The Incomparable, number 407, May 2018.

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

And in this episode, we're going to talk about the nominees for Best Novel from the Nebula Awards.

Now, we usually, we were, we were doing Hugo Awards, and then we did a combo of the Nebula and the Hugo Awards, and this year I'm

separating them. We're going to do two book club episodes, one about the Nebula novels, and the next

one about the Hugo Awards awards perhaps more than just the

novels perhaps we'll talk about some short stories and stuff too but this is the first of these

episodes and then later uh in early summer we'll talk about the hugos um as we're recording this

i think the nambulas are about to award the awards but haven't quite yet so we don't know who won

but we do know the seven

novels nominated for Nebulas. That's a lot of N's. Joining me to people who I think read the

Nebula, read the Nebula novels. Nice. It's, I don't know, I'm looking for N words here.

Aline Sims is here. Hello. Hello. It wass is here hello hello it was a lot of books it was a lot of books you read all seven i think so i'm looking at good rates and i'm missing

one yeah i i had some good reads problems too that i had to go back and like re-rate or rate

for the first time even though i thought i already rated it because good reads uh i have some

issues with the good reads web interface but uh that's not what this podcast is about.

Scott McNulty is also here. Hello.

Hello, I use the Goodreads iOS app, so I don't use the web interface.

So, Scott, did you read all seven?

I did. I did, indeed. I had only read one before the nominees were announced,

and then I read the six quickly thereafter. All right. Well, this is, I just want to point out to

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