek” movies, a classic Dad Movie, and the start of a franchise that never really started. It’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” in which oceans have become battlefields and privateer ships lurk like horror-movie monsters. Don’t get attached to any of those nice young sailors!
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"
Host Jason Snell with Steven Schapansky, Philip Michaels, and Brian Warren.
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827: Organic Free-Range Cave Cheese
Non-linearly begin and end your journey across a wide range of cursed islands! We discuss Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a film now in theatres and a story that’s (nearly) 3,000 years old! Pig sculpting! …
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Non-linearly begin and end your journey across a wide range of cursed islands! We discuss Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a film now in theatres and a story that’s (nearly) 3,000 years old! Pig sculpting! Lotus eating! Horrible horse hiding! Were we the sea people all along? That’s a tale as old as time.
”The Odyssey”
Host Jason Snell with Brian Warren, Glenn Fleishman, Kathy Campbell, and Moisés Chiullán.
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826: Layers of Shenanigans
Our awards shortlist book club rolls on with a selection of books we’re much more receptive to: “A Drop of Corruption” by Robert Jackson Bennett, “The Raven Scholar” by Antonia Hodgson, and The Everlasting by …
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Our awards shortlist book club rolls on with a selection of books we’re much more receptive to: “A Drop of Corruption” by Robert Jackson Bennett, “The Raven Scholar” by Antonia Hodgson, and The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow.
2026 Awards Book Club, Part 3
Host Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty, Heather Berberet, and Paul Weimer.
Referenced Works The Everlasting [Amazon] [Apple] A Drop of Corruption [Amazon] [Apple] The Raven Scholar [Amazon] [Apple] Show Notes & LinksSupport this show and other shows like it on The Incomparable network by becoming a member. Members get early access to podcasts, bonus episodes, and more.
825: 3D Printing With Xenon
What if “The Martian” but with an alien buddy? We break down “Project Hail Mary,” and marvel at what a good translation of a sort-of-unfilmable book it really is! Why do we love alien puppets so much? Why is …
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What if “The Martian” but with an alien buddy? We break down “Project Hail Mary,” and marvel at what a good translation of a sort-of-unfilmable book it really is! Why do we love alien puppets so much? Why is Jason checking his watch at the end? We give this movie a thumbs down—by which we mean we liked it! Amaze amaze amaze!
"Project Hail Mary"
Host Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Quinn Rose, Brian Warren, and Casey Liss.
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824: The Most Movie
Get out your PowerBooks and prepare to punch an alien in patriotic fashion! We celebrate Independence Day with a 30-year-old film, “Independence Day”! It’s a lot of movie. Is Jason ready to forgive it? …
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Get out your PowerBooks and prepare to punch an alien in patriotic fashion! We celebrate Independence Day with a 30-year-old film, “Independence Day”! It’s a lot of movie. Is Jason ready to forgive it?
"Independence Day" (1996)
Host Jason Snell with Moisés Chiullán, David J. Loehr, Aleen Simms, and Tony Sindelar.
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823: Someone on Both Sides of the Gunfight
We combine our love of “Star Trek” with the appreciation for old movies that can only be provided by our sister podcast Lions, Towers, and Shields, by drafting “Star Trek” actors (TOS and TNG only) and the …
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We combine our love of “Star Trek” with the appreciation for old movies that can only be provided by our sister podcast Lions, Towers, and Shields, by drafting “Star Trek” actors (TOS and TNG only) and the movie roles we loved before they appeared on Star Trek!
And be sure to listen to this summer’s LTS’s Star Trek summer event.
Star Trek Movie crossover draft
Host Jason Snell with Shelly Brisbin, Micheline Maynard, Cicero Holmes, and David J. Loehr.
Referenced Works Star Trek (franchise) Show Notes & Links- Cicero - Patrick Stewart, Gurney Halleck, “Dune”
- David - William Campbell, “Dementia 13”
- Micki - Jean Simmons, “Elmer Gantry”
- Shelly - William Shatner, “Judgment at Nuremburg”
- Jason - Wil Wheaton, “Stand By Me”
- Cicero - Michael Dorn, “Rocky”
- David - DeForest Kelley “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”
- Micki - Whoopi Goldberg, “The Color Purple”
- Shelly - Joan Collins, “The Good Die Young”
- Jason - Lee Meriwether, “Batman” (1966)
- Cicero - LeVar Burton, “Grambling’s White Tiger”
- David - William Shatner, “Alexander the Great” (pilot)
- Micki - Frank Gorshin, “Where the Boys Are”, “That Darn Cat!”
- Shelly - Ricardo Montalban, “Mystery Street”
- Jason - David Warner, “Tron”
- Cicero - William Shatner, “The Explosive Generation”
- David - Ricardo Montalban, “The Fantasticks” (TV)
- Micki - Jeffrey Hunter, “King of Kings”
- Shelly - Elisha Cook Jr., “Born to Kill”
- Jason - William Shatner, “The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
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822: Jacket Into Cyberspace
William Gibson Book Club reconvenes to close out the legendary Sprawl trilogy with “Mona Lisa Overdrive,” a book in which there are lots of vibes from a lot of people who are secondary characters in a story …
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William Gibson Book Club reconvenes to close out the legendary Sprawl trilogy with “Mona Lisa Overdrive,” a book in which there are lots of vibes from a lot of people who are secondary characters in a story being driven by an AI that we never really meet. Robot art projects! Many overlapping jackets, none of them the same size! And a car ride to… the future?! We break it all down.
"Mona Lisa Overdrive"
Host Jason Snell with Antony Johnston, Erika Ensign, Lisa Schmeiser, and Glenn Fleishman.
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821: Historic Parking Garage
Get behind your typewriters! Old Movie Club follows the money to discuss 1976’s “All The President’s Men,” in which the power of dogged reportage and journalistic freedom triumphs over the banality of evil …
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Get behind your typewriters! Old Movie Club follows the money to discuss 1976’s “All The President’s Men,” in which the power of dogged reportage and journalistic freedom triumphs over the banality of evil.
"All the President's Men"
Host Jason Snell with Philip Michaels, Shelly Brisbin, Micheline Maynard, Steven Schapansky, Dr. Drang, and Jean MacDonald.
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820: I Can Read It!
Our survey of award-nominated novels rolls on with “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” “When We Were Real,” and “Sour Cherry.” Not gonna lie: we’re struggling with the reading a bit this year. But at least one of …
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Our survey of award-nominated novels rolls on with “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” “When We Were Real,” and “Sour Cherry.” Not gonna lie: we’re struggling with the reading a bit this year. But at least one of these novels threw us a lifeline.
2026 Awards Book Club, part 2
Host Jason Snell with Scott McNulty, Erika Ensign, Aleen Simms, Heather Berberet, and Paul Weimer.
Referenced Works The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [Amazon] [Apple] When We Were Real [Amazon] [Apple] Sour Cherry [Amazon] [Apple] Show Notes & LinksSupport this show and other shows like it on The Incomparable network by becoming a member. Members get early access to podcasts, bonus episodes, and more.
819: All the Babus Frik
We went out to the movies to see “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first “Star Wars” film this decade. We had a really good time, thanks in large part to the charisma of many different puppets. (This is “Star …
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We went out to the movies to see “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first “Star Wars” film this decade. We had a really good time, thanks in large part to the charisma of many different puppets. (This is “Star Wars,” after all.) We aren’t without our criticisms—Is there ever really any danger? What is Sigourney Weaver doing?—but all in all, this film filled a Star Wars-shaped hole in our hearts.
"The Mandalorian and Grogu"
Host Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Steven Schapansky, Helene Wecker, Moisés Chiullán, Dan Moren, and Brian Warren.
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818: Ferris is Magic
Let’s travel 40 years back in time, to Chicago in 1986, where on one legendary day, a high school student named Ferris Bueller bends time and space, all in service of cheering up his best friend. We break down …
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Let’s travel 40 years back in time, to Chicago in 1986, where on one legendary day, a high school student named Ferris Bueller bends time and space, all in service of cheering up his best friend. We break down what makes “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” still work after all these years.
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
Host Jason Snell with Cicero Holmes, Quinn Rose, Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, and John Siracusa.
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817: A Found Family of Monsters
Awards Book Club reconvenes for 2026, as we discuss Nebula-nominated novels “Katabasis” by R.F. Kuang, “Wearing the Lion” by John Wiswell, and “Death of the Author” by Nnedi Okorafor. The mood of the panel is… …
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Awards Book Club reconvenes for 2026, as we discuss Nebula-nominated novels “Katabasis” by R.F. Kuang, “Wearing the Lion” by John Wiswell, and “Death of the Author” by Nnedi Okorafor. The mood of the panel is… cautious. Also: What else are we reading?
2026 Awards Book Club, Part 1
Host Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign, Heather Berberet, Scott McNulty, and Paul Weimer.
Referenced Works Katabasis [Amazon] [Apple] Death of the Author [Amazon] [Apple] Wearing the Lion [Amazon] [Apple] Show Notes & LinksNext Awards Book Club: “When We Were Real” by Daryl Gregory, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones, and “Sour Cherry” by Natalia Theodoridou.
What are we reading?Paul: The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
Aleen: The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
Heather: Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Erika: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Scott: Outlaw Planet by M.R. Carey
Jason: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky, In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan, and Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent.
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816: Fascism for Algernon
Put on your eye phones and jack in to the cyberscape! Rocket Surgery comes for 1996’s cyberpunk epic “Lawnmower Man 2.” (Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the original “Lawnmower Man,” half of us didn’t either.) …
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Put on your eye phones and jack in to the cyberscape! Rocket Surgery comes for 1996’s cyberpunk epic “Lawnmower Man 2.” (Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the original “Lawnmower Man,” half of us didn’t either.) Matt Frewer is Max Headrooming it up! A bunch of urchins populate a rainy L.A. that’s straight out of “Blade Runner,” but, you know—cheaper. There’s a brilliant doctor in charge of virtual-reality research, and also there’s Jennifer! And everything in the future is hackable!
Rocket Surgery: "Lawnmower Man 2"
Host Jason Snell with Monty Ashley, Tony Sindelar, and Annette Wierstra.
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815: I Guess I Gotta Kill All These Klan Guys
Not now, Klansmen, I’m killing vampires! “Sinners” got nominated for all the awards, and it’s also a vampire (with a hint of zombie?) movie. We love it when genre movies get attention, and Ryan Coogler keeps …
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Not now, Klansmen, I’m killing vampires! “Sinners” got nominated for all the awards, and it’s also a vampire (with a hint of zombie?) movie. We love it when genre movies get attention, and Ryan Coogler keeps putting out bangers, so we’re all in on the story of magical music opening the door to eldrich horror—oh, and also it’s the deep south in the 1930s so there’s some horrendous racism too!
"Sinners"
Host Jason Snell with Moisés Chiullán, Brian Hamilton, Monty Ashley, Tony Sindelar, and Steve Lutz.
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814: Demons are People Too
A special Book Club panel provides an overview of Lois McMaster Bujold’s excellent Penric & Desdemona series of fantasy novellas (plus one novel). This series gives its characters time to learn, grow, and age …
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A special Book Club panel provides an overview of Lois McMaster Bujold’s excellent Penric & Desdemona series of fantasy novellas (plus one novel). This series gives its characters time to learn, grow, and age. It’s got some perspectives you don’t see very often in fantasy fiction. We love it and think you will, too.
Penric & Desdemona
Host Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign, Kat Benesh, and Dan Moren.
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