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The Incomparable Mothership

412: His Books Are Like Popcorn

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Incomparable’s Book Club reaches the finish line of our annual SF/Fantasy award read, as we discuss the six nominees for the Hugo Award for best novel. From new series to concluded trilogies to standalone epics, this year’s list had a lot of variety. And for good measure, we throw in a few of the short-fiction nominees that we really liked.

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0:21.1

Number 40012, June 2018.

0:27.4

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

0:29.8

I am your host, Jason Snell.

0:31.1

And in this episode we're going to talk about,

0:33.0

sort of like part two of our discussion of liked science fiction and fantasy novels because we did

0:38.6

our nebolas episode where we read count them seven novels uh for that episode one two three four five

0:45.6

six seven yep that's it erika ensign does not get to count she didn't go on the instead you're

0:52.2

here for the count them them six, Hugo.

0:56.3

One, two, three, four, five, six.

0:58.1

Good job.

0:59.7

Of which there are only, what, three in common?

1:04.1

I think three in common between the two lists.

1:06.6

So, um, there's, there's, there's books to talk about.

1:09.6

We're going to talk about books.

1:10.3

Maybe we'll mention some short fiction, too. And, uh and I should also mention as I introduce her Erica Ensign is here she is also a Hugo nominee again hello and a Hugo winner of the past and now a nominee again for Uncanny magazine hello and Verity

1:24.7

and Verity are you double nominee this year I I am. Yeah. Yep. That's me.

1:30.2

Tooting my own horn. Yep. Good job. We're not going to talk about those nominees. No, please don't.

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