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652: A Long Zoom

The Incomparable Mothership

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I Love Pompeii, I Love the Roman Empire

Jason: I have read some books. One of the things that I'm interested in is, um, Roman history. Robert Harris wrote a book called Pompeii set in Pompeii and it follows this engineer who tries to figure out why an aqueduct stopped working. Ian McDonald's one of my favorite authors but he seems to be kind of looking for commercial success. He wants to sell a book to have a TV series so he can have Georgia RR Martin money. Who can blame him?

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