202: The Partial Monty

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2014

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Bury your dead in a Zeppelin and call your interplanetary accountant—it’s time for our annual read of the Hugo Award nominees. We cover this year’s award nominees, plus the “retro Hugos” from 1939, both of which will be awarded in August in London. Also, someone defends Mira Grant.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable is brought to you by Try Audio Books. Visit www.triaudioboops.com slash incomparable for free downloads.
0:15.0	The Incomparable, number 2002, July 2014.
0:22.8	Welcome back to the Incomparable Podcast.
0:24.6	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:26.1	It's episode number 202 and our like fifth in a row, fourth in a row episode where we detail the nominees for the Hugo Awards, the awards that I
0:39.8	always paid attention to as a kid there by science fiction fans voting for the favorite
0:43.8	science fiction stuff of the year. We have, we'll try to keep the spoilers kind of light so you
0:50.9	can maybe discover some of these things. A lot of the stuff is available. Short stories are
0:54.4	largely available online. The books, of course, are available for you to purchase. And so we're
1:00.7	going to try to not totally spoil everything, but maybe you will discover some interesting things to
1:04.9	read as we discuss some of these things that have been nominated for awards, which is usually a
1:09.3	pretty good sign, not always, but usually.
1:12.0	Joining me to discuss the, this year's batch of Hugo's, as always, is my compatriot in reading,
1:21.6	Scott McNulty. Hi, Scott. Hello. Did you do all the reading?
1:28.4	No, I didn't.
1:29.7	I read all the novels.
1:32.5	I read all the short stories.
1:35.8	I read half the novelettes and none of the novellas.
1:36.1	All right.
1:39.0	You're in my ballpark actually there.
1:40.7	So get out of my ballpark.
1:43.0	I just wandered in here. I'm sorry.
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