00:00:00
TOM: Coming up, the best opening
lines in sci-fi and
00:00:03
fantasy do not include
this one.
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But we'll discuss them.
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VERONICA: And we rap up
"Downbelow Station," by C.J.
00:00:10
Cherryh, on the season finale
of "Sword & Laser Video."
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VERONICA: Hey, everyone.
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Welcome to the final Sword
& Laser book club
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episode of the season.
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I'm Veronica Belmont.
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TOM: And I'm Tom Merritt.
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Thank you for joining us on
the video show for amazing
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stories and incredible tales.
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VERONICA: Yes, we may be taking
a break from video.
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But the book club lives on.
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We are going to wrap up
"Downbelow Station," and let
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you know what our April
book pick will be.
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TOM: And we're going tip you
off to lots of other great
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books, of course.
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Let's start off by checking out
what books are coming out
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soon on the calendar.
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Shall we ping pong it?
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VERONICA: Yes, let's.
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First of many on April
2nd, "Life After
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Life," by Kate Atkinson.
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What if you could live
again and again
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until you got it right?
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TOM: "Prophet of Bones,"
by Ted Kosmatka.
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In a world where science has
proven the planet is only
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5,800 years old, Paul Carlson
finds evidence to the
00:01:10
contrary, and is hunted
down to shut him up.
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VERONICA: Uh oh. "Without
a Summer," by
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Mary Robinette Kowal.
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Jane and Vincent Ellsworth,
master
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glamorists, return home.
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But, in a world where magic
is real, nothing--
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even the domestic sphere--
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is quite what it seems.
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"Odds Against Tomorrow,"
by Nathaniel Rich.
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Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young
mathematician, is hired by a
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mysterious new financial
consulting firm, Future World,
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to calculate worst case
scenarios to indemnify
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corporations against any
future disasters.
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VERONICA: "River of Stars," by
Guy Gavriel Kay, revisits the
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world of "Under Heaven" with an
epic of prideful emperors,
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battling courtiers, bandits,
and a woman
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battling in her own way.
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What way's that?
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