565: The Avengers of Cities

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Our Book Club returns with a new way to approach this year’s SF novel shortlist: we’re reading all the Hugo and Nebula novels in three batches. First up: “Black Sun,” “The City We Became,” and “Piranesi.” Plus: What are we reading?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 565, May 2021.
0:11.1	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.2	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and it's another edition of our book club.
0:15.7	We're doing something a little bit different with the award shortlist novel book club that we've been the last, really most of the run of the incomparable.
0:25.4	We used to do a Hugo nominees episode.
0:28.0	Then we expanded and we did a Nebula nominees episode and a Hugo nominees episode.
0:32.9	This year, a little bit different.
0:34.9	We're going to take the books nominated by the Hugos and the Nebulas, and we're going
0:39.1	to read them across three episodes.
0:44.4	There's two reasons for this.
0:45.7	One, I felt like we had a lot of episodes with a whole bunch of books jammed into one
0:50.1	little episode, and it seemed unfair to the books.
0:52.8	And two, I get another episode out of it
0:55.8	got to be fair to the books yeah i mean yeah like won't somebody speak for the books please
1:03.1	the answers we will on the book club three episodes worth so here's the uh here's the book club people
1:08.9	it's pretty much who you think. Scott McNulty, hello.
1:12.7	I'm just happy people think of me.
1:15.2	They do.
1:15.8	They think about you in your books.
1:17.1	And why don't you remember the books that you read?
1:19.5	That's what they think.
1:21.3	I wish I knew.
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