151: Not Technically Incest

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Put on your red shirt, renew your blogging license, and swallow some alien bacteria! It’s time for our annual read of the five Hugo Award nominees for best novel. We liked some of them, we hated some of them, but we talked about all of them! But beware: The diabolical eyes of the Centers for Disease Control are watching us all.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Incomparable is sponsored by Audible, the best place to find audiobooks online.
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0:16.4	The incomparable, number 151, July 2013. Welcome back to The Incomparable, number 151, July 2013.
0:24.0	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
0:25.6	This is an episode that I'd like to say I look forward to for most of the year,
0:30.9	but I think the most accurate thing is that it takes me several months to prepare for this episode
0:35.0	because this is the episode where we read and comment on the nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
0:43.0	And there are five nominees every year, which means some of us read all five.
0:46.6	Some of us read are not gluttons for punishment and only read some of the five books that are nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, representing the best
0:54.5	in science fiction and fantasy and related genre, long form fiction for the year. So we did it again.
1:02.9	We've done this the last couple of years, and we're back. So joining me on this journey to read
1:08.7	novels that were nominated for awards by fans are my guest.
1:15.3	Dan Morin.
1:15.9	Hi, Dan.
1:16.4	Welcome back.
1:17.3	Hi, Jason.
1:17.9	I've read by my calculations 3.73 of these novels.
1:22.5	All right.
1:23.5	Fair enough.
1:24.1	We'll get into that in more detail in a bit.
1:26.2	Glenn Fleischman is also here.
1:27.6	Glenn, good to have you back on.
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