525: Sorry, Ocean

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

It’s our annual read of the annual science fiction and fantasy shortlist, the Hugo Awards nominees! Our panelists catch up on the three books that weren’t covered in our Nebula Awards episode, and then Jason and Erika spend a little time on the short fiction nominees. And the raging debate on whether a planet is space or not continues!

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 525, July 2020.
0:05.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	This episode is all about our book club watching books and seeing if they move.
0:20.0	No, we're watching the words on the pages of the books.
0:21.6	It's watching. Reading is watching. It's a kind of watching. It's perfectly normal.
0:25.2	Unless you're listening to it as an audiobook.
0:28.5	Oh. Well, then... I've ruined everything before you even introduced people. I'm so sorry.
0:32.6	You close your eyes and you're watching the pictures in your mind. I'm joined by these very
0:36.3	helpful people. Erica Ensign. mind. I'm joined by these very helpful people.
0:43.8	Erica Ensign. Hello. I'm helping. Very helpful. Very helpful. Scott McNulty. Very helpful. Hello.
0:50.2	I'm watching you, Jason. Whoa. I'm watching your words right now. Dan Moran. Hello.
0:54.9	Hi. I'm not helping as usual. No. And Aline Sims. What will she do? Will she help or not? Who knows? I'm not helping, as usual. No, Annaline Sims.
0:55.8	What will she do?
0:56.8	Will she help or not?
0:57.2	Who knows?
0:58.6	I'm a neutral party.
0:58.9	Okay.
1:00.0	That's fair.
1:00.9	That's fair.
1:03.5	Anyway, the books that we watched.
1:06.9	You can abandon that now, Jason.
1:07.9	I don't know.
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