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The Incomparable Mothership

620: Alien Donut Lady

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

2022 Awards Book Club concludes with three Hugo-nominated novels: Andy Weir’s deep-space problem-solver “Project Hail Mary”; Shelley Parker Chan’s historical epic “She Who Became the Sun”; and Ryka Aoki’s alien-and-demon-packed “Light from Uncommon Stars.” Also, Erika and Jason highlight some of their favorite short-fiction Hugo nominees....

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The incomparable. Number 620, June 22.

0:59.4

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

1:01.3

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

1:02.3

This is the third of three episodes where our book club convenes to read the shortlist.

1:08.0

I was going to say the very best, but everybody gets to judge that.

1:11.3

Things on the short list for best novel for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in science fiction and fantasy for 2022.

1:18.0

We're going to wrap with three novels that were nominated for the Hugos.

1:24.1

It is She Who became the Son by Shelley Parker Chan, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and Light from Uncommon Stars by Rika Aoki.

1:34.3

Mmm, these are interesting, very interesting books.

1:38.5

Let me introduce my panelists who have taken the journey with me once again, well mostly, uh, to talk about these books.

1:45.6

They are Aline Sims. Hello. Hello. I read all these. Yay. Hooray. It's good. It doesn't always

1:53.5

happen. Not everybody reads everything and it's okay. We don't hate them, Dan Moore and hi. Did you

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