196: Golem and Jinni Detective Agency

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2014

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Every year Scott and Jason read all the Hugo Award-nominated novels, which supposedly show off the best science fiction has to offer. That hasn’t always gone well, so this year they’ve read the eight novels nominated for the Nebula Awards—and recruited three other SF podcasters to join them in the fun. We discuss all eight novels with extremely light-to-no spoilers, so it’s safe to listen. And the good news? All eight of these novels are pretty good!

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0:00.0	The Incomparable
0:08.7	Number 196, May 2014.
0:15.6	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast.
0:17.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:18.2	And we often talk about the Hugo Award
0:20.8	sci-fi novel nominees every year, and we will do that. But we just couldn't help
0:26.6	ourselves. There was a largely different group of novels that was nominated for the
0:31.2	Nebula Awards, which come from the Science Fiction Writers of America. And is it of America
0:36.3	or is it association? Are they terrible and
0:39.7	it's America? It's America.
0:40.3	It's American.
0:41.3	Is it America? Okay. Well, it is. All right. We also established last year that locusts,
0:46.3	or locusts, not, not, first of, locusts, they are not sort of mantis-related things. It's
0:51.8	locusts. And they're not from England. They're from
0:54.1	Oakland, apparently. I still think they're from England.
0:58.5	They may be English, but they live in Oakland, and they are not locust. That's the... Anyway,
1:04.2	I don't even... Wow. That is... We are off the rails early.
1:08.7	Anyway, the point is that we read a lot of the Nebula nominees.
1:12.2	Some of us read all of them, I believe. And because there were eight nominees and because
1:18.0	not all of our regular panelists want to read that much because they're illiterate people,
1:23.5	largely. Dan Warren, we're talking about you. I've enlisted some stars from other science fiction
1:30.2	related podcasts to come join us and read some of the Nebula nominees with us. This is very exciting.
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